This novel set in the Bombay Film World of the 1940s and 50s is the riveting story of Dharam Dev the famous actor director and producer and his all consuming an

"Essays, communal violence, literature, women, non-fiction, Lihaaf trial, Bombay, Bhopal."

Ismat Chughtai and Sadat Hasan Mantho were Urdu's most courageous and controversial writers in the twentieth century. Featuring themes such as communal violence