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Chaman Nahal like Khushwant Singh and Salman Rushdie is a political novelist, was born in 1927 at Sialkot, now in Pakistan. Azadi (1975), the best known of his novels, received Sahitya Akademic Award in 1977. Azadi is one of the four novels which constitute the Gandhi Quartet. It is a modern classic which present havoc that partition created on lives of the people both at social and individual level. It turned the simple, hardworking, honest and upright people into unwilling beggars. While writing Azadi, Nahal strongly felt that the partition of India was unfortunate, and full of forced exile. So he carries all his personal opinions and presents them through the characters, whom he makes his mouthpieces. This paper investigates how the private experience of Nahal are elevated very skillfully to public consciousness.