Apu’s World

“यहाँ भी घास है, यहाँ भी घास है, यहाँ भी घास है, यहाँ भी घास है” - a memoir-style piece by Ramesh Chandra Dwivedi, over at Pratilipi, which I much enjoyed reading - an account of a day spent with Munshi Premchand and the poet Firaaq Gorakhpuri. I’m not quite sure if the events narrated really happened the way the author recalls them, or whether some fictional licence was taken; irrespective of that, it is very readable for the way it captures a slice of a very different world (The old UP ‘cultured world’ of mehfils and shaayari). I also liked the rapid descent from euphoria to gloom. For the Hindi-challenged, there is an Angrezi (English) version as well. 

apu The Literary life