Munshi Premchand

Munshi Premchand was an Indian writer and was listed among the greatest Hindus writers of the 20th century. He was a novelist, short story writer, and songwriter who wrote more than a dozen novels, a hundred stories and short stories. He also translated dozens of vernacular texts into Hindi. As a career teacher, he began his artistic career as a tourist in Urdu. He was an independent man with a sense of patriotism and his early writings in Urdu were full of descriptions of an Indian nationalist organization that was formed in various parts of India. He soon switched to Hindi and established himself as a popular writer for his short stories and novels that not only delighted readers, but also had important messages for the community. He was deeply moved by the humane treatment of Indian women of his time, and he often expressed the misery of girls and women in his affairs in the hope that it would impress upon his students' minds. A real activist, he resigned from his government job as part of a coalition called Mahatma Gandhi despite having a growing family to support. He was eventually elected President of the Progressive Writers Writers' Association in Lucknow.