Podcast: On Premchand’s Birth Anniversary, Listen to ‘Eidgah’
Revisit Eidgah with RJ Anant’s podcast.
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Munshi Premchand.
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Born 139 years ago on 31 July in Lamhi, a village near Varanasi, Premchand wrote about things that have always existed, but were considered beyond the pale of literature. Exploitation and submission, greed and corruption, the straitjacket of poverty and an unyielding caste system.
On his birth anniversary, The Quint recreates the magic of one of his most iconic stories, Eidgah!
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