He started his career as a poet but ended as fiction writer. There are 15 novels, eight-story-books and five poem collections to his credit.He mostly wrote about the village life of Punjab; about farmer suicide and indebtedness and drug addiction etc. His well-known works include Kothe Kharak Singh (1985),Partapi (1993),Dulle Di Dhab (2003), Salphas,Kanak Da Qatleam. Malhe Jharhian (1988) and Apni Mitti De Rukh (2004) are both autobiographies. The scene of most of his writings are a cluster of 50 villages in the Malwa region, from the districts of Mansa, Bathinda, Barnala, and Sangrur.