Tilism is a magical world full of optical illusion, a kind of phantasmagoria, where unbelievable things keep happening and deception plays a pivotal role. Today it will baffle many people if they are told that in the last years of the 19th and the early years of the 20th century, a sizeable number of South Indians learnt Hindi because they wanted to read Devaki Nandan Khatri’s wonderful It’s a comment on our times that while people still remember the hugely popular television serialĬhandrakanta, not many of its devoted viewers would be familiar with the name and contribution of Devaki Nandan Khatri, the man who created the character of Chandrakanta and blazed a new trail in the field of novel writing in Hindi, that too at a time when Hindi novel was in its infancy.
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