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How A Professor And His Student Rescued Premchand's House

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Ten years ago, Vinay Kumar Yadav had no idea that a classroom discussion he had with his students could today be considered as a real example of how love for language and literature could transcend parochial boundaries to preserve for future readers, the house of Munshi Premchand.

In 2004, Dr Vinay Kumar Yadav, now the head of the Hindi department at the Bishop Cotton Women’s Christian College, was comparing William Shakespeare and Premchand in a class of pre-university students at the same college. The author of the book they were referring to had visited his house in Lamhi and described it as a ramshackle one.

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