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Abstract: Two writers with identical concerns or practicing identical genres could be truthfully compared. Dattani is a dramatist and Nasrin is a novelist. That way they are the writers of different genres. But both equally hold up a mirror before life around them. Both alike are not satisfied simply in portraying faithfully what they observe. Each of them is reacting constructively to what he or she sees. There is strong plea for reforming the situation, for reshaping collective psyche of the people around. Each of them is in a way a writer of problem literature. Both of them are like Ibsen and Show drawing attention to a pressing problem of a particular time and place. There is not a powerful aesthetic motive behind their work. They are not primarily interested in creating a thing of beauty. They use literature particularly for the dissemination of their ideas. They do not practise literature for its own sake. They write because they have something definite to say to their people. Both are rebellious, have courage to tell their people that they must become more sensitive to human suffering, and become kind to their brethren. A humanist concern is evident in their work. They write in the spirit of Existentialist Engagement and not simply as the entertainers of their audiences. What they earn in consequence is a wide protest from their countrymen, and not applause. They realize a negative popularity called notoriety. They are well known because they are unpleasant, not because they are pleasing. Index Terms: Aesthetic motive, human suffering