Iconic Hindi writer Munshi Premchand has been hounoured with a Google doodle on his 136th birth anniversary. The doodle is inspired from Premchand's last and most popular novel, Godaan, which he penned in 1936. It shows the Upanyas Samrat bringing his signature working-class characters to life.

'Today's homepage celebrates a man who filled many pages (of a different kind) with words that would forever change India's literary landscape,' said the search engine.

Born as Dhanpat Rai in a small village near Varanasi in 1880, the renowned author produced more than a dozen novels, 250 short stories, and a number of essays, many under the pen name Premchand.

While he began writing under the pen name of Nawab Rai, he subsequently switched to Premchand. The illustration by Google is a 'tribute to the multitude of important stories he told'.