Though it sounds comic to read, the underlying truth reflects the acute poverty in Brahmin families.

It starts with a village in EastGodavari called Mandapalli where Papayya Sastry, the grand father of Ganapathi lives.

Papayya faces many difficulties in his village so he go to Pune in Maharashtra, worked in the kingdom of Peshwas and earned some money.

After attaining young age, Gangadharudu starts earning by bringing drinking water to the households from the pond.

Since his childhood Ganapathi amuses the whole village with his bizarre and comic acts like riding donkeys.

This novel ends on a funny note with the author comes out of his dream by server pouring hot rasam on his hand in the marriage dinner.

It is highly successful in those days with people gathering in groups near the radio sets to listen to this comic play.