This is in response to an interesting question posed by Ms Mathur, on the focus of Indian television advertisements (national TVCs) on depicting Indian kids as "geniuses". 

Bhanu Bandopadhyay (also known as Bhanu Bannerjee) was India's first audio-comic superstar, podcasting his jokes even before podcasting was invented. As an iconic Bengali comedian and radio jockey, he was responsible for over 300 pieces of stellar observational humor, and over a billion hours of laughter. With "Telephone Bibhrat", SpotifyPodcast.com pays a tribute to the late comic legend. This is a non-commercial episode.

Also available at play.spotifypodcast.com/bangla 

Orbs of Light is the latest track by VST Music, comprising Vishal J Singh, Saloni Sinha, and Tanushree Saha. Tanushree, a talented vocalist and composer in her own right as Tan Daze on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms, is the lyricist and vocalist within the VST setup. With this track, she speaks about her experiences in going one step ahead as a video editor, picking up on video editing tools,  hacking her way through scores of tutorials and coming up with the perfect visual accompaniment to an already trippy track.

In her words, the show must go on. You can check out "Orbs of Light" by VST on YouTube, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6topRb0Io - Be sure to leave a comment!

Let's Make America Trumpless Again.

This is dedicated to the memory of George Floyd, who lost his life in a despicable act

of racial violence, and to the undying spirit of 300 million Americans, who stand united

in the fight against this resurgent oppression.

This poem was written by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, an Indian wordsmith, who penned it down at a time when my beloved country was a colony of the British empire, and it’s an amazing coincidence, that we were a population of nearly 300 million at the time of its composition.

Answered is a special podcast streaming at SpotifyPodcast.com, where host and anchor Shom provides instant, light-hearted, and most importantly, true audio answers, to questions that have been "sent his way" on Quora. In a way, he's burning his bridges by building a bridge between Quora and Spotify. That's what he tells himself at night when he can't sleep.

Lyrics:

কত নিষ্ঠুর তোমার অতীত

Answered is a special podcast streaming at SpotifyPodcast.com, where host and anchor Shom provides instant, light-hearted, and most importantly, true audio answers, to questions that have been "sent his way" on Quora. In a way, he's burning his bridges by building a bridge between Quora and Spotify. That's what he tells himself at night when he can't sleep. 

This episode owes a lot to the response received for "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. Here's another straight-from-the-heart recital of "I carry your heart" by E.E. Cummings. 

A late-night heartfelt podcast about the possibility of impending doom, the perception of an ultimate self, and the infinite molecular dance of absolute reality. Not for the faint-hearted.

This one's a short episode, and it deals with the art of losing. It is a simple reading of one of my favorite poems of all time, One Art by Elizabeth Bishop. If you're someone like me who needs help in dealing with the concept of loss, this is for you. For those who prefer looking at the lyrics, they're included below, here in the description.

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

so many things seem filled with the intent

to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:

places, and names, and where it was you meant

to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or

next-to-last, of three loved houses went.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,

some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture

I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident

the art of losing’s not too hard to master

though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.