Who is the author of the book “Curfew in the city”?

Vibhuti Narain Rai
The book “Curfew in the city” has been authored by Vibhuti Narain Rai. The book was first published as a Hindi novella in 1988 (Shahar Mein Curfew), has been translated in English (by C.M. Naim) and brought out by Penguin in 2016. It is a sensitive and touching study of a people in a crumbling inner city locality when curfew is suddenly clamped on them. Its’ theme was a 1980 Hindu-Muslim riot in the city of Allahabad and authorwrote freely about how religious prejudice in the Hindu dominated police force and provincial administration led to Muslim citizens’ being viewed as enemies and thus becoming easy targets of brutality and murder.