[1] The story describes the life of a 12-year-old girl, Champa, who is married to Ramakanta but being self-reliant, she could not stay her home and she runs away.

[3] The novel is unique among Devkota's works as the only one depicting contemporary social issues and roles of women in society.

[1] Set in Kathmandu during the Rana rule, it depicts a society firmly adhering to traditional gender roles, with men engaged in learning and travelling, and women, uneducated and limited to household chores and religious activities.

[1] Critic Bindu Sharma considers the novel's use of Freudian psychoanalytic theories to explore unequal relationships and conflict within family groundbreaking, and argues that it makes Devkota the first psychological novelist of Nepali literature.

[1] According to the book's foreword, the manuscript released to the publishers by Nepal Bhasha Pratisthan had arrived with the title "Nepali Samajik Upanyas (lit.