देश का राजनैतिक तापमान बढ़ता जा रहा है। इस पसीने छुड़ा देने वाली रस्साकशी के माहौल में दो पल रुक कर मीठे व्यंग का शरबत पीजिये। और हाँ, एक सहानुभूति भरी नज़र ज़रा उस छुटभैये नेता की ओर भी जिसका भविष्य हर इलेक्शन से पहले थाली में कंचे सा डोलता है। As the mercury rises on the nation’s elections, we are all sure to get caught in the crossfire of barbs and brickbats between parties…but for now let's pause a second to smile and savor the forgotten sweetness of a well worded satire. And if you think...

Born in Rawalpindi in 1942, playwright and author Swadesh Deepak made Ambala his home. He lived there until 2006, when one day he stepped out of his house for a walk and never returned. His play “Court Martial” is said to have had over 5000 shows across the country and yet Deepak shunned fame. Battling Bipolar disorder he stepped away for treatment, keeping little contact with the outside world. His return to the world of letters was momentous with an autobiographical account of his illness,...

Much has been written about Manto. In his times, he was perhaps talked about more than his written works. Dragged into court, condemned by the custodians of culture, ridiculed by the scholars of “serious literature”, Manto lived and wrote as he pleased. He was asked why he wrote and he replied with a honest and witty article, “Main afsana kyunkar likhta hun”. Then he one upped himself by writing a critique of the article and of himself as a writer. --------------------------- Manto was...

नमस्कार, मेरा नाम आरती है और में Storyjam में हर हफ्ते आपको सुनाती हूँ हिंदी में एक कहानी। अगर आप को कहानियां सुनना अच्छा लगता हैं , तो इस चैनल को सब्सक्राइब ज़रूर करें। धन्यवाद! सूर्यबाला जी का जन्म 25 अक्टूबर 1944 को वाराणसी में हुआ। वे एक लेखिका और व्यंगकार के रूप में सुप्रसिद्ध हैं। अपने जन्मस्थान वाराणसी से सूर्यबाला जी की बहुत सी यादें जुड़ी हैं, जो उनकी कहानियों में गलियों, मोहल्लों के वर्णन में दिखलाई देती हैं। उनका बचपन बड़े ही लाड़-प्यार में धार्मिक, सांस्कृतिक क्रियाकलापों में...

Winner of the Sahitya Academy Award in 1968, Kulwant Singh Virk wrote inboth Punjabi and English. His stories that revolve around the partition of India and Pakistan are especially poignant.I was intrigued by the ending of this story. It could mean different things to different readers, based on their gender, age and when in history they read it. What did you make of it, I am curious to know. #Hindi, #storyjam, #story,#hindi #kahani,#kahaniyan,#radiokahani,#radiostory, #audio...

ग़ालिब पुरुस्कार से सम्मानित कन्हैया लाल कपूर , जिन्हे केएल कपूर के नाम से भी जाना जाता है, व्यंग हास्य और उपहासपूर्ण पैरोडी के लिए जाने गए।  अविभाजित भारत में उनका जन्म 1910. में लायलपुर में हुआ। विभाजन के उपरांत वे मोगा पंजाब में आ बसे और यहाँ कॉलेज में प्रिंसिपल के रूप में कार्यरत रहे।  Listen to Hindi kahaniyan and Urdu Kahaniyan by famous as well as lesser known writers. You will find here stories from everyone from Premchand to Ismat Chughtai ; Suryabala to Mohan Rakesh,...

Mamta Kalia started writing in the 70’s, around the time when the role of women in society and family was undergoing a rapid transformation. Her stories often revolve around the themes of love and marriage. They carve out in great detail the quiet desperation of family life and the aching desire for the woman to be more than a sum of her roles as a daughter, mother, wife and sister. Shikha in the story ‘Bolnewali Aurat’ holds in her a desire to burn brightly like a roaring fire and not like...

We carry with us stories of people with whom we crossed paths years, sometimes decades ago. Some are inspiring stories and others, a cautionary tale. Hariram is the kind of unforgettable character we all have known or heard about. He lived a life of greed and misfortune and died an unremarkable death- only to be remembered by a young boy who saw Hariram as the beneficiary of his mother’s simple act of kindness. नमस्कार, मेरा नाम आरती है और मैं Storyjam में हर हफ्ते आपको सुनाती हूँ...

ऐलिस वाकर एक अमेरिकी उपन्यासकार, लघु कथाकार, कवि और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता हैं। 1982 में, ऐलिस वाकर फिक्शन के लिए पुलित्जर पुरस्कार जीतने वाली पहली अफ्रीकी अमेरिकी महिला बनीं। उन्हें उनके उपन्यास ‘द कलर पर्पल’ के लिए पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया गया। वॉकर ने सत्रह उपन्यास और लघु कहानी संग्रह, बारह गैर-काल्पनिक रचनाएँ और निबंध और कविता के संग्रह प्रकाशित किए हैं। In 1982, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist Alice Walker  became the first African American woman to win...

मनोहर श्याम जोशी ने भारतीय टेलीविज़न को बहुत सी यादगार कहानियां दी- हम लोग, बुनियाद, मुंगेरी लाल के हसीन सपने इत्यादि। आधुनिक हिन्दी साहित्य के  गद्यकार, उपन्यासकार, व्यंग्यकार, पत्रकार होने के साथ साथ वे  जनवादी-विचारक, फिल्म पट-कथा लेखक,  संपादक, कुशल प्रवक्ता तथा स्तंभ-लेखक थे। #hindi #story #storytelling #stories #kahaniyan #urdu stories,#audiostories #kahani #storiesforkids, #radiostories #hindi #manohar shyam joshi #silver wedding #manoharshyamjoshi #uska bistar #hum log ---...

Some tragic love stories are legendary- Shirin-Farhad, Laila-Majnu, Sohni-Mahiwal, but for each that became a saga, there are probably millions of love stories that were extinguished and never remembered or retold. You’ll find them in the forgettable inner pages of the newspaper, in whispered gossip at social gatherings and very often buried somewhere deep in the hearts of the very characters of the stories, as they keep up with the demands of their hum-drum lives.  A tragic love story by...

Qurratulain Hyder was one of the most influential and successful progressive writers post Independence. She was bilingual, writing and translating in both Urdu and English. Her literary life was rich as a novelist and a short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. Her magnum opus, ‘Aag Ka Dariya’ is her best known work. The women in her stories live layered lives often in gray areas between theoretical morality and unforgiving reality. She was born in Aligarh into a literary family and...

Did you know that “Timepass”- that uniquely Indian term, meaning passing of time in an aimless and unproductive way, gets harder as you get older. With his astute observations satirist Harishankar Parsai paints a picture of the “Time passer” (here’s a new word for you!) as one who is funny in his pursuits but also pitiful in his aspirations. podcast,storyjam,hindi literature,kahani,kahaniyan,hindi,Harishankar parsai,parsai,satire,vyang,hindi audio story,urdu audio story,hindi audio...

Om Prakash Valmiki’s novel, 'Joothan' is considered a landmark in Dalit literature. His writing has been long considered to be a searing document of the caste system in India.  In this story, a son returns home with his first salary. He wants to hand over the money to his father along with the bitter truth that his father had been oblivious to and one that has tormented the young man since his childhood. -------------------- story,kahani,urdu kahani,hindi kahani,kahaniyan,radio...

In the hands of a great writer everyday life is anything but mundane. It begs a closer, more nuanced examination. In ‘Saag Meat’ Bhisham Sahani weaves an intricate story where the talkative narrator tells the story of a man who is silenced by his circumstances. Is she apathetic? Does she herself deserve empathy? What about those in the story who we only hear about but never hear from? This deeply moving story by Bhisham Sahani is one of his best. Bhisham Sahni could create memorable...

Nothing slows time down like a good game of chess, unless you have a kingdom falling (Shatranj ke Khiladi) or an urgent errand missed, as in this story. नमस्कार, मेरा नाम आरती है और मैं Storyjam में हर हफ्ते आपको सुनाती हूँ हिंदी में एक कहानी। अगर आप को कहानियां सुनना अच्छा लगता हैं , तो इस चैनल को सब्सक्राइब ज़रूर करें धन्यवाद! ------- Contact me: Instagram: @arti_storyjam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryjamArti Club House : @artijain ------- Meet me at these Social Media...

A new kind of Hindi writing emerged post-independence approximately from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The subjects that writers focussed on came from a newly independent, rapidly urbanizing and industrializing India. The narratives dealt with problems between the sexes, especially with the emergence of the working woman and the scenarios mirrored the difficulties of everyday negotiations of life and work. Mannu Bhadari was one of the pioneers of this “Nayi Kahani movement”. Her works...

Shrilal Shukla, one of the greatest satirists in Hindi language was a Jnanpith awardee. A civil servant in his day job, Shukla had an upclose view of bureaucracy as well as the systemic rot that plagues it. Shukla’s acerbic, witty examination of rural life revealed a world of flummoxed villagers and petty politicians, of witty one liners that shine through the overall bleakness of village life.  #satire #stories #kahani #ShrilalShukla --- Send in a voice message:...

I have to confess that for a long time I associated Premchand’s writing with a kind of morose sentimentality. How and why that thought anchored itself in my head I have no clue, but it was no doubt a result of my ignorance. I “discovered” Premchand in the last few years and am glad to be proven wrong. His writing has the depth and breadth that few other authors can claim. His observations are sharp, his humour sparkling and even the minor characters in his writing become unforgettable. And...

It was a personal tragedy that propelled Mulk Raj Anand into a writing career. His first essay was in response to the suicide of an aunt excommunicated by her family for sharing a meal with a Muslim woman. It is the rigidity of the caste system and the deplorable condition that the poor of the country live in that became his literary preoccupation for the rest of his life. Known as India's Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand, along with R. K Narayan is credited for having brought Indian English...

Yashpal's life was so full of twists, turns and intrigues that it could inspire an OTT series! Born into poverty, ridiculed by school mates but with a head full of ideals, Yashpal youth was marked with conflict and strife. It was when he met Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev in college that his life took a definitive purposeful turn and he jumped headlong into the freedom struggle, albeit of the violent kind. He became a fugitive, was betrayed by friends, did prison time, was in a shoot-out and found...

Gulzar, the modern day bard has songs (and stories and dialogues) for all occasions. Few others can speak of ardent love with such brevity-“Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahi…” or be in sync with the rhythms of a playful child, “Sare ke Sare Gama ko le kar…” or my personal favorite- an apt comment on the human condition- “Goli maro bheje mein, bheja shor karta hai.” In this story, a child learns some life lessons overnight. ------------ Gulzar winner of Sahitya Akademi award and...

Dharamvir Bharati was considerd was a colossus of Hindi Sahitya. In a story like Gulki he shows us why. All the characters straddle somewhere between good and bad, honest and dishonest, caring and mean. They live in the same greys that we real humans live in, outside the books.  ------- धर्मवीर भारती आधुनिक हिन्दी साहित्य के प्रमुख लेखक, कवि, नाटककार, सामाजिक विचारक एवं प्रख्यात साप्ताहिक पत्रिका धर्मयुग के प्रधान संपादक थे। जीवन परिचयधर्मवीर भारती का जन्म 25 दिसंबर 1926 को इलाहाबाद के...

Listen to a short story to one of the most celebrated writers of our times- Govind Mishr. Watch an interview with Govind ji on the Nayi Dhara's youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFD0aw_-p1g&t=157s Subscribe to Nayi Dhara's Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@NayiDharaHindi गोविन्द मिश्र का जीवन परिचय गोविन्द मिश्र का बचपन बचपन गाँव के प्राकृतिक वातावरण में, बाँदा में बीता। स्नातक की उपाधि के लिए वे इलाहाबाद विश्वविद्यालय गए जहाँ उन्होंने संस्कृत साहित्य,...