From Waris to Heer

<p>I am the story of the perennial lovers Ranjha and Heer.<br><br>I am the story of Waris Shah of Bulleh Shah&#8217;s <i>dhammal</i> the rise of the Sikh <i>misl </i>and the fall of the Mughal Empire.<br><br>I am a story told in two parts in two different narrative styles.<br><br>On the one hand I am the story of a young Waris displaced from his home and his journey to Kasur Pakpattan and Malka Hans where he finally composed this most iconic love legend of Punjab.<br><br>On the other hand I am the story of Heer and Ranjha being written by Waris Shah.<br><br>Throughout the novel I flow between these two narratives these two worlds&#8212;of eighteenth-century Punjab and a timeless Punjab.<br></p>