Ludhiana, July 23

An English novel, “Summer Enigma”, penned by 14-year-old Pratibha Sharma and Baruni Arora, was released at Sutlej Club. The novel was released by Punjabi poet Dr Surjit Patar, former Vice- Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Dr SP Singh, writer and former IAS officer Jung Bahadur Goyal, Punjabi poet Prof Gurbhajan Singh Gill, Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma and Commissioner of Police Rakesh Agrawal in the presence of several others other personalities. Pratibha and Baruni said they decided to pen their thoughts during the lockdown, that eventually took the shape of a novel. — TNS