# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheila-bhatia
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:10:51.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheila-bhatia"
name: "Sheila Bhatia"
slug: "sheila-bhatia"
description: "Sheila Bhatia was an Indian poet, playwright, theatre personality and the founder of the Delhi Art Theatre, a forum based in Delhi for the promotion of Indian art forms. She is credited with originating Punjabi opera, an Indian form of dance drama incorporating operatic movements. She was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. A decade later, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for theatre direction in 1982 followed by Kalidas Samman in 1997."
tagline: "Punjabi poet and playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheila_bhatia_pandit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-03-01"
deathDate: "2008-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.53846153846154
  historical:           9.535853333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump