Zindeeq (Novel)

<p>Zindeeq or Heretic is the first Urdu novel to receive the support of an International Research Grant funded by the 'Crossing Borders' program of the 'Robert Bosch Foundation' and the 'Literarisches Colloquium Berlin' towards its creative process. The Times of India states that 'Rahman Abbas bagged this grant to tour Europe especially concentration camps in Germany to study the impact of Nazism on German society.' Rahman Abbas visited Germany Poland Czech Republic Austria and France in 2019-2020 to research and understand how the racist and nationalist ideology of Nazism resulted in a genocide as yet unparalleled in human history.</p><p>A dystopian and apocalyptic novel Zindeeq is a comparative study of the effects of Nazism in Europe and the damages that religious extremism may cause in Pakistan and India. The novel devises a new narrative style Mythological Realism to tell the stories of men and women living in an extremely volatile time and how this traumatic period affects their lives dreams sexuality and pleasures. Their impulses follies self-dialogues tendencies delusions and insecurities are the maps through which the novel unfolds from 2045 to 2075 in the aftermath of major societal upheaval. </p>