Send us a textWhen we look at the landscape of modern Hindi fiction, there are a few names like Munshi Prem Chand that take the top spot, but there are a few others who made lasting contributions to the art of storytelling. One such name that comes to my mind is Agyeya. He was born in Kasia, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, in 1911 in a Punjabi Brahmin family and he adopted an unusual pen name, Agyeya, meaning the unknowable. Agyeya wrote poetry, published novels and short stories, plays, travelogues, and several works of literary criticism. As an academic and journalist, Agyeya was the voice of modernism and experimentalism in Hindi literature. He was awarded many honors including Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964, Jnanpith Award in 1979, and the Golden Wreath Award in 1983. He passed away in 1987. I present ROZ a short story written by Agyeya. Let us hear the story.

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