[3] Later in the year 1974 it was translated into English by Girish Karnad and published by Oxford University Press.
It is perceived as an Absurd Play such as Eugène Ionesco's Amédée or Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the context that it portrays the emptiness and repetitiveness in the pattern and conformity of the modern society.
His mother comes onto the stage, asking him to eat dinner, unable to understand the depth of his struggle.
Earlier that was not the case, but the loss of childhood and coming of age changed his priorities from happiness to peace.
As the narration goes he is revealed to be a common man, born, schooling, work, every aspect of his life reoccurs in the same place.
Indrajit talks to the writer and reveals his anguish towards the norms of society and his desperate dreams to go away from this world.
The narration then moves to the writer, who is a constant part of his plot and he wishes to write about the lives of these characters with a heroine Manasi.
He tells them his problems, after his marriage and his urgency to get a job because he married against his father's wishes and has also bought a flat.
Every scene breaks off with Indrajit's mother asking him to eat, which shows the connection of the writer to his character.
The characters Amal, Vimal and Kamal have settled down to the middle-class life, with a job and family.
Realizing his search is in vain, exhausted him and he decides to accept his fate and walks away from his dreams once again.
Towards the end, we see Indrajit and Manasi (his childhood friend and cousin) at their designated spot - near a tree in an empty plot of land.
He wonders aloud at the pointlessness of walking a path with no beginning, no end, and most importantly no meaning.