Singh, Patwant and Harji Malik Punjab: The Fatal Miscalculation, which was published in 1985. It mapped the manner in which Sikhs were alienated by the political miscalculations of the government in New Delhi in large part because of its inability to understand - or accept – their ideals and beliefs. For that reason, from around the early eighties till the late nineties, almost the entire focus of the books he wrote was on Sikhs and the Sikh religion.