Abstract: In Sobti's fiction, characters grapple with changing times at different levels.Time can mean the epochal time, for example the time of the Anglo-Sikh wars in DSB or the partition and the time just preceding it in ZN and some of Sobti's short stories.However, the changes of this historical dimension of time are often subtler (echoes of WWI and the Ghadar movement in ZN) 596 or more gradual, like the social changes in DoD.Time, in Sobti's novels is also the time of generational changes, as is apparent in AL, and the questioning of identity in the witnessing of the ageing process, like in that novel and in SaS.Although all those texts are very different from each other and their reflection and interaction with time and history are not similar, they have one central point in common, namely that in all of them the perception of time, even of historical time, remains a very subjective perception, closely related to the characters' experiences.When examining the concept of time in Sobti's texts and her discussion of time in her non-fictional works, literature emerges as a space where time can be thought of on several levels.The consciousness of the passing of time and the constant changewithin and without a human beingimplied in this consciousness is of great importance to Sobti's work.In the fictional texts, it becomes apparent in the shifting points of view and the depiction of the evolution of her characters.In her essays and interviews, it is expressed in her few statements about her personal life and the discussion of the capacity of literature to bring the past (back) to life. 597 For Sobti, time is of essential importance as the dimension underlying every lived phenomenon and experienceone could even say, as the central The Ghadar movement was a Punjab-based movement for the independence of India. While speaking about her personal life, Sobti is very discreet and distant but one must always infer from her words a consciousness that nothing remains eternally the same, be it relationships or states of mind.See for example MSRS, Sobti 2014: 401, "Friends, there is no such relationship, be it casual acquaintanceship, love, close friendship, that would not slowly get caught in its own mire and come to an end.That would not grow cold.Often, to accept one's own lapses and others' misgivings, one ought to subscribe to the idea that what is there today will not be there tomorrow, what will be there tomorrow will not be there the day after.So hold onto the given time as long as it stays in your grip.Before it is too late.