Background
He was born in Dhamal, Rawalpindi District, (now in Pakistan) to Mr. Jiwan Singh Duggal and Mistress Satwant Kaur.
He was born in Dhamal, Rawalpindi District, (now in Pakistan) to Mr. Jiwan Singh Duggal and Mistress Satwant Kaur.
Forman Christian College.
He has served as Director, All India Radio. He was awarded the by Government of India in 1988. In 2007, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour given by Sahitya Akademi, India"s National Academy of Letters.
He received his Master of Arts Honours in English at Forman Christian College, Lahore.
Duggal started his professional career with All India Radio (Associated Independent Recording). He worked there from 1942 to 1966 in various jobs including Station Director.
Foreign the Associated Independent Recording, he wrote and produced programmes in Punjabi and other languages. In addition, he authored a large number of plays and dramas.
He was the Secretary/Director, National Book Trust, India from 1966 to 1973.
From 1973 to 1976, he served as an Information Advisor at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Planning Commission). He has founded many institutions, including: Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Zakir Husain Educational Foundation He was nominated Fellow of the Punjabi University in 1984. He was also honoured with nomination to the Rajya Sabha (Indian Parliament Upper House) in August, 1997.
He died on 26 January 2012 after a brief illness.
Duggal had been a member of many literary and cultural centres including being the President of Punjabi Sahitya Sabha (Punjabi Literary Society), Delhi.