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Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsŚakoontalá Act 1 - Part 1Herein is a translation of Kalidasa’s famous literary masterpiece Abhijnanam Shakuntalam, probably the best work produced in the Sanskritic literature, by Sir Monier Williams, the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford, as done in the early 19th century. Innumerable archaic English words have been used in this play but they only add to the beauty of it, rather than making it what one may deem difficult. The act has been narrated until Dushyanta’s entry into the hermitage of Saint Kanwa and the remaining part of the Act 1 will be out in the next episode. Sinc...
2021-09-2618 min
Masterclass With Fearless EducatorYoung Minds | Why do we think the way we do | Souhardya De - President’s Awardee Columnist & PodcasterAbout Speaker: Souhardya De is a seventeen-year-old Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of London, an author, art and culture columnist, and podcaster. He is the recipient of the Rashtriya Bal Shakti Puraskar, the nation’s highest honour for civilians under 18, and has been presented with the honorary Colonelcy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, bestowed upon him by the Governor Andy Beshear, for his contributions to the revitalisation and popularisation of Indian art, culture and heritage. His upcoming work based on the Mughal India will be out with Rupa Publications India. #YoungMinds #PoweredByTheSmartClass #Youngchangemakers
2021-09-0223 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsAlberuni’s India: The Reign of the Hindu ShahisThis extract taken from Alberuni’s India by Dr. Sachau tells us about the ruling Shahis of Kabul, their origin, the benevolence they possessed and the dynasty’s end. Traveller Alberuni, having been someone in the service of Mahmud, was aware of the Shahis for quite sometime since it were the Shahis who had been contending against the prince Mahmud for time immemorial, and this is why it is no longer a surprise that Alberuni wrote about the Shahis of Kabul in the very first chapter of his work ‘Tarikh-i-Hind’ the English translation of which has, in this episode, been narrated
2021-08-0909 min
The ClippersA Sketch Of The Sky ft. Souhardya De | Season 01 Episode 07 | The ClippersA Sketch Of The Sky is a talk show hosted by Riyad Maroof Hassan and you are hearing Season 01 Episode 07 featuring Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2021 awardee and young renowned author and historian Souhardya De, produced by The Clippers.
Souhardya De FRAS (born 2004) is an Indian writer, columnist, and podcaster, from Midnapore, West Bengal. He is a columnist for the Sunday Guardian and a recipient of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, a civilian award for Indian citizens under the age of 18, in 2021.
He is best known for his contributions to...
2021-07-0110 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsWestern Poetic ideals and the Indian Classics, ft. Harsimran KaurHarsimran Kaur is a well acclaimed, sixteen-year-old author of 'The Best I Can Do Is To Write My Heart Out' and 'I am Perfectly Imperfect,' self-published at 14 and 15, respectively (written under the pseudonym of Harsimran Kaur Mand). She is an Asia Book of Records and India Book of Records record holder who has also contributed to several anthologies. She recently published her third book, 'Clementines on my Poetry Table: A Poetry Collection' on 17 May 2021. She has written over 150+ poems till now. An English- language enthusiast, she is also a part of the prestigious literary forum of her city.
She...
2021-06-0320 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsSIGNIFICANCE OF THE TEMPLE PLANTATIONS IN ANCIENT INDIA | Ft. Prasiddhi SinghPrasiddhi Singh is a social entrepreneur and environmental activist, hailing from the Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu. She is well noted for having led the plantation programme of thousands of trees and fourteen forests all across India, with a specific focus in the derogated Tamil region, through the ‘Prasiddhi Forest Foundation’ she has established. In Puducherry, Prasiddhi had regularly been carrying out environmental activities.
2021-04-1513 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and Us‘Where Horror meets History’ with K. Hari KumarCosmographia brings you an all new Season 2 wherein our host Souhardya De, interacts with luminaries from across various genres of writing to discuss how they’ve been inspired to take up what they’ve been doing for all these years and what messages they have conveyed to the world! Season 2, Episode 1 begins with Hari Kumar Krishnamoorthy, better known by his pen name K Hari Kumar, one of India’s most acclaimed horror novelists and screenwriter who talks about his life, his upbringing, the love and fascination he had for horror and the most powerful of all, how fear can be used t...
2021-02-2759 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsGender Equality in Classical AntiquityGender Equality in Classical Antiquity is an article written by Souhardya and published in the book, “Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy for a Sustainable Development SDG 5” (ISBN: 9789387537828). This episode talks about the various dimensions of Gender Equality as has been narrated down in various classical tales and been researched upon by scholars throughout the ages!
2021-01-2312 min
Chat with ChithraChat With Chithra - Souhardya De, FRASFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatWithChithra/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chithraramakrishnan/ Instagram: @chithraramakrishnanHello dear friends I am really excited to share this interesting episode with the young writing enthusiast, columnist and Indian author of Historical Fiction, Souhardya De FRAS. Please do like, share and subscribe to the channel. See you next time with yet another interesting and exciting personality!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chithra-ramakrishnan/message
2021-01-1234 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsMedusa: The Winged GorgonMedusa, the vile monstrous feminine mortal with snakes instead of hair, is considered by many to be one of the most amazingly dangerous creatures ever to have existed in Greco-Roman Mythology. But was she always as such? If not, how did a maiden become so vile that she came to be regarded as “Medusa: The Winged Gorgon” with the Gorgon sisters having been classified as monstrous deities of the underworld? Perseus, the Greek hero is said to have slain the vociferous monster after it gave him a real, tough fight. Was he able to defeat Medusa all by himself or did...
2021-01-0415 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsNagara: An Ancient Indo-Dionysiac MetropolisDisclaimer: This episode of the podcast is an audio retelling of a column of the same name by Souhardya in the Sunday Guardian. “Amongst the inestimable Olympians that rule the various natural forces, planets and emotions in the entire ethereal universe, one is Dionysus (Roman: Bacchus), the Greek god of wine, fertility and ecstasy. His cult (the cult of Dionysus) is widely associated with the Orphic cult, the latter having been found by Orpheus, a famed musician and former Argonaut.” Dionysus had, in his infancy, travelled from the West to the East and taught its people to cultivate and culture vine...
2020-12-2008 min
Balancing the Act- Bagpackerme - Travel PodcastBishnupur: A Royal indulgence to Indian History – Souhardya De| Ep #20Episode finale and here is what I had in store for you. A 16 years old Indian author of historical fiction and art! Souhardya De who is also a fellow podcaster - The podcast is entitled “Cosmographia: The Graeco Romans, the Egyptians and Us” on Apple, JioSaavn, Gaana, Google podcast!
We speak in details about how he became a writer at such an early age and what influences him to travel. In our conversation, you will here about the various passion he pursues and his trip to Bishnupur. The place will amuse you to show its rich architecture, musi...
2020-12-0613 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsOvid and his ‘Ages of Mankind’To classify Ovid as one of the elegiac successors in Latin litterateur irradiance, after Callimachus, Virgil or Lucretius would be an erroneous interpretation, since critic James Henry, someone who had entirely analysed Virgil’s Aeneid has said that Ovid was in his own terms, “'a more natural, more genial, more cordial, more imaginative, more playful poet... than [Virgil] or any other Latin poet.” Publius Ovidius Naso, better known by the abbreviation ‘Ovid’ and popularly through his work entitled “Metamorphoses” was a Latin poet who lived during the times of Augustus, the Roman Emperor who had banished him towards Tiempo, a small island o...
2020-12-0209 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsMegasthenes, Heracles and the Graeco-Indian Classical AntiquityThis podcast episode, hosted, written and produced by Souhardya De, is an audio retelling of a column of the same name by Souhardya for the Sunday Guardian. “Civilisations that flourished back to when man worshipped nature as the primordial force from which originated beings, were bound to have resemblances in ideologies, texts, traditions and philosophies. Greeks and Indians are two distinct races, separated by thousands of stadia, divided by natural barriers that include but are not limited to, mountains, highlands, rivers and seas, between which was once extant, the mighty Achaemenid Empire of Persia.”
When Megasthenes was sent to India as t...
2020-11-1811 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsThe Egyptian Heracles: Heryshaf of Heracleopolis MagnaThe Egyptian Heracles: Heryshaf of Heracleopolis Magna is an audio retelling of my article of the same name on ScrollStack. This narrates about the similarities and differences of various Egyptian gods with the Greek God of strength Hercules. The Greeks had a tendency to Hellenize every place they visited, which thus led them into creating the Interpretatio graeca, one that aims to establish a comparative discourse on cross cultural similarities in literature and mythology between various civilisations. This is the third full episode of Cosmographia: the Graeco Romans, the Egyptians and Us, a podcast that aims to bring about an...
2020-11-0306 min
AlternateTake ReviewsMovie Review : Borat Subsequent MoviefilmSouhardya Pramanik wrote about the second film of the Borat movie series, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. The written interview is available on our Medium page: www.medium.com/alternatetake. You can follow us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/alternatetake123 . You can also follow us on Instagram by searching : _alternatetake_ or (https://www.instagram.com/_alternatetake_/) . Thanks for listening to our podcast. Do send us your feedback.
2020-10-3005 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsApollo: The Defeatist RomanticApollo, the most handsome of all the gods that reside at Olympus, in a strike by Cupid’s arrow embraced Daphne, a mortal princess and the daughter of river god Peneus as his soulmate. He wandered to faraway lands, chasing the maiden wherever she went, and tried hard in fulfilling his objective. Howbeit, it was soon crystal clear that Daphne was destined to be a virgin and Apollo could do nothing other than boast of his regal, godly identity and try to win her over. Did he ultimately succeed in making Daphne his bride or did this romantic affair remain si...
2020-10-1708 min
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsIntroduction of Rainbow - 1The rainbow, a natural phenomenon noted for its beauty and mystical appearance, has been a favorite component of mythology throughout history. This podcast episode, the first in Cosmographia, talks about the Greek approach to the introduction of rainbow and personification through the goddess Iris, often kept in conflict with Hermes, both being regarded as the messenger of the Olympians.
2020-10-0907 minCosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and UsCosmographia: An IntroductionFrom Greece to Rome, from Egypt to India, everything is bound by that same thread of knowledge: ‘logos’, using logic to make sense of the world.
Cosmographia (Latin for the ‘World’) is a podcast on Spotify that will deal with the cross cultural and philosophical dimensions of the various mythological tales that ultimately weave human philosophy together.
How are Orphism and the cult of Dionysus similar? What are the exact resemblances between the Hindu pantheon and the Greco Roman pantheon? If Apollo is the Sun God in the Greek mythology, Surya in Indian myths and Phoebus is such in Rome, why do t...
2020-10-0201 min
Subtle LyricsPoetic Seasons of the PandemicChetna Keer comes up once again to recite her poetry in demand for the Subtle Lyrics viewers!
2020-05-2613 minSubtle LyricsWhat is a poem? Listen to this podcast to understand.The Atlantic Insights into Poetry!!!
2020-05-1913 min
Subtle LyricsRabindranath Tagore: An ApprobationRabindranath Tagore, as he stands tall, on his 150th Birth Anniversary!!!
2020-05-0809 minSubtle LyricsBallads with TaneeshaTaneesha De, Singer and Composer, tells us something about her experiences with Poetry. Her insights are well defined and are a must listen! Stay tuned for Episode 7.
2020-05-0412 minSubtle LyricsLyrical Talks with Chetna KeerAn author, social media satirist and columnist at The Hindustan Times, expresses her views on poetry and invigorates the budding poets with her aura of enthusiasm about the same.
2020-04-2826 minSubtle LyricsPoetic Talks with Faiz YusufAuthor and Poet, Faiz Yusuf shares his insights into poetry and poetic works through an invigorating discussion where he shares the introspects through his perspectives into poetry.
2020-04-2023 minSubtle LyricsVerses with ShaliniOur guest, Author and Columnist Shalini P Sawkar expresses her views on poetry. She gives out some valuable tips and tricks for the purpose! Listen to this insightful episode and better your introspects into poetry!
2020-04-1313 minSubtle LyricsHope with JayatiPoems amidst COVID 19 crisis displaying emphasis of hope, the shattering ray of light, that people around the globe are striving for.
2020-04-0604 minSubtle LyricsWhy should you write poetry?Poetry is meant to be felt. It's meant to have emotions in itself. Write poetry and win the world.
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