Quiet Corner in Library: Recent Episodes
Ganesh D
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2.4.4 Brothers Karamazov - Marathi Audiobook - Chapter: At the Khokhlakovs
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2.4.2 Brothers Karamazov - Marathi Audiobook - Chapter: At His Father's
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Brothers Karamazov in Marathi. Book 1 Part 1 Chapter 4
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In this episode, we talk about Tawhid I.e. monotheism is Islam. This episode and this series is meant for non-Muslims for basic introductory knowledge of Islam
On the eve of Ramadan 2024, I read the first Surah of the Holy Quran. In this episode, I try to introduce the prayer to non-Muslims.
In this episode, I talk about two books written in early days of the British Raj. The first one is Confessions of a Thug by Captain Taylor. The second one is Journal of a Route to Nagpore by Daniel Robinson Leckie.
We discuss of this couplet of Mirza Ghalib and discuss the story of Adam and Eve from Quranic perspective.
In this episode, we talk of Kalidas's Meghdoot and Amitabh's rimjhim ghire sawan on a cloudy day.
We read part of a chapter from J. M. Coetzee's semi-fictional autobiographical novel Youth.
The nature of jinns, the creatures made of smokeless fire. Opening pages of Salman Rushdie's novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, i.e. one thousand and one nights.
Today we start a new series where we will read a section from books that we are reading. Today's episode is a reading from Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste - The Origin of Our Discontent."
In this third episode of Azad Mard, we talk about Mirza Ghalib as an omniscient, omnipresent companion of ours, comforting us in our tough times, our loneliness.
आजा़द मर्द के दुसरे एपिसोड में आज हम गा़लिब की एक नई ग़जल लेकर आये हैं. "घर जब बना लिया है तेरे पर कहे बगै़र, जानेगा अब भी तू न मेरा घर कहे बगै़र.."