Curfew In The City

This novel is a sensitive and touching study of a people in a crumbling inner city locality when curfew is suddenly clamped on them. With no confidence-building mechanism in place, the administrative machinery can hardly cope with the communal frenzy between the Hindu and Muslim populations. The authorities of law and order are wholly discriminatory in the exercise of their powers, fanning the fears and insecurities of the poor people. The novel focusses on a Muslim household of beedi-workers who live on the edge of subsistence.