Veteran wins Shiromani Punjabi Patrakar Award

Jalandhar, December 7

Advertisement

Kuldeep Singh Bedi (70), a city-based veteran scribe, who remained associated with Punjabi journalism for nearly five decades, has won the prestigious Shiromani Punjabi Patrakar Award.

The Language Department had announced Shiromani Awards for 18 different categories of literature and art on December 3. The awards were finalised at a meeting of the State Advisory Board chaired by Higher Education and Languages Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa.

A journalist by profession and a writer by preference, Bedi, needs no formal introduction. An ardent reader and writer, Bedi, worked at a vernacular — Jagbani — and took retirement from his services in March this year. Before Jagbani, he worked in the Gurudwara Gazette magazine during the late ’70s.

As a prolific writer, he has also written five novels and three short-story books. Adding more feathers to his cap, Bedi had also made contributions to the Punjabi film industry. — TNS