Punjab in the early eighties. The atmosphere is charged with calls for Khalistan and there is violence on the streets. The hitherto ordinaryives of siblings Monty and Minnie and their cousins Karuna and Michael, teeter on the brink of drastic, inescapable change and each must struggle to carve their own paths back to freedom and stability.Vividly and sensitively written, The Patiala Quartet is a moving chronicle of political upheaval and carnage and the choices that need to be made in order to survive.