Kafan is one of Premchand’s starkest stories. It follows Ghisu and his son Madhav, who are too impoverished to provide a burial shroud when Madhav’s wife Budhiya dies in childbirth. Rather than spend ...
Although made in Telugu by legendary director Mrinal Sen, Oka Oori Katha is based on Premchand’s disturbing short story Kafan (The Shroud), and its message transcends language. It tells the story of a ...
Munshi Premchand is regarded as one of the finest Hindustani writers of the early twentieth century. His stories mainly ...