Tag Results: Hindi
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Premchand’s Failed Film Foray
One of India’s greatest novelist, Munshi Premchand, didn’t quite make it as a script writer in India’s film industry...it just couldn’t take the power of his pen it seems.
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Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’: A Poet to Remember
The story of a national poet whose fiery compositions of rebellion and patriotism spoke to every Indian, uniting them across divides.
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Fort William College & Its Ironic Legacy
Fort William College was meant to train young British lads for the Company but it ended up as a great centre of Indian languages. Find out how a college set up by the East India Company became the ‘birthplace of modern Hindi’ and went on to even influence the Bengal Renaissance
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Allahabad and the Golden Age of Hindi Literature
On Hindi Diwas today, we celebrate the evolution of Hindi literature in the city of Allahabad, which nurtured greats like Premchand, Madan Mohan Malaviya and Mahadevi Verma. Revisit the contribution of the men and women who drove 150 years of literary change