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Balraj Sahni
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Hindi-language broadcaster for the BBC's Indian Section of the Eastern Service
Place of birth
Rawalpindi, India (Pakistan)
Date of time spent in Britain
1939–43
About
Balraj Sahni worked in London as a Hindi-language broadcaster for the BBC's Indian Section of the Eastern Service. His wife Damyanthi 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.
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
