Bonus Episode - Work from Himalayas - Poetic Travels in the Hills (पहाड़ों की कविता यात्रा)

The Madhushala Podcast: exploring the soul of Bachchan's poetry

WFH could well be Work from Himalayas, or Working remotely from Hills!

That’s what we did before COVID wave surged again. In this episode, we travel to a small village called Jibhi, in Himachal. We talk about the experience of working remotely, and life in the hills with some short poems inspired by these pristine hills, waterfalls, simple living people.

You can read the full script with meanings of some words on my blog: https://bit.ly/3p756Mc

Watch the YouTube video of this episode with visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQe6u44pfE

Some poems include: तू हिमाला! ए फसीले किशवरे हिंदोस्तान, चूमता है तेरी पेशानी को झुककर आसमा

Or: राग रस रंग हैं पहाड़ों में, ज़िंदगी आसां नहीं पहाड़ों में

Or: किस गठरी की गांठें खोलूं, क्या बांधूं मैं क्या छोडूं रे किस किस को मैं अपना समझूं, क्या पकडूं क्या जाने दूं रे

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Welcome to Madhushala Podcast (मधुशाला), based on Harivansh Rai Bachchan's epic poetry, written in 1935 and part of the trilogy of Madhubala and Madhukalash. This is a podcast of Hindi Poetry, Poets, their Stories and a bit of History of India. We do a Live Madhushala discussion every Sunday on Mentza app (you can join us here)

I host one more podcast "Dhai Aakhar" on Hindi poetry of Hope, Life and Optimism. If you want to join us for an online chit-chat on poetry, please join our Meetup group. Do write a review and send your comments. Thanks for listening :-)

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Credits:

1. Original poems by Arisudan Yadav

2. Other poems written by Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sumitranandan Pant, Allama Iqbal