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हिन्दी साहित्य की श्रेष्ठ कविताएं
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Spreading Hindi in the diaspora communities
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The Indian
Council of
Cultural
Relation is
India's
principal
instrument of
cultural
diplomacy and
the sponsor of
intellectual
exchanges
between India
and partner
countries. In
this interview
with Virendra
Gupta, the
Director General
of ICCR, London
based Hindi
author and poet
Divya Mathur
asks what ICCR
is doing to
popularise Hindi
among the
diaspora
communities.
 To listen
click
here (Hindi)
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Ajit Kumar remembers Harivansh
Rai Bachchan
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Renowned
Hindi writer Ajit Kumar remembers the
great poet
Harvansh Rai Bachchan. As one of his dearest disciples,
Ajit Kumar 
 gives us
some rare glimpses of the
poet's life. He says Bachchan was a strict teacher,
Jawahrlal Nehru's Hindi adviser and of course a great
poet. And very few of us know that Harivansh Rai and
Teji Bachchan were disciplined and organised
parents and their household was a typical Allahabadi Sangam of tradition and modernity, that later
reflected in many of the films and songs of their son
Amitabh Bachchan. NRIfm presents the life
story of Harivansh Rai
Bachchan. To listen
click
here (Hindi)
Links:
Harivansh
Rai Bachchan poetry collection
Harivansh
Rai Bachchan: Wikipedia
Harivansh
Rai Bachchan: Facebook |
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Harish Bhimani presents
Premchand's finest comic story 'Nimantran'
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Munshi Premchand is one of the finest
writers of Hindi literature. India's veteran
broadcaster Harish Bhimani, in his inimitable
style dramatises two of his finest stories.
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Nimantran: Premchand's finest comic story
Do you live to eat or eat to live? Well, Pandit
Chintamani EATS to live! However, on one occasion
he out-surpasses his own greed. Not only does he
connive to exclude his best friend and colleague
from a lucrative 'eating assignment', but tries to
pass off his wife in male attire as a new acolyte!
But greed as they say was his downfall… even
literally! Munshi Premchand at his comic best!
Nimantran Part 1:
To listen
click
here (Hindi)
Nimantran Part 2:
To listen click
here (Hindi)
Harish
Bhimani's site: Booksutra.com |
Baasi bhaat mein khuda-ka saajha
Dinanath manages to get a job after
being unemployed for over a year. One fine evening
his boss gives him an unexpected raise and asks
him to make certain fake ledger entries. Very
unwillingly Dinanath gets talked into perpetrating
what amounts to a fraud. A self-proclaimed
atheist, he starts losing sleep over this. As it
happens, his infant son falls sick. After that,
Dinanath himself is taken ill. His uneasy
conscience tells him that this is the price he
must pay for his moral lapse… Listen on, Munshi
Premchand's Baasi bhaat mein khuda-ka saajha
Baasi Bhaat Part 1:
To listen
click
here (Hindi)
Baasi Bhaat Part 2:
To listen
click
here (Hindi)
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Lata Mangeshkar
remembers Bollywood's greatest Hindi poet Pt.
Narendra Sharma |
Hindi poet Pt Narendra Sharma fought for
India's
independence and then went to Mumbai
to write some of the most memorable songs. Not
many of us know that when Lata Mangeshkar
was struggling in her early days, Pt
Narendra Sharma stood behind her like a rock
and the legendary singer always treated him
like her father. Pt Narendra Sharma's
daughter Lavanya Shah was of Lata's age and
they spent a lot of time together. Many
years later Lavanya Shah interviewed Lata on
a US radio station both remembering good old
days. A memorable interview that gives a
rare insight to Lata Mangeshkar's early
life.
To listen click
here (Hindi)
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A rare Photograph of
Hindi's three great poets
A rare
photograph of 1940s
Sumitra Nandan Pant (seated), Harivansh
Rai Bachchan (left) and Pt Narendra Sharma
(right)
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Sadgati:
A Premchand Story |
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Life, times and legacy of
Premchand
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The writers of Hindi and
Urdu came together in London in a major literary
seminar to celebrate to discuss the life times and
legacy of Munshi Premchand, one of the giants of
Hindi-Urdu literature. Supported by Nehru Centre, the
conference was organised by the Indian Muslim
Federation, UK. Besides scholarly analysis of
Premchand's contribution, excerpts of his short
stories were read. Here Mamta Gupta reads from the
story, Sadgati.
To listen click
here (Hindi)
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Jhansi
ki Rani: Hindi's most recited poem |
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Inspired
by Mahatma Gandhi Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
became the first woman Satyagrahi to court
arrest in Nagpur. She later wrote the highly
inspiring patriotic poem 'Jhansi ki Rani'.
During India's freedom struggle against the
British Raj it became one of the most recited
and sung poems in Hindi literature. Veteran BBC
broadcaster Kailash Budhwar recites the poem.
To listen click
here (Hindi) |
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Neeraj: The poet of romantic
humanism
Caravan guzar gayaa and other poems
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poet Gopal Das Neeraj is not only one of the
most popular Hindi poets of his generation. He
wrote some of the most memorable songs for Raj
Kapoor and Devanand. Recently, he enthralled
Londoners with his poetry of romantic
humanism and later in an exclusive interview he
talked about his life and some of his best
philosophical poems never heard in public
before.
Poetic
journey of Neeraj
To listen click
here (Hindi)
Insaan Ko
Insaan banaya jayee...
To listen click
here
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Caravan
guzar Gayaa...
To listen click
here
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