The novel is composed in the form of letters written by protagonist Ajay, a creative writer.

In its wake, Shrikant Shah, Madhu Rye, Chandrakant Bakshi, Radheshyam Sharma and Mukund Parikh published their experimental novels Asti (1966), Chahera (1966), Paralysis (1967), Fero (1968) and Mahabhinishkraman (1968) respectively.

The complexity of his love, the nuances of his emotion, the pangs of his agony are all depicted here with the help of images and symbols.

[4] Joshi intended to present the complex state of minds of his characters and hence, as critic Shirish Panchal noted, it becomes a lyrical novel full of poetic images and symbolic allusions.

[4] Shirish Panchal wrote that, among Joshi's longer works of fiction Chhinnapatra deserves a special mention.

[6] K. M. George considers it as an intended anti-novel which ended up only as an experiment difficult to read or comprehend.