Golpo Kothar Asor

10/12/2023

Dear Listeners, keeping our year-end holiday traditions intact, this December we will release our second audiobook along with . This will be a famous mystery and adventure novel by depicting a story set in 1930s Kolkata and Cambodia. Two favorite characters Jayanta and Manik will take the listeners on a wild ride of adventure and solving the mystery of . is another stalwart of Bengali literature and last year we released another adventure novel by him as well. We hope you will like this one too.

26/11/2023

Dear Listeners, as 2023 is drawing to a close we are gearing up to release our audio book-length novellas through our podcast like every season. This year before the Christmas holidays we will be releasing a historical novel from one of our beloved stalwarts of Bengali literature - bandyopadhay. When we started our podcast more than 3 years ago we decided that one of our goals would be to publish all of his historical novels over time in audio format. This would be our second novel. is an iconic novel set in the backdrop of a dark age of Bengal between the demise of the kingdom of and the advent of the kingdom of the . An enthralling story that has a historical connotation of that era but is entirely woven by the creative genius of . The story, however, goes deeper into the psyche of Bengal and the people reminding us of the past glory of the state where we, the Bengalis, came from. In the words of the author, we can't forget history, since if one that forgets its past loses its future too.

You will hear some new original sounds created for this piece by noted music composer and arranger from Kolkata Surojit Das. We hope during the holidays you will be able to listen to this work from Golpo Kothar Asor, enjoy the literary excellence of , and get an immersion in the history of Bengal. Please stay tuned to our next announcement.

15/07/2023

Dear Listeners of Golpo Kothar Asor, we feel excited to announce that all our 296 episodes are now available on for your listening pleasure! We were aware that many of our global listeners rely on YouTube for listening to audio podcasts but until now we were not able to make our entire episode library available on this media channel. Please visit this YouTube channel page to get a list of our episodes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkmHo9U__Kzu3LQIJgIfFIg/. We recommend that if you are new to Golpo Kothar Asor, you may choose to begin with our Two Minute Intro episode and then browse our library to pick a story of your liking. We have hundreds of gems from Bengali literature, works penned by more than thirty literary stalwarts from West Bengal. This vast audio library of Bengali literature is now available at your finger tips and at no cost to you. Reminisce your childhood, adulthood, find new meanings in the literature that you might have already read in the past or find new gems that you never got exposed to. This is a growing library and we will continue to add more notable works with our audio podcast performances every week. It will never get stale, there will always be new surprises for you to discover. Please share widely with your friends, families, coworkers, anyone that you know will appreciate this treasure of Bengali literature. Let the listening begin.

28/06/2023

28/06/2023

Dear Listeners of Golpo Kothar Asor, we are delighted to announce that we will launch our podcast on soon!! This has been our goal for a long time but owing to a lack of our personal bandwidth we could not make this happen. Finally, we are getting ready to launch our podcast in a medium that many requested us to use for quite some time. Please stay tuned to our next post. We have a large library of podcasts - so we won't be able to publish everything in one go. We will do this in steps but our goal would be to make our entire episode library available on YouTube soon. After that, we will publish every podcast concurrently on and other podcast app channels.

07/05/2023

Dear Listeners of our Podcast,
In celebration of Rabindranath Tagore's 162nd birthday, we have put together a special edition of our podcast that includes three short ageless stories of Tagore - , , and . Not only these three stories are among the most famous stories of this great man, but based on those stories three epic movies were made by three storied directors of Bengal. Tapan Sinha made into an award-winning film in 1957, Satyajit Ray made Monihara into one of his three short movies in award-winning in 1961, and Agradoot, which was a unique team of film technicians turned directors in Bengal, made Khokababur Pratyaborton into a super hit film in 1960. None of the directors tried to change the name of the stories in the movies. Tagore wrote these stories in the 1890s and interestingly those were turned into films within the late 1950s and early 1960s. The stories depict Tagore’s deep understanding of the human psyche, love, pain, and relationship, that crossed societal strata and geographical boundaries. The other common theme that we can discover in the stories is the theme of returning – central characters in the stories return to the place from where their journies began or in the case of Kabuliwala – began the return journey to the place where it all started.

We hope you will like our readings. These stories never get old or stale. The power of their tales and the sublime nature of the language keep them fresh for ages. In this weeklong celebration of our beloved poet’s birthday let’s immerse ourselves in his stories. Tune in to our podcast via your favorite podcast app. Our podcast is available for free via Apple podcast, Google podcast, Amazon Music, Audible, and many other Podcast apps.

25/07/2022

Three stories - three movies

Dear listeners, this summer we have read three iconic stories in our podcast which were used by three notable film directors for three iconic films in the 1980s. These stories explored love, affection, and human feelings and failings at three different times. Two of the stories were written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay and the third by Premendra Mitra. Dadar Kirti, Moru o Sangha, and Telenapota Abishkar are the three stories based on which Tarun Majumdar, Nabendu Ghosh, and Mrinal Sen, three Bengali film stalwarts made their award-winning movies: , ,, and respectively. If you have watched those movies in the 80s but never read those, please listen to our podcasts showcasing these three stories. For those of you who have neither watched those movies nor read the stories, we do hope that you would like our reading and then watch their movie rendition by the directors.

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15/04/2022

15/04/2022

Dear listeners, happy 1429 to all of you around the world. We wish you health, prosperity and happiness in the new year. As announced last week we have published two audio books to celebrate the auspicious occasion of . For your listening pleasure we have chosen two books, "Kapalikra Ekhono Aachhe" by Bimal Kar and "Bobir Bondhu" by Geeta Bandyopadhay. We hope that you will like both audio books. Take us with you during your long drive or morning walk this weekend. You will not be disappointed. You can listen to our via your favorite app - , , , , , , , , and .

10/04/2022

Happy Sunday, dear listeners. A week from now all over the world will be welcoming 1429. is the first day of the Bengali month that starts the new year. Many of us, if not all of us, from the have grown up knowing this date as an auspicious and special day in our lives. celebrate this day with cultural festivities and businesses welcome their customers with sweets to appreciate customer loyalty. We at Golpo Kothar Asor would like to celebrate this special day in our own way, by publishing two audio books. Our first audio book will become available for your listening pleasure next week and will be swiftly followed by the other. We have chosen Bimal Kar's "Kapalikra Ekhono Aachhe" and Gita Bandyopadhyay's "Bobir Bondhu" for this purpose. We sincerely hope that our listeners will find the audio books as enjoyable evoking many memories. If you are planning to take some time off and travel to celebrate take us with you for your listening pleasure. Please stay tuned and if you have not subscribed to our yet, please do so via your favorite app. Golpo Kothar Asor is available via , , , , . Enjoy your Sunday and watch this page for our next announcement in the coming week.

05/02/2022

Happy Saturday dear listeners. We are announcing today the launch of our . We are beginning this season with a short discussion among our readers about season 3 and various aspects of our podcast. Hope you will like it. We will be publishing our regular story reading episodes starting next weekend. We have a big plan for season 3 of our podcast. Keep listening. Keep spreading the word. Stay in touch with us via Facebook or email. Our podcasts are available via and . It is also available via streaming from our website.

27/01/2022

We started our journey about a year and a half ago during the raging pandemic. Since then we have come a long way. With 140 published episodes with 2 length novels and 5 readers, our beloved is evolving into a platform. A platform that is meant to be our tribute to the language we were born into - , as well the treasure trove of literary gems written by stalwarts of that language. We would like to preserve their priceless creations in the audio medium for anyone to everyone who loves Bengali stories to enjoy.

We are about to begin our Season 3. Before we start the season we recorded this fun with all 5 of us participating together to give you a glimpse of our evolution and express our heartfelt gratitude to you, our dear listeners. Please keep listening and spreading the word to your friends, colleagues and family members. Parama ghosh Amrita Sircar Amrapali Bose

11/12/2021

Dear listeners of Gopo Kothar Asor, today we are going to announce two significant milestones in our journey. Today, we have published the 100th episode of our Season 2, which started in January, 2021. We have been thinking about creating audiobooks based on Bengali novels for quite some time. We are happy to announce that we will be publishing 2 full novels this weekend in the form of multi-episode podcasts. Our chosen novels are - by Saradindu Bandopadhay and by Bibhuti Bhusan Bandyopadhay. We initially thought about publishing these two novels as audiobooks in Audible marketplace but then realized that many of our listeners are on other podcast apps and we did not want them to miss out on our first audiobook length productions. We hope that this mode of publication will not affect your listening experience.

The holiday season is around the corner. If you are planning to take a long drive to go somewhere far alone or with family, please take our episodes with you. We hope that our chosen novels will amplify your holiday spirit and bring back happy memories. If you are still not a subscribed listener we encourage you to subscribe to our podcast via any of your favorite channels , , and . Let us know how you felt after listening to our audiobooks and what you would like us to read next. Amrita Sircar Parama ghosh

28/11/2021

Dear listeners of Golpo Kothar Asor podcast, this weekend we have introduced another new voice. Amrita Sircar is known to many of our listeners who are in the San Francisco Bay Area as well to some in Kolkata, India. She is an accomplished Master of Ceremonies, Bengali voice artist and a singer. We are delighted to have Amrita in our team. If you are already a subscriber of our podcast please download her first podcast published this weekend. If you are not a subscriber yet please subscribe via your favorite podcast channel. We are available via and . We are preparing for some more exciting episodes to lighten up your holiday mood during the upcoming .

30/08/2021

Dear listeners, today we are delighted to introduce a new voice in our podcast Parama Ghosh and she has introduced a new iconic writer . From the very beginning of our journey, we wanted to present the leading women authors from Bengal and their amazing creations. We are delighted to have another voice among us to continue that effort. If you have not subscribed to our podcast yet, please do so. You will not regret it. Our podcast is available via and .

03/08/2021

Our global listener friends - as we are nearing our one year anniversary, we would like to thank you all for listening to our podcasts. It gives us immense pleasure to think that the literary creation of the storied authors from Bengal are reaching a large number of people via this audio medium. We have reached 10,000 downloads of our podcasts in July. When we first started we didn't think we would be able to get to this milestone. We are filled with humility after achieving this. This would not be possible without your support and encouragement. Thank you and please keep listening. We are going to announce another milestone shortly and with that a special episode will also be launched both in podcast as well as some snippet in our FB page. Our podcasts are available via , , , and .

11/07/2021

In this centenary year of his birth, it is exciting to see the many tributes in many ways to ! While Ray's has become popular via movies and TV serials, his short stories are not that very well known even within various generations of the Bengali communities.
Like many others, we watched “ ” on , which presents movie interpretations of four of Ray’s short stories. As we did, we had the thought of reading the originals in our podcast of Bengali stories, so any of our listeners who might not have read them before can acquaint themselves with the original as Ray wrote them, and those who have can have the pleasure of tasting the original vintage flavors again. Enjoy our own tribute to this master story teller via our podcasts this weekend. You can listen to our podcasts via Podcasts , Podcasts, , Music and .

28/05/2021

Happy Friday to our listeners! Happy weekend to our North America-based listeners. We will post our during this long weekend. It is an important milestone for us. Hope our listeners are enjoying our Bengali storytelling. We are always open to your recommendation of stories so please email us what you would like to listen to by visiting our website www.golpokotharasor.org. If you are a subscriber to our podcast - thank you. If you are interested in listening to Bengali stories please consider subscribing using your favorite podcast streaming service - , , and . Take us with you during your long weekend drives, morning or evening walks. You won't regret it😊.

09/05/2021

To celebrate 's birthday we are releasing 3 episodes comprising of 3 short stories by the immortal author. Tagore's writings have shaped our minds and imagination for generations. While his poems, songs, and dance dramas are very well known his short stories are not so much. We have picked three stories of different flavors to offer our tribute to this transcendent genius from Bengal. Please check out our episodes by subscribing to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. You can also stream from our website www.golpokotharasor.org

01/05/2021

In May, we would like to re-introduce to our listeners another stalwart of Bengali literature Premendra Mitra. He was a poet, novelist, science fiction writer, cinematographer, and movie director. We will read some of his short stories in our episodes.

25/04/2021

We would like to introduce a new voice to our listeners in our recently published podcast "Porikkha" (Exam Day), a short story by Nabanita Deb Sen. In our effort to preserve gems from our rich Bengali literature we knew that we have a hole - so far we did not include stories by our powerful legendary women authors. With the introduction of our guest story teller artist, Mahasweta Mukhopadhyay, we tried to fill that gap.

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18/04/2021

We extend our best wishes to all our listeners for the Bengali New Year 1428. To celebrate the New Year we have released a few episodes of our podcast. Please subscribe to your favorite podcast channel by visiting our website www.golpokotharasor.org.

08/04/2021

We have posted our episode recently. Our content library is continuing to grow by leaps and bounds. Check us out if you haven't done so already. We have some exciting episodes coming up in April and May. Please stay tuned.