Legacy of a Divided Nation - pg. 10

Scores of writers have described the corporate identity of the towns and the largely cordial interaction of the mixed Hindu and Muslim populations. In Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi, Rahi Masoom Reza's Aaadha Gaun, Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column, or Intizar Husain's Basti, the parallel worlds of, say, Bhagatji and Abba Jan in the novel, of Hindu mythology and Muslim legend and lore, could exist in reality and not only in the writer's fancy.