This book, bringing together a cornucopia of biography, interviews and critical essays by eminent scholars like Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Carlo Coppola, Ahmed H. al-Rahim and Snehal Shingavi, among others, provides deep insight into bilingual creative genius of Ahmed Ali, one of the founding members of All India Progressive Writers’ Association.

Highlighting some unknown aspects of Ali’s life, it sheds fascinating light on his literary oeuvre as well as a critical period of history that saw the demise of British colonial rule in India. It also deals with his literary realism, Urdu cultural nuances, his literary crossings from English to Urdu and influence of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century modernist Salafism of his translation.