Clarity has a gleam of truth and truth is always uninvited, unexpected and mostly perilous.
Truth is the nervous pedestrian undecided on whether to cross a busy street or wait for an opportune moment. Man with the White Beard is the story of that nervous truth which evades Kulwanti Kaur and her son Goldy.

Shah Alam Khan is a Professor of Orthopaedics at AIIMS, New Delhi. He was born in Delhi and grew up in the campus town of Aligarh. He writes on a wide spectrum of social and political issues and contributes regularly to both the print and the electronic media. Shah loves chocolates and travelling. Man with the White Beard is his first novel.