Sheila Gujral

Shiela Gujral
Shiela Gujral
Spouse of the Prime Minister of India
	In role; 21 April 1997 – 19 March 1998
Prime Minister	Inder Kumar Gujral
Preceded by	Chennamma Deve Gowda
Succeeded by	Gursharan Kaur
Personal details
Born	24 December 1924; Lahore, British India
Died	11 July 2011 (aged 86); Delhi, India
Spouse	Inder Kumar Gujral (m. 1945)
Children	2, including Naresh Gujral
Relatives	Avtar Narain Gujral (father-in-law); Satish Gujral (brother-in-law)

Sheila Gujral (1924–2011) was an Indian poet and writer in Hindi, Punjabi and English. She was also a social worker and the wife of Inder Kumar Gujral, the 12th Prime Minister of India.^[1]^[2]

Personal life[edit]

Sheila Gujral was born on 24 January 1924 in Lahore and was married to Inder Kumar Gujral, the son of politician Avtar Narain Gujral, on 26 May 1945.^[3] They had two sons, Naresh Gujral (born 19 May 1948), who is a Rajya Sabha MP, and Vishal Gujral.^[4]^[5]

Her brother-in-law, Satish Gujral, was a noted Indian artist.^{[citation needed]}

On 11 July 2011, she died at her home in Delhi after a brief illness.^[6]

She is recipient of International Poets Academy's Life Time Achievement Award and Golden Poet Award.^[7]^[8]

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^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-269-5.
^ "Shri Inder Kumar Gujral | Prime Minister of India".
^ Publications, Europa (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781857431780.
^ "Sheila Gujral passes away". The Hindu. PTI. 11 July 2011. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
^ "Sheila Gujral Dead". India TV. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
^ "Sheila Gujral no more". The Indian Express. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

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