She is best remembered for her poignant poem, "Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu" (Today I invoke Waris Shah – "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet, an expression of her anguish over massacres during the partition of India. As a novelist, her most noted work was "Pinjar" ("The Skeleton", 1950), in which she created her memorable character, "Puro", an epitome of violence against women, loss of humanity and ultimate surrender to existential fate; the novel was made into an award-winning film, "Pinjar" (2003).