‘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).
Readings from ‘Myself Surprised: Autobiographies’ (2021) by M M Thakur, Publisher: Sankarshan Thakur
Random Readings With Kumar Vikram
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2 years ago
Readings from ‘Myself Surprised: Autobiographies’ (2021) by M M Thakur, Publisher: Sankarshan Thakur
In this episode I bring to you excerpts from the book Myself Surprised: Autobiographies by Prof Murari Madhusudan Thakur, M M Thakur (1932-2022), in short, an eminent Professor of English, Translator, and Critic.
The episode has 4 segments
1. Prologue
2. An excerpt from his childhood
3. His boyhood recollections of attending a meeting addressed by Gandhiji at Patna in 1946-47
4. And the last segment relates to his encounters with the eminent freedom fighter and Socialist leader, Jaya Prakash Narayan, popularly called JP.
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).
