play is not very well known and its text also is not easily available.

There are several interviews of K. A. Abbas which have been either recorded and aired on Radio or published in journals, Newspapers and Magazines. These are non – fictional almost autobiographical musings of the author narrated by him but recorded and documented by other persons. One such interview was recorded for radio and its transcript is available with Cambridge University. The interview is taken by one Mr. Shanker and reveals several undisclosed facets of the life and mind of K. A. Abbas. In the course of the interview Abbas talks of his days as a scholar of Aligarh Muslim University and describes how four friends including Ansar Harvani, Sibt –i- Hasan, Akhtar Hussain and himselfwent some forty kilometers away from Aligarh to meet Jawahar Lal Nehru who was travelling by a train. In the interview Mr. Shanker has recorded the description of the complete dialogue that took place between the four young students and Pdt. Nehru. The group of four friends including K. A. Abbas asked several questions about democracy, revolution, socialism, justice and the condition of peasants in the country, particularly, that of those living in villages near Aligarh. Abbas recalls that the answers given by Pdt, Nehru to their questions were quite different from what they had imagined. He was forth right in his views and believed in people’s education and organization as a tool for any revolution. In this interview, Abbas quotes Nehru’s vision of revolution:

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