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Padma Shri awardee Dogri writer Padma Sachdev passes away

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Noted author and Padma Shri awardee Padma Sachdev, the first modern woman poet of Dogri language, passed away at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday, an official of the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages said. Sachdev (81), was born in the Purmandal area of Jammu in 1940 in the house of Sanskrit Scholar Professor Jai Dev Badu.