"Ek Sahityik ki Diary", first written for his column in the weekly "Naya Khun", and later continued in the journal "Vasudha", published from Jabalpur (1957–60), offers a glimpse of his literary and socio-political criticism, and insights into his way of thinking, and was first published in 1964. It is most noted for the article, "Teesra Kshana" (Third Moment), where he shows his preference for the hypothesis of three successive stages in the creative process, of inspiration, impersonalisation and expression, rather than a single moment of inspiration