Billesur Bakariha

Billesur Bakariha is one of the most significant prose works of Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', renowned Hindi poet. It is the story of the struggle of a poor Brahmin to move up in life in a society ridden with not only inter-caste conflicts but is also full of intra caste rivalries and jealousies.

Borrowing heavily from a small dialect of Hindi-Bainswadi, that happens to be the mother tongue of Nirala-Billesur Bakariha is replete with typical Nirala satire-rapier sharp and scathing. It is also full of local mythology and earthy colloquial metaphors.