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A Book A Day - A Literary Podcast from India

My name is Deepak Rana. Every day, I pick at least one new book, read what it has to offer, make notes and share the best ideas with you. Sounds fun, right? Join me in this journey and explore a whole new world of books and stories. For any suggestions/queries please contact us at [email protected] or visit Kalampedia.org on your browser.

Introduction to Greek Mythology | History and Culture | Bookcast Podcast

10 mins; June 23, 2021

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

15 mins; June 21, 2021

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

9 mins; June 21, 2021

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

8 mins; June 20, 2021

The Prophet | Spiritual Book by Kahlil Gibran | Book Podcast

15 mins; June 19, 2021

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

15 mins; June 18, 2021

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

12 mins; June 17, 2021

Milan Kundera and The Art of Novel | Book Podcast

19 mins; June 15, 2021

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

16 mins; June 14, 2021

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

14 mins; June 14, 2021

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

18 mins; June 13, 2021

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

16 mins; June 12, 2021

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

15 mins; June 11, 2021

The Lessons of History | Will Durant | Book Podcast

20 mins; June 09, 2021

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

23 mins; June 08, 2021

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

10 mins; June 07, 2021

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

14 mins; June 06, 2021

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

33 mins; June 05, 2021

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

27 mins; June 04, 2021

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

23 mins; June 03, 2021

The History of Food | Tom Sandage | Bookcast #179

23 mins; June 02, 2021

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

15 mins; June 01, 2021

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

13 mins; May 31, 2021

Introduction to Sikhism | History of Religions | Bookcast #176

21 mins; May 31, 2021

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

19 mins; May 29, 2021

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

14 mins; May 28, 2021

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

14 mins; May 27, 2021

Philosophy of David Hume | Western Philosophy | Bookcast #172

11 mins; May 26, 2021

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

10 mins; May 26, 2021

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

13 mins; May 24, 2021

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

11 mins; May 23, 2021

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

14 mins; May 23, 2021

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | Stoic Philosophy | Bookcast #167

14 mins; May 22, 2021

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

13 mins; May 20, 2021

Indian Nationalism and History | Romila Thapar | Bookcast #165

23 mins; May 19, 2021

The Nature of Consciousness | Rupert Spira | Bookcast #164

18 mins; May 18, 2021

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

10 mins; May 18, 2021

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

44 mins; May 16, 2021

Story of Christian Morality | Friedrich Nietzsche | Bookcast #161

13 mins; May 15, 2021

Moral Philosophy | Immanuel Kant | Bookcast #160

22 mins; May 14, 2021

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

25 mins; May 13, 2021

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

29 mins; May 12, 2021

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

10 mins; May 12, 2021

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

21 mins; May 10, 2021

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

13 mins; May 09, 2021

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

20 mins; May 08, 2021

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

16 mins; May 07, 2021

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

13 mins; May 06, 2021

Lessons from Dhammapada | Buddhist Philosophy | Bookcast #151

12 mins; May 05, 2021

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

15 mins; May 05, 2021

Persian Short Stories by Jalaluddin Rumi | Bookcast #149

12 mins; May 04, 2021

Carl Jung on Religion and Meaning | Bookcast #148

8 mins; May 03, 2021

Thomas Hobbes and Leviathan | Political Philosophy | Bookcast #147

10 mins; May 01, 2021

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

23 mins; May 01, 2021

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

17 mins; April 30, 2021

Introduction to Indian Philosophy | Bookcast #144

13 mins; April 29, 2021

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

13 mins; April 28, 2021

Akbar Birbal Stories | Indian History | Bookcast #142

9 mins; April 27, 2021

The Scientific Revolution | Francis Bacon | Bookcast #141

12 mins; April 26, 2021

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

11 mins; April 24, 2021

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

14 mins; April 24, 2021

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

17 mins; April 23, 2021

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

15 mins; April 22, 2021

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

11 mins; April 21, 2021

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

8 mins; April 20, 2021

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

4 mins; April 19, 2021

The Hindu Way by Shashi Tharoor | Bookcast #133

14 mins; April 18, 2021

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

13 mins; April 17, 2021

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

10 mins; April 16, 2021

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

12 mins; April 15, 2021

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

21 mins; April 13, 2021

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

11 mins; April 13, 2021

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

24 mins; April 12, 2021

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

34 mins; April 11, 2021

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

7 mins; April 10, 2021

George Orwell's Reflections on Gandhi | Bookcast #124

25 mins; April 09, 2021

Arundhati Roy on Kashmir | Azadi | Bookcast #123

19 mins; April 08, 2021

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

15 mins; April 06, 2021

Confucius and Chinese Philosophy | Bookcast #121

9 mins; April 06, 2021

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

7 mins; April 05, 2021

The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen | Bookcast #119

23 mins; April 04, 2021

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

13 mins; April 03, 2021

Kabir Das - The Indian Mystic Poet | Bookcast #117

8 mins; April 02, 2021

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

19 mins; April 01, 2021

What is Meditation? | Chögyam Trungpa | Bookcast #115

14 mins; March 31, 2021

Introduction to Rituals | Bookcast #114

14 mins; March 30, 2021

Lullaby by W. H. Auden | Bookcast #113

2 mins; March 29, 2021

Buddha - The Philosopher | Bookcast #112

13 mins; March 28, 2021

Karma in Bhagavad Gita | Bookcast #111

9 mins; March 27, 2021

Let's Talk About Reading | Bookcast #110

11 mins; March 26, 2021

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

18 mins; March 25, 2021

Guy de Maupassant's Short Stories | Bookcast #108

4 mins; March 24, 2021

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

2 mins; March 23, 2021

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

7 mins; March 22, 2021

The Famished Road by Ben Okri | Bookcast #105

5 mins; March 21, 2021

My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth | Bookcast #104

42 secs; March 19, 2021

James Joyce's Dubliners | Bookcast #103

6 mins; March 18, 2021

Love After Love by Derek Walcott | Bookcast 102

1 min; March 17, 2021

GK Chesterton on Dogma in Modern World | Bookcast #101

12 mins; March 16, 2021

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

19 mins; March 15, 2021

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