‘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 ‘One Hundred Poems of Kabir’ by Rabindranath Tagore
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Readings from ‘One Hundred Poems of Kabir’ by Rabindranath Tagore
This episode brings to you readings from a classic book ‘One Hundred Poems of Kabir’ translated into English by the Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore and published in 1915. The collection has an introduction by Evelyn Underhill. Kabir was a 15th century Indian poet-saint, a mystic as well as a social realist. The episode has three parts: In the first part, introduction to Kabir, Tagore and Evelyn Underhill is given by the narrator as well as the book is introduced. Then it is followed by two segments having readings of excerpts from the introduction to the book by Evelyn Underhill, and of some immortal original Hindi poems of Kabir alongwith their English translations by Tagore.
I really find the inter-cultural and inter-textual communication and engagement that this classic book carries within a slim volume: poetry of a 15th century poet originally written in Old Hindi, getting interpreted and translated by a major Bangla poet of early 20th century in British colonial India with the assistance and collaboration of an English lady scholar with the book being published in 1915 by a major British publisher, Macmillan And Co., London.
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).