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Reminded of #MunshiPremchand's short story Eidgah today. Brilliantly evocative, powerful & even more relevant today. Eidgah appeared in Urdu in 'Chand' mag. in 1933 & has parallels with O Henry's 'The gift of the Magi'.
https://www.rekhta.org/stories/eidgah-premchand-stories
https://archive.org/details/Idgah-English-Premchand
Reminded of #MunshiPremchand's short story Eidgah today. Brilliantly evocative, powerful & even more relevant today. Eidgah appeared in Urdu in 'Chand' mag. in 1933 & has parallels with O Henry's 'The gift of the Magi'.
https://www.rekhta.org/stories/eidgah-premchand-stories
https://archive.org/details/Idgah-English-Premchand
/2 #Premchand, b. DhanpatRaiShrivastav in Benaras, #Awadh(1880), started his literary career writing in Urdu as 'Nawab Rai'. His coll. of short stories Soz-e Watan(1908) was deemed seditious by the British & was told to burn it. He switched to 'Premchand' partly 2 avoid scrutiny
#Premchand was the 1st President of the All India Progressive Writers Association in #Lucknow in 1936. The PWA was estab. in London (1935) by Sajjad Zaheer (& others) who took it to India. The first session at #RifaEAam club, Lko was attended by several literary icons.
