summary of a catastrophe by munshi premchand
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Catastrophe (Vidhwans) by Munshi Premchand
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In Banaras District there is a village called Bira in which an old, childless widow used to live. She was a Gond woman named Bhungi and she didn’t own either a scrap of land or a house to live in. Her only source of livelihood was a parching oven. The village folk customarily have one meal a day of parched grains, so there was always a crowd around Bhungi’s oven. Whatever grain she was paid for parching she would grind or fry and eat it. She slept in a corner of the same little shack that sheltered the oven. As soon as it was light she’d get up and go out to gather dry leaves from all around to make her fire. She would stack the leaves right next to the oven, and after twelve, light the fire. But on the days when she had to parch grain for Pandit Udaybhan Pandey, the owner of the village, she went to bed hungry. She was obliged to work without pay for Pandit Udaybhan Pandey She also had to fetch water for his house. And, for this reason, from time to time the oven was not lit. She lived in the Pandit’s village, therefore he had full authority to make her do any sort of odd job. In his opinion if she received food for working from him, how could it be considered as work done without pay? He was doing her a favour, in fact, by letting her live in the village at all.
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in the district of Banaras there had a village called Bira. there lived a childless widow . she didn't own a single scrap of land or somewhere to live. she only owned a parching oven. there always had a crowd around her oven. she also slept in the corner of the same shack that sheltered her oven. she had to parch grains for pandit Udaybhan Pandey, who was the owner of the village without pay hence, he thought he had full authority to make her do any kind of odd job because she was living in his village. one spring day, there was a crowd around bhungis oven, then two servants of pandit Uday Bhan Pandey came with two heaped baskets of grains with the order to parch it right away. it was already past mid day and she knew it wasn't possible to finish it by sunset. she started parching it soon as the servants went away and so as she had thought,she hadn't covered up half the work by sunset . she started doing her work more frantically. when the servants returned, they asked if the grains were passed , and bhungi replied boldly if they couldn't see her parching . they told bhungi that pandit Udaybhan Pandey punish her for her delay. at night, her oven was dug up and left her with no means of livelihood. the villagers also suffered by the destruction of bhungis oven because cooked cereal was no longer available so they went to pandit udayban Pandey and requested him to give order to rebuild bhungis oven, but he paid no attention. few people who wanted her good urged her to move to another village but she wouldn't accept since she had spent 50 miserable years in this village. a month, one morning pandit udayban Pandey went out to collect his rents and when he looked towards the old woman's oven, he fell into a violent rage because he saw Bhungi rebuilding it. she thought pandit had forgotten his anger by then . pandit Uday Van shouted by whose order she was rebuilding it and bhungi replied back that everybody requesting her.