His father, Pandit Jagdish Datt Sharma was the royal priest and the consultant to the king of Jammu & Kashmir, Hari Singh.
Mother Krishna Sharma was very spiritual and unlike the women in that era, she held an in-depth knowledge of religion and Religious books.
Bandhu was a very inclined towards academics and literature from a very young age and completed his degree of ‘Prabhakar’ and Bachelor of Arts in English.
He had extensively read about Karl Marx and Lenin and developed a strong believe in Marxism from a very young age.
His book 'Meel Pathhar' (English: 'Milestone') won him the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for Dogri language in the year 2000.