Written over ten years, a few stories included in this volume are based on actual incidents that the author had witnessed or experienced. Set in different cities of India such as Delhi, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Batala, Amritsar, the collection offers stories of ordinary people who suffer, struggle and live. The lives of characters in these stories are complicated by political, social, or economic circumstances. A story of a homeless Sikh minority in Jammu, a lonely musician’s struggle for survival during the lockdown, complicated man-woman relationships, and terse tales that tell long stories of suffering in short