Many friends had urged me to write my autobiography. I had started writing last year and now I have a lot of time to complete this project. I have decided that after concluding my autobiography, I would give complete attention to ‘Vishranti’.

He is a successful politician as well as an able laureate. He has written much about poems, novels, essays also. As he himself is a part of Indian Politics, he has a deep knowledge about the character of world politics.Shanta Kumar was born in 1934 in a village in the Kangra district. He received his first education from his mother. Then he came under the influence of ‘Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh’ and leaving his house at the young age of 17, became a preacher. He then took part in the Jammu-Kashmir protest and spent 8 months in prison at the age of l’>. In 1972 he was elected iiic-mber of the Himachal Legislative Assembly. During emergency in 1975, he was j.iiled for 19 months. He has I’l-on the Chief Minister of Ilimachal Pradesh twice. I’ri’sently, he is a Cabinet Minister in Govt. of India.