कहानियाँ
Page 2 of 9 — Over 300 short stories capturing the essence of Indian life with remarkable insight.
100 works in collection
Gila (The Complaint) by Munshi Premchand is an iconic first-person domestic satire exploring the tension between public virtue and private responsibility. A sharp-witted wife candidly vents her exasperating grievances about a husband whose celebrated generosity to strangers constantly deprives his own household.
Thakur Ka Kuan by Munshi Premchand exposes the brutal reality of caste oppression and untouchability through Gangi's desperate midnight attempt to steal clean drinking water from the landlord's well for her sick husband.
Chakma by Munshi Premchand is a biting political satire about a wealthy Delhi merchant who cleverly plays a double game during the Swadeshi boycott movement, outwitting both the colonial police and naive nationalist leaders to save his foreign cloth business.
Dhaporsankh by Munshi Premchand is a delightful humorous story about literary vanity, con-artists, and domestic squabbles. A warm-hearted, naive editor is swindled out of his savings by a sentimental fraudster, leading to a hilarious trial judged by his visiting friend.
Munshi Premchand's timeless masterpiece of two devoted bullocks, Heera and Moti, whose unbreakable friendship, quest for liberty, and relentless resistance against cruelty and enslavement serve as a powerful allegory for India's struggle for independence.
Aakhiri Heela (The Last Stratagem) by Munshi Premchand is a profound masterpiece of rural joint-family life, stepfamily dynamics, selfless sacrifice, tragic separation, and ultimate redemption. When Bhola Mahto dies, his stepson Ragghu becomes the household's loving protector, but the arrival of a proud bride tests the fragile bonds of kinship.
Anubhav (Experience) by Munshi Premchand is an insightful first-person narrative exploring the trials of a young wife whose husband is imprisoned during the Indian independence movement. Abandoned by her own father and father-in-law out of selfish cowardice, she finds sanctuary, fearlessness, and deep life wisdom with true friends.
The Child (बालक) by Premchand tells the story of Gangu, a simple Brahmin servant who marries Gomti, a woman abandoned and disgraced by society, and embraces her newborn child with pure, unconditional love.
Dhikkar by Munshi Premchand is a heartbreaking tragedy depicting the plight of young widows in colonial India. Driven to despair by relentless domestic cruelty, a young widow finds love with a progressive youth, only for societal stigma and public humiliation to push her to a tragic end.
Munshi Premchand's incisive social drama of two sisters whose reunion triggers bitter envy over wealth and luxury, until a shocking drunken confession reveals the criminal, corrupt reality behind the glittering facade of fortune.
Munshi Premchand's devastating tragedy of love, social hypocrisy, and hereditary stigma. An aristocrat's daughter born of a courtesan marries a progressive professor, only to be crushed by high-society boycott and a fatal, unthinking insult from her own husband.
Poos Ki Raat (A Cold Winter Night) by Munshi Premchand is a heart-wrenching tale of Halku, a poor farmer who must surrender his blanket money to pay off debt, leaving him to face a freezing winter night in his field with only his loyal dog Jabra.