: In the Mumbai of ‘Rohzin’, the real collides with the imagined and history joins hands with folklore #IndiaNEWS Rahman Abbas’s Rohzin is a story that lives in the interstices of reality and imagination.

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In the Mumbai of ‘Rohzin’, the real collides with the imagined and history joins hands with folklore #IndiaNEWS
Rahman Abbas’s Rohzin is a story that lives in the interstices of reality and imagination. It is peopled by characters who are as real as they are flawed, men and women shaped by currents of history they might not even recognize. It unfolds, for the most part, in Mumbai of the early 2000s, moving through time to the rhythm of an unregulated beat. Plunging the reader into the devastation caused by the Mumbai floods of 2005, the novel has a rather portentous start, marking the tragedy of what seem to be star-crossed lovers. “It was the last day in the lives of Asrar and Hina�, it announces. Asrar, our protagonist, a Konkani Muslim of Zoroastrian descent, loses his fisherman father in an accident at sea at a young age. To support his mother and in pursuit of a sense of self, he decides to move to Mumbai and find work. Asrar’s discovery of and immersion in the multiple worlds of Mumbai, even more than his falling in love with Hina at first sight, is perhaps the love story at the heart of the novel. Translated from the Urdu by Sabika Abbas Naqvi, Rohzin tells many stories of love and desire, most of which transcend...Read more

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