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All Stories for Premchand
AfsanaBadosh ep 2: Listen to Premchand's 'Sawa Ser Gehun' | Presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam
Jashn E Qalam • 4 years agoAfsanaBadosh, presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam, celebrates the spirit of storytelling through narrations of the greatest Hindi and Urdu stories. This is Episode 2 — Premchand's 'Sawa Ser Gehun', as performed by Vicky Ahuja.
Bhulbhulaiya aur Anya Kahaniyan, Sara Rai's lyrical anthology, fortifies the many possibilities inherent in our surroundings
Syed Saad Ahmed • 5 years agoMany of the characters in Bhulbhulaiya aur Anya Kahaniyan grapple with a homebound existence, isolation, insomnia, anxiety—and even a deadly disease.
National Film Archive of India director Prakash Magdum defends loss of Doordarshan footage, and other controversies
Abhishek Srivastava • 6 years agoNational Film Archive of India, Pune has recently been under the fire for the loss and damage of the footage of classics.
In Mann ki Baat, Narendra Modi urges people to cultivate habit of reading in ‘Google guru’ era
• 6 years agoReiterating his policy of 'no bouquet, just a book', Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the nation to inculcate a habit of reading books regularly. Recalling an incident wherein he was gifted a book containing popular short stories by Premchand, the Prime Minister said the situations were relatable to incidents prevailing in the present day. He went on to mention the Akshara Library in Kerala and said, 'this library is a beacon guiding tribal children on a new path'.
Growing up with Premchand: Finding reflections of the Hindi novelist's writing in India's towns, culture
Shivam Sharma • 7 years agoA well-known photograph of Premchand where he can be seen wearing torn shoes speaks volumes about his simplicity — a trait he shares with many of the characters he created
Premchand's Godaan: Priyanka Sethia reads from the novelist's last-finished work
Fp Staff • 7 years agoListen to a reading of Munshi Premchand's Godaan, which tells a story of the pains of being a peasant, the politics of money lending and the desperate longing for a cow
Ahlawat Gunjan on the art of designing book covers, and why he loves experimenting with fonts
Mallik Thatipalli • 7 years agoAhlawat Gunjan, the design head of Penguin Random House India, says that creating a cover is like providing a visual personality to someone’s years of work | #FirstCulture
On Munshi Premchand's 81st death anniversary, a look at his quietly rebellious work
Devanshsharma • 7 years agoQuiet and understated, Premchand's language shakes you out of complacency just when you start getting comfortable
Sadgati: Based on Premchand’s story, Satyajit Ray took a scathing look at the tragic lives of untouchables
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay • 7 years agoThe story of Sadgati was written almost one hundred years ago. The film itself was made 40 years ago. But even today, the evil shadow of untouchability and caste crimes hover over us.
Writer Munshi Premchand's 136th birth anniversary celebrated in a Google Doodle
Tech2 News Staff • 9 years agoGoogle has decided to mark the 136th birth anniversary of famous Hindi short story writer Munshi Premchand via a Google Doodle.