What do you know about Devaki Nandan Khatri’s bestseller ‘Chandrakanta’?
Answer:
- Chandrakanta is a romance with dazzling elements of fantasy—is believed to have contributed immensely in popularising the Hindi language and Nagri script among the educated classes of those times.
- Although it was apparently written purely for the ‘Pleasure of reading’, this novel also gives some interesting insights into the fears and desires of its reading public.