Rahula Sankrityayana was a great scholar, and a man of versatile personality. So we cannot categorise him easily and limit his work to one genre or field. We can find in his personality a Sanskrit scholar, Buddhist monk, communist leader, pilgrim, linguist, nationalist, and more. His life was like a flowing river that cannot be limited to one place. So when giving a title to his autobiography he chose “Merī Jīvan Yātrā”, associating it with an ongoing journey. “Bāisvīṁ Sadī” (‘The Twenty-Second Century’) is his first novel, written in Hajaribag Jail (1923- 24) in India. It speaks of an imagination of communist rule in India and Nepal. It reflects his immediate inclination towards communism in specific, and towards equality and humanism in general. In my lecture, I will visit Rahula in the 22nd century and try to sense his sentiments.
