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Raat Ka Reporter is perhaps the first novel written in Hindi on the days of emergency, and also an indicator of a new turn in Nirmal ji's story-writing. The novel's protagonist Rishi appears here as a journalist whose internal crisis has arisen from his external social reality... the circumstances have made him unhealthy and suspicious. There is an empire of darkness all around him and his inner world is also in its grip. In such a situation, if he tries to examine the darkness around him, then he himself is also subjected to its test. In fact, this is such a work of fiction, which underlines the pressures of the times on the consciousness of an intellectual and shows them happening in his behavior. The environment we pass through while going through this, may have been outside our experience or we may have been outside it, but it is not beyond the basic questions of freedom of our world.