Nayantara Sahgal is the author of nine Novels, ten works of non-fiction and wide ranging literary and political commentary. She has received the Sahitya Akadami Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. The Novel “Storm in Chandigarh” demonstrates Nayantara Sahgal’s keen understanding of individual relationships and her remarkable ability to tell stories that continue to capture the attention of readers over years. The Novel is about the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana. With the chief minister of Haryana, Harpal Singh, refusing to concede any advantages, the stage is set for a confrontation. The present paper is an attempt to explore the power of bureaucracy and politics with the small dramas and casual betrayals that are a universal feature of human relationships.