Poet & writer
Rajinder Singh Bedi
ਰਾਜਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਬੇਦੀراجندر سنگھ بیدی
Urdu short-story master from Lahore whose novella Ek Chadar Maili Si tells of a Punjabi village widow.
Rajinder Singh Bedi was born in Lahore and worked as a post-office clerk while writing stories of ordinary Punjabi lives. After Partition he moved to Bombay.
His novella Ek Chadar Maili Si (1962), about a widow married to her husband's younger brother, won the Sahitya Akademi award. He wrote dialogue for Hindi films and directed one of his own.