Reading Chitra Mudgal's stories and novels, I felt a squeak of reality in the context of this life and the world with the many faces of man, life-struggle with many faces of man, compromising, opportunistic and deceitful, lying and scheming. seen in dimensions. This has made me very rich. In this sequence, in spite of the contradictions among the reviewers whose reviews I have read and quoted, a sense of reality has been engraved by all.