Reading "Shabdangal" is an aural experience; one can 'hear' the story happen. The title has been translated as 'voices', while the literary meaning of "Shabdangal" is 'sounds', not necessarily human or other 'voices'. At one point in the story, a blind old man's voice says, "What is there to see in this world? I can hear everything." For most of the time,the reader does not get to see what is happening, but only hears conversations between people or descriptions of sounds.