Diksha

Circa British Rule in India a man vows to make his only surviving son Narayan alias Nani a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka South India where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya Udup Pandit Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya as well as his widowed daughter Yamuna and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi The Archarya goes away for a few days and when he returns nothing is the same anymore His daughter is pregnant the villagers are all set to remove her from the village they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow