Balraj Sahni

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Date of birth: 
01 May 1913
City of birth: 
Rawalpindi
Country of birth: 
India
Current name country of birth: 
Pakistan
Date of death: 
13 Apr 1973
Dates of time spent in Britain: 

1939-43

Location: 

London

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About: 

Balraj Sahni worked in London as a Hindi-language broadcaster for the BBC's Indian Section of the Eastern Service. His wife Damjanthi Sahni also worked for the BBC. Before moving to London, Sahni had worked with Gandhi in 1938 and taught Hindi and English at Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan.

He became a successful movie star in India after independence.

Connections: 

Mulk Raj Anand, Z. A. Bokhari, Indira Devi, M. K. Gandhi, Narayana Menon, George Orwell, Damyanthi Sahni.

Network: 
Narayana Menon
Organizations: 
BBC Indian Section of the Eastern Service