"Chattu" (The Wooden Grinder) is a partition story of a family's leaving home, finding footing, and putting down roots in an unfamiliar land. The humble Chattu remains their companion through and through until...

Listen on to follow the trajectory of the family which is fairly representative of the settlement of almost all families forced to leave home and find sanctuary among strangers.

The author, Sukhwant Kaur Mann (1937-2016) and her family experienced this displacement first hand before they put their roots in Eastern Punjab. Mann's themes, her primary concerns, and her craft is fairly different from other women writers of fiction in Punjabi. She is primarily focussed on rural Punjabi life and all the historical dislocations it went through. Her fiction chronicles the Partition, the Green Revolution, the Naxalite movement, the turbulent 80s, and the change brought about during urbanisation of Punjab.

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