Premchand and Sons: Harish Trivedi in conversation with Pushpesh Pant and Aditi Maheshwari-Goyal

Premchand and Sons
Harish Trivedi in conversation with Pushpesh Pant and Aditi Maheshwari-Goyal

Presented by ABP Live
Premchand, the defining pseudonym of beloved writer Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, transcends time to cradle the voices of Indian literature even today. An emperor among novelists, he wrote in Hindi and Urdu, galvanized social commentary in fiction, and pioneered the merging of Indian themes with experimental literary styles. His legacy is incalculable but shared in many ways. After his death, his two sons Sripat Rai and Amrit Rai published their father's works and kept them in circulation. Amrit Rai authored the definitive biography, Premchand: Qalam ka Sipahi, for which he won the Sahitya Akademi award. He also published over ten volumes of Premchand's works which lay scattered and unknown. In this birth-centenary year of Amrit Rai, Harish Trivedi, who translated Qalam ka Sipahi into English and knew Amrit Rai well, discusses his contribution to a refashioning of Premchand and his reputation, in a conversation with author, historian, and academic Pushpesh Pant and editor and publisher, Aditi Maheshwari Goyal.

Harish Trivedi is a former Professor of English at the University of Delhi and a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago and London. He has authored a book on the history of South Asian Literature. Among his other books, he has translated, from Hindi into English, Premchand: A Life and co-edited Kipling in India: India in Kipling.

Pushpesh Pant is an author-translator, columnist, TV anchor, and teacher. His book, India: The Cookbook, made it to the New York Times bestseller list in 2010 and has been translated into Dutch and German. His most recent book, The Indian Vegetarian, was published by Phaidon Press in 2018.

Aditi Maheshwari Goyal is the executive director at Vani Prakashan Group (Vani Prakashan and Bharatiya Jnanpith) and the managing trustee at Vani Foundation. She teaches publishing and editing at the University of Delhi and the Seagull School of Publishing, Kolkata. She is an advisor to Jaipur BookMark - South Asia’s largest publishing platform and also manages the award secretariat of the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award. Aditi holds a Master’s degree in English Literature, and Business Management from the Strathclyde Business School, Scotland, and an M.Phil. degree in Social Sciences.

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