Munshi Premchand, often called the “Upanyas Samrat” (Emperor of Novels), revolutionised Hindi and Urdu literature. He shifted storytelling from fantasy and romance to realism, highlighting rural life, ...

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 ...

Lucknow: Department of Hindi at Lucknow University marked the 145th birth anniversary of literary legend Munshi Premchand with a national seminar titled ‘Contemporary Times, Society and the Legacy of ...

Although made in Telugu by legendary director Mrinal Sen, Oka Oori Katha is based on Premchand’s disturbing short story Kafan (The Shroud), and its message transcends language. It tells the story of a ...

Image of scripts by Subhashish Panigrahi / CC BY-SA 4.0 Everybody agrees that for making a nation strong and firm, some form of cultural unity is required. Language and script of a nation is important ...

John Cheeran is a journalist with The Times of India. He has earlier worked for Indian Express, Asian Age, Pioneer, Gulf News and DNA. Why read classics? A classic is a book that has never finished ...

Premchand arrived in Bombay on 31 May 1934. He was 54 years old, married with three children, the country’s most famous living Hindi writer – and a man in dire financial difficulties. The losses were ...

(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 ...

Novels that remain incomplete owing to the death of their writers, and are published later, are rarities in the Subcontinent, though elsewhere they do mount the printing presses quite frequently. In ...

LAMENTING the pathetic condition of the birthplace of Munshi Premchand, his grandson Atul Rai said that though the Ministry of Culture was organising a series of lectures, seminars under the year-long ...