Munshi Premchand is considered to be among the greatest writers of Hindi-Urdu fiction in the early twentieth century. Born Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (on July 31, 1880) in Varanasi, UP, he began writing ...

Kafan is one of Premchand’s starkest stories. It follows Ghisu and his son Madhav, who are too impoverished to provide a burial shroud when Madhav’s wife Budhiya dies in childbirth. Rather than spend ...

From Accounts to Billions: The untold success story of Premchand Godha and Amitabh Bachchan's pharma empire Meet the individual who, alongside Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan and his family, ...

At the age of 7, Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, better known as Munshi Premchand, started studying at a madrassa. His interest in Urdu and Persian developed over time, and this largely affected his literary ...

Premchand began writing Karbala in July 1923 and finished it in January 1924. The play was first published in Hindi by Ganga Pustak Mala in November 1924. Two years later, it was serialised in Zamana ...

Munshi Premchand is one of the most celebrated writers of India, is being remembered on his birth anniversary today. Munshi Premchand's literature touched the hearts of readers as his stories came ...

In his famous 1936 address at Indian Progressive Writers’ Association, Premchand explicitly spoke about the role of literature in the society. He said that literature can be defined as a criticism of ...

Celebrating Munshi Premchand’s 136th birth anniversary, Google dedicated a doodle for the writer’s influence on the rural India. Premchand was born on July 31, 1880 in Lamhi village, Uttar Pradesh. He ...

For the first time ever, Munshi Premchand's short stories are being published for readers in English. Pic: Penguin Random House India Munshi Premchand's short stories are being published in English by ...

(Those who write are the ones who are filled with pain, love, tenacity and ideas. Interestingly, Premchand also forayed into writing for cinema in 1934, joining Ajanta Cinetone in Bombay as a ...