कहानियाँ
Page 3 of 9 — Over 300 short stories capturing the essence of Indian life with remarkable insight.
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Sadgati by Munshi Premchand is a devastating story of caste exploitation and religious hypocrisy. Dukhi, a poor untouchable laborer, collapses and dies while performing exhausting unpaid labor for a Brahmin priest to secure an auspicious date for his daughter's wedding.
Sharab Ki Dukan by Munshi Premchand is a nationalist story set during the Civil Disobedience Movement, portraying Gandhian prohibition picketing. When Congress volunteer Mrs. Saxena and activist Jairam lead non-violent picketing outside a tavern, their moral courage transforms drunkards into reformed citizens, highlighting women's vital role in the freedom struggle.
Subhagi by Munshi Premchand is a inspiring masterpiece on female self-reliance, filial devotion, and moral dignity. When a young child widow's lazy brother demands a family partition and resents caring for their elderly parents, Subhagi refuses remarriage, supports her parents through her own hard labor, repays all funeral debts, and earns the highest respect of her village.
Algyojha (The Partition) by Munshi Premchand is one of his most celebrated masterpieces on the Indian joint family system, detailing how suspicion, domestic discord, and household division tear apart a loving peasant family, and how selfless sacrifice, forgiveness, and enduring familial affection finally rebuild it.
Bhoot by Munshi Premchand is a psychological and moral ghost story exploring lust, guilt, betrayal of trust, and supernatural retribution. An elderly lawyer who raised his young sister-in-law as a daughter betrays his deceased wife's memory by marrying the girl—only to be haunted on his wedding night.
Fatiha by Munshi Premchand is a gripping frontier tragedy of mistaken identity, blood revenge, and family reunion. A heroic orphan soldier unwittingly kills his own biological father in combat, discovering the truth through his long-lost sister.
Ghaswali by Munshi Premchand is a powerful story on caste, poverty, sexual harassment, and female dignity. Muliya, a poor working-class Dalit woman who cuts grass to support her family, fearlessly confronts an upper-caste landlord, triggering his moral awakening.
Aaga-Peechha (Wavering Doubts) by Munshi Premchand is a tragic psychological masterpiece exploring caste prejudice, hereditary stigma, intellectual hypocrisy, and sublime love.
अभिलाषा
Abhilasha (अभिलाषा) by Munshi Premchand is a sensitive story about love, marriage and emotional distance. A wife who once longed for her husband discovers that constant companionship and material gifts have replaced the longing and emotional intensity that once made their relationship meaningful.
Adhikar-Chinta (The Burden of Authority) by Munshi Premchand is a brilliant satirical fable that uses the lives of dogs to expose the paranoia, endless anxiety, and tragic emptiness of political power, territorial dominance, and imperial ambition.
Daroga Ji (दारोगाजी) by Munshi Premchand is a darkly comedic satire on police corruption, betrayal, cowardice, and lingering retribution. A corrupt police sub-inspector rationalizing bribery during a tonga ride is suddenly pelted with stones by an old enemy whose nose was severed years earlier because of the officer's self-serving treachery.
A rousing, immortal anti-colonial masterpiece by Munshi Premchand. Lala Fatehchand, an emaciated and downtrodden government clerk who has endured a lifetime of clerkly meekness and humiliation, is summoned by his drunken British superior, insulted, and shoved. Inspired by his wife Sharda's fierce defense of human dignity, he undergoes a miraculous transformation—marching back with a heavy wooden lathi, thrashing the tyrannical officer in his own dining room, forcing him to hold his ears and apologize, and proudly tendering his resignation.