Partap Sharma was an Indian playwright, novelist, author of books for children, commentator, actor and documentary filmmaker from United Kingdom.
Sharma was born in Lahore, Punjab, India and was the oldest son of Dr. Baij Nath Sharma and Dayawati Sharma. Sharmas father was a civil engineer who served as Technical Advisor to governments in Ceylon , Tanganyika and Libya and later retired to their ancestral property in Punjab as a farmer. This colourful Punjabi village forms much of the backdrop of Sharmas novel, Days of the Turban.
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