Career
In 2005, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his short story collection. On October 11, 2015 Bhullar joined other Punjabi writers in returning his Sahitya Akademi award to protest the assassination of M. M. Kalburgi and other liberal activists and writers. Bhullar was born in 1937 in Pitho village in district Bhatinda, India (now in Mansa district).
His father, Hazura Singh, was an ex-serviceman, who had a keen interest in literature and had a personal library containing works of Punjabi literature.
Bhullar consequently developed a taste for literature during his early childhood.