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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
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Three women were walking on the side of the railway line.
Where was this?
Near which railway line?
What was their religion?
What were their castes?
Details are unnecessary.
Three women.
One was a beautiful young woman, her eyes were bright; she had a spring in her step. Her breasts were…
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On the railway station, the sign read Varanasi. Outside the police station, the sign read Varanasi. On the hospital the sign read Varanasi. On the liquor shop was written Varanasi. In the opium, ganja and charas shop was written Varanasi. In the bookshop where ‘kokashastra’ (sex manual) was openly…
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At midnight a woman’s naked corpse was found at a crossroad. This is the crossroad where four roads converge, one from Aligarh, another Moradabad, another from Sambhal and yet another from Baghpat. Truck and car drivers, who went past, skirted the corpse when they drove past. But one hawker on a…
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Thanks to the ever-loquacious Lado, the midwife, within a few hours the news had been broadcast to the whole village of Prajapur!
It was a holiday, being August 15, the day of freedom. In chattering, groups of threes and fours, the village folk turned out, all headed for Ramoo’s house, a tumble-…
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A ‘credo’ implies that the writing must have a purpose beyond developing the personality and the ego of the writer. Literally meaning ‘I believe’, a credo is a statement of the writer’s faith and purpose. My credo is communication with people. There are two sides to this business of communication—…
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Once upon a time there was a man who built a house in a forest, even as his brother had built a house in another part of the same forest. To make the place secure, he built a high wall around it. To ward off robbers and thieves, he kept a squad of dogs, and bought a rifle. One day he had a feeling…
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‘You are free!' Three words uttered by Premier Kher of Bombay from the balcony of the Government Secretariat, as the National Tricolour went up to replace the Union Jack of imperialism, exactly at 12 midnight—the 'zero hour' of the birth of Freedom! Three words—but they made history. Three words…
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It was in 1941 that I started writing The Last Page. Six years may be no more than a drop in the ocean of eternity, but how the world has changed in this short period! On 22nd June 1941, when the first Last Page appeared, Hitler’s legions were goose-stepping across the Soviet border, the Congress…
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In the 73 years that Khwaja Ahmad Abbas lived, he wrote more than 74 books and innumerable short stories; as a journalist he produced the longest running column in the history of journalism. Besides screenplays and dialogues for popular films, he also wrote plays. However, there is no available…
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Abbas on Films and Film-writing
Ravikant (historian, writer and translator)
The polyglot Abbas was as incredibly prolific in his nearly half-century long filmmaking career as he was in his literary and journalistic avatars. He was also successful in carving out a niche for himself by forging a…
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