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The Literary City

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EXPLOCITY PODCASTS presents THE LITERARY CITY With Ramjee Chandran. This literary podcast is devoted to books and authors. It features interviews with a stellar line up of authors, both world famous and also authors who are being discovered—the only criterion being the quality of the prose. Topics are generally literary and include history, biographies, literature and literary fiction. The Literary City podcasts celebrates authors, poets, playwrights, grammar police, literary lounge lizards...and, oh yes, a cunning linguist or ten.

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The Importance Of Being Seated Opposite Oscar Wilde And The Love Story In Wordle 18.01.2022 32:23

Send us Fan Mail If there is, at all, succession in life cycles, Prasad was a child of the Roaring Twenties. And not— as many might fall to wrongly assume—a lapsed constituent of the flower power years of the 60s, nor of the decade of anti-establishment protest that was the 70s. Free of dogma, and always curious about where style is headed next, Prasad Bidapa is Downton Abbey meets The Devil Wear...

How To Hurl A Critic With Great Force. Also Bodice Ripper Romances. 11.01.2022 33:30

Send us Fan Mail Anita Nair is one of India's best known authors, whose books have been translated variously and widely, into many languages and across the world. Anita and Ramjee Chandran talk about literary critics with some funny examples of the acerbic wit that gives a knowledgeable and competent literary critic the right to "biting sarcasm". Anita is candid about her reaction t...

When Schubert Met Shakespeare. And Spilling The Beans About Coat-tails 05.01.2022 34:58

Send us Fan Mail What do you ask a guy who is one of the country's foremost classical pianists, a Shakespeare fanboi, a theatre company founder and now, an actor on a Netflix series? Well, Ramjee Chandran asks Preetam Koilpillai everything. In a fun, laughter-speckled interview, they discuss the problems with stilted education methods and the snobbery surrounding western classical music, whic...

Arm Wrestling Women At Koshy's. And What's A "Duffer"? 04.01.2022 22:08

Send us Fan Mail As everybody knows, the principal measure of gender equality is arm wrestling. Our guest on the show today is well-known actor and TV boss, Darius "Tuffy" Taraporvala. Tuffy handles his roles easily, whether he's playing a petulant Mozart, a clueless spy Bernard Boursicot, caught in his honey trap with Shi Pei Pu, a Peking opera singer or one of the Marx Brothers. R...

Trailer 08.12.2021 1:42

Send us Fan Mail Explocity Podcasts presents The Literary City With Ramjee Chandran. This podcast is devoted to words—written, spoken or signed. Words rule everything...song lyrics, a movie script, a play, prose, poetry or a podcast. We will feature readers and writers, publishers, people of prose and poetry and playwrights. The Literary City podcasts will feature English language teachers, gramma...