The Partition of 1947 has influenced the works of an entire generation of writers and continues to do so. Gulzar witnessed the horrors of Partition first-hand and it is a theme that he has gone back to again and again in his writings - fiction, non-fiction and poems - on the subject. Gulzar's unerring eye does not stop at the events of 1947 but looks at how it continues to affect our lives to this day.