Partly autobiographical and Yashpal's first novel Dada Comrade is an extraordinary book fast-paced and philosophical by turn. It tells the story of a young revolutionary Harish who towards the end of the 1930s is expelled from his revolutionary party which also plans to kill him as he knows too much. Meanwhile he and Shailbala a member of the party and the daughter of a wealthy Lahore industrialist develop a romantic relationship. An unusual heroine Shailbala is outspoken about sexual freedom an