Today is the 136th Birth Anniversary of Munshi Premchand. Google Search has put a doodle of Munshiji!!
Every language teacher (every teacher) MUST read Premchand's short stories, which are translated into English also. His stories touch your soul.... Access Premchand stories from KOER ... *Hindi* - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Hindi_Websites#Munshi_Premchand_stories *English* translations - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/English_Websites#Munshi_Premchand I hope our Hindi and Kannada teachers will translate his short stories into Kannada (if you have any links of Kannada translations, please mail to the forum, I will upload on KOER) If you have not read any Premchand story before, then please do read any one ... *Idgah* is amongst my favourites 1. Munshi Premchand *Idgah* <http://mptbc.nic.in/books/class11/enggt11/ch8.pdf> >From wikipedia- Premchand (Hindi <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language>: प्रेमचंद, Urdu <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu>: پریمچںد), whose original name was *Dhanpat Rai Srivastava*, was born on 31 July 1880, in village *Lamahi* near Varanasi <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanasi>, where his father was a clerk in the post office. Premchand's parents died young - his mother when he was seven and his father while he was fourteen and still a student. Premchand was left responsible for his stepmother and step-siblings. Early in life, Premchand faced immense poverty. He earned five rupees a month tutoring a lawyer's child. He was married at the early age of fifteen but that marriage failed, later he married again, to Shivrani Devi, a balavidhava (child widow), and had several children. She supported him through life struggles. Premchand passed his matriculation <https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/matriculation> exam with great effort in 1898, and in 1899 he took up school-teaching job, with a monthly salary of eighteen rupees. In 1919 he passed his B.A. with English, Persian and History. Later, Premchand worked as the deputy sub-inspector of schools. Premchand lived a life of financial struggle. Once he took a loan of two-and-a-half rupees <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupee> to buy some clothes. He had to struggle for three years to pay it back. When asked why he does not write anything about himself, he answered: "What greatness do I have that I have to tell anyone about? I live just like millions of people in this country; I am ordinary. My life is also ordinary. I am a poor school teacher <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher> suffering family travails. During my whole lifetime, I have been grinding away with the hope that I could become free of my sufferings. But I have not been able to free myself from suffering. What is so special about this life that needs to be told to anybody?". regards, Guru IT for Change, Bengaluru www.ITforChange.net -- EnglishSTF Link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/englishstf -- *For doubts on Ubuntu and other public software, visit http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions **Are you using pirated software? Use Sarvajanika Tantramsha, see http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ***If a teacher wants to join STF-read http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Become_a_STF_groups_member --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EnglishSTF" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to englishstf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to englishstf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/englishstf. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/englishstf/CANJf2f8sv%2BHgd%3DoWC6A%2B82_JgkMxvmxtMxTW9TqaN2KAQt_7mw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
