The book analyses the discourse on the trends in Urdu and Hindi fiction. It examines the tendencies in Urdu and Hindi fiction with reference to multilingual and multicultural societies. The writers discussed are important, crucially relevant to the determination of the socio-political trends and sensibilities with a certain degree of rectitude for the paradoxical nature of the human society. Books by the same author include 'Fictional Frontiers' and 'waves', two collections of short stories 'Boot polish and other stories' and 'Silence of the Dead and other stories.