His first novel was "Pret Bolte Hain" ("Ghosts Speak"), published in 1951 and later retitled as "Sara Akash" ("The Infinite Cosmos") in the 1960s. It was the first Hindi novel to try to shock orthodox Indian cultural traditions. It was adapted into a movie of the same title, "Sara Akash", by Basu Chatterjee in 1969 and which along with Mrinal Sen's "Bhuvan Shome", launched Parallel Cinema in Hindi. The films was shot the Yadav's ancestral home in Raja Ki Mandi, Agra.