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Monday, August 30, 2010

"Lottery" A Beautiful Afsaana By Munshi Premchand

Munshi Premchand (Urdu: منشی پریم چند), (July 31, 1880– October 8, 1936) was a famous writer of modern Hindi-Urdu literature. He is generally recognized in India as the foremost Hindi-Urdu writer of the early twentieth century.

Premchand wrote about three hundred short stories and several novels, as well as many essays and letters, plays and translations. Many of Premchand's stories have themselves been translated into English and Russian.
His short stories have got a great fame and wide readership in Urdu lovers. His short story Borhi Kaki considered one of his masterpieces short stories.

I came across his short story “Lottery" and thought that I should share it with you guys. Hope you will like it and will not forget to add your comments about it.

Best wishes!!!

3 comments:

  1. Although i tried my best to read this novel, but unfortunately the fonts are so small that i could not read it. If possible please increase the size. However other short stories and novels whatever is possible I have read and found it an excellent work. Thanks to all who participated in sharing this urdu adab on line.

    with best wishes and lots of prayers.

    Fazal Abbas
    UAE

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