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The story begins on Eid morning, as Hamid sets out for the Eidgah with other boys from the village. Hamid is notably impoverished next to his friends, poorly dressed and famished-looking, and has only three paise as Eidi for the festival. The other boys spend their pocket money on rides, candies, and beautiful clay toys, and tease Hamid when he ...
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]
Godaan ( Hindi: गोदान, gōdān, lit. 'Cow donation') is a famous Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor, the novel was the last complete ...
Literature of Adi kal (c. before the 15th century CE) was developed in the regions of Kannauj, Delhi, Ajmer stretching up to central India. [4] Prithviraj Raso, an epic poem written by Chand Bardai (1149 – c. 1200), is considered one of the first works in the Bhraj Bhasha literature.Chand Bardai was a court poet of Prithviraj Chauhan, the famous ruler of Delhi and Ajmer during the invasion ...
Shekhar Home is an Indian Hindi-language crime drama television series created by Aniruddha Guha and Srijit Mukherjee and directed by Rohan Sippy and Mukherji. [1] An adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s canon of Sherlock Holmes stories, the series is produced by BBC Studios Productions, and stars Kay Kay Menon, Ranvir Shorey, Rasika Dugal, Kirti Kulhari and Dibyendu Bhattacharya. [2]
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi -language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [ a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [ 1] She has been also addressed as the Modern Meera. [ 2]
The Hindi translation was published almost simultaneously in the Hindi edition of Navajivan. [6] [9] The original English edition of the book consisted of two volumes, the first of which covered parts 1-3, while the second contained parts 4-5. The original Gujarati version was published as the Satya Na Prayogo (lit.
The storyteller Manek Mulla (played by Rajit Kapur) tells his friends three stories of three women he had known at different points of time in his life: Rajeshwari Sachdev (a metaphor for the middle class), Pallavi Joshi (the intellectual and affluent), and Neena Gupta (the poor). [4] The three stories are revealed to be three different strands ...