Munshi Premchand is celebrated for capturing the lives, struggles, and moral dilemmas of India’s rural and small-town world.

PATIALA:Munshi Premchandrsquos famous play lsquoKafanrsquo was played by a Bhojpuri team at the Kalidasa Auditorium at the North Zone Cultural Centre NZCC in the city on Saturday The Tribune, now ...

Lucknow: A play based on the Munshi Premchand classic ‘Kafan' was staged at Valmiki auditorium at UP Sangeet Natak Akademi on Tuesday. Shakti foundation organised the play and it was directed by ...

Written in 1935, Kafan is an adaptation of a short story transcribed by the legendary writer Munshi Premchand. He is remembered as the 'father of Urdu-Hindi short stories' and is famous for his modern ...

BENGALURU: The play Ek Shaam Premchand ke Naam opens this Friday at Jagriti, two days ahead of the 136th birth anniversary of the renowned Hindi writer. As its title indicates, the production ties ...

KARACHI: Lovers of literature gathered to celebrate Urdu translations of Munshi Premchand’s last incomplete novel Mangal Sutra and his wife Shivrani Devi’s book Premchand Ghar Mein by Dr Hasan Manzar ...

(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 ...

Premchand is known for his realistic understanding of caste oppression in the countryside and his soul-stirring portrayal of the lives of the lower castes and the ‘untouchables’, now known as Dalits.

The legendary writer’s short story ‘Kafan’ has afresh attracted criticism for his representation of Dalit characters. Questions are being raised if he actually held prejudice against Dalits despite a ...