China Room: Sunjeev Sahota in conversation with Georgina GodwinJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-19 | China Room: Sunjeev Sahota in conversation with Georgina GodwinArresting a Bollywood celebrity #meeranchadha #sanjaydutt #ytshorts #shortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-19 | Meeran Chadha Borwankar provides us with fascinating details on the arrest and transportation of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, and how a deputation force under her command managed to contend with intense media scrutiny, as well as the potential threat of a violent encounter on the streets of Pune. If you enjoyed this clip, watch the full Jaipur Bytes podcast on the official YouTube channel @jaipurlitfest.Ravi Subramanian | Jaipur Literature Festival #thrillers #shorts #ytshorts #shortvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-18 | I think lot's been said about why do people read thrillers? And a common logic thrown at you is that because we don't want crime in our real life, we escape to the world of books and read crime thrillers. Two it's a very safe don't really have to face bullets. You don't have to really be stalked by some guy on the Somebody else is getting killed is fine. So that's what people talk about. But I think thrillers are probably an indication of the curiosity that exists within us. We want to know what happened next, what happened to this guy, what happened to that girl, what happened to that person, etc Which you constantly try to outguess the author. When you are reading a thriller, a lot of people do it. You look at who tends, to get thrillers. Typically, the pleasure kind of defeating the author or being ahead of the author in your thought process kind of gets to you. It gives you a rush. And I think that's what most of the thriller readers look for.Deepti Kapoor | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #novelist #ytshorts #shortvideo #writersJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-15 | When did you know you wanted to be a novelist? And I had moved away from Delhi. I was a journalist for years and moved to Goa. And I lived, um, an extremely reduced life. Uh, very simple. Um, and just read all the time. I had a little dial up connection.
So, you know, the Internet was restricted to about 30 minutes a day. I mean, it seems like a different world, but that was it. And there was a bookshop, uh, that I would go to and just raid everything. And there was also a way for me to. To suddenly realize that there are writers out there and you know growing up, you were exposed to Dickens.
We had a kind of postcolonial education. And then later on, when I discovered the voices and the writers I liked, that's when I realized, I can attempt this too.Women felt like they could ask me for help #women #shorts #ytshorts #shortvideo #police #ipsofficerJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-12 | Meeran Chadha Borwankar recalls instances where her role as a woman in a position of authority, within the IPS in Pune, consolidated a sense of security and solidarity between women citizens and the police force, who felt as if their concerns would finally be acknowledged. If this reel piqued your curiosity, watch the full Jaipur Bytes podcast on the official YouTube channel @jaipurlitfest.A Woman Who Led the Police Service | Meeran Chadha Borwankar on Crime, Discrimination, and CelebrityJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-11 | In this riveting episode of Jaipur Bytes, former IPS leader and officer Meeran Chadha Borwankar lays bare the intricacies of working as a woman in the Indian Police Service throughout the early to mid 90s, and how her role as a senior officer revealed the many prejudices, complexities, and day to day challenges surrounding the service. In conversation with RJ Sarthak Kaushik, Borwankar reflects on thrilling instances across her career, such as the arrest of actor Sanjay Dutt, and the process through which figures of law enforcement might often participate in and benefit from systems of injustice.
#meeranchadha #ips #podcastHolistic Healing on World Mental Health Day #shorts #mentalhealth #worldmentalhealthday #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-10 | On World Mental Health Day, we look back at insights shared by by Anna Chandy who, in conversation with Shelja Sen, stresses the importance of looking beyond prescriptive notions of mental illness when understanding mental health in the current day.Anita Nair | Jaipur Literature Festival #writer #shorts #bookreading #ytshorts #shortvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-09 | My advice to young writers, I have three pieces of advice. One, write, don't talk about it. Because a book will not get written on its own. You need to treat it very seriously. And I always tell them that write at least 400 words a day. 400 words is just a page.
And if you can write a page every day, then you're going to be able to get into the discipline of writing on a daily basis. The second 1 second piece of advice is that be honest about what you're writing. Write like yourself, and don't write like another person, because what you bring into your writing is your own unique perspective, and that's what you need to put in.
And third point is that, uh, read as widely as possible, because reading is what is going to open up your mind and, you know, create stories.Sudha Murty | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #sudhamurthy #happiness #motivation #ytshorts #lifeJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-08 | What is most important? Life lesson or lessons that you learned? I learned life. You can live happily in your life if you want to be happy. Your happiness is within you. Not outside. Not somebody should appreciate then I am happy. Somebody should give me an award I am happy no, not that way.
If I have a lot of wealth I will be happy it is not that your happiness lies within you and dont give it to someone and ask from them.....
Ask from them. You do this one then I'll be happy no. Your happiness lies within you. Unleash your happiness and enjoy every moment of life. We do not know what is tomorrow Kal ho na hoBhavna Roy | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #vedas #shastra #shortsvideo #veda #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-05 | There is the Agamic and the nigamic approach to divinity. The nigamic approach is knowledge to experience, and the agamic approach is experience to understanding, which is, um, a dialogue between Lord Shiva and, uh, goddess parvati. The, uh, nigamic, uh, Shastra is vedic from vedas to experience. The agamic approach could, uh, be tantra.
It could be idol worshipping. Uh, idol worshipping, in its essence, is self understanding through resonance with a symbol or a myth.Satyarth Nayak | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #chronology #mahagatha #shortvideo #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-04 | But for me, what Mahagatha does is that it gives me an access into that world. It gives me a very easy access and an access through stories, because there's no better entry point in anything than stories. I mean, stories are implanted in our DNA, the love for stories. So that, I think, was the main objective.
Um, also the fact that, uh, this is the first collection that is not a random collection of stories. It is a chronology. So you start with the creation of the universe in Satyoga. Then how Brahma is created. how Vishnu comes. how Mahadeva comes, how the goddesses come, how the demons come. Um, and then the time starts satyoga. Then you come to the stories of and Drapar and finally Kali. So what Mahagatha does is that stories that we might have known as singular episodes, random episodes or standalone episodes, mahagatha takes a much. It zooms out and gives you a wider view of the entire universe. So you are reading a novel, which is why we are calling it Mahagatha. There are hundred gathas. Together they are making one mahagatha. So that was the idea about, you know, how to create the book.Trailblazers of Indian fashion! #kellydorji #indianfashion #shorts #fashion #shortvideo #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-03 | From the timeless couture of Shahab Durazi to the elegant floral patterns of Rohit Bal, actor and model Kelly Dorji talks about the arc of Indian fashion & his experiences as a model! If you enjoyed this clip, watch the full Jaipur Bytes podcast on the official YouTube channel @jaipurlitfest.Kai Bird | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #kaibird #shortvideo #ytshorts #memoirJaipur Literature Festival2024-10-02 | I had a very weird childhood.... I grew up in the Middle east. My first memories as a child are of East Jerusalem, the arab section of Jerusalem, and Israel. Um, but I also lived in Beirut and Saudi Arabia and Cairo. And I grew up, you know, sympathetic to the palestinian plight.
As a young man, I met and married Susan, uh, who is not only jewish, but is the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors. So in my crossing Mandelbaum Gate, my childhood memoir, I tell both stories. It's a memoir, but it's like biography, which I argue is the sort of best vehicle for conveying history because it's so accessible.
It's a story about one person's life, and then along the way, you learn a lot of history. Likewise with memoir, you can convey. That was my aim, at least, was to try to convey the complexity of this terrible conflict.Language Interplay on International Translation Day #shorts #translation #language #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-30 | On International Translation Day, we look back on the insights gained during conversations with Fathima E.V, Ministhy S., Nandakumar K., and Arundhathi Subramaniam. Here, Fathima E.V stresses the importance of interplay when considering the process of translation, and how languages continue to engage with one another across cultures.Fashion helped me break the mould! #kellydorji #shorts #filmindustry #fashion #ytshorts #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-28 | At the time Kelly Dorji entered the industry, beauty standards were restrictive, exclusive, and not truly representative. How did fashion help the iconic Bhutanese actor, supermodel, and writer break the mould? Listen in!Being a supermodel in late 90s India | Kelly Dorji on film, fashion, & more!Jaipur Literature Festival2024-09-27 | In this Jaipur Bytes episode, Bhutanese actor, model, and author Kelly Dorji reflects on his trailblazing career as a model and offers insights into the evolving standards of beauty and the fashion industry's demands. In conversation with RJ Sarthak Kaushik, he speaks about his experiences of walking iconic ramps and working with some of the best names in the industry. He shares his thoughts on the rise of influencer culture and speaks of legendary designers like Shahab Durazi, Manish Malhotra, Ritu Kumar, and more. Through personal anecdotes and thoughtful reflections, Dorji shines a light on how the inner workings of the fashion and film industries in India have transformed over the years, offering a rare glimpse into a world that has shaped Indian pop culture.
#kellydorji #podcast #filmindustryNawazuddin Siddiqui | Jaipur Literature FestivalJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-27 | मैं कोई ऐसे बहुत बड़े dream लेके नहीं आया था मैंने क्योंकि मैं theatre मे theatre करता था Delhi में तो पैसा वैसा होता नहीं था, theatre मे तो पैसा होता नहीं तो फिर मैंने सोचा की यार अगर ऐसे ही फालतू मे मरना है तो बंबई जाके मर जाते यहा भी मरना ही हो रहा है तो में इसलिए गया था सिर्फ़ मैंने छोटे छोटे रोल start किए, क्योंकि वही मिल रहे थे मुझे। लेकिन मैंने ये नहीं सोचा की मैं बहुत ये dream लेकर नहीं गया था, हाँ ये सोचा था की जो भी काम करूंगा वो चाहे एक ही सीन हो, चाहे 40 second का सीन हो, उसको अच्छे से honesty के साथ करके आऊँगा।Thinking Boldly Outside the Box on World Environmental Health Day #shorts #environmental #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-26 | On World Environmental Health Day, we remember the insight provided by environmentalist and activist Sunita Narain at the Jaipur Literature Festival. She highlights the importance of prioritizing sustainable and inclusive models of growth when considering environmental action.Manto: The Man and The Legend | Nandita Das and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in conversation with Vinod DuaJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-25 | Manto: The Man and The Legend | Nandita Das and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in conversation with Vinod Dua
Nandita Das and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, in conversation with Vinod Dua, explore their unique interpretations and relationships with the writings of Saadat Hasan Manto. Together, they elucidate on the process by which actors and filmmakers draw from literary texts, in order to bring one of the essential artists of the progressive writers movement to life on the silver screen.
#nawazuddinsiddiqui #nanditadas #mantoDevdutt Pattanaik | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #devduttpattanaik #avatar #shortvideo #shortJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-25 | Avatar comes from the word अवतारणम् Coming down Coming down Coming down from what Coming down from infinity अनंत से मृत्युलोक में आना तो जो अमर है जो अनंत है One who is immortal and infinite becomes a finite and a mortal entity for the benefit of humanity उसे Avatar कहते है तो मृत्युलोक में भाग्यदार So the infinite being becomes finite That is the meaning of avatarMATHS & ABSOLUTE TRUTHS! #shorts #mathematics #primenumber #marcusdusautoy #shortvideo #mathsJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-24 | Can a sound check go on forever? Is maths about unravelling the true nature of our universe? Are ancient Greek ideas on mathematics still as true today as they were centuries ago? Tune in to the full Jaipur Bytes episode where Marcus du Sautoy joins @sarthakfromradio to answer these questions and more. Watch the full episode on @jaipurlitfest’s official YouTube channel!Geetanjali Shree | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #language #literature #hindilanguage #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-23 | मुझे लगता है कि आज के वक़्त में एक और चीज़ हो रही है जो सब भाषाओं पर लागू है। एक किस्म का जो एक फ़ौरी पना है और जल्दबाज़ी है उसमें भाषा को भी बहुत हद तक बहुत सारे लोगों ने एक Utilitarian बहुत अच्छी बात है, जगह दे दी है जहाँ पर यह कि भाई क्या कहना है, ज़ल्दी से कह दो क्या बात तुम्हें convey करनी है, बस वो convey कर दो तुम ये वक़्त क्यों बर्बाद कर रहे हो? सबका मुझे लगता है कि यह चीज़ हमको नहीं खोनी चाहिए या इसके प्रति हमको बहुत सचेत होने की ज़रूरत है कि भाषा सिर्फ़, माध्यम और vehicle नहीं है। भाषा अपने में कोई एक उसका अस्तित्व है। वो एक बहुत ही powerful entity है और उसके उतार चढ़ाव में, उसके देर लगा के बात कहने में इसका जो मज़ा है, इससे जो जीवन और समृद्ध होता है, उसके प्रति हमको थोड़ा सा सोचना चाहिएChitra Banerjee | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #women #independence #shortsvideo #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-21 | Three Sisters in a family and their mother, and what happens to them? And what are some of the dreams that they've had before.... this moment of independence hits them in 1946 with the direct action, the riots which change their lives, and what are their dreams afterwards? And how is independence, the individual independence that we want?
How is that related to that national desire for independence? And can we as a nation really be independent if the women of the nation are not allowed independence?Mridula Garg | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #language #hindi #shortsvideo #literatureJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-19 | मेरे साथ एक बड़ी भारी समस्या है। मैं जब किसी को देखती हूँ या उससे बात करती हूँ तो किसी भी भाषा में बोले मैं हिंदी में सुनती हूँ मुझे कोई दिक्कत नहीं होती अब उसमें मेरी इस किताब में Italy से लोग हैं, रूस से लोग हैं, Switzerland से लोग हैं, iran से है, Germany से है, से है सब जगह से है। ये मेरी खुशकिस्मती सी थी कि वो हिंदी जानते थे, मगर वो अगर नहीं भी जानते थे तो जब वो French में बोलते थे, तब भी मैं हिंदी में ही सुनती थी मैं उसको translate करती चलती हूँ कल्पना को समझ में आएगा की आप बोले, कुछ भी आप उसको साथ साथ translate करते चलते हैं। और ये एक बहुत बड़ी facility है की you are able to translate immediately and that is why probably I find that हिंदी जो है, वो एक भाषा तो है नहीं, उसमें अनेक भाषाएं हैं, अनेक बोलियां हैं। और उन सब बोलियों को आप समझें तो आप खुद ही एक Linguist बन जाएंगे।Manju kapur | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #women #literature #shortsvideo #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-17 | I'm a woman. I mean, that's obvious with daughters. And I've taught women. I've taught in a women's college for about 30 years. And I just think that what goes on with them, um, their internal lives is terribly significant because, you know, the life of a woman, the life of your domestic life, the life.
I mean, like, I feel that in the family, I write about families. It's not so much women, but families that that microcosm reflects what's the values that are going on outside the macrocosm that's reflected in the family. And families form values form, uh, uh, ideas that, you know, both reflect the outside and go on to be reflected in the outside.
That's why I chose to. I chose to write in this way.DO WE NEED IMAGINARY NUMBERS? #shorts #numbers #marcusdusautoy #ytshorts #mathmatics #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-14 | Why do we need imaginary numbers? How did they even come into existence? How did they shape the history of maths and help with planes and radars? In this Jaipur Bytes episode, Marcus du Sautoy takes us through the fascinating story of imaginary numbers and their real-world impact. Tune in to hear him break down the mysteries of these complex numbers and more. Watch the full episode on @jaipurlitfest’s official YouTube channel!What’s the future of AI & creativity? | Marcus du Sautoy on maths, music, & more.Jaipur Literature Festival2024-09-13 | Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy brings numbers to life in this fascinating episode of Jaipur Bytes. In conversation with RJ Sarthak, Sautoy talks about being an Ambassador of Mathematics, the magic of imaginary numbers, the unexpected connections between maths and music, and the inspiring stories woven into the history of mathematics. An episode that offers a fresh and engaging take on how numbers shape our world.
#futureofai #marcusdusautoy #mathematicsRuskin Bond | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #ruskinbond #literature #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-13 | The first story was called my calling, and I wrote it just after finishing school. That was 1951, so you can see how ancient I am.
And, um, .... it was a skit, actually, on one of my school teachers. And, um, I had just finished school that year, and they weren't very happy up in my old school, I'm afraid. And, uh, they didn't send me my character in school leaving certificate because I book funded one of my teachers.
And I'm still waiting for it now. How many years have gone now? 65 years, maybe. I send a reminder now to my home school. Can I have my school leaving certificate? But it still shows that
even if you're thrown out of school, it shouldn't stop you from doing something useful in life.Richard Osman | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #crimefiction #books #literature #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-12 | my, um, view is of crime fiction, and it's a slightly unfashionable one, that the plots are not the most important thing. I always think characters are the most important thing.
I always think it's not what happens in a book, it's why do I care? What happens in a book is the question to ask. And so that's the joy I have with these four amazing characters. At the heart of it is I just get to spend time with them, and then I bring people in around them, all of whom are initially suspicious of them.
And one by one, they pick them off and bring them into the gang, and suddenly the gang kind of snowballs. And you got cops in there and you got. There's a former KGB agent is one of the gang. So they've got this little satellite of friends who help them out as well.
But it's. Yeah, character is. The character is the key.A Second Look at Education on International Literacy Day #shorts #literacyday #literacy #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-08 | ...Abdulrazak Gurnah | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #literature #literaturefestival #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-07 | What is the criteria for selecting which go and which don't go? So I thought to myself, which book am I going to reread? And this will be the criteria. And that was a good test. Which books are important or which writers are important to me. Um, in some cases I was wrong.
Because in some cases when I think, okay, I'll keep this one. Because I'll reread it. And I read five pages. And I think, no, maybe not go in that box. But that was a way of, um. I guess, of testing which writers are valuable to me.Anand Neelakantan | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #ramayan #literature #ramcharitmanas #shortJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-06 | Now when I am doing Srimad Ramayana for Sony TV which I dont know some of you might have perhaps watched Sony live and Sony TV which is there, I am writing the story and screenplay of it. There are lots. I am basing ramcharitmanas basically. But there are many things in ramcharitmanas which will not be suitable for todays uh culture.
Especially certain uh things about the women because he was writing in that era or certain elements of uh certain slokas which can be interpreted as a uh very castist in today's context. He might have written for some other era, some other period. Those things we will have to take away and keep what is relevant for today and we will have to draw more from other traditions of Ramayana to stitch together even though 90% the plot and other things will be same.
The thought process will have to be chief priest and who says that this is the authentic anything you go away from this is blasphemy that will not be possible. So this constant reinvention is what makes this dynamic.A Master Remembers His Teacher | APJ Abdul Kalam #shorts #teachersday #apjabdulkalam #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-05 | On teachers day, we cannot help but recall this moment, as APJ Abdul Kalam reflects on past conversations with his own teacher, Professor Satish Dhawan. The revered aerospace scientist, writer, and former president of India, looks back on his experiences while working with the Indian space program, and the lessons learnt throughout.Ashwin Sanghi | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #literature #books #ytshorts #literaturefestivalJaipur Literature Festival2024-09-04 | I have always believed that a great book is one where you don't have to really turn the pages. The pages turn themselves. Uh, and I can't remember who was the great man who said that easy writing. Uh, easy reading is damn hard writing. And it's so true because you really need to labor over every sentence and every phrase and every. Word in order to make sure that by the time you reach the bottom of the page, there's enough incentive for you to actually turn the page. So I've tried to do that. Um, but only time will tell as to whether my efforts have been successful or not.How was Indian royalty dethroned? | John Zubrzycki on Indian history, Orientalism, magic & moreJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-30 | How were Indian princes dethroned? Was Jaipur’s Royalty India’s answer to the Crown? What is so fascinating and puzzling about Indian magic? How does one write the shortest history of India? The ever-curious and inspiring chronicler of India’s diverse pasts, John Zubrzycki, joins Eric Chopra in this episode of the Jaipur Bytes podcast to discuss all of these interesting questions & much more!
#indianroyalty #indianhistory #podcastE-MAIL ME YOUR REVIEWS! | Kanan Gill #shorts #ytshorts #kanangill #booksJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-24 | The ever-witty Kanan Gill talks about the fine line between writing and performing. Find out why he left his email address for the readers in his debut novel ‘Acts of God’! Enjoyed this reel? Then don’t miss out on the latest episode of the Jaipur Bytes podcast!B. Jeyamohan | Jaipur Literature Festival #shorts #literature #writer #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-23 | I started writing not with that ambition, um, that I have to be a great writer I have no ambition like that. And I am not considering myself as a literary writer. I consider myself as a spiritual practitioner who is using literature as a tool. I started writing
from my life. I lost my parents. They committed suicide while I'm 24 years old. And I have a deep philosophical struggle. Uh, and I have a lot of. I still have a lot of basic questions. I'm writing only to solve that problems. That's why I'm writing. So literature is a tool for me.
I am not a, uh, literary practitioner. I am a spiritual practitioner.वक़्त हमेशा एक सा चलता है | Gulzar Sahab #poetry #gulzarsaab #gulzarshayari #gulzarpoetry #shortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-20 | वक़्त हमेशा एक सा चलता है, फिर घड़ियों के टाइम क्यों नहीं बदलता हमेशा... वक़्त हमेशा एक सा चलता है, फिर घड़ियों के टाइम क्यों नहीं मिलते हर शख्स, कलाई देखकर अपनी साथ वाले से पूछता है क्या टाइम हुआ है रक्षंदा वक़्त हमेशा एक सा चलता है, फिर घड़ियों के टाइम क्यों नहीं मिलते हर शख्स, कलाई देख के अपनी साथ वाले से पूछता है क्या टाइम हुआ है कोई चंद मिनट पीछे, कोई चंद बरस आगे, कोई चंद मिनट पीछे, कोई चंद बरस आगे वक़्त अलग अलग लोगों के साथ अलग अलग चलता है।Sharmila Tagore Shares Her Love Story and Family Reactions #shorts #sharmilatagore #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-19 | I'm just one single person and I have to live my life, and I've lived it. You know, anybody who knows me or familiar with what I've done has seen what I've done for the last 50, 60 years. Um, and I've just followed my heart and I've just done that.
I fell in love, basically, and wanted to marry, and so did my husband. And we left it to our parents to sort out the problem because they really faced. Now that I'm part of a member of a family, I realized that it can cause a lot of problem, this inter religious marriages. Uh, many members in the family do not like it. Sometimes your parents oppose it. In my case, they didn't. But yes, it does. Cause, uh, my father was receiving letters, uh, saying bullets shall speak. They were so worried that they organized the wedding at the Fort William.I Have A Genius Visa! | Kanan Gill #shorts #kanangill #comedy #ytshorts #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-17 | Kanan Gill’s extraordinary ability qualified him for a Genius Visa? It’s a knock-knock joke but not the way you’d expect it! Listen in & if you enjoyed this clip, watch the full podcast episode with Gill in which he talks about debut novel, a decade in comedy, and more.“I see all sorts of absurd things!”| Kanan Gill talks ‘Acts of God’, failed jokes, & soft sci-fi.Jaipur Literature Festival2024-08-16 | Kanan Gill, celebrated for his inimitable wit, joins host Sarthak Kaushik to discuss his soft sci-fi debut novel, Acts of God. He speaks about his more than a decade-long journey in the entertainment industry, the knock-knock jokes that earned him a Genius Visa, and the nuances that differentiate—and connect—being a writer and a performer.
#kanangill #actsofgod #podcastCricket is very complicated | Ajay Jadeja #shorts #cricket #ajayjadeja #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-16 | I think it's. Cricket is very complicated. People like us, when we do broadcasting or talking about it, make it sound very complicated. It's almost, uh, how you meditate. If you're meditating and you're thinking about your breath. In, out, in, out. After a while, you don't think. And that's the state that you get into in meditation and that's what cricket is when you play sport. I think most batsmen, and if you ask them on a good day or a day where they felt good. So on your good days, actually, you don't remember anything. It's only on your bad days that you remember each and everything.
When you're walking out, what you were feeling, what was the pressure, or you're thinking about something. Uh. I still try and recollect. A lot of people have asked me this question, but I still haven't found an answer. I think I was just not thinking. I think I was too drunk from the party the night before and just, uh, walked there with my head low, kept my head down. And, uh. Just one of those lucky days.Devdutt Pattanaik on the Jain Philosophy of Isolation #jainism #devduttpattanaik #shorts #philosophyJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-15 | Life continues and we have to engage with life so they don't bother with the idea of God. There's no Bhakti, there is no God saved. You have to take care of yourself. This journey is a lonely one. All of us. There is no God out there to protect. You have to do it on your own.
And therefore Shram effort. You have to work with yourself. So Shramana parampara, work with yourself and the idea of being alone. Therefore, the word Kaivallya essentially means extreme isolation. Can you sit in a room without being acknowledged or recognized as a public figure? You know how difficult it is, right?
You sit in an airport and nobody recognizes Devdutt Pattanaik. Oh, my God, I have lost the mojo. I'm sure that has never happened. But that's what life is about. One day you will be forgotten and it's okay. And that's what the Jains talk about, and that's shrama. It requires effort to deal with invisibility, to live happily, even if nobody recognise.Neena Gupta on Ayushmann Khurrana Discipline and Talent #shorts #neenagupta #ayushmankhuranaJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-14 | I was so impressed with Ayushmann. Not just because of his talent as an actor. He started as a radio vijay na He is so hardworking. He is so disciplined. He can sing, he can dance, he can do everything. And he is so disciplined. He doesn't have. He doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink alcohol. He is almost vegan. Haa... So he is so controlled, so self control, discipline. That was very amazing.Mary Beard walked so that Philomena Cunk could run! #shorts #cunkonearth #philomena #ytshortsJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-13 | How many of you watched ‘Cunk on Earth’ & what did you think about the show? Tune in to hear classicist Mary Beard’s thoughts on the hilarious world of Philomena.Gaur Gopal Das on Einsteins Simple Genius #shorts #alberteinstein #motivation #gaurgopaldasJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-12 | What Albert Einstein once said. He said, the sign of a genius is not in making simple things complicated. It's in making complicated things simple. And, um, far from genius, but learning to follow the genius like Albert Einstein.....Life Adjustments and Success | Sudha Murty #shorts #sudhamurthy #lifesuccess #ytshorts #motivationalJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-11 | I have done that one. Lead your life the way you want does not mean at the cost of everything. For example, I wanted to continue my, uh, work, but I stepped down and became a housewife for five years until my children grew up. You have to adjust at that moment.
What I want to say is, what is benefit in the family you should do and whatever role you get in that the way you want. For example, I never worked for five years. My husband started infosys. And five years I adjusted and became a housewife. Those five years, I wanted to read and write.
I wrote three books. Okay. And I traveled. What I could do. So given set of circumstances within that circumference, lead a life. What you want to do.अब हर चीज़ Digital हो गई है | Rishi Kapoor #shorts #digital #actor #rishikapoor #shortsvideoJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-10 | हम अपने आपको film actor कहते है लेकिन film है ही नहीं तो film actor कैसे हो गए अभी तो हम digital actor हो गए हर चीज़ digital है जितने retake करने retake करो because film तो है नहीं तो technology ने बहुत बड़ा part play किया है लेकिन मैं समझता हूँ कुछ-कुछ जगह content जो कहानियाँ होती वो अब जा के ये जो multiplex audiences जो पसंद कर रही है ऐसी picture जैसे कि ये Pink हुई piku हुई हमारी Kapoor and sons हुई neerja हुई या वो जितनी picture है ये ये एक हटके audience कि है जो आम रिक्शे वालों के लिए नहीं है लेकिन जैसे market में हर किस्म का कपड़ा मिलता है, cotton मिलता है, silk मिलता है, khadi मिलता है वैसे हमारी film भी different different type की होंगी, पुराने जमाने में भी Film में माइथोलॉजिकल बनती थी, action बनती थी, social बनती थी तो अभी भी हम एक normal good cinema बनाएंगे और एक दूसरी हटके कि दोनों किस्म की audience, जो multiplex audience है और वो frontbencher की audience है वो भी picture है तो ये आज की सूरतें हाल है फिल्मों काWhy I Decided to Write My Own Book | Soha Ali Khan #shorts #literature #book #sohaalikhan #ytviralJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-09 | I wanted to write, but I think, you know, a little bit of laziness where you, again, you always find something to do. I knew that if I wrote a book, that I would want to write it myself. Um, I'm also a bit of a control freak. Um, so, you know, I didn't want to leave it to be ghost written or anything.
Um, so, uh, I have to say that it was really penguin, um, who are responsible for this. And they came to me and they said, you know, we do know that you like to read, and, you know, you've been to a good university. Presumably you can write. Why don't you write a book?
Fiction, non fiction, whatever. And I thought might be interesting for a reader would be to read what is hopefully something that is tongue in cheek and funny, because I think a sense of humor is very important. Um, and I thought, why don't I write about what it's like to be me, what it's like to be a modern day princess, what it's like to belong to a terribly famous family. Um, what is it like to be recognized in the street? But sometimes people struggle to find your name, you know?
So I thought it might be something that people will relate to, because also, there are many things in my life that I've done which are relatable, which strike a chord with people.David Beckham & Roman Numerals | Mary Beard #shorts #romannumerals #romanempire #davidbeckhamJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-08 | Roman numerals may appear as a rather distant and complex numerical system, but once you observe, their everydayness is surprising! Mary Beard shares how David Beckham’s tattoos aided her in decoding these ancient numbers for a class of fascinated students.Naseeruddin Shah Talks About His Acting Evolution #shorts #naseeruddinshah #shortsvideo #ytviralJaipur Literature Festival2024-08-07 | When I came to terms with the fact that I did not look like Gary Cooper or Shammy Kapoor, I started to examine my face, and I've written quite a lot about it in the book to see, because I was resolved that I would be an actor and nothing else. From the age of 13 or 14, I had decided, this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life. And so I would spend endless minutes in front of the mirror, examining my face and seeing what it was. And I realized that what I have is perhaps the ability to alter my face. And I realized this when I was very young. I could not wait for my beard and mustaches to start growing so I could experiment with how I looked with this and how I looked with that. And my greatest achievement was once my mom didn't recognize me when I went home.