Effigies of the authors were burned, and fatwas were issued against them.

Upon its release in Lucknow, met with immediate and fierce backlash. Religious and civil authorities denounced it as "blasphemous" and "immoral". On March 15, 1933, the British government banned the book under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code , citing it as a threat to religious harmony.

A one-act play exposing the physical and psychological toll of patriarchy on women. The "Firestorm" and the 1933 Ban