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100			_aBal, Rabisankar
245			_aDozakhnama : _bconversations in hell / _cRabisankar Bal
260			_aIndia _bRandom House India _c2012
300			_a533 p.
365			_aINR _b450.00
500			_aWho 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 Exhumed from dust, Manto's unpublished novel surfaces in Lucknow.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.
650			_aBengali fiction
650			_aBengali fiction -- Translations into English.
650			_aBala, Rabiśaṃkara -- Translations into English.
700			_aSinha, Arunava., tr.,
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