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StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani lovers
क्या आपको कहानी सुनना अच्छा लगता है? स्टोरीजैम में सुनिए कहानियां, कुछ जानी पहचानी, कुछ अनजानी. प्रेमचंद के गाँव हो या मन्नू भंडारी का कनाट प्लेस, भीष्म साहनी का पंजाब या फणीश्वर नाथ रेनू का बिहार, देश भर की चुनिंदा कहानियां आप यहाँ सुन सकते हैं तो सुनो कहानी स्टोरीजैम में आरती की ज़ुबानी ! I read aloud stories/ kahaniyan to you. Stories that are sometimes well known, sometimes lesser known, always memorable! From Premchand to Mannu Bhandari, Bhisham Sahani to Renu, you're sure to find a story…
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StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversVadhu Chahiye | Arvind Gokhale | वधू चाहिए अरविंद गोखले | Hindi Kahani | Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
माधव शादी करना चाहता है, लेकिन दुविधा में है। यह कहानी सिर्फ़ एक दुल्हन की तलाश की नहीं है, बल्कि अपेक्षाओं, पूर्वाग्रहों और दूसरे इंसान की कमियों को स्वीकार न…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversEk Rangbaaz Gaon Ki Bhumika | Phanishwarnath Renu | StoryJam Audio Story
Well-known writer Phanishwar Nath Renu’s stories were set in rural India and carried the fragrance of village life, the lyricality of language, and, at the…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAkbari Lota | Annapoornanand Verma | अक़बरी लोटा | अन्नपूर्णानंद वर्मा | Hindi Kahani |
अन्नपूर्णानंद वर्मा (1895–1962) हिंदी के लोकप्रिय हास्य-व्यंग्य लेखक थे। अपनी सहज भाषा, विनोद और सामाजिक विसंगतियों पर चुटीली नज़र के लिए वे जाने जाते हैं।…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAmar Bel | Ismat Chughtai | StoryJam Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
Ismat Chughtai needs no introduction. A pillar of Urdu literature, she wrote fearlessly about oppressive gender roles and hypocrisy of the middle and…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversChandrakanta | Devkinandan khatri | Audio Story | StoryJam
f you grew up glued to TV, watching ‘Chandrakanta’ the series, you have only a surface understanding of what the OG Chandrakanta was all about. A sensation of…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversVapsi | Usha Priyamvada | वापसी | उषा प्रियंवदा |Hindi Kahani | Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
उषा प्रियमवदा भारतीय मूल की अमेरिकी प्रोफेसर हैं, जो विस्कॉन्सिन विश्वविद्यालय, मैडिसन में दक्षिण एशियाई अध्ययन की सेवानिवृत्त प्रोफेसर हैं। उनका जन्म कानपुर…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversNitthale ki Diary| Harishankar Parsai | Humor | Aio Stories | निठल्ले की डायरी | हरिशंकर परसाई
निठ्ठलेपन को नाहक ही बुरा माना जाता है। निठल्लापन आपकी आंखें खोल सकता है और आपको ऐसी चीजें दिखा सकता है जिन्हें आप अपने रोजमर्रा के जीवन में देख ही नहीं पाते।…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversDoosri Naak | Yashpal | दूसरी नाक | यशपाल | Hindi Kahani | Audio Storytelling
When I began to look for more information about the writer, Yashpal. I was astounded. What I found out could be a whole episode in itself. Yashpal could be the…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAkhiri Vida | Suryabala | आख़िरी विदा | सूर्यबाला | Audio Story StoryJam
Can love sustain the ravages of time and distance? What when love is boundless but time is not? This is the story of complicated but reciprocal love between…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPinty ka Sabun | Sanjay Khati | पिंटी का साबुन | संजय खाती | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories | StoryJam
Here’s a heartfelt funny and tender story of growing up with less but dreaming big. Of getting an unexpected bounty but making enemies in return. What prized…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversNail cutter | Uday Prakash | नेल कटर | उदय प्रकाश | Hindi Kahani | Audio Story | StoryJam
Uday Prakash is known for his sharp observations and critique of social structures in which the poor and marginalized find themselves trapped. The story I tell…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversKosi ka Ghatwar | Shekhar Joshi | कोसी का घटवार | शेखर जोशी | Hindi Kahani |StoryJam Audio Stories
When Shekhar Joshi’s collection of stories, “Kosi Ka Ghatwar’ came out in 1958, even he would not have imagined the fame and acclaim that the title story got…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPrayashchit | Bhagwati Charan Verma | प्रायश्चित | भगवती चरण वर्मा | Audio Story | StoryJam
Bhagwati Charan Verma was a man of many talents. While his contemporaries like Munshi Premchand often told stories of rural India, Verma’s characters and plots…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPartition - A Short Story by Swayam Prakash | पार्टीशन | स्वयं प्रकाश | Narrated by Arti | StoryJam
------ About this channel: Hello, I am Arti and you are listening to StoryJam. Here on my page, you can listen to Hindi and Urdu Stories by famous writers of…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversLaila ki Shaadi | Radhakrishan | लैला की शादी | राधाकृष्ण | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
Writer Radhakrishan wrote this story in the midst of WW II. The war may have been fought in a far off land, but we bore the repercussions too. Everything from…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversEk Shikari ki Sachhi Kahani | Nizam Shah | एक शिकारी की सच्ची कहानी | निज़ाम शाह | Audio Stories
The best stories are the ones that take you on an unforgettable ride. You go tumbling through places you have never been before, taking turns between belief…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAfter Twenty Years | Bees Saal Baad | O Henry | Audio Stories | StoryJam #170
Some storytellers are for every season. O’Henry is one such. We grew up on his stories in English but also some of us will recall the wonderful televised…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPullover | Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena | पुलोवर | सर्वेश्वर दयाल सक्सेना | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
Sarweshwar Dayal Saxena’s children’s poems are part of our collective childhood. His poems for grown ups too have a candid, reflective quality that speak of…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAnadi No. 1 | Abid Surti | अनाड़ी नंबर 1 | आबिद सुरती | Hindi Kahani | Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
Abid Surti is an Indian painter, author, cartoonist, journalist, environmentalist, playwright and screenwriter. A diploma holder from J. J. School of Art in…
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Swami aur Ganit Ka Sawal | R K Narayan | स्वामी और गणित का सवाल | आर के नारायण | Audio Stories
The world is made up of two kinds of people. Those who love maths and those who never forgot that episode of Swami and Friends where they saw themselves in…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversGattu Bhai, Baagh aur Paani ka Lota | Ashok Pande
Ashok Pande writes in many voices. He writes travelogues and poetry, he has written a book about forgotten women of the world and a lot about his corner of…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversJhakki Babu | Satyajit Ray | StoryJam Audio Stories
From the great filmmaker and storyteller of our times. Ray a master of his craft of creating images and characters brings to life Jhakki Babu in the moody…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversKashmiri Seb | Premchand | कश्मीरी सेब | प्रेमचंद | Hindi story | Audio Story
Premchand wrote boldly and fearlessly about his times. He wrote of abject poverty and desperation, he wrote against feudalism and for betterment of women. He…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversKarz Utar Jaata Hai, Ehsaan Nahi Utarta | Rahi Masoom Raza
It is in times of great strife that the people around us reveal themselves. The fair weather friends leave, making more room for those who ask no questions or…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversEk Stree Ke Kaarname | Suryabala | एक स्त्री के कारनामे | सूर्यबाला | Hindi Kahani |Audio Story
In this story, Suryabala has written with great tenderness and compassion of the destructive storm that rages in a woman's heart, while on the surface she…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversLadkiyon ke Baap | Vishnu Khare | बेटियों के बाप | विष्णु खरे
Vishnu Khare was a poet, translator, literary and film critic, journalist and scriptwriter. He was a polyglot, proficient in several languages, including…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversQurratulain Hyder | Koharay Ke Peechhay | क़ुर्रतुलऐन हैदर | कोहरे के पीछे | Audio Story| Hindi Urdu Stories | Listen tou storries you always wants to read!
Qurratulain Hyder could weave a story in a manner that was quick in its pace and yet lingering in its mood. Her characters, often from urban backgrounds, live…
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Apna Apna Bhagya | Jainendra kumar | अपना अपना भाग्य | जैनेंद्र कुमार |Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
An important name among the post Premchand novelists, Jainendra Kumar was known for his psychoanalytic writing. He had the ability to discover hidden meanings…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversChief ki Dawat | Bhisham Sahani | चीफ़ की दावत | भीष्म साहनी | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | StoryJam
Listen to Hindi kahaniyan and Urdu Kahaniyan by famous as well as lesser known writers. You will find here stories from everyone from Premchand to Ismat…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversUmrao Jaan Ada | Mirza Hadi Ruswa | उमराव जान अदा | मिर्ज़ा हादी रुसवा | Hindi Urdu Kahani
Mirza Hadi Ruswa recounts in the preface of his novel, Umrao Jaan Ada, how he came to write the story of a courtesan from Lucknow. His friend Munshi Ahmad…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBirthday | Swayam Prakash | बर्डे | स्वयं प्रकाश | StoryJam #157
With a diploma in mechanical engineering, Swayam Prakash worked many jobs- in shipping, zinc industry and postal department but his heart was not in anything…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPuranda aur Tel ka Kanastar | Ashok Pande | पूरनदा और तेल का कनस्तर | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
Ashok Pande writes. In a world increasingly driven by the “business” of writing, Ashok Pande just keeps writing regardless. He translates works because he…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversनींबू का स्वाद | उषा किरण खान | Nimbu Ka Swaad | Usha Kiran Khan Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
पदामश्री सम्मानित हिंदी और मैथिली भाषाओं की साहित्यकार उषा किरण खान ने उपन्यास, कहानियाँ और बच्चों के लिए लेखन किया। उनकी पचास से अधिक पुस्तकें प्रकाशित हो…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBiradari | Gulsher Khan Shaani | बिरादरी | गुलशेर खाँ शानी | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | StoryJam
गुलशेर ख़ाँ शानी का जन्म 16 मई, 1933 में जगदलपुर में हुआ।वे एक प्रसिद्ध कथाकार एवं साहित्य अकादमी की पत्रिका 'समकालीन भारतीय साहित्य' और 'साक्षात्कार' के…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversNa Kinni Na | Suryabala | ना किन्नी ना | सूर्यबाला | Hindi Kahani | Audio Story ॰ Storyjam
सूर्यबाला जी को वर्ष २०२४ के व्यास सम्मान की बहुत बहुत बधाई! सूर्यबाला का जीवन परिचय, व्यक्तित्व, कृतित्व और उपलब्धियॉ…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversMujhe Chand Chahiye | Surendra Verma | मुझे चाँद चाहिए | सुरेंद्र वर्मा Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories | StoryJam
Varsha Vashisht speaks her mind, calmly and clearly. Just the way girls her age and of her social background were not supposed to. When Surendra Verma created…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversShah Mohammad Ka Tanga | Ali Akbar Natiq | शाह मोहम्मद का ताँगा | अली अकबर नातिक़ | Urdu Hindi Story
Ali Akbar Natiq was born in a village in the Punjab province of Pakistan, where he received his initial education. Later due to financial constraints he…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversOscar Wilde's 'The Devoted Friend' translated into Hindi by Dharamvir Bharti as 'निःस्वार्थ मित्रता'
When two literary giants meet, not in person but in a common creative playground called ‘translation’, the results are always interesting and satisfying. Oscar…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversRabbi |Naresh Kaushik | रब्बी | नरेश कौशिक Hindi Kahani | Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories | Storyjam
The stories of losing home are the most profoundly disturbing. Yet these “stories” are the reality of millions of people across the world, everyday. Today…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversकैसा था प्रेमचंद का बचपन? | क़लम का सिपाही (अंश) | अमृत राय | Qalam Ka Sipahi (Excerpt)| Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
If Premchand was looking down from the heavens above at school kids across Hindi speaking India, reading the same two or three stories of his, with the teacher…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversJai Gange | Rajendra Yadav | जय गंगे | राजेंद्र यादव | Storyjam | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
हिन्दी के सुपरिचित लेखक, कहानीकार, उपन्यासकार व आलोचक राजेंद्र यादव हिन्दी साहित्य में ‘नयी कहानी आंदोलन' के संस्थापक माने जाते हैं। मुंशी प्रेमचन्द द्वारा सन्…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAsli Baat | Nasira Sharma | असली बात | नासिरा शर्मा | Hindi Urdu Kahani Podcast
Sahitya Akademi and Vyas Aamman awardee Nasira Sharma pens a poignant story of how amidst mindless violence and bleak poverty, humanity sprouts in small…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBeta Kiska | Vijaydan Detha | बेटा किसका ? | विजयदान देथा | Rajasthan | Hindi Story | Audio Story
Vijaydan Detha, popularly knowne as “Bijji”, spent several decades collecting folk stories from in and around his village Borunda in rajasthan. In their…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversयही सच है | मन्नू भंडारी | Yahi Sach Hai | Mannu Bhandari | Hindi Audio Story | Kahani | StoryJam
Love is a complex emotion. One that few have been able to understand, let alone explain. Mannu Bhandari delves into the mind of a young woman at crossroads, as…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversMughalon Ne Sultanat Baksh Di | Bhagwati Charan Verma| मुग़लों ने सल्तनत बक्श दी | भगवतीचरण वर्मा |
मुग़लों ने अपनी सल्तनत अंग्रेज़ों को कब और कैसे बक्शी, ये जानिए गप्पबाज़ हीरो जी से। लेकिन अगर वाकयी हिंदुस्तान पर अंग्रेज़ी हुकूमत के पीछे की कहानी पता लगानी…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversRaag Darbari | Shrilal Shukla | राग दरबारी | श्रीलाल शुक्ल | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories | StoryJam
Shrilal Shukla was a civil servant and a very observant one too! What he saw around him the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh and in the corridors of power in big…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversSarkari Ghar| Ajay Jugran | सरकारी घर | अजेय जुगरान | Hindi Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories | StoryJam
There are some relationships that have copious amounts written about them, and then there are a handful that we seldom read about. One such is that of a…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversFence Ke Idhar Aur Udhar | Gyanranjan | फेंस के इधर और उधर | ज्ञानरंजन Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
1960’s was an era of literary experimentation and introspection. The stories often reflected on the juggernaut of rapid urbanisation and the social changes…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversDajyu | Shekhar Joshi | Story from Uttarakhand | Hindi Audio Story
Shekhar Joshi was born in Almora, Uttarakhand. His stories carried his home in them. An important voice in the ‘Nayi Kahani’ movement of Hindi literature…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversनेताजी कहिन | मनोहर श्याम जोशी | Netaji Kahin | Satire | Manohar Shyam Joshi | Hindi Audio Story
देश का राजनैतिक तापमान बढ़ता जा रहा है। इस पसीने छुड़ा देने वाली रस्साकशी के माहौल में दो पल रुक कर मीठे व्यंग का शरबत पीजिये। और हाँ, एक सहानुभूति भरी नज़र ज़रा…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversTamasha | Swadesh Deepak | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | StoryJam
Born in Rawalpindi in 1942, playwright and author Swadesh Deepak made Ambala his home. He lived there until 2006, when one day he stepped out of his house for…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversManto | Saadat Hasan Manto | Manto writes about himself | मंटो | एक आत्मकथ्य | Audio Story |
Much has been written about Manto. In his times, he was perhaps talked about more than his written works. Dragged into court, condemned by the custodians of…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversVe Zari Ke Phool | Suryabala | वे ज़री के फूल | सूर्यबाला | Hindi Kahani | Audio Story
नमस्कार, मेरा नाम आरती है और में Storyjam में हर हफ्ते आपको सुनाती हूँ हिंदी में एक कहानी। अगर आप को कहानियां सुनना अच्छा लगता हैं , तो इस चैनल को सब्सक्राइब…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBeti ka Dahej | Kulwant Singh Virk | बेटी का दहेज़ | कुलवंत सिंह विर्क | Punjabi Hindi | Audio Kahani
Winner of the Sahitya Academy Award in 1968, Kulwant Singh Virk wrote inboth Punjabi and English. His stories that revolve around the partition of India and…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversHumne Kutta Paala | K L Kapoor | हमने कुत्ता पाला | कन्हैया लाल कपूर |Hindi Urdu Audio Story
ग़ालिब पुरुस्कार से सम्मानित कन्हैया लाल कपूर , जिन्हे केएल कपूर के नाम से भी जाना जाता है, व्यंग हास्य और उपहासपूर्ण पैरोडी के लिए जाने गए। अविभाजित भारत में…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversबोलनेवाली औरत | ममता कालिया | Bolnewali Aurat | Mamta Kalia |Hindi Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
Mamta Kalia started writing in the 70’s, around the time when the role of women in society and family was undergoing a rapid transformation. Her stories often…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversHariram| Ajay Jugran | हरिराम | अजेय जुगरान | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
We carry with us stories of people with whom we crossed paths years, sometimes decades ago. Some are inspiring stories and others, a cautionary tale. Hariram…
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ऐलिस वाकर एक अमेरिकी उपन्यासकार, लघु कथाकार, कवि और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता हैं। 1982 में, ऐलिस वाकर फिक्शन के लिए पुलित्जर पुरस्कार जीतने वाली पहली अफ्रीकी अमेरिकी…
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मनोहर श्याम जोशी ने भारतीय टेलीविज़न को बहुत सी यादगार कहानियां दी- हम लोग, बुनियाद, मुंगेरी लाल के हसीन सपने इत्यादि। आधुनिक हिन्दी साहित्य के गद्यकार…
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Some tragic love stories are legendary- Shirin-Farhad, Laila-Majnu, Sohni-Mahiwal, but for each that became a saga, there are probably millions of love stories…