Lal, Anupa

Premchand (1880 -1936) is regarded as one of India's foremost Hindi-Urdu writers. His real name was Dhanpat Rai and he was born in Uttar Pradesh, a large state in India. He started his writing career with writing in Urdu but later wrote in Hindi as well. He wrote more than two hundred and fifty short stories, a dozen novels, several essays and translated a number of foreign literary works into Hindi. Premchand wrote about the village and small town people of India. He wrote about their struggles, their joys and sorrows, their beliefs and brought them all to life in simple language that went st...