In this essay, I delve into Shiv Batalvi’s Luna as a text that attempts to rewrite Qadir Yar’s qissa of Puran Bhagat from Luna’s perspective. Luna, the much-maligned stepmother soliciting love from the saintly stepson Puran, seen in the folk imagination as wily and wicked, is transformed by Batalvi with much sympathy. Luna is delineated anew as a beautiful, young, low-caste chamiar woman who is forced into marriage with the old King Salwan and finds no way to alleviate her sexual urges except by soliciting her stepson. Further, Batalvi, as a poet, is situated in the ideological matrix of his times with an influence of classical sufi poetry in his early works and a marked stamp of the Punjabi radical tradition and the ascending progressive ethos on his later collections, especially evident in Luna.