'Main Hun Theek Thaak Haan' (I’m Now All Fine), is a part of Waryam Singh Sandhu's 2000 Sahitya Akademi award-winning short story collection - 'Chauthi Koot' (The Fourth Direction). The short story is a keen insight into the separatist movement and militancy in Punjab in the 1980s. This story is one of the two syntensised to make an award winning film called 'Chauthi Koot' by Gurvinder Singh in 2015. According to the author, this is based on a true story, and this true story may have been of any family in Punjab in those black days - which lived under the shadow of death. The military and the police were a scare in the day, while the militants were a nuisance by the night. This story re-lives the practice of the 'boys' ordering the killing of pet dogs via the use of cyanide capsules (the militants themselves would supply these to families to feed the dogs).

Waryam Singh Sandhu (born 1945) is a prolific author of short stories as well as historical prose in our times. His 9 short story collections paint a variety of life in the rural as well as urban Punjab. Sandhu's critical and historical work includes research on Gadriites, diaspora, martyrs of Punjab. He has been recognised with the most prestigious awards in the literary world. A few of them are Hira Singh Dard Award (1979), GNDU's Bhai Veer Singh Purskar (1980), Waris Shah Purskar (2000, 2003).

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