Khwaja Ahmad Abbas & Suresh Kohli

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-87) was a prolific political commentator, short story writer, novelist, scriptwriter and a film maker who preferred to call himself a communicator. He published 73 books in English, Hindi and Urdu, including an engaging autobiography and two semi-autobiographical novels, Inquilaband The World is My Village. Suresh Kohli (born in 1947) is a poet, writer, translator, editor. Literary critic and film historian with more than thirty-five published works including five volumes of poetry and a novel. He is also a short and documentary film-maker. He is presently in Delhi and is working on a long abandoned novel and a collection of short stories.