“Nervous like a knife, he cuts clear through hypocrisy and falsehood.”

—  Premchand

By Mulkraj Ananad on Premchand’s novel Godan, a novel of Peasant India” in [Premchand, Godan, http://books.google.com/books?id=9XcFkXR78BYC, 2002, Jaico Publishing House, 978-81-7224-219-0]

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