How the All India Progressive Writers' Association Destroyed the Hindu Literary Tradition

Origins of The All India Progressive Writers' Association, an organ of the Communist Party of India that invaded the Indian literary space in the 1930s and inflicted enormous damage

THERE IS AN URGENT need today to fully revisit the toxic nineteen thirties of the last century. That was roughly the decade when the Communists began making slow, systematic but determined inroads into the Indian cultural spaces. Even as the “syphilitic-faced” Mohammed Habib (to borrow Sita Ram Goel’s brilliant expression) was surreptitiously whitewashi…