This book from Hind Yugm is a Hindi medium (हिन्दी माध्यम) title written by Agam Jain, meant for readers of contemporary Hindi fiction (समकालीन हिंदी कथा-साहित्य) and especially for students and young readers who have lived between a small town and a campus. < cite index="133-1">The publisher's own description sets the tone: this is a story of grand-looking shops serving bland food, of people with big names but small vision. Every time the tide of college life rises in the story, it breaks over the reader's head the moment the characters return to the village. Its characters are the kind who, in the name of being practical, would strip a poor man of the last cloth he owns. Some of the students carry the smell of village soil even in their pockets, while others have arrived from comfortable city upbringings only to land their heads in this same grinding mortar. Not every student here dreams of becoming an IAS or IPS officer — one wants to be a sarpanch, another is angling for a marriage proposal before college even ends. There is the sky in this story and the ground beneath it too. Whether the village sits inside the college or the college inside the village, whether love wins or studies do, whether friendship wins or the fight does — the author leaves that for the reader to decide. < cite index="130-1">Readers have noted that the book is full of humour drawn from real life alongside a moving attentiveness to small things, that its language is richly worked to keep the story engaging, and that events are recorded as they actually happen without exaggeration, with deep reflection often folded into the explanation of something quite ordinary. The book carries press notices on its cover from Dainik Bhaskar, which described it as capturing the country's temperament in an entertaining style, and Rashtriya Sahara, which called it witty but pointed. The whole book is written in Hindi in the Devanagari script (देवनागरी लिपि).
Key Features:
Hindi medium book — complete content written in Hindi (Devanagari script)
Written by Agam Jain, published by Hind Yugm
A story of students living between the village and the college campus
Characters with very different ambitions — from IAS aspirants to a would-be sarpanch
Humour and satire drawn from ordinary situations, without exaggeration
Deep observation folded into small, everyday details
Themes of friendship, love, studies, rivalry and social pressure
Contrast between village-raised and city-raised students on the same campus
Written in colourful, everyday Hindi — easy and enjoyable to read
Praised in Dainik Bhaskar and Rashtriya Sahara
Leaves its central questions open for the reader to settle
Especially relatable for students, hostellers and first-generation college-goers
A good entry point for readers new to Hindi fiction
Suitable for young readers and general Hindi readers
Makes a good gift for a student or a friend from college days
हिन्द युग्म द्वारा प्रकाशित 'कभी गाँव कभी कॉलेज' अगम जैन की चर्चित पुस्तक है। यह कहानी है ऊँची दुकान के फ़ीके पकवानों की, बड़े-बड़े नाम वालों की, पर छोटे दर्शन वालों की। कहानी में जब-जब कॉलेज का ज्वार चढ़ता है, गाँव में आते ही भाटा सिर पर फूट जाता है। इसके कुछ छात्र ऐसे हैं जिनकी जेबों तक से गाँव की मिट्टी की सुगंध आती है, और कुछ ऐसे जो अच्छे शहरों की परवरिश से आकर इसी ओखली में सिर दे बैठे हैं। हर छात्र का सपना आईएएस/आईपीएस बनने का नहीं है — कोई सरपंच बनना चाहता है तो कोई कॉलेज ख़त्म होने से पहले ही ब्याह का प्लेसमेंट चाहता है। गाँव में कॉलेज है या कॉलेज में गाँव, प्रेम जीतता है या पढ़ाई, दोस्ती जीतती है या लड़ाई — यह तय करना पाठक पर छोड़ दिया गया है। पुस्तक हास्य और छोटी-छोटी बातों के मार्मिक विश्लेषण से भरी हुई है, और घटनाएँ बिना किसी अतिशयोक्ति के वैसी ही लिखी गई हैं जैसी वे होती हैं। दैनिक भास्कर ने इसे 'मज़ेदार अंदाज़ में देश का मिज़ाज' और राष्ट्रीय सहारा ने 'चुटीली मगर चुभने वाली' कहा है। सम्पूर्ण पुस्तक हिन्दी भाषा एवं देवनागरी लिपि में है।
