Dozakhnama

Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell is an extraordinary novel a biography of Manto and Ghaliband 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 Exhumed from dust Manto’s unpublished novel surfaces in Lucknow.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.