“Invite Mao To New Delhi” Abbas refers to a meeting of the Common Wealth nations at Colombo. Pdt. Nehru as Prime Minister of India participated in that and criticized feudalism and colonialism. But he is reported to have added that unless foreign domination were removed, it would be difficult to ‘stem the communist tide in those countries.”Abbas took exception to this and very openly criticized Pdt. Nehru for making such a statement and becoming party to the colonial design of Europe and America. He writes, “Surely Jawahar Lal Nehru must realize the glaring inconsistency between his five, anti-imperialist sentiments and the fact of his participation in the conference the very basis of which is the negation of the freedom of Asia.” ( BBR 40 ) He further addsare there to fight against such exploitation.

Abbas who revered Gandhi initially, became a Nehruite later but towards the later part of his life, became sympathetic to the Naxalites. He wrote a novel called Naxalites and also made a film with the same name. He got the award for best direction for this film. In this book also occurs a column titled “ Naxalites, My Brothers! “ written in 1973. In this longish essay Abbas describes the Naxalites as “young men (and women too) who have become personally and politically disillusioned with the slow process of democracy which are holding up dynamic social change in India: who are impatient to do away with the hypocrisy, the cant, the him burg, the corruption, the favoritism the nepotism, the callousness, the