Shrilal Shukla, author of timeless novels like Raagdarbari, is a senior and distinguished Hindi storyteller.
The first chapter elevates the depth of his pen's unwavering satire, revealing contemporary social reality layer by layer.
Shrilal Shukla focuses his new novel on the lives of laborers, masons, contractors, engineers, and the educated unemployed, and has crafted a captivating narrative to tie them together.
Santosh Kumar, alias Satte Parmatma Ji, working as a clerk in the fourth building under construction, not only delves into his daily commute, an average village, and the life of an unemployed person, preying on highpitched greetings like "Chal Chal Re Naujavan," but also introduces us to a vibrant female character like Jashoda, alias "Memsahib." Furthermore, the author has imbued almost all the novel's major characters with deep empathy and psychological insight, and through them has artfully exposed various socioeconomic contradictions, the forces that influence and drive them, and the weaknesses of human nature.
In fact, this work of fiction by Shrilal Shukla portrays the tragedy of man becoming a mere brick and mortar in these final decades of the twentieth century in a highly humane and realistic manner.
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