TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bal, Rabisankar
AU  - Sinha, Arunava., tr.,
TI  - Dozakhnama: conversations in hell 
SN  - 9788184003086
U1  - 891.4437 BAL-R 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - India
PB  - Random House India
KW  - Bengali fiction
KW  - Bengali fiction -- Translations into English
KW  - Bala, Rabiśaṃkara -- Translations into English
N1  - Who tells the greatest story God or Manto? Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell is an extraordinary novel, a biography of Manto and Ghalib and a history of Indian culture rolled into one. Exhumed from dust, Manto's unpublished novel surfaces in Lucknow. Is it real or is it a fake? In this dastan, Manto and Ghalib converse, entwining their lives in shared dreams. The result is an intellectual journey that takes us into the people and events that shape us as a culture. As one writer describes it, I discovered Rabisankar Bal like a torch in the darkness of the history of this subcontinent. This is the real story of two centuries of our own country. Rabisankar Bal's audacious novel, told by reflections in a mirror and forged in the fires of hell, is both an oral tale and a shield against oblivion. An echo of distant screams. Inscribed by the devil's quill, Dozakhnama is an outstanding performance of subterranean memory
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