not allow him to marry the heroine Dimple Kapadia not because of religion or caste but simply because she belongs to a poor fisherman’s family and the hero is the son of a rich man. The class dimension is kept much higher than any other consideration. Abbas drives home the message that the new generation will not care for the class distinctions in their relationships.

His commitment to portray the reality and create characters who take up challenges and dare for the cause of humanity is seen in about eight of his novels and five collections of short stories. I Write As I Feel and Bread, Beauty and Revolution are two books which are compilation of his columns published in BombayChronicle and The Blitz respectively. His novel Inquilab publishedin English, Hindi and Urdu became very popular and sold more than ninety thousand copies in Russian. Abbas was planning to write a trilogy but could write only one sequel to Inquilab namely TheWorldIs My Village. Maria, Tomorrow Is Ours, The Walls of Glass, Boy Meets Girl, When Night Falls, Distant Dreams, Divided Hearts, The Naxalites and Four Friends are some of the important novels which have made Abbas a writer of Indian English Fiction as well. However, in literature he is known more for his stories. His story “Sparrows” translated in Urdu and Hindi as Ababeel has become a classic and is included in some of the best short stories of the world.

Cages of Freedom and Other Stories, Black Sun and other Stories, Rice and Other Stories,