Home Books Rajkamal choudhary chronicler of indian modernity sans illusions Poet, novelist, essayist, translator and literary provocateur Rajkamal Choudhary wrote in Hindi and Maithili with unusual fluency. His death anniversary is on June 19 Summary of this article Rajkamal Choudhary belonged to Mithila by geography, to the generation shaped by Independence, and to a literary tradition deeply suspicious of social, political and cultural orthodoxies.