Raavi Paar is a poignant, telling story of a couple who’s on their way to India on a train that is brimming with people.

The couple also has two little baby boys and loses them both due to chaos and confusion in the train. This is an account just one family during partition while so many others shared the same fate.

Kulwant Singh Virk was born in village Phuleran (District Shekhupura) in March, 1921. Around Phuleran, there were about 125 villages of the Virk community belonging to a single ancestor. That is why Kulwant Singh took a lot of pride in belonging to the 'Virk brotherhood'.

Kulwant Singh Virk did his post-graduation in English literature. He also passed Bachelor of Law. He served in the army and was the liaison officer of the Punjab Government and the Central Govt. He worked at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana and finally retired as the Press Secretary to the Chief Minister of Punjab.

He got Sahitya Akademi award for ‘Naven Lok’ in 1968. He died in 1987 in Canada where he was undergoing treatment following a stroke.
Waryam Sandhu, one of Punjab’s preeminent short story writers, says, “Perhaps, he is the only short story writer who is remembered by writers, critics and readers of Punjabi literature from across time and space as the greatest storyteller.”

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Surinder Neer’s story, ‘Anarkali' is set in Kashmir. The story draw attention to the beauty of the land and its challenging, political realities.

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Zoya Pirzad is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. Born in Abadan, south of Iran, at 1952, she is an Armenian Iranian novelist very well known for her superb ability at characterizing the women and creating suspense through defamiliarization of everyday life.

She is the author of the international bestseller Things We Left Unsaid, and her most recent collection of stories, The Bitter Taste of Persimmon, won the prize for Best Foreign Book of 2009 in France. She grew up in Abadan, Iran, and now lives in Yerevan, Armenia.

ਕਿੱਸਾ ਖ਼ਰਗੋਸ਼ ਅਤੇ ਟਮਾਟਰ ਦਾ - ਜ਼ੋਇਆ ਪੀਰਜ਼ਾਦ

Translated by ~ Dr. Dhanwant Kaur

Narrated by ~ Harleen

Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Bhandal, born on 2 April 1953 to father Channan Singh and mother Pritam Kaur in village Bhandal Bet in Kapurthala district of Punjab.

He has done MSc in Physics and PhD in Nuclear Science. He has taught Physics in colleges for 33 years. Dr. Bhandal has contributed 22 books to Punjabi Literature. He is also Prof. in Physics at Cleveland State University, Ohio (America). 

"There is this anxiety which we live with. When I travel, I have to be very aware of where I am, what I say, what I do. I feel unease even at disclosing my name to the ticket checker in the train."

'The Pink Cake' was selected among the top ten best stories of 2023 by Urmilla Anand Memorial Awards jury.

As a teenager she was inspired by Gulshan Nanda’s novels. She began her literary journey by writing Punjabi poems. Arvinder Kaur is a gifted translator and transliterator of Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi books. Her writings include Khasmakhanian, Bullah, Teesri Dastak, Border-Border, Dukh Darya, Jodiyaan Jagg Thodiyaan, and Shahid Nadeem de Natak. She has also produced works of literary criticism in drama.

She has been honoured with the ‘Kalaa Ratan Purskaar 2013’ and the ‘Gurdial Singh Phull Yaadgari Sabha’ and ‘Principal Sujan Singh Yadgari Utshahvardhak Sanman 2020’. In 2021 the Jhanjaran Wale Paer short story collection was conferred the Dalbir Chetan Yadgari Purskar Award.

“As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”– Seneca

Words such as these ring more true for writers, especially ones like Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 winner Sukhjit. Hailing from Machhiwara, Sukhjit was that rare son of soil whose imagination touched great heights. Though not a prolific writer, whatever he wrote had merit and his short stories were no less than psychoanalysis of the society we are and he was a part of.

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