Munshi Premchand was born in Lamhi, a village near Varanasi (Benares), on 31 July 1880 and was appointed Dhanpat Rai (‘master of wealth’). His ancestors came from a large Kayastha family, which owned land of eight …
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz Summary: Faiz Ahmad Faiz was born on 13 February 1911 in Sialkot, India, which is now part of Pakistan, He was a teacher, an army officer, a journalist, a trade unionist, and a …
Gorky had been involved in the nascent social-democratic Marxist movement. He publicly opposed the tsarist regime, and for a time he was closely associated with the party’s bolshevik wing of Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov. He …
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir was born in February 1723 and also known as Mir, was an 18th-century Mughal Indian Urdu poet and one of the founders of the Urdu language. He was one of the principal …
