A Lament : Was Partition Inescapable?

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Part I: 1. Massacres and evictions. 2. Mayhem--creation of Pakistan--our migration. 3. Pakistan attacks Kashmir. 4. Arriving Delhi October 30, 1947--Gandhi murdered January 30, 1948. Part II: 5. My life, my family. 6. My suppressed and troublesome childhood. 7. Rescued and reformed by a hidden hand. 8. Completing education and entering business. 9. Origin of the Sekhri Community--my ancestors. 10. Recalling Sialkot. Part III: 11. Hunt for work--start of business in Bombay. 12. Return to Delhi--new beginnings. 13. Fruitless Rangoon visit. 14. The family business prospers--my first visit to London. 15. Signs of disunity among brothers. 16. Family divided after death of parents. 17. My parents--an enigmatic union in marriage, in life and death. 18. Life after the family separation. Part IV: 19. 1984--The tragic story of My Punjab--The perenially suffering state. 20. My anguish. Glossary.

"All of us have heard stories of partition and have also read about it in history books. Here is a real life story of a man who had gone through all those circumstances.

The author has penned down in the book his memories of the lost culture, the pain and agony cause by partition, his movement from the other side of the shadow line i.e., Pakistan to India, his post-partition struggles and his tussle with life.

The book is an explicit picture of all those who had to leave their hearth and home and adjust to the multifarious demands of the new land and situations.

Though the book is the author's autobiography account, it actually epitomizes all those who have suffered, struggled and survived the tyranny, chaos and pain of partition. The book depicts the angst of the people who were trapped unaware into the violence created by the Muslim League of India and which finally led to their migration from the Land of their forefathers. It would be of special interest to the generations born and brought up on both sides of the border line, after the Great Divide."