like that.

The book has a piece titled “Bread and Revolution” though the same is used as a title of the second collection called Bread, Beauty and Revolution. It is a beautiful piece of prose which depicts the reality of India during the period of severe economic depression in the world. The inflating prices of the commodities of daily use and the acute scarcity of food grain has made the life of the Indian masses miserable. Abbas begins the piece by alluding to the Nobel Winning novel The Good Earth written by Pearl. S. Buck and a film based on it. He quotes a dialogue from the film, “What is Revolution ?”

‘ I don’t know, but it has something to do with food.” Later Abbas describes how it wasIndian freedom struggle to the rise and fall of Nazism and Fascism in Europe. The roving camera of Abbas’s journalistic eye shows a wide range of topics from politics to art, from the intellectual talk of philosophy and economics to the more mundane and coarse realities of the lives of the multitudes. He talks about the debate on’ kissing’ scenes in cinema and the issues related to modernism and orthodoxy. The book ends up with an article written on 22nd August 1947, just a week after the independence of India and is aptly titled as “The End is The Beginning.”

The second volume titled Bread, Beauty and Revolution about thirty five years of the journalistic writings of K.A.Abbas. The book begins with a piece titled “Letter To A Child