Career
Sudama Panday "Dhoomil" was born on November 9, 1936 in Khewali, Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh. After successfully passing out to tenth standard, he joined the Industrial training institute (ITI), Varanasi, where he passed out with a Diploma in Electricals, and later he joined the same institution, as an instructor in the Electricals Department. He died on February 10, 1975, at the young age of 38 years.
In 2006 the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a nationalist party, raised an objection in the Indian parliament over the inclusion of one his radical poems, "Mochiram", in the National Council of Educational Research and Training Hindi textbooks, which, subsequently, was replaced by one of his other poems – "Ghar Main Wapsi".