[6] Previously as a diplomat served in Moscow, Warsaw, Thimphu, Geneva, Teheran and Washington, DC.

[7] He served as India's ambassador to Israel from 2008 to 2012, High Commissioner to the UK 2016 and as India's ambassador to the United States from November 2016 to December 2018 and retired from the Indian Foreign Service on 31 December 2018, after serving his country for over 36 years.

[9][10] His short stories which appeared earlier in the London Magazine and broadcast over BBC have been put together in the collection 'Winter Evenings.'

He translated the 'Zafarnama', the letter written in Persian verse by Guru Gobind Singh to emperor Aurungzeb.

'Savage Harvest' is Sarna's translation of thirty of his father's short stories on the partition of India from Punjabi to English.