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Roadmap for a Sustainable World by Dr Atul Bora

2

Little Chicks - Mulk Raj Anand - Indian Short Stories

3

The Lullaby - Mulk Raj Anand - Indian Short Stories

4

Essays in Idleness - Tsurezuregusa - Yoshida Kenkō

5

A Book of Simple Living - Ruskin Bond - Part Three

6

A Book of Simple Living - Ruskin Bond - Part Two

7

A Book of Simple Living - Ruskin Bond - Part One

8

Heartbreak - The School of Life - Part Three

9

Heartbreak - The School of Life - Part Two

10

Heartbreak - The School of Life - Part One

11

History of Mughals - Part Six Aurangzeb - Bamber Gascoigne

12

History of Mughals - Part Five Shah Jahan - Bamber Gascoigne

13

History of Mughals - Part Four Jahangir - Bamber Gascoigne

14

History of Mughals - Part Three Akbar - Bamber Gascoigne

15

History of Mughals - Part Two Humayun - Bamber Gascoigne

16

History of Mughals - Part One Babur - Bamber Gascoigne

17

Folk Tales from India - A Bihari Folk Tale

18

Folk Tales from India - A Kashmiri Folk Tale

19

A Buddhist Folktale from Himachal Pradesh - Folk Tales from India

20

Folk Tale from Pakistan - The Thief and The King - Folk Tale Sindh

21

Folk Tales from India - The Rice Cake Tree and the Witch - Folk Tale Orissa/Odisha

22

Folk Tales from India - The Five Craftsmen - Folk Tale Maharashtra

23

Folk Tales from India - The Hermit Cat - Folk Tale Andhra Pradesh

24

A Dogri Short Story - The Farm by Chaman Arora - Our Favourite Indian Stories

25

A Tamil Short Story - Brahma Vriksha by Prapanchan - Our Favourite Indian Stories

26

A Malayalam Short Story - The Flight by Kamala Das - Our Favourite Indian Stories

27

Two Kashmiri Short Stories - Our Favourite Indian Stories Book

28

Two Sindhi Short Stories - Our Favourite Indian Stories

29

Happy New Year - A Short Story by Ajeet Cour - Indian Short Stories (Punjabi)

30

Housewife - A Short Story by Ismat Chughtai - Indian Short Stories (Urdu)

31

Viktor Frankl on the Meaning of Life - Man's Search for Meaning

32

A Confession (Part 2) - Leo Tolstoy - Books on Meaning of Life

33

A Confession (Part 1) - Leo Tolstoy - Books on Meaning of Life

34

Meaning of Life - A Book by The School of Life - Part 2

35

Meaning of Life - A Book by The School of Life - Part 1

36

Travel Writing India - Three Quarters of a Footprint - Joe Roberts Audio Essay

37

Kumbh Mela by Mark Tully - No Full Stops in India - Audio Essay

38

Travel Writing India - Imaginary Homelands - Salman Rushdie Audio Essay

39

Travel Writing India - Footloose in Agra by Ruskin Bond - Audio Essay

40

Travel Writing India - Hill Station Darjeeling by Jan Morris - Audio Essay

41

The Ghost - Sehyr Mirza - India Pakistan Short Stories

42

A Snowful Desire - Saeed Ahmad - India Pakistan Short Stories

43

The Enemy - Asghar Wajahat - India Pakistan Short Stories

44

Crossing the Ravi - Gulzar - India Pakistan Short Stories

45

I Ching - Book of Changes - Chinese Taoist Philosophy by Alan Watts

46

What is Tao - A Book by Alan Watts - Audiobook - Part Two

47

What is Tao? A Book by Alan Watts - Audiobook - Part One

48

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part Eight - Audiobook

49

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part Seven - Audiobook

50

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part Six - Audiobook

51

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part Five - Audiobook

52

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part Four - Audiobook

53

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part Three - Audiobook

54

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part Two - Audiobook

55

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Part One - Audiobook

56

Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

57

Soul and Body - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

58

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera - Lightness and Weight

59

Status Anxiety - A Book by Alain de Botton - Part 2

60

Status Anxiety - A Book by Alain de Botton - Part 1

61

Jealousy by Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time

62

Nature Writing - A Book by Richard Herley

63

The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram's book on Nature, Perception and Magic

64

Nature - Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Transcendentalism Philosophy

65

The Book of Nature - Ruskin Bond - Himalayas

66

The Revolutionary Genius of Plants - Stefano Mancuso - Books on Nature

67

The Tyranny of Pop Music - Roger Scruton - Audio Essay Philosophy

68

50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time - Book Reading

69

Life in the Himalayas - Book by Ruskin Bond and Namita Gokhale

70

Spiritual Explorations of the Himalayas - Book by Ruskin Bond and Namita Gokhale

71

Himalaya - Adventures, Meditations, Life - Ruskin Bond and Namita Gokhale

72

100 Great Indian Poems - Abhay K - Poetry Recitation

73

The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watt's Antidote to the Age of Anxiety

74

A Grief Observed - CS Lewis's Meditations on the Loss of a Loved One

75

In Praise of Shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki

76

Is Novel Dead? Essay by Milan Kundera - The Art of the Novel

77

Hills Like White Elephants - Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway Audiobook

78

What Art Teaches About Love - Art as Therapy - Alain de Botton

79

Art as Therapy - Alain de Botton - John Armstrong

80

A Guided Walking Meditation - Thich Nhat Hanh

81

A Short Story by Franz Kafka - Jackals and Arabs

82

Is Novel Autobiographical? - An Essay by Salman Rushdie

83

Serpent Worship Folktales from India - Naaga by K Hari Kumar

84

A Book on Serpent Worship - Naaga by K Hari Kumar

85

Love in the Time of Hate - Urdu Poetry - Rakhshanda Jalil

86

Meditations on Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh

87

What is the Art of Love - Erich Fromm

88

Reading Kahlil Gibran - The Secrets of the Heart

89

Finding Happiness through Zen Philosophy - Chris Prentiss

90

The Philosophy of Zen and Tao - Kakuzo Okakura - The Book of Tea

91

The Classic of Tea by Lu Yu - Tea Philosophy and History by Kakuzo Okakura - Audiobook

92

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura - Teaism Audiobook

93

So That You Know - Poetry Book by Mani Rao

94

Art of Listening - Mindfulness Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh

95

Reading a Covid Short Story - 9 Pebbles 9 Ripples by Dr Sweety Shinde

96

Bibliotherapy Techniques - Reading for Healing - Bijal Shah

97

Bibliotherapy - Healing Through Reading - Book by Bijal Shah

98

Nietzsche's Consolations for a Difficult Life - Alain de Botton - Philosophy Books

99

Schopenhauer's Consolations on Love - Alain de Botton - Philosophy

100

Consolations from Montaigne's Essays - Alain de Botton - Philosophy

101

Stoic Wisdom to Deal with Frustrations - Seneca - Alain de Botton (Philosophy)

102

Epicurus's Philosophy of Happiness - Alain de Botton

103

Socratic Consolation for Unpopularity - Alain de Botton - Philosophy Book

104

Bangladesh Liberation - India Pakistan 1971 War - Sam Dalrymple

105

Kashmir, Junagadh and Hyderabad - Partition of Indian Princely States - Sam Dalrymple

106

India-Pakistan Partition - Sam Dalrymple - Shattered Lands

107

India-Burma Partition - Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple

108

Bollywood Songs and Movies on Rains - Monsoon Feelings Book

109

Mughal Art and Poetry on Rains - Monsoon Feelings Book

110

Hindi-Urdu Poetry and Monsoon Feelings - Monsoon Books

111

Monsoon Feelings - Persian Poetry - Books on Monsoon

112

Meghaduta by Kalidasa - Monsoon Books

113

How to Forget - Meera Ganapathi's Walking Meditations

114

Hojoki - Kamo No Chomei's Ten Foot Square Hut - Overcoming Our Fears and Anxiety

115

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time - A Lover's Gaze

116

A Short Love Story by Haruki Murakami

117

Rebati by Fakir Mohan Senapati and Other Odia Short Stories

118

Kannada Short Stories Book by Mini Krishnan and Susheela Punitha

119

Reading Classic Malayalam Short Stories from Mini Krishnan's Recent Book

120

Conversations on Love with Roxane Gay, Justine Picardie and Natasha Lunn

121

Conversations on Love and Sex with Natasha Lunn and Emily Nagoski

122

Alain de Botton on Psychology of Love - Conversations with Natasha Lunn

123

The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth - Book Reading of a Novel in Verse

124

Men Without Women - A Short Story by Haruki Murakami

125

Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen

126

Balochistan: Bruised, Battered and Bloodied by Francesca Marino Part 2

127

History of Balochistan - Book by Francesca Marino

128

Ikigai - Japanese Secrets to Long and Healthy Life

129

The Other in the Mirror - Stories from India Pakistan

130

A Gujarati Spiritual Poem

131

Ambapali - A Spiritual Poem

132

The Kamasutra - Audiobook - Part Seven

133

The Kamasutra on Kissing and Biting - Audiobook - Part Six

134

The Kamasutra - Audiobook - Part Five

135

The Kamasutra - Audiobook - Part Four

136

The Kamasutra - Audiobook - Part Three

137

The Kamasutra - Audiobook - Part Two

138

The Kama Sutra - Audiobook - Part One

139

Kalidasa's Ode to Spring in Ritusamhara

140

Kalidasa's Winter in Ritusamhara

141

Ritusamhara - Kalidasa on Early Winter

142

Kalidasa's Autumn in Ritusamhara

143

Kalidasa on Rains and Monsoon - Ritusamhara

144

Ritusamhara - Kalidasa's Ode to Seasons - Part 1 - Summer

145

Aldous Huxley's Travel Essays

146

Mughal History During Akbar and Humayun's Time | Gulbadan by Rumer Godden

147

Babur in India | Gulbadan by Rumer Godden

148

Mughal History and Babur | Gulbadan by Rumer Godden

149

How to Love in Sanskrit | Romantic Verses from Ancient India

150

A Book on Indian Art | Jamini Roy by Anuradha Ghosh

151

Indian Queer Literature | Entering the Maze by Krishnagopal Mullick

152

Folk Stories in Andaman's Bo Language | Anvita Abbi

153

A Malayalam Short Story | The Flood by TS Pillai | Thakazhi

154

A Sindhi Short Story | Manjri by Lekhraj Tulsiani

155

A Punjabi Short Story | A Whirlwind by Sant Singh Sekhon

156

Pankaj Mishra in India | Travel Book | Bollywood

157

Pankaj Mishra in Afghanistan | Travel Book

158

Pankaj Mishra in Pakistan | Temptations of the West | Travel Book

159

Free for All | Manto Short Story | India Pakistan Literature

160

The Dutiful Daughter | Saadat Hasan Manto Short Story | India Pakistan Literature

161

Saadat Hasan Manto's Short Stories | Part 1 | India Pakistan Literature

162

Homi J Bhabha | A Book by Biman Nath

163

Rani Gaidinliu | Freedom Fighter from North East India | Som Kamei

164

RK Narayan's Malgudi Days | Indradeep Bhattacharyya

165

Jagadish Chandra Bose by Sudipto Das | The Great Indians Series

166

The Bhagavad Gita by Vandana R Singh | Part 3 | Jnana Yoga

167

The Bhagavad Gita by Vandana R Singh | Part 2 | Bhakti Yoga

168

The Bhagavad Gita by Vandana R Singh | Part 1 | Karma Yoga

169

Biblical Stories Part 7 | Books on Christianity

170

Biblical Stories Part 6 | Books on Christianity

171

Biblical Stories Part 5 | Books on Christianity | Hebrew Bible

172

Biblical Stories Part 4 | Books on Christianity

173

Biblical Stories Part 3 | Books on Christianity

174

Biblical Stories Part 2 | Books on Christianity

175

Biblical Stories Part 1 | Books on Christianity

176

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis | A Great Theological Read

177

India Pakistan Partition | History Through Books

178

Rain in the Mountains | Ruskin Bond | Monsoon Books

179

Chasing the Monsoon | Alexander Frater's Travels in India

180

The Story of Ramayana | Part 5

181

The Story of Ramayana | Part 4

182

The Story of Ramayana | Part 3

183

The Story of Ramayana | Part 2

184

The Story of Ramayana | Part 1

185

How Tea Travelled From China to Europe to India | Food History Books

186

Mythological Stories About Tea | The Tea Philosophy Book

187

The Book of Tea | Okakura Kakuzo | Teaism

188

From the Memoirs of Rabindranath Tagore | The Himalayas

189

A Train from Calcutta to Darjeeling | Mark Twain in India

190

A Himalayan Village | Ruskin Bond

191

Stories from the Quran | Solomon the Wise

192

Stories from the Quran | David and Goliath

193

Stories from the Quran | Prophet Ezra (Uzair)

194

Controversial Issues in Islam: Feminism, Apostasy, Ex-Muslims, Sharia.

195

Understanding the Qur'an | Ramadan Series | Islam

196

Does Islam Teach Peace or Violence? | Ramadan Series

197

History of Early Islam | Ramadan Series

198

History of The Gita by Devdutt Pattanaik | Hindu Philosophy

199

Indian Religions by Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

200

The Story of Mahabharata - 6 | Indian Mythology

201

The Story of Mahabharata - 5 | Indian Mythology | Hinduism

202

The Story of Mahabharata - 4 | Indian Mythology

203

The Story of Mahabharata - 3 | Indian Mythology

204

The Story of Mahabharata - 2 | Indian Mythology

205

The Story of Mahabharata - 1 | Indian Mythology

206

The Mahabharata Series | An Introduction to Indian Mythology

207

Man and Woman | Essay by Tagore

208

Kalidasa Vs Shakespeare | Essay by Rabindranath Tagore

209

The Indian Ideal of Religion | Essays by Tagore

210

Indian Mystic Poets | Best Poems from India

211

The Great Indian Writers | Books from India

212

India After Gandhi | A Book by Ramachandra Guha

213

The Case for India by Will Durant

214

History of South India | Rajmohan Gandhi's Book

215

How First Humans Came to India from Africa | Pranay Lal

216

How Life Evolved on Earth | Natural History of India| Indica by Pranay Lal

217

The Story of Earth | Indica by Pranay Lal | Natural History of Indian Subcontinent

218

Book Reading by Prochy Mehta | Who is a Parsi?

219

Morals and History by Will Durant | Audio Essay

220

An Essay on Love and Beauty | Alain de Botton

221

An Average Man by RK Narayan | Audio Essay from India

222

Things Emotionally Healthy People Know How to Do | Audio Essay by Brianna Wiest

223

Friendship by Joseph Addison | Audio Essay

224

How to be a Good Listener | The School of Life | Book Podcast

225

A Short Story by Rabindranath Tagore | Raja and Rani | Book Podcast

226

Introduction to Vedanta | Indian Philosophy | Book Podcast

227

Introduction to Yoga Philosophy | Indian Schools of Philosophy | Book Podcast

228

Introduction to Buddhism | Indian Philosophy | Book Podcast

229

Introduction to Jainism | Indian Philosophy | Book Podcast

230

Introduction to Indian Philosophy | Charvaka Darshan | Book Podcast

231

The Philosophy of Insomnia | Book Podcast

232

Philosophy of Truth in Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Book Podcast

233

Finding a Moment | The School of Life | Book Podcast

234

A Short Story on Afghanistan | Rudyard Kipling | History Book Podcast

235

The Sixth Extinction | Climate Change Science | Book Podcast

236

A Haunted House | Short Story by Virginia Woolf | Book Podcast

237

Philosophy of Veganism | The Philosophy Files by Stephen Law | Book Podcast

238

Publishing a Book in India | Meghna Pant | Book Podcast

239

Hyperactivity and Emotional Health | Eva Hoffman and The School of Life | Book Podcast

240

A Short Story from African Mythology | Anansi the Spider | Book Podcast

241

Shashi Tharoor on British Colonialism | India Shastra | Book Podcast

242

101 Essays by Brianna Wiest | Book Podcast

243

Thich Nhat Hanh on Spirituality | The Art of Living | Book Podcast

244

A Story from Persian (Iran) Mythology | Sohrab and Rustom | Book Podcast

245

Creation Myth from Quran | Islamic Philosophy | Book Podcast

246

The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm | Book Podcast

247

A Short Story by Ambrose Bierce | John Mortonson's Funeral | Audio Stories & Books

248

A Short Story by Stephen Leacock | My Financial Career | Audio Story | Book Podcast

249

The Message of Quran | Islamic Philosophy in Ramadan | Book Podcast

250

A Book A Day podcast, hosted by Deepak Rana and Kalampedia

251

Prophet Muhammad and the Quran | Book Podcast | Islamic History and Philosophy

252

First Quranic Revelations on Mount Hira | Life of Prophet Muhammad | Book Podcast

253

Early Life of Prophet Muhammad | Islamic History in Ramadan | Book Podcast

254

Life of Prophet Muhammad | Ramadan Special | Book Podcast

255

Beautiful Passages from English Literature | Classic Books | Book Podcast

256

The School of Life Books | Alain de Botton | Book Podcast

257

Happy Endings | A Short Story by Margaret Atwood | Book Podcast

258

Ancient Advice for Modern Parents | The Tao Te Ching | William Martin | Book Podcast

259

This Book Predicted Russia-Ukraine Crisis | The Next 100 Years | George Friedman | Book Podcast

260

Philosophy of Lying | Plato to Kant to Sam Harris | Book Podcast

261

Men Without Women | Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami | Book Podcast

262

Holocaust Memoirs of an Auschwitz Commander | Jewish History | Book Podcast

263

Hijab and The Quran I Islamic Philosophy/Theology | Book Podcast

264

Stoics on Anxiety | Alain de Botton and The School of Life | Book Podcast

265

A Creation Myth from Ancient Egypt | Mythology Book | Book Podcast

266

The Illusion of Majority in India | Shashi Tharoor | Book Podcast

267

An African in Greenland | Tété-Michel Kpomassie | Book Podcast

268

A Creation Myth in an Extinct Indian Language | Anvita Abbi | Bo Language | Book Podcast

269

Fanaa: A Sufi Meditation | Al Ghazali's Thoughts on Fana | Book Podcast

270

Meditation on Death | Buddhist Meditations | Book Podcast

271

Meditation on Gratitude | Buddhist Meditations Series | Book Podcast

272

Meditation on the Breath | Mindfulness | Book Podcast

273

Common Problems You Face During Meditation | Book Podcast

274

Basics of Buddhist Meditation | Bookcast Podcast

275

Why You Should Meditate | Book Podcast

276

A Short Course on Buddhist Meditations | Book Podcast

277

The Sense of Style - Writing Advice by Steven Pinker | Book Podcast

278

Marcel Proust's Great Novel - In Search of Lost Time | Book Podcast

279

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen | Book Podcast

280

Poems by Edgar Allan Poe | Book Podcast

281

A Short Story by Mark Twain | Book Podcast

282

A Short Story by Confucius | Book Podcast

283

On Lying Awake at Night | Essay by Stewart Edward White | Book Podcast

284

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien | Book Reading | Book Podcast

285

History of Vedic Hindu Civilisation | Sanjeev Sanyal | Book Podcast

286

Indus Valley Civilisation | India/Pakistan History | Sanjeev Sanyal | Book Podcast

287

Free Will by Sam Harris | Book Podcast

288

A Horror Story from India | Odia Literature | Book Podcast

289

Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father | Book Podcast

290

An Italian Folk Story | Myths and Folklores of the World | Book Podcast

291

A South American Folk Story | Myths and Folklores of the World | Book Podcast

292

A Jewish Folk Story | Myths and Folklores of the World | Book Podcast

293

A Chinese Folk Story | Myths and Folklores of the World | Book Podcast

294

A Korean Folk Story | Myths and Folklores of the World | Book Podcast

295

An Irish Folk Story | Myths and Folklores of the World | Book Podcast

296

An African Folk Story | Myths and Folklores of the World | Book Podcast

297

Jungle Stories from British India | Jim Corbett | Book Podcast

298

Mullah Nasruddin's Humorous Tales | Islamic Folk Culture | Book Podcast

299

The Book of Tea | Okakura Kakuzo | Japanese Culture and History | Book Podcast

300

Health Mantras from Indian Kitchen | Ratna Rajaiah | Book Podcast

301

Introduction to Greek Mythology | History and Culture | Bookcast Podcast

302

Memoirs of India-Pakistan Partition | Salman Rashid (Pakistani Travel Writer) | Book Podcast

303

Folk Tales of Bihar | Indian History and Culture | Book Podcast

304

An Enigmatic Nature | Short Story by Anton Chekhov | Book Podcast

305

The Prophet | Spiritual Book by Kahlil Gibran | Book Podcast

306

The Blank Slate | Steven Pinker on Human Nature | Book Podcast

307

Mauryan Empire and Ashoka | Indian History by Romila Thapar | Book Podcast

308

Milan Kundera and The Art of Novel | Book Podcast

309

The Truth About News Media | Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky | Book Podcast

310

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow | Jerome K Jerome | Book Podcast

311

The Yoga | Ancient Indian (Hindu) School of Philosophy | Book Podcast

312

The Gene | An Intimate History of Genetics Science | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Book Podcast

313

Religious History of Afghanistan | Hindus and Sikhs under Taliban | Book Podcast

314

The Lessons of History | Will Durant | Book Podcast

315

Muslims in India | Being the Other by Saeed Naqvi | Book Podcast

316

India's First Newspaper | Indian History | Andrew Otis | Book Podcast

317

The Philosophy of Existentialism | Jean-Paul Sartre | Book Podcast

318

Atheism in India | Narendra Dabholkar | Marathi Literature | Book Podcast

319

An Essay on Reading and Writing | Fail Better by Zadie Smith | Book Podcast

320

Kabuliwalah | A Bengali Short Story About An Afghan | Book Podcast

321

The History of Food | Tom Sandage | Bookcast #179

322

The Question of Evil | St Augustine and Christian Philosophy | Bookcast #178

323

The Kingdom That Failed | A Short Story by Haruki Murakami | Bookcast #177

324

Introduction to Sikhism | History of Religions | Bookcast #176

325

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice | Christopher Hitchens | Bookcast #175

326

The Call of Life | A Norwegian Short Story by Knut Hamsun | Bookcast #174

327

A Sad Story on India-Pakistan Partition | Punjabi Literature | Bookcast #173

328

Philosophy of David Hume | Western Philosophy | Bookcast #172

329

The Moral Question of Abortion | Judith Jarvis Thomson | Bookcast #171

330

The Pleasures of Ignorance | Essay by Robert Lynd | Irish Literature | Bookcast #170

331

The Mirror by Catulle Mendes | A French Short Story | Bookcast #169

332

What is the Male Gaze? | A Short Story by Gulzar | Bookcast #168

333

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | Stoic Philosophy | Bookcast #167

334

The Panchatantra | Children Stories from Indian Mythology | Bookcast #166

335

Indian Nationalism and History | Romila Thapar | Bookcast #165

336

The Nature of Consciousness | Rupert Spira | Bookcast #164

337

Short Stories by Khalil Gibran | Little Book of Life | Bookcast #163

338

Ambedkar on India-Pakistan Partition | History Books | Bookcast 162

339

Story of Christian Morality | Friedrich Nietzsche | Bookcast #161

340

Moral Philosophy | Immanuel Kant | Bookcast #160

341

The Story of Human Brain | David Eagleman | Bookcast #159

342

History of Israel-Palestine Conflict | Books to Read | Bookcast #158

343

The Romance of a Busy Broker | Short Story by O. Henry | Bookcast #157

344

Essays on Amma by Perumal Murugan | Tamil Literature | Bookcast #156

345

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy | Spiritual Crisis | Bookcast #155

346

Pakistan, Islam and Identity | Farzana Shaikh | Bookcast #154

347

The Transparency of Things | Rupert Spira's Meditative Philosophy | Bookcast #153

348

Three Men in a Boat | Short Story by Jerome K. Jerome | Corona Panic | Bookcast #152

349

Lessons from Dhammapada | Buddhist Philosophy | Bookcast #151

350

The Lottery Ticket | Short Story by Anton Chekhov | Bookcast #150

351

Persian Short Stories by Jalaluddin Rumi | Bookcast #149

352

Carl Jung on Religion and Meaning | Bookcast #148

353

Thomas Hobbes and Leviathan | Political Philosophy | Bookcast #147

354

The Stolen Bacillus | Short Story by H. G. Wells | Science Fiction | Bookcast #146

355

Story of Ramayana | Hindu (Indian) Mythology | Bookcast #145

356

Introduction to Indian Philosophy | Bookcast #144

357

Islamic Revolution in Iran | V. S. Naipaul | Bookcast #143

358

Akbar Birbal Stories | Indian History | Bookcast #142

359

The Scientific Revolution | Francis Bacon | Bookcast #141

360

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Bookcast #140

361

Imran Khan in 20th century Pakistan | William Dalrymple | Bookcast #139

362

Islam and Challenges for Muslim World | Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Bookcast #138

363

Folk Stories from Tibet | Children' Literature Special | Bookcast #137

364

Islam in Malaysia | History Lesson by V S Naipaul | Bookcast #136

365

How the Camel Got Its Hump | Short Story by Rudyard Kipling | Bookcast #135

366

The Distinguished Stranger | A Short Story by RL stevenson | Bookcast #134

367

The Hindu Way by Shashi Tharoor | Bookcast #133

368

William Dalrymple's Travels in India | The Age of Kali | Bookcast #132

369

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell | Thinking Without Thinking | Bookcast #131

370

Mirabai's Poetry for Krishna | Bhakti Movement of India | Bookcast #130

371

Reading The Quran in Ramazan | Islamic Scripture | Bookcast #129

372

The Three Questions | Short Story by Leo Tolstoy | Bookcast #128

373

Why I Am Not a Christian | Bertrand Russell | Bookcast #127

374

History of First Islamic Invasion of India-Pakistan | Chachnama | Bookcast #126

375

One Thousand and One Nights | Arabian Folk Stories | Bookcast #125

376

George Orwell's Reflections on Gandhi | Bookcast #124

377

Arundhati Roy on Kashmir | Azadi | Bookcast #123

378

Inner Engineering (A Yogi's Guide) by Sadhguru | Bookcast #122

379

Confucius and Chinese Philosophy | Bookcast #121

380

The School of Life | Alain de Botton | Bookcast #120

381

The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen | Bookcast #119

382

Indian Kashmir in 1960s by V. S. Naipaul.

383

Kabir Das - The Indian Mystic Poet | Bookcast #117

384

The Strange Death of Europe | Douglas Murray | Bookcast #116

385

What is Meditation? | Chögyam Trungpa | Bookcast #115

386

Introduction to Rituals | Bookcast #114

387

Lullaby by W. H. Auden | Bookcast #113

388

Buddha - The Philosopher | Bookcast #112

389

Karma in Bhagavad Gita | Bookcast #111

390

Let's Talk About Reading | Bookcast #110

391

Why I Am An Atheist by Bhagat Singh | Bookcast #109

392

Guy de Maupassant's Short Stories | Bookcast #108

393

She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron | Bookcast #107

394

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | Bookcast #106

395

The Famished Road by Ben Okri | Bookcast #105

396

My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth | Bookcast #104

397

James Joyce's Dubliners | Bookcast #103

398

Love After Love by Derek Walcott | Bookcast 102

399

GK Chesterton on Dogma in Modern World | Bookcast #101

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The Pale Man (A Horror Story) | Bookcast #100

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Philosophy of Self in Upanishads| Bookcast #99

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Creationism in Hindu Vedas | Bookcast #98

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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | Bookcast #97

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Consciousness by Jiddu Krishnamurti | Bookcast #96

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How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Bookcast #95

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Philosophy of Humour | Bookcast #94

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Tears Fall in My Heart by Paul Verlaine | Bookcast #93

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Introduction to Mindfulness | Bookcast #92

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What is Depression? | Bookcast #91

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Let's Talk Love | Podcast #90

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Ambedkar on Indian Nationalism | Bookcast #89

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Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun | Bookcast #88

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Vestigia - A Spiritual Poem | Bookcast #87

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How to Think | Bookcast #86

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India-Pakistan Partition Stories | Bookcast #85

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Lone Dog by Irene Rutherford McLeod | Bookcast #84

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Broken Republic by Arundhati Roy | Bookcast #83

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A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy | Bookcast #82

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Indian Way of Thinking by AK Ramanujan | Bookcast #81

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Introduction to Sikhism | Bookcast #80

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A New Idea of India | Bookcast #79

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Woke Comedy by Titania McGrath | Bookcast #78

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Life by Emily Dickinson | Bookcast #77

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Shiva (The Hindu God) by Devdutt Pattanaik | Bookcast #76

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The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker | Bookcast #75

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Gandhi's Murderer | Bookcast #74

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Death by Sadhguru | Bookcast #73

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Buddhist Meditations: Samatha and Vipassana | Bookcast #72

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Man, Symbols and Dreams by Carl Jung | Bookcast #71

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Jinnah by Ishtiaq Ahmed | Bookcast #70

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Taliban in Afghanistan | Bookcast #69

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The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray | Bookcast #68

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Stories from India: The Caste | Bookcast #67

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Stories from India: The Monsoon | Bookcast #66

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Benedict Anderson on Nationalism (Imagined Communities) | Bookcast #65

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Introduction to Zen (Buddhism) | Bookcast #64

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Tagore on (Indian) Nationalism | Bookcast #63

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Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory | Bookcast #62

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Sigmund Freud on Psychoanalysis | Bookcast #61

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Travels in India by Pankaj Mishra | Bookcast #60

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Thomas Sowell on Race | Bookcast #59

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Understanding Myanmar (Burma) Crisis | Bookcast #58

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Franz Kafka's Short Notes | Bookcast #57

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The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read | Bookcast #56

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Kamasutra on Kissing | Bookcast #54

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Train to Pakistan | Bookcast #53

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Mahatma Gandhi on Ahimsa | Bookcast #52

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Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety | Bookcast #51

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Shortest Funniest Stories | Bookcast #50

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Bookcast #49

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The Story of First World War | Bookcast #48

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Still I Rise by Maya Angelou | Bookcast #47

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The Kerala Story by Shashi Tharoor | Bookcast #46

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We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar | Bookcast #45

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Introduction to The Theory of Evolution | Bookcast #44

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Arthur Schopenhauer on Authorship | Bookcast #43

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I Travelled Among Unknown Men by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | Bookcast #42

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A Journey Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre | Bookcast #41

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I Sit Beside the Fire and Think by JRR Tolkien | Bookcast #40

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How to Write a (Humorous) Story by Mark Twain | Bookcast #39

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Stationary Point by Pablo Nerudo | Bookcast #38

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Jonas Jonasson on Donald Trump | Bookcast #37

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You're by Sylvia Plath | Bookcast #36

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Malgudi Days by RK Narayan | Bookcast #35

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O Me O Life by Walt Whitman | Bookcast #34

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Invictus by William Ernest Henley | Bookcast #33

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How to Get Published in India | Bookcast #32

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January by Ruskin Bond | Bookcast #31

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Introduction to Buddhism | Bookcast #30

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Introduction to Jainism | Bookcast #29

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If by Rudyard Kipling | Bookcast #28

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Books Banned in Pakistan | Bookcast #27

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On Lying in Bed by GK Chesterton | Bookcast #26

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Manto: Why I Write | Bookcast #25

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George Orwell: Why I Write | Bookcast #24

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December by Ruskin Bond | Bookcast #23

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Albert Camus on Suicide | Bookcast #22

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Sir Roger Scruton on Beauty | Bookcast #21

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Reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude | Bookcast #20

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How Will You Measure Your Life | Bookcast #19

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Reading Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children | Bookcast #18

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Reading Saadat Hasan Manto Part 2 | Bookcast #17

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Reading Saadat Hasan Manto Part 1 | Bookcast #16

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A Story from The Upanishads | Bookcast #15

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The Travels of Ibn Battutah | Bookcast #14

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The Story of Tea | Bookcast #13

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Why Men Rape ft. Tara* Kaushal | Bookcast #12

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India, Colonialism and Freedom | Bookcast #11

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Understanding Rabindranath Tagore's World | Bookcast #10

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Reading Richard Dawkins' Books | Evolutionary Biology and Atheism | Bookcast #9

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Books for Monsoon | Bookcast #8

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Books Banned in India | Bookcast #7

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Story of Prophet Muhammad | The First Muslim | Bookcast #6

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Mandukya Upanishad | Aum Mantra in Hinduism | Bookcast #5

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Understanding Alain de Botton | Bookcast #4

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Is Morality Subjective or Objective? | Bookcast #3

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Philosophy of Liberals and Conservatives | Bookcast #2

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How to Travel in Lockdown | Bookcast #1