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Godan has a live depiction of Indian village society and environment. Godan is epic of rural life and agriculture culture. As the family of Hero and Heroine of Godan Hori and Dhaniya we find a special culture of Indian alive and living, a culture which is now ending or is going to happen, ye in which the soil of India is filled.
Imprint: Hind Pocket Books
Published: Aug/2020
ISBN: 9789353497361
Length : 432 Pages
MRP : ₹199.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: Hind Pocket Books
Published: Aug/2020
ISBN:
Length : 432 Pages
MRP : ₹199.00
Godan has a live depiction of Indian village society and environment. Godan is epic of rural life and agriculture culture. As the family of Hero and Heroine of Godan Hori and Dhaniya we find a special culture of Indian alive and living, a culture which is now ending or is going to happen, ye in which the soil of India is filled.
Premchand (1880-1936), considered one of the greatest fiction writers in Hindi, was born Dhanpat Rai in Lamahi, a small village near Benares. He wrote in Urdu under the name Nawab Rai and changed it to Premchand when his collection of short stories, Soz-e Watan, was seized for sedition in 1909. In a prolific career spanning three decades, Premchand wrote fourteen novels, two plays, almost 300 short stories and several articles, reviews and editorials. He edited four journals, and also set up his own printing press. Though best known for his stories exposing the horrors of poverty and social injustice, he wrote on a variety of themes with equal felicity-romance, satire, social dramas, nationalist tales, and yarns steeped in folklore.
India has twenty-two official languages and many dialects spoken across the country. As we gear up to commemorate International Translation Day on 30 September, we bring a selection of classics translated from Indian languages to English which promise to introduce readers to great writers who would be lost without their translators. Celebrate the beauty of […]