The author, Subhash Chopra, has drawn inspiration from the story written by the late writer Sadat Hasan Manto which in a way showed how useless was the chasm that came about by putting Muslims and Hindus asunder. Even more attractive is the account of Chopra’s own visit to his native town in Pakpattan, once on the banks of river Sutlej, where he was greeted as a long-lost son. If there is hope for India and Pakistan coming nearer, as he states like America and Canada, it is from this chapter. The rest is old history recounted by men and women going through ups and downs of at least India wanting to do Pakistan some good . It has not been explained to the people of Pakistan what good it can do them by living in a state of war of whatever means with India. The hope lies only in the hearts melting away in love on both sides of the border.

Yet, even after going through that experience on the banks of the Sutlej, he has sorrowfully and mindlessly gone back to the old story of L. K Advani and Jaswant Singh coming back from Pakistan to recount that Jinnah was a secular leader. To say that of a leader whose policies contributed to uprooting of a million people in the subcontinent is doing grave injustice to the lakhs of dispossessed, orphaned and raped people going to safety on the roof of a train, a sorrowful picture used in this book. .It is only when the hearts of the children of these men and women melt in love that we can think of peace. But when will that happen? We should not let much water to flow down the Sutlej for the people of these two countries to live in peace.
AN Dar, Kasmir Times

In the book, the author has recounted with great detail and clarity, the past and present relationship between India and Pakistan , along with historically documented incidents which led to the partition. He also talks of the present state of Pakistan, the terror groups, and how all this affects the secularity of India. "Pakistan has been reluctant to abandon the denial mode about the involvement of its ‘non-state’ or ‘state-less’ operators from its soil ... Persistent stone-walling tactics run the risk of worsening the chances of peace."
Nidhi Mathur, Organiser Weekly, New Delhi

The retention of a common Governor-General and a common administration under the departing rulers over a 12-to-15-month interim period, Chopra firmly believes, would have largely prevented the holocaust that the subcontinent went through."
Prakash Nanda, The Statesman, Calcutta

India has been ruled by successive secular, civilian parties for most of its first 60 years since independence. Paradoxically enough even during the brief six years of the coalition government led by the half-secular Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, anti-Pakistani sentiments were at one of their lowest levels. Indeed there was an upsurge of people-to-people bonhomie — 1999 Kargil war and 2002 Gujarat pogrom notwithstanding.

Pakistan’s de facto rulers (Army and its intelligence arm ISI) have for long taken their allies, the USA and Saudi Arabia, for a ride and convinced them that India constitutes a threat to Pakistan’s very existence. Such an existential threat, if ever there was one, had become forever neutralized with Pakistan’s acquisition of the nuclear bomb, courtesy China. Not satisfied with such a powerful guarantee, Pakistani rulers still thought it fit to launch the Kargil war besides numerous aided and abetted attacks like Mumbai 26/11 on India. Clearly the so-called existential threat is a cover for the real objective which is to protect and promote the Army’s power-perch in Pakistan’s polity.

Notwithstanding the twists and turns of history and politics, peace between India and Pakistan is very much achievable.