Premchand: Quotes about homeland

Premchand was Hindi writer. Explore interesting quotes on country.
Premchand: 30   quotes 7   likes

“Like the great Indian writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as Rabindrnath Tagore and Bankin Chandra Chatterjee in Bengal, and Subramanya Bharati in Tamil nadu, premchand’s work was fired by a sense of intense nationalism, but he did not live long enough to see his country gain freedom.”

Premchand

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THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1

Sense , Country , Freedom

“Premachnad was always man of the people, a man of the soil. He spoke for country’s poor, not just the poor of his native state. With his powerful pen, he painted picture after picture of rural India, its largely static societt, its caste clashes as well its communal harmony, its poverty and its exploitation, as well as richness of character of so many of its people.”

Premchand

In page 10
THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1

Country , Painting , People , Communication

“What greatness do I have that I have to tell anyone about? I live just like millions of people in this country; I am ordinary. My life is also ordinary. I am a poor school teacher suffering family travails. During my whole lifetime, I have been grinding away with the hope that I could become free of my sufferings. But I have not been able to free myself from suffering. What is so special about this life that needs to be told to anybody?”

Premchand

In Munshi Premchand:Biography, 10 December 2013, Internet Media Data Base http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695919/bio,

School , Family , Country , Suffering