She was also a published writer, contributing stories to women’s journals like Chand, and Premchand Ghar Mein was a memoir “[crafted with] a strong imprint of her own personality and ...

Writer-editor Sara Rai talks Premchand and the shared love of a family for Hindustani, spartan living and telling stories of those on the margins In school, Hindustani-Urdu writer Munshi Premchand ...

Should we be surprised to learn that when an admirer called on an ageing Premchand he found him making notes in English? The writer edits translations for Oxford University Press, India.

Premchand’s realistic novels and stories captured the song and suffering of rural India like few before or after. One wonders how the writer would have reacted to the change. Nearly 90 years ...

To mark his 140th birth anniversary, a look at the writer’s move to the city, and why he left it in less than a year. Premchand arrived in Bombay on 31 May 1934. He was 54 years old, married ...

Zia Mohyeddin praises Dr Hasan Manzar’s translation of late writer’s books from Hindi to Urdu Mr Mohyeddin said it’s been 80 years since Premchand died. During this period a lot has been ...

After Ismat Chugtai, Manto, Premchand and Harishankar Parsai ... it is being spoken even though it is written,” said the writer’s nephew Prakash Detha. Detha, like the poet-scholar AK ...

Doordarshan brings to you the stories from the legendary Hindi writer and the jewel in the crown of Hindi literature - Munshi Premchand. This series directed by none other than Gulzar will leave ...

The last is Munshi Premchand’s finest work, Godaan. Besides being a short story writer, novelist and dramatist, Premchand was also a translator of several European writers like Tolstoy ...

The festival hopes to move Premchand from being the “I’ve heard of him” writer to someone occupying a larger psyche in our culture. The man leading this mission is Mujeeb Khan, revered in ...

He would fan me when I couldn’t sleep, he’d run errands for me… you see, love and reverence cannot exist together," wrote Shivrani Devi of her fellow writer and husband Munshi Premchand in ...

He finally understands what lies behind Premchand’s smile. The writer is laughing at Parsai, and at everyone else who hides their toes, who avoids the mounds and hills that they encounter.