Sahitya Akademi Winner of 1999, Vinod Kumar Shukla's apparently slight novel reaches into the depth of feeling Raghuvir Prasad and his wife Sonsi have for one another and for the world of lower middle class neighbours among whom they belong. Their possessions are meagre: the single room barely accommodates their bed, the water pot, the kitchen utensils and the tin box in which Sonsi keeps her precious things. But there is a magical place beyond the window which sustains Raghuvir Prasad's and Sonsi's spirit. This window lived in a wall.