 Come gift me some light, for a lantern,
Just two lines remain
in this letter to my queen

In Maithili he wrote nearly 100 poems, three novels, 37 stories, three one act plays and four critical essays.The vast literature that he penned in a short 13 years of literary life, majority of his work remained unpublished till his death.Nearly ten months after his death, his friends at BIT Sindri brought the first collection of his Maithili short stories "Lalka Paag".