Abdus Samad, born in 1952, is a prominent Urdu fiction writer. He has six novels and several collections of short stories to his credit. He was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990 and the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award in 1998, besides a number of awards from different literary academies in India. His two novels in English were published by Sahitya Akademi and Macmillan.
He is a senior professor of Political Science at the Magadh University in Bihar.
Human behaviour in every age and in every country has perhaps not been above reproach in the closing years of the twentieth century. The attitudes of the educated and affluent members of society particularly in the Indian context, is most galling. If they claim credit for progress, they are also responsible for the new forms of evils, distortions and perversions that pervade our society.
This novel takes us into the depths of Indian society to the towns, cities and the countryside-where impoverished children without hope are lured and trapped in the flesh trade that is practised with subtle élan. The story however is not an unrelieved picture of degradation. The novelist induces a stillness in us to introspect about the hideous machinations behind urban elegance and to act against it.
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