last two weeks. It is all due to the undigested hats – thanks to the biggest mad – hatter of all the history, Adolf Hatler – alias Mein Fuehrer! “(4)

Abbas does not hesitate in pulling Hitler down through his sarcastic remark and deformation in the very spelling of his name from “ Hitler to “Hatler “ . However, in other pieces which demand greater solemnity and sobriety he easily moulds his style to suit the subject. The “Death of Tagore” written on August 17, 1941 is full of such somberness. Abbas talks of his versatility and also the immortality of his work which we now realize as truth. Tagore was revered in his life time. Tagore is respected today also is one of the best intellectuals of twentiethus his analysis of the social break – up of the Indian village community by the intrusion of industrialism. And instead of legendary goods and goddesses he puts real, live human beings on the dance stage! (9)

Similarly, on the question of cinema and morality, he puts forward very rational and progressive views. He challenges the very idea of linking morality with sexual behavior and expands it to the behavior of human beings driven by greed, false pride and chauvinism. He boldly said that feudalism had vulgarized entertainment while the modern cinema has democratized the profession of entertainers. To him the masters who exploited their servants, the doctors who cheated patients giving those quack medicines and women/ men who married for money were more immoral than the people in