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Kabuliwala, is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, [1] [2] during Tagore's "Sadhana" period (named for one of Tagore's magazines) from 1891 to 1895. . The story is about a fruit seller, a Pashtun (his name is Rahmat) from Kabul, Afghanistan, who visits Calcutta (present day Kolkata, India) each year to sell dry frui
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]
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.
Maqbool is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, starring Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Piyush Mishra, Murali Sharma, and Masumeh Makhija in an adaptation of the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. The plot of the film is based on that of Macbeth with regard to events and ...
Originally written in Bengali, the book was first published in Hindi as Aalo Aandhari by Roshnai Prakashan in 2002. It was later translated by writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia into English, and published as 'A Life Less Ordinary' by Zubaan Books in collaboration with Penguin Books in 2006. The book has been translated into 25 languages.
Half Girlfriend is an Indian English coming of age, young adult romance novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. [1] The novel, set in rural Bihar, New Delhi, Patna, and New York, is the story of a Bihari boy on a quest of winning over the girl he loves.
This was a popular work that played an early role in the development of Literary Hindi and was selected as a Hindustani test-book for military service students in the East India Company. [12] Thus it became the basis of several Hindi editions, and Indian vernacular and English translations; many of these frequently reprinted.
Gora (Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj.It is the fifth in order of writing and the longest of Tagore's twelve novels.