Badal Sircar's ANT NAHIN, Hindi play,

“Ant Nahin” analyzes the politics and social content of writing and the writer. How deep could the contradiction between the social being and the political being be? There is a perpetual internal trial that one has to face constantly due to this conflict. It is in this constantly burning lava that the writer’s creativity is refined. Writing thus becomes an allegory of the struggle and the martyrisation of the writer. Sumant is a poet who, at the zenith of his success, looks back and finds himself at the crossroads of the discourse between Art and social commitment. On this path he has to face his deep-rooted emotions in the form of his mother, lover, comrade, mentor and employer, in their different shades and layers. Yet these painful experiences are justified through the angle of his life-partner Sumati. Finally his humane sincerity as an intellectual is justified over conceptualizations of so-called social justice. In essence the play addresses the political upsurges of the mid-60’s and its consequences.