The forage cutting machine is the story of the Partition of India. Sardar Lahna Singh leaves the village and takes possession of the house of a man who has gone to Pakistan and keeps his fodder cutting machine in his house as his belongings. Then what is the destiny that goes with it?
Upendra Nath Ashk is acclaimed as one of the most controversial authors of the Hindi–Urdu tradition. He has written over a hundred books in almost all genres of literature. His magnum opus, Girti Deewaaren, written in seven volumes, is hailed as an epic of Indian middle- class life. Ashk has been widely translated. He was the first Hindi dramatist to receive the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1965. He also received the Soviet Land Nehru Award (1972) and Iqbal Award (1996).