Lotus. Afro-Asian Writings. Journal of Afro-Asian Writers Association. Ceuvres Afro-Asiatiques. Revue de l’Association des Ecrivains Afro-Asiatiques

Contents: Editorial: Of Truth and Beauty, pag. 8; Short Stories: The House, by Gofri Nath Mohanty, pag. 11; Sunderdas’s Quest, by Manoj Das, pag. 18; Songs of the Earth, by Sitakant Mahapatra, pag. 23; Lajwanti, by Rajinder Singh Bedi, pag. 31; The Man Who Did Not Want to Remenber, by Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, pag. 40; Reversal, by Mulk Raj Anand, pag. 49; The Women’s Lib, by Kartar Singh Duggal, pag. 53; Indiannes in Indian Literature, by Shivdan Singh Chauhan, pag. 59; Studies: The Search for Identity in Architecture. The Indian Experience, by Romi Khosla, pag. 81; The Struggle against Cultural and Ideological Imperialist Expansionism, by Bhisham Sahni, pag. 94; Poems: Bird’s Wedding, by Divik Ramesh, pg. 99; One Twing Two Twings, by Subhash Mukherji, pag. 100; Rebirth, by P. R. Kaikini, pag. 101; Measurements, by Navkanta Barua, pag. 102; Anonymous, by Ezekiel Nissim, pag. 103; Cock-fight, by Sitakant Mahapatra, pag. 104; The Virgin, by Amrita Pritam, pag. 106; Daughter of the Sea, by Ali Sardar Jafri, pag. 107; Freedom, by Raghuvir Sahay, pag. 110; Samarkand, by Alex Miller, pag. 112; Translating Blok, by Alex Miller, pag. 114; Art: The Theatre in India: Background and Perspective, by Nemi Chandra Jain, pag. 119; Amrita Sher-Gil (A literary profile), by Iqbal Singh, pag. 135; Interviews: The Writer’s Supreme Duty, by Chinghiz Aitmatov, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, pag. 139; Romi Khosla-Satish Gujral, pag. 155; Anniversaries: The Hope of Peace Is Ever With Us. To Commemorate the First AU-Union, pag. 157; Minutes of the Meeting of the Secretariat: Moscow, 1-2 October 1984, pag. 168; From Our Letterbox, pag. 171; Book Review, pag. 172; Report: of the Secretary General of Afro-Asian Writers Union to the 7th General Conference, Tashkent 1983, by Alex La Guma, pag. 191.