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petrichor
by Saptarshi
Conversations that make us smile, make us think, make us nostalgic or maybe at times a bit dramatic! We will converse through poems or stories or just plain simple words, thoughts. Most of the conversation will be either in Bangla or in English, although will keep trying to extend the boundary of languages if possible. You can reach out to me on Instagram; id: instagram.com/the_bongo_pola or Facebook; id: facebook.com/roysaptarshi
Episodes
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The Pair Of Slippers - Henry James [English]
Henry James was an American-British author and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between emigre Americans, English people, and…
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A Real Durwan - Jhumpa Lahiri [English]
Nilanjana Sudeshna 'Jhumpa' Lahiri is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short-stories 'Interpreter of Maladies' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and her first novel, 'The Namesake' was adapted…
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How To Go To The Tao Temple - K. Satchidanandan [English]
K. Satchidananda is an Indian poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist, and translator, he is the former secretary of Sahitya Akademi. He returned to teaching after retiring from Sahitya...
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Like A Dream - Amit Chaudhuri [English]
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer and music composer. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for...
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Such Perfection - R. K. Narayan [English]
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English. Narayan's short stories have been compared with those of Guy de Maupassant because of his ability to...
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Spring Onion Greens - Dipanwita Mukherjee [English]
'That Calcutta, Those Bongs' is book I had never heard of and i picked just while strolling through the Kolkata Book Fair and I ended up liking it so much. The author, Ms. Mukherjee is an alum of Calcutta University and is currently based out of Kolkata where she stays with her husband. My...
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The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe [English]
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. The Mystery...
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Moner Chilekotha - Soumitra Chattopadhyay [Bangla]
Soumitra Chattopadhyay was an Indian film film and stage actor, director, poet, writer, singer, and playwright. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. Soumitra was the recipient of multiple honours and awards and was the first Indian…
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Pujo-Special - Rebanta Goswami [Bangla]
Durga Pujo is one of the most significant festivals of the Indian subcontinent and an important festival in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism which has led to its celebration across the globe. The day of Mahalaya is marked by the Bengali community with Mahisasuramardini — a 90 minutes long All...
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The Birth Of A Poem - Amrita Pritam - G. S. P. Suri [English]
Amrita Pritam was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. She is often considered the first prominent female Punjabi poet, novelist, essayist and the leading 20th-century poet writing in Punjabi. She is equally popular on both sides of the India–Pakistan border. In...
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A Home Near The Sea - Kamala Das [English]
Kamala Das was also popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty. besides her married name Kamala Das. She converted to Islam in 1999 and assumed the name Kamala Surayya. Kamala was an Indian poet in English and Malayalam, hailing from Kerala, India. Her open and honest treatment of…
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When We Moved To This House - Amit Chaudhuri [English]
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer and music composer. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. Chaudhuri is a recipient of several awards which includes the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize…
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Detective - Sukumar Ray [Bangla]
Sukumar Ray was born in a Brahmo family in Calcutta, British India. Ray was a Bangla writer and poet from the Indian subcontinent. He is remembered mainly for his writings for children. He was the son of children's story writer Upendrakishore Ray Choudhury and the father of Indian filmmaker...
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Colder Than Ice - Saadat Hasan Manto - Khalid Hasan [English]
The original Urdu story is called 'Thanda Gosht' and was first published in a literary magazine in March 1950 in Pakistan. Manto was charged with obscenity for this story and faced a trial in criminal court. The partition of India to carve out Pakistan (then West Pakistan) and Bangladesh (then…
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Connection Lost - Haimanti Dutta Ray [English]
Haimanti Dutta Ray is an author, blogger and columnist based out of Kolkata. Prior to taking up freelance writing as a full time occupation, Ray was working with Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. Ray graduated in English literature from Calcutta University and has always been an avid...
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Bardic Stuff - Manohar Shetty [English]
Manohar Shetty is one of the most prominent English poets of modern Indian literature. Shetty's poetry is widely considered an integral part of the evolution and journey of English literature in India and the passion that he oozes, the dreams that he weaves and the mood that he creates is nothing...
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The Kamasutra Game - Khushwant Singh [English]
Khushwant Singh was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. He was very widely known for his unapologetic style of writing and voicing opinions which in many ways were so harsh and honest that created controversies. Khushwant Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974;...
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July - Ruskin Bond [English]
Ruskin Bond is often referred to as the Indian Wordsworth in prose. His first novel, 'The Room on the Roof', received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for 'Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra'. Bond has written hundreds of short stories, essays,...
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O Sakhi, The Flute Plays In The Grove - Salabega - Sachidanand Mohanty ; Smita Mohanty [English]
Salabega was an Odia religious poet of India in the early 17th century. Salabega occupies a prominent position among the devotional poets of Odisha, who devoted his life to Lord Jagannath. Salabega was the son of the Mughal subedar, Lalbeg. His bhajans are still popular among the devotees of Lord...
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Magadh - Shrikant Verma - Mrinal Pande [English]
Shrikant Verma was an Indian poet and a Member of Parliament from Madhya Pradesh as an Indian National Congress candidate from 1976 to 1982 and 1982 to 1986. Verma was born in Bilaspur city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He graduated from Nagpur University with a Master of Arts degree in...
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Late Night Mischief - Katie Ingold [English]
Gay pride or LGBT pride is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as a social group. The term 'Gay Pride' was crafted by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist in Minnesota. Brenda Howard, a bisexual...
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Class Friend - Satyajit Ray [Bangla]
Satyajit Ray maybe very well referred to as one of the brightest sons of India. He was a film director, scriptwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. He started his career as a commercial artist, and then was drawn...
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An Unknown Romance - O' Henry [English]
William Sydney Porter was an American short story writer, and perhaps is one of the most celebrated short story writer in English across the globe. Better known by his pen name, O' Henry which he derived from his frequent calling to the family cat, 'Oh Henry'. Often regarded as the American…
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Under The Shelter Of Love - Javier Sologuren - Atasi Chatterjee [English]
Javier Sologuren was a Peruvian writer and poet, writing in Spanish. He was also an accomplished translator and has worked largely towards translating Chinese and Japanese classic literature into Spanish. Sologuren was also editor and printer of Ediciones de la Rama Florida, which published 145...
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The Tree - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti [English]
The spirit has a will of its own is what the author and enchantress Ipsita Roy Chakraverti says. While studying in Montreal, Canada, she grew an interest in wicca and is now a practitioner and scholar of the occult. This story is one of her real life encounters with the unknown as she says. The...
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One Of These Days - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - J. S. Bernstein [English]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian author who wrote in Spanish. He after passing out from the University of Bogota worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1982 and was someone whose writings led him to be friends with…
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Bodhu Bawron - Kazi Nazrul Islam [Bangla]
Kazi Nazrul Islam is often referred to as a rebel poet but there is a Nazrul beyond rebel and there are many facets to the huge empire that Nazrul had built in his lifetime or till the time he could create magic. Born in India, had been a part of the army against Britishers and is also considered...
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Love Story # 6 (aka The One That Was Foolish) - Annie Zaidi [English]
Annie Zaidi writes poetry, essays, fiction of different lengths, and even scripts for the stage and the screen. She was nominated for the Vodafone Crossword Book Awards in the non-fiction category in 2011 for her collection of essays, 'Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales'. In...
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The Return - Saadat Hasan Manto - Khalid Hasan [English]
Manto was one of the greatest Urdu authors of modern times and has a body of strong, powerful works spanning more than two decades. He is one of those authors who has documented partition very graphically and has given a very realistic idea of how it all was like. Manto was a humanist and his...
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Gitanjali 106 (Hey Mor Chitto, Punno Tirthe) - Rabindranath Thakur [Bangla]
Rabindranath believed in an India which is inclusive, he believed in humanity beyond any religion or nationalism. The first Asian to win noble prize is a thing but being absolutely unaffected by this huge achievement is something else, you need to be in a different level of enlightenment for…
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The Majestic Bong Mellows - Gurbinder Kaur [English]
Bengal is a beauty like none other and it has different facets to it. The essence is not really unidirectional so one small article cannot say it all but the article does show a lot of it in few words, and ends on a very hopeful note for a better tomorrow. My Instagram id:...
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When It Rains In Dharamshala - Tenzin Tsundue [English]
Tenzin Tsundue is a voice to reckon with, a poet, writer and activist has been born and brought up in India since his parents had to flee from Tibet fearing persecution. His recent 500km walk from Dharamshala to New Delhi had garnered a lot of attention once again and he vows to keep fighting…
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Death Speaks - Anon - Somerset Maugham ; Jeffrey Archer [English]
The actual story was in Arabic which was translated by Somerset Maugham. The actual author is still not known. William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short-story writer and one of the most famous of his era. Jeffrey Archer is again an English novelist and short-story...
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Mukh Dheke Jaay Bigyapone - Shankha Ghosh [Bangla]
It is a sad day for all the people who adored this man, this man of words, this man who could boil blood and weave magic, all with his pen. Shankha Ghosh was a stalwart of modern Bangla literature and will be remembered for his timeless works. He was also the recipient of Padma Bhushan and…
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Gandharaj Lime - Dipanwita Mukherjee [English]
As Bengalis across the globe celebrate Poila Boishakh, here is a new episode after exactly six months. This episode is also special for another reason and that is the fact that Gandharaj Lime is an important character and it holds a very special place in my heart. The author, Ms. Mukherjee is an...
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Pink Sheep - Mahesh Natarajan [English]
Pink Sheep is a collection of eighteen stories that deals with relationship, love, fear, happiness, desire, bitterness and everything that comes along relationship. All the stories have one thing in common besides relationship and that is highlights about gay life. This particular story shares…
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On Communalism - Khushwant Singh ; Humra Quraishi [English]
Khushwant Singh is one of India's most well known authors and is an icon of modern Indian English literature. His unabashed writing has been often seen as provocative and controversial but nothing stopped this grand old man from speaking his heart until death at the age of 99 in 2014. This...
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Jab Main Bhula, Re Bhai - Kabir - Rabindranath Thakur ; Evelyn Underhill [English]
Kabir is perhaps one of the most well known personality in Indian mysticism. He is someone who with ease moved way beyond boundaries of religion and caste, beyond the small confined world, to the greater and bigger world of all religions and spiritualism. This translation has been done by one of...
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Meghla Dupurer Roopkatha - Nabaneeta Dev Sen [Bangla]
Nabaneeta Dev Sen was given her name by Rabindranath and has been someone who ruled across the hearts of people who read Bangla literature or even her translated works in other languages, and she does continue to rule even when she is no more. She was a poet, an author, a translator, a critic, a...
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The Open Road - Ruskin Bond [English]
Bond paints his stories and paints such picturesque description of nature that you feel like you can actually see it all infront of your eyes. This is one such small story which takes us to the hills, to where he stays and we can close our eyes and see Ruskin Bond doing all that's written in this...
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Kaakkokeel - Pranab Mukhopadhyay [Bangla]
Sondesh started its journey from Bangla year 1368 and since then has been a part of childhood and life beyond. Although it doesn't have any new issues since long but many of the stories and poems published in that magazine are now considered masterpieces of children's literature in Bangla…
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In Her Lovemaking She Grieves - Gagan Gill - J.P. Das ; Arlene Zide ; Madhu B. Joshi [English]
Gagan Gill is a critically acclaimed poet and had sacrificed her very successful career in journalism to pursue her love for poems. In this poem like many of her other works she expresses pain with great poignancy and it strikes a chord. My Instagram id: instagram.com/the_bongo_pola My Facebook…
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Manush Kibhaabe Mawre - Shakti Chattopadhyay [Bangla]
Shakti Chattopadhyay is a name to be reckoned with in modern Bangla literature. A poet par excellence and a revolutionist to say the least, the man lives on through his words.
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Toba Tek Singh - Gulzar - Rakhshanda Jalil [English]
The multifaceted personality that Gulzar is has earned him accolades ranging from Sahitya Akademi to Oscars. Partition of India was a horrific experience that has inspired several authors and poets and Gulzar is someone who has time and again revisited those times; he had experienced the horrors...
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Jesus in the Graveyard - Neil Douglas-Klotz [English]
The stories in this book are taken from the many seminars that the author has conducted over the years and the way Neil Douglas-Klotz traverses through the stories in this book it seems like he is conversing with us. This story is one such crisp and clear work of the author.
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Love - Kahlil Gibran [English]
'The Prophet' is one of the most translated books in history and it has never been out of print. Kahlil Gibran is known across the globe for this work of his, the 26 prose poetry fables are delivered as sermons by a wise man called Al Mustafa and each of these fables talk about life, questions...
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How to Tame a Pair of New Chappals - Gopal Honnalgere [English]
Gopal Honnalgere can be referred to as one of those forgotten gems of Indian literature. He passed away in 2003 and had always lived a life away from the popular media, so much so that there are no proper images available image of him on the internet. This particular poem of his says a lot using...
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Cigarette - Sukanta Bhattacharya [Bangla]
The young Bangali poet Sukanta Bhattacharya had a short lived career but one full of memorable works and one such poem is 'Cigarette', very different and especially unusual to the times that he belonged.
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Nostalgia - Jose Santos Chocano - Atasi Chatterjee [English]
'Nostalgia' is just a drop in the ocean of Hispanic literature. This beautiful poem by Jose Santos Chocano has a feeling that makes you yearn and the feeling is beautiful.
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Asha - Kazi Nazrul Islam [Bangla]
My first podcast is a short and beautiful poem by one of my favourite poets, someone I worship; Kazi Nazrul Islam.
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Conversations that make us smile, make us think, make us nostalgic or maybe at times a bit dramatic! We will converse through poems or stories or just plain simple words, thoughts. Most of the conversation will be either in Bangla or in English, although will keep trying to extend the boundary of languages if possible. You can reach out to me on Instagram; id: instagram.com/the_bongo_pola or Facebook; id: facebook.com/roysaptarshi
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