Munshi Premchand, The Shakespeare of Hindi Literature, was born in 1880 in a village named Lamhi near Varanasi. His real name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastav, but he began writing under the pen name “Nawab Rai”, but subsequently switched to “Premchand”. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the “Upanyas Samrat” […]