Career
After serving the Punjabi literature, language and culture for more than 48 years, he died after a prolonged illness on November 1, 2008 at his house in Amritsar in Indian Punjab. Kaang was born in 1936, to father Gurcharan Singh, in Amritsar in British Punjab. He studied higher and received Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
Later, he joined as a lecturer in a government college in 1969 and got retired in 1994.