From Premchand’s play ‘Karbala’, to BR Ambedkar: What the idea of the ‘non-Hindu’ Hindu offers us

Ajay Gandhi

· Jul 14, 2024 · 11:30 am

Hindi Day: The many, varying ideas of India’s ‘national’ language

Prachi Gupta

· Sep 14, 2023 · 07:30 am

Memoir: Author-translator Sara Rai on being Premchand’s granddaughter and ‘falling into’ writing

Sara Rai

· Jan 20, 2023 · 08:30 am

When Premchand wrote a play about Islamic history to highlight communal tensions in 1900s’ India

Nishat Zaidi

· Dec 08, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Watch: A dramatisation of the life and works of the writer Premchand

Scroll Staff

· Sep 16, 2021 · 08:15 am

Why Premchand said, ‘The ascent of literature is the ascent of a nation’

Premchand

· Dec 01, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why Premchand wanted a new ideal of education that would go against traditional social arrangements

Premchand

· Oct 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why Premchand thought hatred, guided in the right direction, is as useful in life as in literature

Premchand

· Sep 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

On Teachers Day, a conversation in my head with Premchand on keeping the torch of learning blazing

Apoorvanand

· Sep 05, 2020 · 06:30 am

When Premchand advocated the promotion of the Hindustani language as a mixture of Urdu and Hindi

Premchand

· Aug 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How should parents behave with their children to make them independent? Premchand had a solution

Premchand

· Jul 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘I fail to understand what this culture is that communalism is hell-bent on protecting’: Premchand

Premchand

· Oct 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Analysis: What Modi is really talking about when he talks to women about his subsidised gas scheme

Anjali Mody

· May 31, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Premchand portrayed humans with great sensitivity, but he was just as good writing about animals

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· Apr 28, 2018 · 07:00 am

Nature, Hindu-Muslim unity: Premchand would have been trolled today for the things he cared about

M Asaduddin

· Dec 12, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Premchand’s 1934 essay on communalism and culture is eerily relevant in the India of 2017

Vedica Kant

· Sep 24, 2017 · 06:30 pm

A literary mystery: Why did Premchand pose for a photograph in a torn shoe?

Harishankar Parsai

· Sep 18, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why Indian literature holds the key to the vexatious nationalism debate

Shubhrastha

· Aug 15, 2016 · 08:30 am

Read: Premchand's classic short story, The Shroud

Premchand

· Jul 31, 2016 · 04:46 pm