India, Sept. 26 -- 1947. The hungama began. I wrote and wrote. My husband thought hungami adab was journalism, not literature. He was trying to protect me. But if I had not written it, the veins of my brain would have burst. All my wealth, my precious books, had been destroyed in communal fires of Maktaba Jamia and Kitabi Duniya. The trickling blood of that wound found its way into these six afsanas. In 1948, the book, Niras Mein Aas, was published in Bombay. I dedicated it to Mahatma Gandhi - These are the words of Saliha Abid Husain in 7 from 1947, which describes the scene in the September of that fateful year in Delhi. She records the events in stories that are chillingly of-the-moment. This is among the first testaments to the simultaneous Independence and Partition of India....