Chaman Lal Chaman obituary

My friend Chaman Lal Chaman, who has died aged 85, was a television and radio presenter whose face and voice were well known to the Punjabi-speaking community in the UK. He was also a poet and published two collections of poetry in Punjabi.

Born in the village of Partapura, near Jalandhar, in eastern Punjab, before the partition of India, to Harbans Lal Pun, a clerk, and his wife, Hanso Devi (nee Sirpal), he attended Anglo Sanskrit high school in Rurka.