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After tasting a delicious mango, the king of Benares arrives at the monkey kingdom in search of the fruit. Can Kapi, the monkey king, find a way to protect his subjects? This timeless Jataka tale, a page from the life of the Bodhisattva, is adapted in Hindi by Gulzar. It is set to music by 3 Brothers & a Violin.

One fine day, Chandru, a small jackal, wakes up to find his fur all blue. Listen to this hilarious story from the Panchatantra to find out how the blue jackal uses his colour to his advantage.

People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to believe that love is selective, somehow, that it can be boxed in and easily defined. This is a collection of eleven remarkable essays that widen the frame of reference: transgender romance; body image issues; race relations; disability; polyamory; class differences; queer love; long distance; caste; loneliness; the single life; the bad boy syndrome...and so much more.

Gulzar and Javed Siddiqi talk about poets who paint the society with their dreams and imaginations; and Gulzar recites some of his best poems along with poems of Mir, Ghalib and Faiz.

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Follow to listen heard and unheard Punjabi stories of different authors in the voice of Surinder Kaur. This podcast is aslo available on youtube channel named 'Kalam Di Zuban'. In this series we tried to spread Punjabi language and literature.