[1][2][3][4] Rebati is the story of a young girl whose desire for education in the backdrop of a conservative Odia society in a backward village, which is hit by a Cholera epidemic.
The story itself also opens a third dimension when it deals with a very well bonded relation between Rebati and a school teacher.
By displaying a forbidden desire for learning, Rebati, the female protagonist of the story, seems to invite misfortune for herself and her community.
In the early 1980s, Jagadish Mohanty, wrote a story based on the protagonist character "Rebati".
Asit Kumar Mohanty later published all the stories, along with both Fakir Mohan and Jagadish’s "Rebati" in two of his collections under the same title.