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Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of India.  She received the 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Patjhar Ki Awaz (Short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Award for Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar, and the highest award of the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1994. She also received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India in 2005.  

An Urdu poetess and an author, Swati Sani was also an Advertising professional and a software entrepreneur. She has translated famous couplets of popular Urdu poets in colloquial English for those who love Urdu poetry but struggle with the finer nuances of the language.  The books, a series titled “Famous Urdu Poets” include poets Mirza Ghalib, Faiz Ahmad Faiz (already published), Seemab Akbarabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri and a few more. Each book has a collection of popular couplets of the poets translated in English with the original in Urdu, Devanagari, and Roman script.  A postgraduate in Advertising and Public Relations from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, New Delhi she completed her Master’s degree in Urdu Literature at 50.

Swati's blog - https://swatisani.net/blog/

Watch The man with the seven second memory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos

Audio Timestamps - 

0:00 - Intro 

2:24 - Story - Photographer 

16:10 - Analysis  

22:50 - Photography and persistence of memory, evolutionary evidence 

26:00 - Brain and memory and storage of data 

29:10 - Poetry by Swati Sani

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'Nasha' by Premchand is a psychological study of human behaviour. How easily a man of principle can get corrupted by the same power he despises. How humans tend to change their character depending on their surroundings. At the end, it makes us reflect on this human hypocrisy and how we can learn from it.  

Timestamps - 

0:00 - Intro 

2:00 - Story 'Nasha' 

19:50 - Analysis 

23:20 - Bir's thinking  

26:05 - Kangana and Nepotism 

28:05 - Bir and Ishwari's character and behaviour 

29:50 - Empathy, being aware of our privilege

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Credits - Voice - Shivam Sharma, Anant Nath Sharma 

Sound - Anant Nath Sharma

Episode 12 - Nasha by Munshi Premchand

Created by - Shivam Sharma and Anant Nath Sharma

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In today's episode we read and analyze stories by acclaimed writer Krishna Baldev Vaid. He is known as the foremost writer of Modernist movement in Hindi literature. His work is simultaneously existential, experimental and absurd in nature. He completed his doctorate from Harvard University and taught at multiple universities in the US and India. (Mr Vaid also happens to be the grandfather of notable performance artist @alokvmenon).

We read and discuss three of his pieces - 'Langdi Kursi' 'Morche' and 'Bujhav'.

Anurag Minus Verma (@anuragminusverma) is an Editing graduate from FTII and Arts and Aesthetics grad from JNU. He has collaborated with multiple filmmakers, notably, the experimental icon Amit Dutta. Anurag makes fun and absurd humor-laced travelogues and dabbles in observational humour. His two books are available on Amazon - 'Love In The Time of Pokemon' and 'I Love You But Only On Weekends'.

Audio Timestamps -

0:00 - Intro

1:02 - Why the name Anurag 'Minus' Verma?

3:10 - Author Intro

5:00 - Langdi Kursi

7:40 - Morche

13:00 - Bujhav

15:40 - Analysis

19:20 - Absurdist theory/Meaning of Life

29:00 - Relationships, Dating and Flirting Fatigue

30:40 - Chatpati Sadness, poem by Anurag

Episode 11 - Langdi Kursi/Morche/Bujhaav by Krishna Baldev Vaid

Created by - Shivam Sharma and Anant Nath Sharma

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Sarkari mehekme ke chochle aur lalphitashahi 

Episode 8 - Jamun Ka Ped by Krishna Chander 

Created by - Shivam Sharma and Anant Nath Sharma   

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