Kitab O'klock- It all started with a cow... (Godan)

Welcome back to another episode of Where The Chasm Is Bridged, a podcast by Behind The Scenes.  Continuing with our theme of farmer's suicide and debt, today we talk about one of Munshi Premchand's most famous novel, Godan. Written 85 years ago, the book still manages to raise questions relevant and important to the modern agricultural society. The book captures rural India, in an attempt to understand the growing, never-ending debt that farmers and many landless laborers end up incurring. Following the themes of debt and societal pressures, we follow Hori and his struggles to pay off a huge debt, while trying to maintain his social status by owning a cow.  While Peepli [Live] focused on the dignity of labor and how one's life is not in their own hands, Godan talks about the reasons for which a simple farmer could enter a debt trap.