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Read by: Sam d'Amo for Vox Olympia Audiobooks โ Recording Studio: BL Hemavathi Literary Arts Foundation
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Citizen Zero Reads History Of India - Volume 1 - Romila Thapar [๐ง] Copyright ยฉ1966, Contents, Chronological Timeline, Glossary, Preface[๐ง @ 1 hr 21 mins] Chapter 1 - The Antecedents[๐ง @ 2 hr 34 mins] Chapter 2 - The Impact of Aryan Culture[๐ง @ 4 hr 17 mins] Chapter 3 โ Republics & Kingdoms - 600 - 321 BC[๐ง @ 5 hr 55 mins] Chapter 4 โ Emergence of Empire - 321 - 185 BC[๐ง @ 7 hr 53 mins] Chapter 5 โ Disintegration of Empire - 200BC - 300 AD[๐ง @ 9 hr 20 mins] Chapter 6 โ Rise of the Mercantile Community - 200BC - 300 AD...--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/voxolympiaaudiobooks/message
Stop Gaza Genocide, Free Palestine โ ICJ Genocide Convention 2024 โ South Africa vs Israel@Citizen0India reads appeal by South Africa vs Israel at ICJ to end Palestinian genocide in GazaโAPPEAL BY REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA' AT INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE TO PROTECT PALESTINIAN PEOPLES FROM ONGOING GENOCIDE IN GAZA BY ISRAELโPART I. INTRODUCTION [Pages: 1โ4] [๐ง]PART II. JURISDICTION OF THE COURT [Pages: 4โ9]PART III โ THE FACTS [Pages: 9โ26] [๐ง @ 1hr 10 mins][A. INTRODUCTION] [B. BACKGROUND โ 1. The Gaza Strip; 2. West Bank including East Jerusalem; 3. The attacks in Israel of 7th October 2023]PART III โ THE FACTS [Pages: 30โ59] [๐ง @ 3 hr 10 mins][C. GENOCIDAL ACTS COMMITTED AGAINST PALESTINIAN PEOPLES โ 1. Killing Palestinias in Gaza; 2. Causing serious bodily & mental harm to Palestinians in Gaza; 3. Mass expulsion from homes & displacement of Palestinians in Gaza; 4. Deprivation of adequate food and water to Palestinians in Gaza; 5. Deprivation of access to adequate shelter, clothes, hygiene and sanitation to Palestinians in Gaza; 6. Deprivation of adequate medical assistance to Palestinians in Gaza; 7. Destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza; 8. Imposing measures intended to prevent Palestinian births;]PART III โ THE FACTS [Pages: 59โ70] [๐ง at 5h 30 mins]D. Expressions of Genocidal Intent against the Palestinian People by Israeli State Officials and OthersE. Recognition of Israelโs genocidal intent against Palestinians [๐ง @ 6 hr 15 mins]PART IV-VII [Pages: 70โ84]โข THE CLAIMS OF SOUTH AFRICAโข THE RELIEF SOUGHTโโ@Citizen0India reads South Africa's APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS at Int'l Court of Justice on 28th December 2023 against Israel where the โApplication concerns acts threatened, adopted, condoned, taken and being taken by the Government and military of the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, a distinct national, racial and ethnical group, in the wake of the attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023. South Africa unequivocally condemns all violations of international law by all parties, including the direct targeting of Israeli civilians and other nationals and hostage-taking by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups. No armed attack on a Stateโs territory no matter how serious โ even an attack involving atrocity crimes โ can, however, provide any possible justification for, or defence to, breaches of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (โGenocide Conventionโ or โConventionโ), whether as a matter of law or morality.โโDocument Source: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf?__cf_chl_tk=TWeZF_CTH.6Bhebfbm_ygNLArxw1k9EF8j3cC2w6mHA-1704273236-0-gaNycGzNDtA&s=35โDocument Date: December 29th, 2023*Date of Recording: January 4th-5th, 2024Reader: Citizen Zero Of India. For more information, visit website www.citizenzeroofindia.org & www.voxolympia.com, tweet us at https://twitter com/Citizen0India or follow our op-eds & blogs at www.citizenzeroofindia.substack.com--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/voxolympiaaudiobooks/message
Henry David Thoreau - On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience โ Vox Olympia Books ๐ง Part 1: 47 minutes ๐ง Part 2: 48 Minutes--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/voxolympiaaudiobooks/message
Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru (1934) [Volume 1: Chapters 106 to 196] โ ๐ง Recorded at BL Hemavathi Literary Arts Foundation for Vox Olympia Audiobooks on the occassion of August 15th 2022 Indian Independence Day. โข ๐ป.1 (Title, Copyright, Contents - TBD) โข ๐ป.2 (Ch 106 - A Survey Of The World: 31 mins) โข ๐ป.3 (Ch 107 โ Hundred Years Before World War : 37 mins) โข
The Outline of History by HG Wells โ Vox Olympia Audiobooks (Published in 1929 โ 1971 by Doubleday & Co.) โ Reading Recorded for Vox Olympia Audiobook podcasts at BL Hemavathi Literary Arts Foundation in 2022 โ Podcast Segments: ๐ป.1 Vol 1. Book 1 Ch 1 (50 mins) โข ๐ป.2 Vol 1. Book 1 Ch 2 (60 mins) โข ๐ป.3 Contents (61 mins) โข ๐ป.4 List of Maps/Illustrations (20 mins) โข ๐ป.5 Author Preface & Revision Forewords (50 mins)
Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru (1934) โ ๐ง Recorded at BL Hemavathi Literary Arts Foundation for Vox Olympia Audiobooks on the occassion of August 15th 2022 Indian Independence Day. โข ๐ป.1 (Title, Copyright, Contents - 0) โข ๐ป.2 (Ch 0 - A Birthday Letter : 25 mins) โข ๐ป.3 (Ch 1โ2 : 46 mins) โข ๐ป.4 (Ch 3โ6 : 50 mins) โข ๐ป.5 (Ch 7โ8 : 31 mins) โข
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin โ A book reading/recording for Vox Olympia Audiobooks Podcasts from the studios of BL Hemavathi Literary Arts Foundation. Contents โ ๐ป.1 (42 mins): Contents & Copyright Info โข ๐ป.2 (35 mins): Introduction โข ๐ป.3 (57 mins): Ch 1: Variation Under Domestication (part 1) โข ๐ป.4 (59 mins): Ch 1: Variation Under Domestication (part 2) โข ๐ป.5 (62 mins): Ch 1: Variation Under Domestication (part 3) โข
Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke โ First paperback edition (1929) โ ๐ป1. Introduction by Franz Xaver Kappus ("The Young Poet") + Letters I, II; ๐ป2. Letters III, IV, V; ๐ป3. Letters VI, VII; ๐ป4. Letters VIII, IX, X;
Book: Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius โ Translated by George Grube โ Copyright ยฉ 1983 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. โ Read by: Sam d'Amo for Vox Olympia Audiobooks โ Recording Studio: BL Hemavathi Literary Arts Foundation โ 1.๐ป (32 mins): Title, Copyright, Contents, Book I; 2. ๐ป (32 mins): Book II; 3. ๐ป (35 mins): Book III; 4. ๐ป (60 mins): Book IV; 5. ๐ป (55 mins): Book V; 6. ๐ป (56 mins): Book VI; 7. ๐ป (58 mins): Book VII; 8. ๐ป (61 mins): Book VIII; 9. ๐ป (50 mins): Book IX; 10. ๐ป (58 mins): Book X; 11. ๐ป (48 mins): Book XI; 12. ๐ป (43 mins): Book XII; 12. ๐ป (20 mins): Glossary;
Namaste to my fellow Indians & Hello everyone,
This is a 90s' recording of an interview of Sri J Lingaiah, my grandfather ("tatha") (1915-2007). This is an account of a time in our nation's history of highly energetic resourcefulness, single-minded purposefulness, honesty, courage, idealism & high expectations of its peoples, of who my grandfather being as such never forgets to mention everyone he knew personally who contributed to the course of its history and to the littlest act of the kindness of strangers he experienced on the way.
This interview conducted in Kannada by Sri Raman Gowda, who a dear friend of the family & colleague of my grandather Sri J Lingaiah, accounts for the time in his life from 1931 to 1958.
In the first half of the interview, we are told of a time during which my grandfather had first migrated to the then Bangalore City of the Mysore princely-state of British-India, about the years he spent as a day-wage labourer in the first cotton mills of the city, about the inception & spread of labour-rights movement in the Indian provinces & states leading up to the second World War, the years from 1942 onwards of Quit India Independence movement against the then British Colonial Empire; During this time my grandfather served in the labor union and later as a Freedom Fighter for Indian Independence through the Mysore Congress under the advisory leadership of Mahatma Gandhi & under the aegis of the then Indian National Congress. He recounts of the days of Independence of India, the Partition, & of the Mysore state joining the Union at the time of the Birth of The Republic.
The second half hour of the interview concerns the years 1951โ58 & later, when my grandfather served as a corporator for a Bangalore City ward & later briefly of his time as The City's mayor in 1971โ72. This account throws an insightful light into the beginnings of the administration of a burgeoning City-Universe more idealistically "federalized" then and not yet encumbered by the State & National Political controls of the massively Centralized Republic Of India.
The rights for the recording remain with The BL Hemavathi Literary Arts Foundation, a non-profit family organization, that at present being chaired & managed by self & the Board constituted of the other grandchildren of the late HK Kempamma & J Lingaiah.
Note: A Kannada Transcription & English Translation of this interview will be made available on this page in future updates.
Thanks.
Yours Sincerely,
Citizen Zero, INDIA.
Part Four of the Four Part Episode of the podcast covering Chapter 10, Epilouge & Footnotes of the book reading of The Discovery Of India โ Author: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru โ Publishers: Oxford University Press, Oxford (1946); Signet Press, Calcutta ๏ปฟ (Centenary Edition 1989, Sixth impression 1994) โ This book reading is dedicated to my Mother BL Hemavathi & My Grandparents โ J Lingaiah & HK Kempamma ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฝ ๐ป Contents Readout (S.1): 10 minutes; ๐ป ๐ป CHAPTER TEN: AHMADNAGAR FORT AGAIN (P.479-562: S.2-10: 375 minutes); ๐ป EPILOGUE, Postscript, Dedication, Foreword, Preface (P.562-569: S.11: 45 minutes); ๐ป FOOTNOTES (S.12: 57 minutes);
Part Three of the Four Part Episode of the podcast covering Chapter 8 through Chapter 9 of the book reading of The Discovery Of India โ Author: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru โ Publishers: Oxford University Press, Oxford (1946); Signet Press, Calcutta ๏ปฟ (Centenary Edition 1989, Sixth impression 1994) โ This book reading is dedicated to my Mother BL Hemavathi & My Grandparents โ J Lingaiah & HK Kempamma ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฝ ๐ป Contents Readout (S.1): 10 minutes; ๐ป CHAPTER EIGHT: THE LAST PHASE (2): NATIONALISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM (P.358-416: S.1-9: 325 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER NINE: THE LAST PHASE (3): WORLD WAR II (P.417-478: S.10-18: 317 minutes);
Part Two of Four of the podcast covering Chapter 6 through Chapter 7 of the reading of Book The Discovery Of India โ Author: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru โ Publishers: Oxford University Press, Oxford (1946); Signet Press, Calcutta ๏ปฟ (Centenary Edition 1989, Sixth impression 1994) โ This book reading is dedicated to my Mother BL Hemavathi & My Grandparents โ J Lingaiah & HK Kempamma ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฝ ๐ป Contents Readout (S.1): 10 minutes; ๐ป CHAPTER SIX: NEW PROBLEMS (P.228-287: S.2-10: 317 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER SEVEN: THE LAST PHASE (1): CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH RULE AND RISE OF NATIONALIST MOVEMENT (P.287-358: S.11-20: 310 minutes);
Part One of the Four Part Episode of the podcast covering Chapter 1 through Chapter 5 of the book reading of The Discovery Of India โ Author: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru โ Publishers: Oxford University Press, Oxford (1946); Signet Press, Calcutta ๏ปฟ (Centenary Edition 1989, Sixth impression 1994) โ This book reading is dedicated to my Mother BL Hemavathi & My Grandparents โ J Lingaiah & HK Kempamma ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฝ ๐ป Contents Readout (S.1): 10 minutes; ๐ป CHAPTER ONE: AHMADNAGAR FORT (P.15-38: S.2-3: 101 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER THREE: THE QUEST (P.49-68: S.4-5: 96 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER FOUR: THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA (P.69-135: S.6-12: 293 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER FIVE: THROUGH THE AGES (P.136-227: S.13-18: 410 minutes);
โฎ๏ธ๐๐บ๐ฒ Book: Don't Know Much About History Author: Kenneth C Davis ๐ค ๐๐ฝ ๐ป.1 (4 minutes): Title & Contents ๐ป.2 Introduction (45 minutes) ๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป.3 (3 hours & 40 minutes): Chapter 1: Brave New World ๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป.4 (4 hours & 20 minutes): Chapter 2: Say You Want A Revolution๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป.5 (6 hours & 15 minutes): Chapter 3: Growth Of A Nation ๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป.6 (5 hours & 20 minutes): Chapter 4: Apocalypse Then ๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป๐ป.7 (4 hours & 20 minutes): Chapter 5: When Monopoly Wasn't A Game
Book: THE DALAI LAMA'S BOOK OF AWAKENING Author: His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama Copyright ยฉ His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama 1997 ๐ป๐ป Seg 1a,b (38, 32 minutes): Title, Copyright, Contents, Foreword ๐ป Seg 2 (25 minutes): Chapter 1 - Introducting the 4 Noble Truths ๐ป๐ป๐ป Seg 3a,b,c (29, 23, 37 minutes): Chapter 2 - The Truth of Suffering ๐ป๐ป Seg 4a,b (28, 39 minutes): Chapter 3 - The Truth of Origin Of Suffering ๐ป๐ป Seg 5a,b (45, 25 minutes): Chapter 4 - The Truth of Cessation ๐ป Seg 6 (56 minutes): Chapter 5 - The Truth of the Path
Author: Joseph Campbell โ Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces โ ยฉ 1949, 2008 โ JCF.org โ ๐ป 1. (21 minutes): Copyright; Contents; 1949 Edition Preface; Acknowledgements; ๐ป 2. (40 minutes): Prologue - Ch.3 - The Hero and The God; ๐ป 3. (25 minutes): Prologue - Ch.4 - The World Navel; ๐ป 4. (34 minutes): Part I - Ch.1-1 - The Call to Adventure; ๐ป 5. (36 minutes): Part I - Ch.1-2 - Refusal of the Call; ๐ป 6. (33 minutes): Part I - Ch.1-3 - Supernatural Aid; ๐ป 7. (50 minutes): Part I - Ch.1-4 - Crossing of the First Threshold; ๐ป 8. (23 minutes): Part I - Ch.1-5 - Belly of the Whale; ๐ป 9. (55, 33 minutes): Part I - Ch.2-3 - Atonement With The Father;
Author: Alan Watts โ Book: The Way of Zen โ Copyright ยฉ 1957, 1985 Pantheon Books, Mary Jane Watts โ ๐ป Seg. 1 (43 minutes): Copyrights; Contents; Preface; Part I Backgrpund & History ๐ป Seg. 2a,b,c (53, 23, 42 minutes): Chapter 1 โ Introduction To Zen; ๐ป Seg. 3a,b,c,d (30, 32, 18, 43 minutes): Chapter 2 โ Origin of Buddhism; ๐ป Seg. 4a,b (59, 42 minutes): Chapter 3 โ Mahayana Buddhism; ๐ป Seg. 5a,b,c (58, 56, 45 minutes): Chapter 4 โ Rise & Development of Zen;
๐ The Story Of The Blues โ Paul Oliver [Chilton Book Company ยฉ Design Yearbook Limited 1969] ๐ป.1 (4 minutes) โ Contents; Introduction ๐ป.2 (15 minutes) โ Introduction; ๐ป.3 (10 minutes) โ Title, Copyright Info, Acknowledgements;
๐ The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois Title: The Souls of Black Folk Author: W. E. B. Du Bois Publishing Date: 1903 eBook Release Date: January, 1996 [eBook #408] Language: English ๐ป Seg. 1: Contents, Forethought, Chapter I - Of Spiritual Strivings [48 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 2a,b: Chapter II - Of The Dawn Of Freedom [32, 57 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 3a,b: Chapter III - Of Booker T. Washington [31, 29 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 4: Chapter IV - Of The Meaning Of Progress [43 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 5: Chapter V - Of The Wings Of Atlanta [36 minutes] (*Errata: Misspoke the line, "Atlanta the new Lachesis, spinner of web & woof for the world") ๐ป Seg. 6a,b: Chapter VI - Of The Training Of Black Men [31, 33 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 7a,b: Chapter IX - Of The Sons Of Master & Man [32, 41 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 8: Chapter X - Of The Faith Of The Fathers [53 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 9: Chapter XII - Of Alexander Crummell [46 minutes] ๐ป Seg. 10: Chapter XIV - Of The Sorrow Songs; The Afterthought [45 minutes]
The Mahabharata retold by C Rajagopalachari โ Published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1958 โ A Vox Olympia Book Recording, 2021 โ [Portable Document Format by Jay Mazo, International Gita Society โ Web Source: https://www.worldcat.org/title/ramayana-and-mahabharata-catalogue-of-books-in-the-sahitya-akademi-library/oclc/29798356] ๐ป Book Reader Introduction ๐ป Contents (7 minutes) ๐ป Author's Preface (10 minutes) ๐ป Chapter 1 โ Ganapati, The Scribe (10.5 minutes) ๐ป Chapter 2 โ Devavrata, Chapter 3 โ Bhishma's Vow, Chapter 4 โ Amba & Bhishma (31 minutes) ๐ป Chapter 8 โ Vidura, Chapter 9 โ Kuntidevi, Chapter 10 โ Death of Pandu, Chapter 11 โ Karna, Chapter 12 โ Bhima, Chapter 13 โ Drona (49 minutes) ๐ป Chapter 14 โ Wax Palace, Chapter 15 โ Escape Of The Pandavas, Chapter 16 โ Killing Of Bakasura (38 minutes) ๐ป Chapter 17 โ Draupadi Svyamvara, Chapter 18 โ Indraprastha (30 minutes)
Book: The Discovery Of India โ Author: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru โ Publishers: Oxford University Press, Oxford (1946); Signet Press, Calcutta (Centenary Edition 1989, Sixth impression 1994) โ This book reading is dedicated to my Mother BL Hemavathi & My Grandparents โ J Lingaiah & HK Kempamma ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฝ ๐ป Contents Readout (2): 10 minutes; ๐ป CHAPTER ONE: AHMADNAGAR FORT (P.15-38: S.3-4: 101 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER THREE: THE QUEST (P.49-68: S.5 - 6: 96 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER FOUR: THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA (P.69-135: S.7-13: 293 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER FIVE: THROUGH THE AGES (P.136-227: S.14-23: 410 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER SIX: NEW PROBLEMS (P.228-287: S.24 - 32: 317 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER SEVEN: THE LAST PHASE (1): CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH RULE AND RISE OF NATIONALIST MOVEMENT (P.287-358: S.33-42: 310 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER EIGHT: THE LAST PHASE (2): NATIONALISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM (P.358-416: S.43-51: 325 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER NINE: THE LAST PHASE (3): WORLD WAR II (P.417-478: S.52-59: 317 minutes); ๐ป CHAPTER TEN: AHMADNAGAR FORT AGAIN (P.479-562: S.60-68: 375 minutes); ๐ป EPILOGUE, Postscript, Dedication, Foreword, Preface (P.562-569: S.69: 45 minutes); ๐ป FOOTNOTES (S.70: 57 minutes); ๐ป Book Reader Intro (1);