Literary Career
Chand wrote his first poem when he was in his 7th class at Zira (Punjab, India). His mentor Hazrat Qais Jalandhari acted as a stimulus and Chand has written 13 books in Urdu, English and Hindi. In the year 2007, he submitted a 665-paged report on the Role of Haryana in the Evolution of Urdu Language and Literature to Akademi.
Chand has been broadcasting his poems and other writings from various stations of the All India Radio and also from Doordarshan - the national TV network. He was twice nominated as a member of the Audition committee by the Director General of Broadcasting in India. He was also nominated twice by the Haryana Chief Minister as a special invitee to the Haryana Urdu Akademi and is a member.
During his visit to the United States in 1998, he was interviewed by the Voice of America, Washington DC, which was broadcast in two-parts under their weekly program, Adab Aur Abeeb.
He is on the Editorial Board of the Hindi Quarterly Punjabi Sanskriti, published from Hissar (Haryana, India).
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