Ukhre Huey Log, ('The Rootless People) his next novel, depicted the trauma of a couple arising out of socio-economic condition which forced them to desert the conventional path - and, still they failed to acclimatize themselves to a corrupt and devilish world. This novel envisages "living in" concept for the first time.
He wrote two more novels, Kulta (The Wayward Wife), and Shaah aur Maat (Check and Mate).
He also wrote several stories and translated into Hindi many works of Russian language writers like Turgenev, Chekhov, and Lermontov (A Hero of Our Times), as also Albert Camus (The Outsider).
Ek Inch Muskaan (A Little Smile), which Rajendra Yadav and wife Mannu Bhandari wrote together, is a love tragedy of schizophrenic individuals.
He was nominated a member of the Board of Prasar Bharati, India's state-owned broadcaster from 1999 to 2001. Yadav relaunched Munshi Premchand's magazine HANS, which he himself had been editing since 1986.
His wife Mannu Bhandari is also a renowned Hindi writer. Both had been living separately.
Updated on: October 29, 2013 12:37 IST
