June 6, 2024 3:41 PM
Tehreer…Munshi Premchand Ki :Namak Ka Darogha – Ep#25
When a new department banning open trade in salt (a free gift of God) was set up, people began to trade it illegally. Many crooked ways were invented: Some took to bribing, others to smuggling. Prem Chand has painted a perfect image of a society where money is all powerful, even during the times when we could not even think of a consumer society, of conspicuous consumption, and did not see the presence of an infinite variety of goods and pleasures that money can buy today. Worldliness, it seems...
