Amra Aur Dayan is the story of a boy of about 10-12 years of age. It is the story of a day when Amra gets a feeling that everything is going to go wrong. In this day full of troubles, he has the company of his friend Virma. The day of troubles is so grave that Amra is forced to visit the hut of ‘Jeevti Dayan’.
The book appears a bit fat at first, but if you start reading, it just grabs you and grips you to itself! You cannot just leave it till you read up to the end. The story also attracts the reader because all that happens in the story is like it happens in real life.
As you read along, there is an unsettling and restless feeling. It is also the restlessness of Amra because everything is going wrong that day. In the midst of this restlessness is also the thought in Amra’s mind whether he will get to eat a ‘makke ki roti’ at home in the evening.