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Spot Dada is a 10-episode fictional series from Audible Suno, starring national award-winning actor Swanand Kirkire, Rajeshwari Sachdev and Neena Kulkarni. For the past 40 years, one man in Bollywood has seen it all.

Two young manager graduates, with nothing similar in family backgrounds and temperament, join a New York international bank on the same day - and take entirely different routes to success.

Audible prastut karta hai Aakhri Stoppage, ek Audible Original, in association with Hind Yugm. Lekhak Vimal Chandra Pandey ke shabd.

A murder has taken place in a tony Mumbai neighbourhood. A prime suspect, Prashanth, keeps his silence in the interrogation room as Inspector Khan plays the tapes of his therapy sessions. The explosive tapes, surreptitiously recorded by therapist Shaily Gupta, slowly reveal shocking information about Prashanth, about his relationship with his girlfriend Sonya, about the therapist and about the gruesome murder in question.

Celeste Varick has a simple plan. Charter a plane to a remote island on Lake Michigan, hike into the woods, find the last remaining wormholes on earth, and ya know, walk into one. For reasons! Okay, maybe not quite simple, given she has no idea where she’ll land in the timeline, or what she’ll need to do to fix a past she can't move on from. Perhaps she could use a little help…

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. 

"The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete," begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, "until a year of delicate manoeuvring established Michael Corleone as the most powerful Family chief in the United States." The Godfather: The Lost Years takes place in the years 1955-65, but it is built upon the story of that "year of delicate political manoeuvring" and how, in winning the battle of that year, Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war.

Diwan-e-Ghalib is the famous collection of poetic works of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

Welcome to Kahaanipur Junction. This is not merely a railway junction but a place where everyone is a character and their lives are plots of some interesting stories which are waiting to be told.

Audible prastut karta hai The Black Hunter, ek Audible Original, in association with Hind Yugm. Lekhak Saurabh Kudesia ke shadb. Kidnapping ke baad hosh udaati ajeeb halaat main laute logon ke band dimaag kholne ke liye Central Crime Investigation (CCI) director Shridhar ne apne puraane dost aur CCI department ke purv criminologist Dr. Vedi ki madad li. Apahriton ke band dimaag ki parton main chhupe dharm, adhyaatm, manovigyaan ke hairat-angej, vichitr aur aprakat mayajaal ko suljhaane ke liye Dr. Vedi ko uss vichitr ‘Nark’ ko todna tha jise iss khel ke Mastermind ne jivon ke karmon ka nyay karne ke liye rachaa thaa. Disclaimer- Ye show vyasyak shrotaayon ke liye banayi gayi hai. Yeh karyakram poori tarah kaalpanik hai aur vaastavik vyakityon, vyavsaayon, sthaanon ya ghatnaayon ke saath koi bhi samaanta maatr sanyog hai. Iss series ka uddyeshya kisi vyakti, sansthan, jaati, samudaay, nasl ya dharm ko thes pahunchaana ya badnaam karna ya kisi sansthan ya jeevit ya mrit vyakti ko badnaam karna nahin hai

The call disconnected. Vijay put his phone down and sat thinking. His mind spun. Who was this mysterious caller? He clearly had an urgent need to meet. So why wait for six months? His explanation didn’t make sense. What preparation did he have to do? And what was he going to reveal to Vijay when they did meet? There were too many questions that were unanswered. Six months from today this puzzle would unravel. He would have to wait.

He was meant to die on the battlefield. Karna, once the greatest warrior, survived the war that brought the world to its knees. Now, he lives in quiet obscurity, a teacher at a humble Gurukul, trying to bury the ghosts of Kurukshetra beneath lessons of peace. But the past never truly dies.

Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife, Mamta, spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters. Anjini, married but an incorrigible flirt; Binodini, very worried about her children's hissa in the family property; Chandrakanta, who eloped with a foreigner on the eve of her wedding; Eshwari, who is just a little too popular at Modern School, Barakhamba Road; and the judge's favourite (though fathers shouldn t have favourites): the quietly fiery Debjani.

Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

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गृहयुद्ध में तबाह सीरिया वहाँ की स्त्रियों के लिए भयावह यातनाघर बन गया। चोटिल देह और आत्मा लिए भारतीय मूल की एक सीरियाई लड़की भारत आती है। यहाँ उसकी मुलाक़ात भारतीय सेना के उस ऑफ़िसर से होती है, जो आतंकवाद से लड़ने में अपना बहुत-कुछ गँवा चुका है।

நாம் வாழும் மண்ணுக்குக் கீழ் ஏழு உலகங்கள் உள்ளன என்பது புராண நம்பிக்கை. ஏழாவது உலகம் பாதாளம். ஆனால் புராணத்தில் மட்டும்தான் அப்படியா? நிஜவாழ்க்கையில் இல்லையா என்ன? நாம் வாழும் இந்த சமூகத்துக்குக் கீழே நம்மால் மிதிக்கப்பட்டு அமுக்கப்பட்ட எத்தனை சமூகங்கள் நம் கவனத்துக்கு வராமலேயே இருந்து கொண்டிருக்கின்றன!

Rekhta Mushaira is a tribute to the splendid legacy of Urdu and celebration of its timeless beauty.

A collection of stories about the revered godess in her different forms.

Vishesh is a dreamer who is driven by his passion for writing and words. But like most Indian middle-class families, his parents are impatient to see him settled in a government job. Despite all obstacles, making no complaints, he continues to follow the hard path, holding up the promise he had made to himself, trying to fulfil his father's wishes and failing over and over.