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2.  Stories by modern Hindi and
Urdu literary legend, Munshi
Premchand are now available
in comic format published by
Amar Chitra Katha. The
comic books in Hindi
detailing two stories by the
late literary phenomenon, is
part of the publisher's
contemporary classics
section, which began in 2012
with stories by author Ruskin
Bond. "We are launching the
comics at the World Book
Fair and it is our tribute to
Premchand. The idea is to
make his stories familiar with
children," Reena Puri, Editor,
Amar Chitra Katha told PTI.

3. The stories "Buddhi Kaki" (The old Aunt) and "Do Bail" (Two
Oxen) have been scripted and illustrated by Pratima Singh and
Surendra Murthy.

4. The English version of the comics translated by Nandini Nair is
also set for launch within a few weeks, says Reena. The books
are priced at Rs 50 each.

5. "Buddhi Kaki" first published in 1921 is the story of an old childless widow
who craves for love after she bequeaths her entire property to her nephew
and his family who start mistreating her. Also "Do Bail" the story about two
ox revolves around compassion.

6. "For our contemporary Story Books for Children series we have identified
many authors in the last 100 years. Our list includes Ruskin Bond whose
story 'Blue Umbrella' was well loved by readers and got a great response.

7. "Stories of Premchand are now in the public domain but for others we
need to get permission from the authors' families etc," says Reena.

8. Detailing the efforts put into converting Premchand's stories into comic
format Reena says, "Of course it was very challenging." "It is not easy to
convert Premchand's stories into comics because there is so much
description in the way he writes and obviously we can't convert each line
into text. We had to rely on pictures to denote the expressions," says
Reena.

9. Born in Lamhai near Varanasi, Premchand wrote nearly 300 stories and
novels. Among his best known novels are "Godan", "Sevasadan",
"Rangmanch", "Gaban" and "Nirmala". ACK has been bringing out stories
written by Kalidasa, Shudraka and Harsha amongst others under its
"Indian Classics" section.

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