Rivers Flow Atop the Mountains

It is a novel wound around three characters, Kamala, Dharmendra and Shanthi. Kamala and Dharmendra are married and Kamala suspects her husband having relationships with his co-workers, especially Shanthi. When Dharmendra finds it impossible to live with Kamala any longer, he leaves her and lives alone. At this stage, Shanthi enters his life first as a team mate of his work and later as a secret admirer. Then, Kamala gets into a serious depression and finds solace in meditation. But, she is diagnosed as having cancer and before she succumbs to her illness, she pardons both Dharmendra and Shanthi and wish them to marry. Eventually, they too marry, but have difficulties in leading a normal married life. Dharmendra too dies of cancer and Shanthi who is now left alone in this world decides to seek salvation in meditation.