Sindh Paree

Sama-O-Basr Publications, Australia, 2020

A selection of stories from Saadi's Gulistan and Bostan

Amity School of Languages ,Amity University , Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus, 2015

The News on Sunday, 2014

A powerful and absorbing collection of Punjabi short stories

The News On Sunday, 2016

Casting a fresh look at the only anthology of female Punjabi fiction writers ever published in Pakistan

The News on Sunday, 2016

Gurmeet Kaur left her technology career of 25 years to dedicate herself to her Punjabi publication and storytelling project for children

Indian Literature (Sahitya Acaedmy), 2023

Phanishwar Nath Renu’s ‘Azad Parinde’ (Unfettered Birds), translated into English, draws the reader into the lives of semi-orphan boys in early adolescence who deal with stark deprivation and domestic violence at a tender age. The narrative portrays their homeless wandering; none owes their moral responsibility. Instead of seeking schooling, one of them is made to serve as a labor to earn money or face his stepfather’s scary belligerence. A series of small episodes involve the readers in their innocent / precocious world. One infers a great deal more from their inadvertent lies or candid admissions. The narrative plays out the boys’ journey from one alley to the other unfolding the muddle in their world, in images of vulnerable motherhood, vague curiosity about sexuality, violent thrashing, the wishful imaginings of escape from a life of drudgery and humiliation. Their play, fun-games, pranks, teasing, rows with other children, sharing the secret pangs of their unaided loneliness and strange bonding of a sort invoke -comic-tragic moments. The narrative idiom chiming in with the childlike consciousness, sporadically merges into the knowledge of adult innuendos. Though the semblance of bildungsroman seems to promise the hope for freedom to the children, the reader knows better.

Six Kidapawan Short Stories, 2020

A collection of short stories set in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, Six Kidapawan Short Stories is most likely the first compilation of Kidapawan Fiction ever to be made. The collection includes both unpublished and internationally printed stories, written within a period of over ten years. The stories were compiled to make the author's works of fiction more accessible, specially to the people of Kidapawan for whom they were written. They were particularly gathered with intention of helping students of literature (specially local literature in Senior High School), with each story accompanied by guide questions which would enrich both discussions of the story in class and the enjoyment and introspection of the more casual reader.