One of the largest rivers of India, the Mahanadi originates from the foothills of the Sihaoa mountain of Chattisgarh and Odisha, finally immersing in the Bay of Bengal at Jagatsinghpur. But its journer never ends, as it flows daily fromthe plateau to the forest to the ravine to the plains. It unites with the sea everyday. At every new turn, it leaves behind scores of villages, towns and cities. The din and bustle of a mofussil town, the solitary life in a standalone village, people's strugghle for survival, the episodes of their joys and sorrows, the sighs of the displaced people of Sambalpur during the building of the Hirakud dam mixes with the cries of the endangered people on the banks when the river overflows.
In this novel, the tale of the river is told through the people living on the banks of the Mahanadi. Characters like Tularam Dhuru, Malati Gond, Neelkantha, Bhanu Shitulia, Parvati and others might never meet each other, but the story of their lives will remain strung together by the common thread of the ever-flowing Mahanadi.
The chronicle of Mahanadi is a journey through travails and misfortunes into life's joys and mysterious beauty.