The Legendary Authors and their Content in the book

 Ismat Chughtai belonged to the ‘Taraqqii Pasand Tehreek’ (Progressive Writer’s Movement), one of the first Muslim women to write boldly about subjects such as sexuality in the 1940’s

 Munshi Premchand, born in 1880, was a pioneering figure in both Hindi and Urdu short fiction and wrote on topics such as caste, which were marked by sociopolitical and religious sensitivities 

 Sa’adat Hassan Manto, belonged to both Bombay & Lahore and wrote about the partition that resulted in the nations of India and Pakistan, known for stories that showed a mirror to society regardless of the discomfort caused by stark reflections

 Rajinder Singh Bedi, was a versatile short fiction, novel, and film writer who also amplified the social issues of rurality as they dovetailed with national and metropolitan life

 Ghulam Abbas, a novelist and short fiction writer brought to light the many ironies of modernity. This is reflected in his masterpiece "Anandi" 

 Noon Meem (“NM”) Rashid, was a groundbreaking modernist poet who wrote primarily in free verse, exploring contrasting relationships such as those between language & meaning and self & society

 Intizar Hussain, was arguably the most significant Urdu literary prose writer of the contemporary era, painting epics of migration and nostalgia on an intergenerational canvas.  

 Asad Muhammad Khan's short fiction weaves his rich life experiences into commentaries on topics such as family life and class relations