He was widely considered one of the best exponents of Indian writing in English and is known for his work, Azadi, which is set on India's Independence and her partition.
[citation needed] Chaman Nahal was born in Sialkot, in pre-Independence India, a province in the present day Pakistan, in 1927.
He was also a fellow at Cambridge College in 1991 and worked as columnist for the Indian Express, writing a column talking about books from 1966 to 1973.
[citation needed] Novels Short story collection Uncollected short stories Others Bibliography In The New Literatures in English, 1985 Critical Studies on Chaman Nahal Memoir Children's novels Chaman Nahal's writings are known to talk about India without any touch of exoticism.
An autobiographical book, Silent Life, was originally written in English and later translated into 12 languages, including Russian, Hungarian and Sinhalese.