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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (June 7, 1914 – June 1, 1987) was an Indian film director and producer, novelist, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer and playwright. In a career spanning over half a century, Abbas emerged on the Indian and global scene as a communicator of great repute. In the 73 years that he lived, he wrote more than 74 books. Besides numerous short stories, he also wrote several plays and stories for the film industry. As a journalist, he produced the longest-running column in the Indian history of journalism and shifted with effortless ease between his writings for newspapers, journals, and scripts for the Bombay film industry. His work flows in three languages- Urdu, Hindi and English.

Abbas was a compulsive communicator. He used every medium at his command- be it newspaper columns, books, cinema; to transmit his message. As a writer, he consciously depicted the tales of ordinary people who accomplished heroic deeds simply by virtue of their undaunted spirit and sheer will to survive. His works and his ethos remain even more relevant in the India of toda

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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas: The Inveterate Communicator

Today when we are almost two decades into the 21st century, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas has become even more relevant than he was in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. He wrote furiously and prolifically for films, newspapers, journals, stories, novels and dramas; his pen flowed in Urdu and English with equal ease. A Hindi typist sat to his right and simultaneously transcribed his writing into Hindi. But somehow, in the interregnum—i.e., the 27 years between his death in 1987 and the revival of his work three years ago in 2014—he was forgotten by both writers and film historians.

What made a motley group of people decide to resurrect Abbas? Perhaps it was destiny. There was no external trigger, which made 2014 suddenly jump at us as a compelling imperative. When we began our work, our tablet was blank, we had nothing except a few books given to me by him as gifts. It was only within the three years that followed his centenary celebrations that one saw the start of what can be called a cult status for Abbas.

The Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Centenary Celebra

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ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES ABBAS, K.A. (1914–1987) Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, popularly known as K.A. Abbas, was a novelist, short story writer, journalist, and filmmaker who preferred to see himself primarily as a “communicator of ideas.” Born into a middle-class Muslim family in Panipat, Haryana, Abbas completed a BA in English literature and a LLB from Aligarh Muslim University. In 1933, when he was still studying at Aligarh, Abbas started his career as a journalist, working with the newspaper National Call. In 1935, he started the newspaper Aligarh Opinion. Abbas moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1935 and joined the Bombay Chronicle as a journalist. He made Bombay his new home, where he became closely associated with the Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA) and the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), which would shape his career as a writer and filmmaker. In his prolific career, Abbas wrote seventy-four books and several short stories, in addition to scripting and directing several films. He wrote in Urdu, English, and Hindi. Some of his wellknown works are I Write as I