‘Random Readings With Kumar Vikram’ gives space to all kinds of authors-major, minor, new ones, old and forgotten ones, also those under the making!! It is a purely non-commercial podcast started for the sheer love of books! Season I Episodes bring readings in English , Season II brings Episodes in Hindi. Kumar Vikram, is a publishing editor of 25 years standing, and author of three books—‘Short Essays’ (2002), ‘T S Eliot: An Intensive Study of Selected Poems’ (2005; Co-author with Prof. Arun Kumar Sinha), the latest being ‘Men’s Lib and Other Literary, Cultural and Personal Essays’ (2023).
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‘Random Readings With Kumar Vikram’ gives space to all kinds of authors-major, minor, new ones, old and forgotten ones, also those under the making!! It is a purely non-commercial podcast started for the sheer love of books! Season I Episodes bring readings in English , Season II brings Episodes in Hindi. Kumar Vikram, is a publishing editor of 25 years standing, and author of three books—‘Short Essays’ (2002), ‘T S Eliot: An Intensive Study of Selected Poems’ (2005; Co-author with Prof. Arun Kumar Sinha), the latest being ‘Men’s Lib and Other Literary, Cultural and Personal Essays’ (2023).
‘Jim as the Possible Hero’: Readings from Critical Introduction to ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
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‘Jim as the Possible Hero’: Readings from Critical Introduction to ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
The episode 5 is being released on 30th November, 2022, which is also the birth anniversary of one of the greatest novelists, Mark Twain (1835-1910). This episode brings to you readings from a critical introduction written by Prof Arun Kumar Sinha (1940-2011) to the classic novel ‘Huckleberry Finn’. Prof. Sinha was an ex-Professor of English and Principal, Langat Singh College, B R A Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, India. He taught English literature for nearly four decades (1961-2000) to graduate and post-graduate students. He worked on the poetry of Dylan Thomas. He was co-author of ‘T S Eliot: An Intensive Study of Selected Poems’, and translated a biography of eminent Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, besides contributing critical essays on Shakespeare, D H Lawrence, I A Richards etc. He also wrote a novel in English (under publication). The cover picture of this episode has been taken from the classic illustrator, Donald McKay, of Junior Illustrated Library Edition of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ published by Grosset & Dunlop, New York( 1948), courtesy: twain.lib.virginia.edu
Random Readings With Kumar Vikram
‘Random Readings With Kumar Vikram’ gives space to all kinds of authors-major, minor, new ones, old and forgotten ones, also those under the making!! It is a purely non-commercial podcast started for the sheer love of books! Season I Episodes bring readings in English , Season II brings Episodes in Hindi. Kumar Vikram, is a publishing editor of 25 years standing, and author of three books—‘Short Essays’ (2002), ‘T S Eliot: An Intensive Study of Selected Poems’ (2005; Co-author with Prof. Arun Kumar Sinha), the latest being ‘Men’s Lib and Other Literary, Cultural and Personal Essays’ (2023).
