Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rahti Thi (दीवार में एक खिड़की रहती थी)

दीवार में एक खिड़की रहती थी (Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rahti Thi), published in English as A Window Lived in a Wall, is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Vinod Kumar Shukla, one of Hindi literature's most distinctive prose stylists.

The novel follows Raghuvar Prasad, a mathematics teacher at a small-town college, and his wife Sonsi, whose possessions amount to little more than a bed, a water pot, kitchen utensils, and a tin box of keepsakes in their single room. Yet the window of their home opens onto a world charged with quiet wonder — an elephant and a wandering sadhu become fixtures of Raghuvar's daily commute, and the couple's affection for each other and their working-class neighbors gives ordinary life an almost magical texture.

Shukla's prose is known for finding delight and strangeness in the mundane, treating a marriage's small daily rituals with the same attention other novels reserve for grand events. The novel is considered a landmark of postcolonial Hindi fiction for its gentle, formally playful style.