Premchand is considered the greatest writer in Urdu and Hindi, with respect to both his popularity and the range and depth of his corpus. His enduring appeal cuts across all barriers of class ...

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.

In the Hindi literary world, Shivrani Devi is known as the writer of the unique book “Premchand Ghar Mein”(Premchand At Home) and as the woman who fiercely guarded her independence and self ...

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 ...

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 ...

This weekend, he will present the play Marmik Premchand in Delhi, marking the Hindi writer’s 136th birth anniversary on 31 July. Presented under the banner of the Dramatech theatre company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scenes from Satyajit Ray's film of 'Sadgati' Premchand's story about caste Deprecation ... has no time for these obstructive thoughts. Does a modern writer want to promote hatred against some ...

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 ...

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 ...