Ghulam Ali’s love for Zahira is caught on the wrong side of history. After returning to India, his motherland, he is unable to remain there and is later injured, starving, and suspected of being a jasoos in a Hindu Refugee Camp in Lahore. Forced to serve in the Pakistani Army and rejected by India, he writes to ministers, bureaucrats, journalists, and Zahira, whose love keeps him alive. Set during the Partition and 1950s India, this epistolary novel explores borders, displacement, longing, faith, and resilience through two lives separated by politics.

Why You Should Read?

• Experience a moving love story shaped by the Partition of India.
• Discover how letters become Ghulam Ali’s means of survival, resistance, and connection.
• Explore Zahira’s life as a working Muslim woman navigating family, society, and a deeply personal secret.
• Reflect on how borders and political decisions affect ordinary people and enduring relationships.

About the Author

Sachin Ng is the author of Dear Zahira, With Love, a historical love story presented through an exchange of letters. In this work, Ng brings together personal longing and the wider human consequences of the Partition of India, focusing on displacement, identity, bureaucracy, and the persistence of love across borders. The novel was previously published in an earlier version under the title Hindu Refugee Camp, Lahore.