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1880–1936 India
Munshi Premchand (Urdu: منشی پریم چند, Hindi: मुंशी प्रेमचंद, pronounced [mʊnʃi preːm t͡ʃənd̪] (listen)) (July 31, 1880 – October 8, 1936), born Dhanpat Rai Srivastav, was an Indian novelist, story writer and dramatist, in modern Hindustani literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindustani writers of the early twentieth century.
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A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by his character and deeds.
In Karmabhoomi (1932)
The rich never go hungry, but the poor are always starving. This is the real tragedy of our society.
In Godaan (1936)
If a woman does not get love in her life, it is better for her to die.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right?
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Considerations of high and low, Hindu and Muslim, and untouchability were all anathema to him. When he was superintendent of the schools.
Does being a man make all things forgivable and being a woman all things unforgivable?
The greater the calamity, [he once wrote] the tougher the fibre. It is tragedy that makes a man.
It is the duty of a writer to protect and argue in favour of those who are oppressed, sufferers, whether an individual or a group deprived.
For children, father is a luxurious item, - just like beans for the horse....but mother is everything for the child. The child cannot bear separation from his mother even for a minute.
My ideal of a woman is a combination of sacrifice, care and purity at one place. Sacrifice without a hope for reward, without showing any dissatisfaction and purity like Ceaser's wife, which does not bring any regret.
In another novel titled Suhag ka Shav quoted in page=93
The future belongs to the peasants and workers...India cannot remain unaffected by these winds of change...Who had suspected before the Resolution the tremendous might of the exploited peoples of Russia.
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