Munshi Premchand Quotes
A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
Premchand. The Gift of a Cow: A Translation of the Hindi Novel Godaan. Translated by Gordon C. Roadarmel, Indiana University Press, 1968.
Afghan and Pakistan share a long border of difficult terrain and have had formal and informal relationships for centuries. There is suspicion on both sides and insults to the other have been part of the culture for years.
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand (pronounced [mʊnʃiː preːm t͡ʃənd̪] (listen), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. His novels include Godaan, Karmabhoomi, Gaban, Mansarovar, Idgah. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called Soz-e Watan.