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,...

The stories of partition carry in them a searing pain, a reminder to those who will bother to remember, of what we humans are capable of doing to ourselves and our own. When the lust for power blinds us, how quickly we let go of the rope of love, only to fall into the abyss of hate. The British drew the line of death on the ground,  but it is we who drew blood from our neighbor.  Manto’s writing is stark in its truth, in the way that only his writing could be. Here is the unforgettable, Toba...

What is beauty? Everyone from ancient Greeks to Umberto Eco to Instagram influencers have mulled, or been baffled by this question. Does beauty have a responsibility towards those that admire it? And how does it affect the behavior of those who bask in its presence? A small town in Kashmir is besotted with a young girl and so is the author. Will she stay or leave?  ---- Krishan Chander, best known for his stories about the aftermath of partition and the Bengal famine, spent his early...

Do you find it difficult to say ‘no’? If your answer is yes, you are in good company. Presenting, Bhagwaticharan Verma’s delightful story about an unwanted guest and his soft hearted host. May this predicament never be yours! ---- भगवती चरण वर्मा  का जीवन परिचय /Bhagwati Charan Verma ka Jeevan Parichay भगवती चरण वर्मा का जन्म उत्तर प्रदेश के उन्नाव जिले में हुआ था।  उन्होंने प्रयागराज से बी॰ए॰, एल॰एल॰बी॰ की डिग्री प्राप्त की लेकिन उनकी  रूचि कविता लेखन में थी । फिर उपन्यासकार के रूप में...

What would two great writers from history talk about if they were to meet? We may not find that out, but when one translates the works of the other, what  is evident is a sense of common concern, a shared worldview and a hat tip to the greatness of the other. When Premchand translated works of Leo Tolstoy, he didn’t just use his vast and rich vocabulary to retell the great Russian’s work in Hindustani, he took the story and drew its essence in a way that the story became...

Gonu Jha is to Mithila, Bihar what Birbal is to North India. When the  greedy, corrupt or miserly make trouble for the common man, Gonu Jha  with his wit, common sense and humour saves the day!    ------ 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, Kaleshwar and Mannu  Bhandari.  --------------------  #bihar #hindi #kahani #gonujha #mithila...

राजिंदर सिंह बेदी ने गरम कोट, निकोलाई गोगोल की कहानी, ओवरकोट से प्रभावित  हो कर लिखी, और फिर उसी कहानी को और आगे बढ़ाया जब उन्होंने फिल्म का  स्क्रीनप्ले लिखा। जहाँ गोगोल की कहानी मूलतः एक ऐसे आदमी की है जो एक  ओवरकोट बनवाने की ख्वाइश रखता है, बेदी की कहानी, गरम कोट बन जाती है एक  ऐसी दम्पति  की कहानी, जिसे ज़िन्दगी की “सस्ती सी खुशियां” तो मयस्सर नहीं ,  लेकिन जिनके बीच अनकहा प्यार धड़कता है। ----- Rajinder Singh Bedi adapted Nikolai Gogol’s short story, The Overcoat  into Garam Coat and then...

There is no easy way to describe the bond that women share. You have to be there- in the long satisfying evenings (or lazy afternoons) when time stands still. In that brief time wounds are healed, plans are hatched, memories are unwrapped, hearts leap with hope and the parched soul finds the elixir of calm. Do you have friends/sisters who make you feel that way? ------- सूर्यबाला का जीवन परिचय, व्यक्तित्व, कृतित्व और उपलब्धियॉ सूर्यबाला जी का जन्म  25 अक्टूबर 1944 को वाराणसी में हुआ। वे...

The way Harishankar Parsai’s satire continues to remain relevant even  after so many years of its writing is astonishing. Till such time as  humans remain greedy and ruthless, Parsai will be topical. The only  weapon against that depressing thought is humour! Do you imagine there  will be a time when people won’t understand what Parsai is going on  about?  Bholaram Ka Jeev is a satire by well known satirist Harishankar Parsai.   व्यंग लेखक हरिशंकर परसाई द्वारा लिखित, 'भोलाराम का जीव'...

After marriage, a man is expected to change his way of life, a woman her soul. “उल्लास, खीज, विद्रोह, घृणा, प्यार कुछ भी नहीं, आखिर कैसे जीती हैं वे?” Joy, exasperation, protest, disgust, love…nothing. How does she live? ------------------------ If you grew up in the late 70’s-80’s ...right when Indian television was  coming into its own...when alternate cinema of a certain kind of middle  class sensibility was gaining ground with films like Mausam,  Rajnigandha, Rang Birangi, pati...

A simple story charmingly told about an unexpected visitor who doesn’t get what he came for and the host family that’s left scratching their heads to make sense of it all. ---- Contact me: Instagram: @arti_storyjam     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryjamArti #Hindi #StoryJam #BhishamSahni #Tamas #hindicinema #hindisahitya #progressivewriters #kahani --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storyjam/message

Kindness is a two way street.   There is an unsaid hierarchy in any act of kindness- the kind person a  few notches above the person on the receiving end of the gesture. And yet that gesture has the power to transform both equally.   To love another can sometimes open a door that was long shut tight in our own hearts. ------------ भीष्म साहनी का जीवन परिचय :  रावलपिंडी पाकिस्तान में जन्मे भीष्म साहनी आधुनिक हिन्दी साहित्य के  प्रमुख नामों में सेहैं ।उन्होंने लाहौर गवर्नमेन्ट कॉलेज से...

Manto was incorrigible! Nothing could make him stop writing about the world as he saw it for as long as he lived. Not six court cases of obscenity, not the partition of his beloved nation and the difficult decision to move to Pakistan, not the abject poverty that drove him to near homelessness, not the bid of well-wishers to admit him to a mental asylum (meant to cure alcoholism). He lived till he wrote and then when he was told he couldn’t write anymore, he died. What he wrote about were...

In the era of instant messaging, its hard to look back at a time when  messages were relayed by a person- not even handwritten- just relayed  verbatim, by another human!  Samvadiya- the carrier of messages was duty bound to deliver the message  exactly as he had received it. What happens when a Samvadiya gets too  close to the message and its source and is unable to perform his duties.   ----------------------     Well known writer Phanishwar Nath Renu’s stories were set in rural India...

हिंदी सिनेमा के मशहूर लेखक और पत्रकार, ख्वाजा अहमद अब्बास की  टिपण्णी सिनेमा के स्टॉक किरदारों पर और साथ ही किस्सा एक ऐसी अदाकारा का  जो परदे पर भले ही बेईमान वैम्प का रोल निभाती थी, लेकिन असलियत में अपने  काम और हुनर की तरफ उसकी शिद्दत काबिल-इ-तारीफ थी. कौन थी ये मशहूर  एक्ट्रेस? -------------- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was the “genius” writer behind most of Raj Kapoor’s  superhit (and on one occasion flop) films- Awaara, Shri 420, Ram Teri  Ganga Maili and Mera Naam Joker. However these came...

100 episodes! I started StoryJam as a lockdown project, sending stories to my family and a couple of friends. It all seems a lifetime away now. I assumed I would either run out of stories or I would get busy with “real” work once the lockdown was over. What I didn’t realize was that the mild panic of not finding the “right” story, the late night recordings to avoid street noises (and pausing every time the dog barked, the ambulance screamed or the night watchman struck his lathi), the early...

A chance meeting with a child lays bare the author’s helplessness in the face of forces way beyond anyone’s control. नमस्कार, मेरा नाम आरती है और मैं Storyjam में हर हफ्ते आपको सुनाती हूँ  हिंदी/उर्दू साहित्य से एक कहानी। अगर आप को कहानियां सुनना अच्छा लगता हैं  , तो इस चैनल को सब्सक्राइब ज़रूर करें और अपने ही जैसे और कहानियों के  शौक़ीन  के साथ शेयर भी करें।  धन्यवाद! अज्ञेय का जीवन परिचय:सच्चिदानंद हीरानंद वात्स्यायन , उपनाम -'अज्ञेय'  कथा-साहित्य के स्तम्भ माने गए हैं। उनका लेखन बहुत...

Love, by any other name would be just as controversial…at least in India. Here’s Parsai ji’s take on “love marriage”- that much desired “happy ending” on the big screen and that much hush-hushed occurrence in real world of the GIS (Great Indian Samaaj) You may think it, but Parsai ji will say it out loud…and put it on paper! He never shirked from calling a spade a spade. It is however the misfortune of us as a society that his commentary remains as relevant today as it was when he was...

I am excited to share a story/play by an early progressive writer, Rashid Jahan. It's a dialogue between a man and woman. She wrote it sometime in the early 1900’s. She may as well have written it yesterday! This play/story is a collaboration between StoryJam and The Mansarovar Project. You’ll find all links to The Mansarovar Project below. Let me know what you think of the collaboration and even more importantly what are your thoughts on the central issue here? Here are some links to...

Known as Walter Scott of Hindi literature, Vrindavanlal Verma was drawn  to historical narratives from early on in life. A proud Bundelkhandi, his novel ‘Jhansi ki Rani’ is one of his best known works. This was not a  work of fiction, at least not entirely. Vrindavanlal Verma was the  great great grandson of Rani Laxmi Bai and grew up listening to his  great grandmother’s stories about the Rani, who she had spent a lot of  time with. Today’s story however is not set in history. This is when...

In a traditional qissago style, Amritlal Nagar tells the story of Haji Kulfiwala- a man who plows through his own suffering to help those around him by using the strength of his storytelling skills. ----------------------- Amritlal Nagar's flair for radio writing is quite apparent in the story - Haji Kulfiwala, where he writes the narration in the style of a traditional kissago. Amritlal Nagar received formal education until highschool but taught himself history, sociology, theology etc....

Some stories are long sagas, some have more plot twists than hairpin bends on a mountainous road. This story lives in a moment- a moment that speaks volumes about our world without its main character saying a single word. ............................ Yashpal When I began to look for more information about the writer, Yashpal. I  was astounded. What I found out could be a whole episode in itself.  Yashpal could be the hero of an action packed thriller! His life story  was one of stealth...

That Premchand was a writer of immense talent and depth is evident from the variety of genres his work straddled. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, essays, biographies, children’s books. He even experimented with form by writing fiction as letters. His translations spanned works of literary giants- Leo Tolstoy to Oscar Wilde to Jawahar Lal Nehru to Saadi Shirazi. He even went to Bombay for a year to try his luck in Cinema. There he wrote one film Mill Mazdoor, which was promptly banned...

व्यंगकार अपनी बात भले ही सरलता से कह जाएं , लेकिन उनकी बात किसी छोटे से  तीर से काम नहीं, जो छोटा हो कर भी गहरे घाव कर जाता है. हरिशंकर परसाई और  शरद जोशी जैसी ही तीखी टिपण्णी, सूर्यबाला जी के अपने सहज बोल चल के लहजे  में - देश सेवा के अखाड़े में हिंदी व्यंगकारों में एक अग्रिम नाम - सूर्यबाला --------------- Poets and satirists can take a complex thought, turn it inside out and present it back to you in a way that’s deceptively simple. When the state of the world bring you down, trust a...

'Kisna' is a story of boyhood- one that is mired in life's unfair complications. Kisna's tiny shoulders bear the burdens of many questions. Where should his search for answers begin? ------------------------------- I started writing ‘Kisna’ a while back after a chance meeting with a young boy. And I have been writing it ever since in my head, until I gathered enough courage to put it all on paper, and offer it to you.  I hope you like it. If you can, please take a moment to send me your...