Ved Pal Deep- Makers of Indian Literature

Ved Pal Deep, eminent Dogri poet, started writing poetry in Hindi in the forties. He changed over to Dogri, his mother tongue, when he was the editor of the Dogri section of his college magazine. His early compositions appeared in a collection of poems of 12 Dogri poets called Jago Duggar published in 1949. His selected poems were published in Madhukana, brought out by the J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages. As Te An Banjare Lok, a collection of his ghazals came out in 1968. The book contains some of the choicest ghazals of Dogri covering the whole gamut of human emotions like love, suffering, frustration, patience and commitment to social upliftment. Ved Pal Deep was a prominent leftist leader of Jammu but his poetry is largely free from political ideology and propaganda. He has been presented with a robe of honour for his services rendered to Dogri by the J&K Academy.

Nilamber Dev Sharma (b. 1931), Dogri critic, writes in Hindi and English and is also a well known translator into Dogri. Some of his published works are Chete Kish Khatte Kish Mithe (travelogue), An Introduction to Modern Dogri Literature, A Systematic Development of Modern Dogri Literature (critical essays), etc. He is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padmashri.

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