[1][2] He received the Sahitya Akademi Award 2011 for his novel Dhahwan Dilli De Kingre.

It started as a column in Amrita Pritam's magazine Nagmani and was later published as a three-volume novel.

[4] His novel Laal Batti dealt with the red-light area of Kolkatta, for which he studied his subject for over a decade.

[4] His work Dhahwan Dilli De Kingre was about the legendary rebel Dulla Bhatti.

[4] He recently published a monogram on Giani Gurdit Singh (1923-2007), a noted Punjabi writer, for Sahitya Akademi, Delhi’s, "Makers of Indian Literature" series.