And Quiet Flows the Don
In the early 1960s, he took up the translation of Russian works, funded by the Russian government. His most acclaimed translation is Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in Punjabi as "Jang te Aman". Other translations include short stories, plays and letters of Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don", Askad Mukhtar's "Sisters" (Bhaina), and Konstantin Paustovsky's "The Golden Rose" (Sunehra Gulab).