From Amazon: "Endowed with Waris Award as Punjabi Writer of the Millennium, K.S. Duggal has penned more that 500 short stories and several novels. A winner of Padma Bhusan Award, he is a renowned name in Punjabi and Indian English literature. This collection of stories unfolds the brutal onslaught, poignant betrayals and beastly barbarities that the Partition inflicted. They are marked with stark candidness and naive simplicity, gripping reader, provoking horror and shocking them out of their wits."