The very Well known and the milestone of Hindi foremost Hindi-Urdu writer of the early twentieth century.He born on July 31, 1880 in the village Lamhi near Varanasi in a Kayastha family to Munshi Ajaib Lal, a postal clerk, and his wife Anandi. From 1899 to 1921 Premchand worked as a school teacher when in Gorakhpur he gave resignation as a government employee on call of Mahatma Gandhi. Being in profession as a school teacher he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree.Premchand wrote about three hundred short stories and fourteen novels, as well as many essays and letters, plays and translations. Many of Premchand's stories have themselves been translated into English and Russian.Many of his stories are being used as syllabus in the Government Primary Schools.

Idgah is a very touching story of a poor orphan boy named Hamid, who lives with his grandmother. He has very little money to spend on Eid ul-Fitr, a Muslim festival. He goes to a fair along with his friends, who spend a lot of money in buying candy, toys etc.; but he remembers his grandmother whose fingers get burnt when she makes rotis over a fire in a clay oven as she has no chimta to flip the rotis over. He bargains for a chimta in a shop for whatever little money he has. Other children make fun of him for buying a pair of tongs instead of toys or candies. Upon his return, his grandmother initially scolds him for the seemingly poor choice of purchase, but is touched when she becomes aware of the actual thought process behind Hamid's gesture.
His other famous writings are:

The night ghost
Thakur ka kuaan
Dhaai ser gehun
Namak Ka Daroga
Grihaneeti
Manorama
Mangalsootra incomplete
Nirmala
Pratigya
Do bailon ki katha
Ramleela
Bade bhai sahab
Nasha
Laag-daat
Atmaraam
Prerna
Sava ser gehun
Gulli danda
Lottri
Shatranj ke khiladi
Rangbhoomi
Vardaan
Prema
Idgaah
Juloos
Ramleela
Chori
Jurmana
The night ghost