[4] He worked as a radio presenter in Kenya and Britain and interviewed more than a hundred celebrities including, Sunil Dutt, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Naushad.

Later, spending nearly 18 years, from 1956 to 1974,[3] he moved to Britain and worked at the Asian service of BBC and Panjab Radio, UK.

He started the first Indian commercial radio programme in London called Geetmala which became a rage among the Asian diaspora.

[1] At the age of 13, he wrote a poem on Guru Nanak Dev's birthday and was given rupee 1 as an award which stirred his inner poet.

On the 50th anniversary of India and Pakistan's independence, he penned a play, Sare Jahan Se Achha, directed by the noted Punjabi writer Balwant Gargi and the music was composed by ghazal singer, Jagjit Singh.