From the young age of fourteen, young Gulshan Kumar Sudeep began writing poems and songs. By the age of seventeen, he was already acknowledged by peers in high school leagues as an upcoming rising poet. It is said, that in 1959, in India, while attending a recital event for prestigious national poets - the nation’s most renowned & beloved poet Suryakant Tripathi Nirala heard Gulshan Kumar’s poetry and conferred upon him the nick name ‘Sudeep’ which he endearingly picked up as his pen name from then onwards for rest of his life.

Across his lifetime, about 120 poems and 40 songs by Sudeep were published in magazines journals including - Tribune, Jansatta Sabrang, Navbharat Times, Sunday Mail, Nutan Savera, Sarika, Dharmyug, Dainik Bhaskar and Sambodhan.