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The only books that I read again and again were my syllabus book:D other than that “Godan” and “Gaban” by munshi premchand
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OMG I so wanted to read these books of Munshi Prem Chand, but needed a review before I put my hands on these books. Munshi’s some short stories were part of our syllabus including ‘Hajj e Akbar’, but that seemed quite preachy. What is special about ‘Gao Daan’ and ‘Gaban’.
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Both are story of tragedy, his books are preachy generally set at the backdrop of poverty of Hindustani region of 20s, Gaban is story of a munshi’s attepmt of forgery and his escape to calcutta, Similarly Gordan is about another tragic story set up in rural village and deals with rural psyche, his most magnificent work but I would recommend Gaban before Godan :k:
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Seems interesting.. will go through these. Have you read Bedi’s ‘Ek Chadar Meeli Si’?
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no, I didn’t read it, last Hindi work that I read is poem “Madhushala” by Harivansh Rai Bacchan, because it suits me:D
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Has he written some prose? His Hindi is quite tough especially the kaveeta’s Amitabh Bacchan used to read in TV shows.
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No he hasn’t, even though he was BA English from Oxford, he wrote in Hindi, Madhushala has fatwa against it. Madhushala means wine-house or Bar. His poetry is sanskritized just like what I feel for Ghalib as I miss the core word in the sentence. But we can have thread in this section I can write his short poems in roman Hindi:)
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Yes please proceed. I would love to read his poetry as I observed that he has written something Hat ke from what I heard from Amitabh Bacchan.
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The Great Gatsby. I’ve read it so much I know a lot of the dialogue by heart lol my favourite quotes from the book :
“a single green light, minute and faraway that might have been the end of a dock.”
" It eluded us then, but that’s no matter.tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further … and then one fine morning
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."