The doodle as seen on Google.
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Reaching out to rural India and vast Hindi speaking audience, the search giant Google today dedicated its doodle to the great writer Munshi Premchand on his 136th birthday.
Godan- author Munshi Premchand has written more than a dozen novels and over 250 short stories. “On what would have been his 136th birthday, the illustration pays tribute to the multitude of important stories he told”, the description to the Google doodle reads.
The writer’s later works are believed to have been largely influenced by Mahatma, brought to light some of the most prominent problems faced by the country at the time.
Some of his notable works include Godaan, his “last and most famous novel” that Google drew inspiration from in the doodle, Premsharam, the short stories Idgah and Shatranj ke Khiladi, Nirmala and Seva Sadan, among others. He was married at the age of 15 but the marriage didn’t last for long.
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Premchand was a teacher who later left his job to take part in the non-cooperation movement in 1920s. After his father’s death in 1897, Premchand had to shoulder the responsibility of his entire family comprising his stepmother, wife and siblings at a very young age. He is regarded in Hindi literature as equivalent to Shakespeare of English literature. Premchand later married a child-widow in 1906, for which he faced opposition from the society, and had three children from his second marriage.
