the genesis of the story and all the debates that raged around the story.

Reading these columns, one feels fully convinced that Abbas had a mission in life- The mission of building up a democratic, socialist and secular world and of course the nation. There are occasions when some passages appear to be repeated in some other works of fiction. The journalistic tinge is visible in his fiction and his journalism too is not without the impact of his fondness for story telling.

It would be appropriate to, conclude with what Abbas said in his interview with Indian Literary Review: …. I feel that many of the writers whom I have admired were journalists. They got their inspiration for their creative writing from journalism and continued to write very wellwork in the social and political arena. This excitement was reflected in the cinema of this era as well. Annette Michelson comments:

The excitement, the exhilaration of artists and intellectuals not directly involved in the medium was enormous. Indeed, a certain euphoria enveloped the early film making and theory. For, there was, ultimately, a very real sense in which the revolutionary aspirations of the modernist movement in literature and the arts, on the one hand, and of a Marxist or Utopian tradition, on the other, could converge in the hopes and promises, as yet undefined, of the new medium.(Film Theory and Criticism 620)

The contribution of Abbas to Indian cinema can be understood in terms of the films written, produced and directed by him, the films directed by him for