The purpose of literature is the criticism of life.Munshi Premchand
“I am a labourer. The day I do not labour, I have no right to eat.”
“I am a labourer. The day I do not labour, I have no right to eat.”
— 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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