“What a wretched custom — the man who could not get even a rag to cover his body while alive must be given a new shroud when he is dead.”

— Munshi Premchand · Wisdom quote

“What a wretched custom — the man who could not get even a rag to cover his body while alive must be given a new shroud when he is dead.”

— MUNSHI PREMCHAND

Novelist and short-story writer · 1880 – 1936

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, known as Munshi Premchand, was the most influential Hindi-Urdu fiction writer of his era. Novels such as Godaan and stories such as Kafan and Idgah portrayed the struggles of peasants, women and the poor with unmatched realism. He wrote around three hundred short stories and a dozen novels.

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