Career
He is the writer of a popular Panjabi song, saun da mahina, sung by Jagjit Singh in 1979. He also writes in Urdu and Hindi. His lyrics has also been sung by noted Indian singers like Asha Bhosle, Kumar Sanu and Sonu Nigam.
He worked as a radio presenter in Kenya and Britain and interviewed more than a hundred celebrities including, Sunil Dutt, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Naushad.
Chaman was born in a small village of Jalandhar, Pasla. His mother died when he was a child and his father called him to Kenya where he worked as a presenter for Kenyan Radio, The Voice of Kenya, in Nairobi during the 1950s and 1960s and interviewed more than a hundred celebrities, including a noted Bollywood actor Sunil Dutt when he visited Kenya.
Later, spending nearly 18 years, from 1956 to 1974, he moved to Britain and worked at the Asian service of British Broadcasting Corporation and Panjab Radio, United Kingdom. He started the first Indian commercial radio programme in London called Geetmala which became a rage among the Asian diaspora. He also anchored the weekly programmes on British Broadcasting Corporation"s television One and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Four during the 1990s.