He was born in Saidpur, Sultanpur Lodhi tehsil, Kapurthala district, Punjab, India.
[citation needed] A scientist and educationist, Thind was M.Sc, Ph.
[1] Thind was a professor and Head of the Department of Botany at Panjab University, Chandigarh.
[2] He also wrote several books including Physiology of Fungi , a text that is recognised as authoritative in the field of phytopathology.
In 1979, he received the Panchanan Maheshwari medal, an award instituted to commemorate the memory of Professor P.