a specific category. His wide experience as a journalist seems to be present in almost all of his works including the works of fiction. Even the screenplays and stories he wrote for other producers and directors and the films that he directed and produced himself bear the stamp of his journalistic vision.

However, for the convenience of literary appraisal one may classify the non – fiction of K. A. Abbas into the following categories. The first category is his journalistic writings in the form of columns published in The Chronicle, Bombay The Blitz, Bombay and other newspapers and magazines. Selections from the columns arranged chronologically are published in two books namely I Write As I Feel (1948) and Bread, Beauty, and Revolution (1982). The second category of Abbas’s non-fictionis a series of books based on his meetings with important personalities of the world. He had travelled around the world twice and gathered a lot of experience and exposure which finally got recorded in the form of his books, some of which are In The Image of Mao-Tse Tung ( 1953), Face to Face with Khruschev ( 1960 ), Till We Reach The Stars, The Story of Yury Gagarin ( 1961), That Woman : Her Seven Years in Power ( 1973 ) , Jawahar Lal Nehru : Portrait of An Integrated Indian ( 1974 ) and Indira Gandhi : The Last Post ( 1989 ). Three of these books are about the charismatic personality of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the iron lady of Indian Politics. Abbas was much