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During my whole lifetime, I have been grinding away with the hope that I could become free of my sufferings. I am a poor school teacher suffering family travails. What greatness do I have that I have to tell anyone about? I live just like millions of people in this country I am ordinary.In Munshi Premchand > Quotes > Quotable Quote.Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. 2.1 THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1.1.1 Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique.Shatranj ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) tells the story of chess players who are so concentrated on a game that they forget their responsibilities in the midst of a crisis. Sadgati (Salvation) is a short story about poor Dukhi, who gets exhausted to death while he hews wood for more or less nothing. Satyajit Ray filmed two of Premchand's works – Sadgati and Shatranj Ke Khiladi. Rangbhoomi (रंगभूमि) (the Land of Colours)įilms based on Premchand's work.Mangalsutra (मंगलसूत्र) (wedding necklace).Karmabhoomi (कर्मभूमि)(the Land of Work).Ram Katha (राम कथा) (The story of Lord Ram).

Panch Phool (पाँच फूल) (The five flowers).

Shatranj Ke Khiladi لاڈی) (The chess players).

In Kafan (Shroud), a poor man collects money for the funeral rites of his dead wife, but spends it on food and drink.įamous stories After his death, the village priests demand a cow from his widow to bring his soul to peace. Hori gets a cow but pays with his life for it. The hero, Hori, a poor peasant, desperately longs for a cow, a symbol of wealth and prestige in rural India. Godaan (The gift of a cow), his last novel, is considered the finest Hindi novel of all times. Many of Premchand's stories have been translated into English and Russian. Premchand has written about 300 short stories, several novels as well as many essays and letters. He avoided the use of highly Sanskritized Hindi (as was the common practice among Hindi writers), and also Spanish language. His novels describe the problems of the rural peasant classes. The main characteristic of Premchand's writings is his interesting story-telling and use of simple language. All this had serious impact on his health leading to his early death on 8th October 1936, at the age of 56. He was also writing a book "Mangalsutra" which would never be completed. The money his wife used to give for his treatment was used in running his press "The Saraswati". What is so special about this life that needs to be told to anybody?".ĭuring his last years,he became terribly ill. But I have not been able to free myself from suffering.

When asked why he does not write anything about himself, he answered: "What greatness do I have that I have to tell anyone about? I live just like millions of people in this country I am ordinary. He had to struggle for three years to pay it back. Once he took a loan of two-and-a-half rupees to buy some clothes. Premchand lived a life of financial struggle. Later, Premchand worked as the deputy sub-inspector of schools. Premchand passed his matriculation exam with great effort in 1898, and in 1899 he took up school-teaching job, with a monthly salary of eighteen rupees. She supported him through life struggles. He was married at the early age of fifteen but that marriage failed, later he married again, to Shivrani Devi, a balavidhava (child widow), and had several children. He earned five rupees a month tutoring a lawyer's child. Premchand was left responsible for his stepmother and step-siblings.Įarly in life, Premchand faced immense poverty. Premchand's parents died young - his mother when he was seven and his father while he was fourteen and still a student. Munshi Premchand ( Hindi: प्रेमचंद, Urdu: پریمچںد‎), whose original name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was born on 31 July 1880, in village Lamahi near Varanasi, where his father was a clerk in the post office.