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  2. The Blue Jackal - Wikipedia

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    The Story of the Blue Jackal is one story in the Panchatantra One evening when it was dark, a hungry jackal went in search of food in a large village close to his home in the jungle . The local dogs didn't like Jackals and chased him away so that they could make their owners proud by killing a beastly jackal.

  3. Idgah (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story appears in Indian textbooks, and its adaptions also appear in moral education books such as The Joy of Living. [5] The story has been adapted into several plays and other performances. Asi-Te-Karave Yied (2008) is a Kashmiri adaption of the story by Shehjar Children's Theatre Group, Srinagar. [6]

  4. Gaban (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Gaban (Hindi: ग़बन, Urdu: غبن, lit. 'embezzlement') is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand, published by Saraswati Press in 1931. [1] Through this novel, he tries to show "the falling moral values among lower middle class Indian youth in the era of British India", and to what depths a person can descend to, to become a pseudo-elite, and maintain a false image as a rich person. [2]

  5. Nirmala (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Nirmala [a] is a Hindi novel written by Indian writer Munshi Premchand.The melodramatic novel is centered on Nirmala, a young girl who was forced to marry a widower of her father's age.

  6. Godaan - Wikipedia

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    Godaan is regarded as an enduring Hindi-language cult-classic work by Premchand [7]. Like his other novels, Godaan too depicts the social struggles of the lower class. Godaan was made into a Hindi film in 1963, starring Raaj Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Mehmood and Shashikala. In 2004, Godaan was part of the 27-episode TV series, Tehreer....

  7. Lottery (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Lottery" (Hindi: लॉटरी, Urdu: لاٹری) is a Hindustani short story. It was written by Indian author Premchand. [1] The story is told in narrative form from the perspective of an unnamed school teacher. [2]

  8. Original Stories from Real Life - Wikipedia

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    Modelled on Madame de Genlis's Adèle et Théodore (1782) and Tales of the Castle (1785), both of which have frame stories and a series of inset moral tales, Original Stories narrates the re-education of two young girls, fourteen-year-old Mary and twelve-year-old Caroline, by a wise and benevolent maternal figure, Mrs. Mason. (Wollstonecraft ...

  9. The Blue Umbrella - Wikipedia

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    It was adapted into 2005 Hindi film by the same name, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which later won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film. [2] In 2012, the novel was adapted into a comic by Amar Chitra Katha publications, titled, The Blue Umbrella – Stories by Ruskin Bond , and included another story, Angry River . [ 3 ]