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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 loversPhotographer | Qurratulain Hyder | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
Qurratulain Hyder was one of the most influential and successful progressive writers post Independence. She was bilingual, writing and translating in both Urdu…
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Samay Kaatne Wale | Harishankar Parsai | समय काटने वाले | हरिशंकर परसाई | Hindi Kahani | Audio Story
Did you know that “Timepass”- that uniquely Indian term, meaning passing of time in an aimless and unproductive way, gets harder as you get older. With his…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPachees Chauka Dedh Sau | Omprakash Valmiki | पच्चीस चौका डेढ़ सौ | ओमप्रकाश वाल्मीकि
Om Prakash Valmiki’s novel, 'Joothan' is considered a landmark in Dalit literature. His writing has been long considered to be a searing document of the caste…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversSaag Meat | Bhisham Sahani | साग मीट | भीष्म साहनी | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | Storytelling
In the hands of a great writer everyday life is anything but mundane. It begs a closer, more nuanced examination. In ‘Saag Meat’ Bhisham Sahani weaves an…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversEk Baazi Shatranj Ki| Ajay Jugran| एक बाज़ी शतरंज की| अजेय जुगरान| Hindi Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
Nothing slows time down like a good game of chess, unless you have a kingdom falling (Shatranj ke Khiladi) or an urgent errand missed, as in this story…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAkeli | Mannu Bhandari | अकेली | मन्नू भंडारी | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | Kahani | StoryJam
A new kind of Hindi writing emerged post-independence approximately from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The subjects that writers focussed on came from a…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAngad Ka Paon | Shrilal Shukla | अंगद का पाँव | श्रीलाल शुक्ल | Hindi Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
Shrilal Shukla, one of the greatest satirists in Hindi language was a Jnanpith awardee. A civil servant in his day job, Shukla had an upclose view of…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBade Bhai Sahab | Premchand | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | StoryJam
I have to confess that for a long time I associated Premchand’s writing with a kind of morose sentimentality. How and why that thought anchored itself in my…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBachcha Ye Roye Kyun | Mulk Raj Anand | Why Does the Child Cry | StoryJam
It was a personal tragedy that propelled Mulk Raj Anand into a writing career. His first essay was in response to the suicide of an aunt excommunicated by her…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversKhuda aur Khuda ki Ladai
Yashpal's life was so full of twists, turns and intrigues that it could inspire an OTT series! Born into poverty, ridiculed by school mates but with a head…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversDus Paise Aur Dadi | Gulzar | दस पैसे और दादी | गुलज़ार | Hindi Kahani | Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
Gulzar, the modern day bard has songs (and stories and dialogues) for all occasions. Few others can speak of ardent love with such brevity-“Tere bina zindagi…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversGulki Banno | Dharamvir Bharati | गुलकी बन्नो | धर्मवीर भारती | Hindi Kahani |Audio Story | Storyjam
Dharamvir Bharati was considerd was a colossus of Hindi Sahitya. In a story like Gulki he shows us why. All the characters straddle somewhere between good and…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPhaans | Govind Mishr | फाँस | गोविन्द मिश्र | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | StoryJam
Listen to a short story to one of the most celebrated writers of our times- Govind Mishr. Watch an interview with Govind ji on the Nayi Dhara's youtube channel…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversToba Tek Singh | Saadat Hasan Manto | टोबा टेक सिंह| सआदत हसन मंटो | Hindi Urdu Audio Story |
The stories of partition carry in them a searing pain, a reminder to those who will bother to remember, of what we humans are capable of doing to ourselves and…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPoonch Ki Cleopatra | Krishan Chander | पुँछ की क्लियोपैट्रा | कृष्ण चन्दर | Audio Story | StoryJam
What is beauty? Everyone from ancient Greeks to Umberto Eco to Instagram influencers have mulled, or been baffled by this question. Does beauty have a…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversChheh Aane Ka Ticket | Bhagwaticharan Verma | छह आने का टिकट | भगवतीचरण वर्मा | StoryJam | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | Hindi Kahaniyan
Do you find it difficult to say ‘no’? If your answer is yes, you are in good company. Presenting, Bhagwaticharan Verma’s delightful story about an unwanted…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversKshamadan| Tolstoy's story translation Premchand | क्षमादान लेव तोलस्तोय की कहानी | अनुवाद: प्रेमचंद
What would two great writers from history talk about if they were to meet? We may not find that out, but when one translates the works of the other, what is…
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Chatur Gonu Jha Ki Kahani | Nehle Par Dehla | नहले पर दहला | चतुर गोनू झा की कहानी | Audio Story
Gonu Jha is to Mithila, Bihar what Birbal is to North India. When the greedy, corrupt or miserly make trouble for the common man, Gonu Jha with his wit, common…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversGaram Coat | Rajinder Singh Bedi | गरम कोट | राजिंदर सिंह बेदी | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | Kahani
राजिंदर सिंह बेदी ने गरम कोट, निकोलाई गोगोल की कहानी, ओवरकोट से प्रभावित हो कर लिखी, और फिर उसी कहानी को और आगे बढ़ाया जब उन्होंने फिल्म का स्क्रीनप्ले लिखा।…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBehnon Ka Jalsa | Suryabala | Hindi Kahani | Audio Kahaniya | StoryJam | बहनों का जलसा | सूर्यबाला
There is no easy way to describe the bond that women share. You have to be there- in the long satisfying evenings (or lazy afternoons) when time stands still…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversBholaram Ka Jeev | Harishankar Parsai | Humor | Audio Stories | भोलाराम का जीव | हरिशंकर परसाई
The way Harishankar Parsai’s satire continues to remain relevant even after so many years of its writing is astonishing. Till such time as humans remain greedy…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAatma Ki Awaz | Kamleshwar | आत्मा की आवाज़ | कमलेश्वर | Hindi Kahani | Urdu Kahani | Audio Stories
After marriage, a man is expected to change his way of life, a woman her soul. “उल्लास, खीज, विद्रोह, घृणा, प्यार कुछ भी नहीं, आखिर कैसे जीती हैं वे?” Joy…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversMehman | Kamtanath | मेहमान | कामतानाथ | StoryJam | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | Hindi Kahani
A simple story charmingly told about an unexpected visitor who doesn’t get what he came for and the host family that’s left scratching their heads to make…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversGulelbaaz Ladka | Bhisham Sahni | गुलेलबाज़ लड़का | भीष्म साहनी | StoryJam | Hindi Urdu Audio Story
Kindness is a two way street. There is an unsaid hierarchy in any act of kindness- the kind person a few notches above the person on the receiving end of the…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversSaadat Hasan Manto | Licence | सआदत हसन मंटो | लाइसेंस |Hindi Urdu Audio Story | StoryJam |
Manto was incorrigible! Nothing could make him stop writing about the world as he saw it for as long as he lived. Not six court cases of obscenity, not the…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversSamvadiya | Phanishwar Nath Renu | संवदिया | फणीश्वर नाथ रेणु | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories |
In the era of instant messaging, its hard to look back at a time when messages were relayed by a person- not even handwritten- just relayed verbatim, by…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversKayakalp | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | About Bollywood Hindi Cinema | StoryJam
हिंदी सिनेमा के मशहूर लेखक और पत्रकार, ख्वाजा अहमद अब्बास की टिपण्णी सिनेमा के स्टॉक किरदारों पर और साथ ही किस्सा एक ऐसी अदाकारा का जो परदे पर भले ही बेईमान…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversFitrati Chor | Vijaydan Detha | 100th Episode of STORYJAM | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
100 episodes! I started StoryJam as a lockdown project, sending stories to my family and a couple of friends. It all seems a lifetime away now. I assumed I…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversLetter Box | Agyeya | Audio Story | Partition Story | Hindi Kahani
A chance meeting with a child lays bare the author’s helplessness in the face of forces way beyond anyone’s control. नमस्कार, मेरा नाम आरती है और मैं Storyjam…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPrem ki Biradari | Harishankar Parsai | Vyang | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | StoryJam
Love, by any other name would be just as controversial…at least in India. Here’s Parsai ji’s take on “love marriage”- that much desired “happy ending” on the…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversMard Aur Aurat | Rashid Jahan | Play/Story | Featuring The Mansarovar Project
I am excited to share a story/play by an early progressive writer, Rashid Jahan. It's a dialogue between a man and woman. She wrote it sometime in the early…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversMendhaki Ka Byah | Vrindavanlal Verma | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories | StoryJam
Known as Walter Scott of Hindi literature, Vrindavanlal Verma was drawn to historical narratives from early on in life. A proud Bundelkhandi, his novel ‘Jhansi…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversHaji Kulfiwala | Amritlal Nagar | Hindi Urdu Audio Story | Storyjam #95
In a traditional qissago style, Amritlal Nagar tells the story of Haji Kulfiwala- a man who plows through his own suffering to help those around him by using…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversPhulo Ka Kurta | Yashpal | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
Some stories are long sagas, some have more plot twists than hairpin bends on a mountainous road. This story lives in a moment- a moment that speaks volumes…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversYeh bhi Nasha, Veh Bhi Nasha | Premchand | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | Humor | StoryJam
That Premchand was a writer of immense talent and depth is evident from the variety of genres his work straddled. He wrote novels, short stories, plays…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversDesh Seva Ke Akhade Mein | Suryabala | Satire | StoryJam Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
व्यंगकार अपनी बात भले ही सरलता से कह जाएं , लेकिन उनकी बात किसी छोटे से तीर से काम नहीं, जो छोटा हो कर भी गहरे घाव कर जाता है. हरिशंकर परसाई और शरद जोशी जैसी…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversKisna | Story by Arti | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | Kahaniyan Hindi Urdu | StoryJam Episode 91
'Kisna' is a story of boyhood- one that is mired in life's unfair complications. Kisna's tiny shoulders bear the burdens of many questions. Where should his…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversHajamat Ka Sabun | Agyeya | StoryJam Story #90 |
We all like to root for the underdog- in movies! In real life it gets a little complicated and awkward, like it does for the narrator in Agyeya’s story. Will…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversDadi Ma | The Portrait of a Lady | Khushwant Singh | Hindi Translation | Audio Stories
Khushwant Singh was an author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician…but most importantly he was irreverent in all these avatars. His ready wit…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversNamak | Razia Sajjad Zaheer | Urdu Story |Audio Kahani | Partition Story
Can borders drawn on the ground really hold back hearts? Is home the place where you live or where you see yourself in your dreams? Razia Sajjad Zaheer tells a…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAnekon Hitler | Vijaydan Detha | Hindi Story from Rajasthan | Audio Story
Vijaydan Detha,popularly known as Bijji, lived and wrote in his tiny village of Borunda and from that little corner of Rajasthan, he rose to be a name to be…
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Nibandh | Rahnaward Zaryab | Afghan Dari Story translated into Hindi | Stories aboutchildhood
A short story, originally written in Dari by Afghan novelist, short story writer, journalist, and scholar, Rahnaward Zaryab. A poignant story about growing up…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversMadeira Maroon | Manohar Shyam Joshi | Humour | Audio Stories | Kahaniyan
In this short story, Manohar Shyam Joshi does what he does best- tells us of the dreams and disappointments of characters who struggle to survive the brutal…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversTaash Ki Aadat | Nanak Singh | Hindi Punjabi Story | Audio Stories
Sub Inspector Hameed wants to make an upright, honest man out of his five year old, and he will get back to lecturing him just as soon as he has taken care of…
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Zambuk Dibiya | Subhadra Kumari Chauhan | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories
“I am I, and I wish I weren’t”, said Aldous Huxley All of us have felt this for a moment or two…some for all their years. A simple short story that speaks…
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Aalaan | Ahmad Nadeem Qasim | Urdu Hindi Audio Story | Love Story | StoryJam
There are a million reasons why people fall in love but usually only one reason why they can’t be together. They come from different worlds. This nuanced story…
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Ismat Chughtai | Kaamchor | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | StoryJam | Humorous Story
Ismat Chughtai’s writing, especially her short stories, are full of sharp unapologetic observations about the politics of the household as well as of society…
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Eidgah | Premchand | Idgah | Munshi Premchand | StoryJam | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | Kahani
Little Hamid's love and compassion was made memorable, or some would say legendary, by Premchand in his story, Eidgah. Listen to this old favorite and you'll…
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Pajeb | Jainendra Kumar | Hindi Kahani | Audio Stories | StoryJam
In this story a little girl's pajeb (anklet) goes missing and according to her parents her little brother, among others is the prime suspect. This story is…
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Miya Nasiruddin | Krishna Sobti | Hindi Kahani | Urdu Kahaniya | StoryJam | Audio Story
कभी-कभी हम ऐसे लोगों से मिलते हैं, जो एक छोटी सी मुलाक़ात में ही हमारी स्मृति में हमेशा के लिए जगह बना लेते हैं। उनकी बातें, उनके क़िस्से हम पुराने एल्बम की…
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Vasiyat | Bhagwati Charan verma | Hindi Kahani | StoryJam | Audio Kahaniyan
Chudamani Mishra makes a will before he dies. The will tells us as much about him as it does about its beneficiaries in this funny, ironic and wise story…
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Fancy Hair Cutting Saloon | Ghulam Abbas | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | StoryJam
Born in Amritsar, short story writer Ghulam Abbas moved to Pakistan at the time of the partition. One of his short stories, Aanandi was adapted into a film…
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Ek Thi Gaura | Amarkant | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | StoryJam
Amarkant was a writer in the tradition of Premchand. This made him stand apart but also often relegated to the shadows. As his contemporaries Mohan Rakesh…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversNaya Saal Mubarak | Amrit Rai | Hindi | Humour | StoryJam
A funny take on New Year's eve by Amrit Rai. Son of famous writer Premchand and his wife Shivrani (also a writer), Amrit Rai had a unique voice of his own. His…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversAbraham Lincoln's letter to his son's teacher | Hindi translation | StoryJam
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States was one of the most revered presidents of his country. He wrote a letter to his son’s teacher on the…
StoryJam | Listen to stories you always wanted to read! | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories for Kahani loversRaakh | Suryabala | StoryJam | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
After a brief hiatus, I return to StoryJam. With a story about returning. Do you ever really return home? Can we go back to being who we once were in that…
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Satyajit Ray | Kya Aadmi Tha Rai | Javed Siddiqui | Memoir | StoryJam Ep 70
When a film starts with a short story by Premchand and is then turned into a screenplay by Satyajit Ray, it is destined to be a classic. That was only the…
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Ismat Chughtai | Gharwali | StoryJam Episode 69 | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
Thinking of Ismat Chughtai today as we come closer to her death Anniversary. Ismat boldly went where few women then or even now dare to go. She took on the…
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Khidkiyan | Krishan Chander | StoryJam | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories
Krishan Chander, best known for his stories about the aftermath of partition and the Bengal famine, spent his early years in Poonch, Kashmir. His love for the…
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Aasmaan | Arti Jain | Hindi Urdu Audio Stories | StoryJam
My story “Skyward Bound” was a winner of the EShe story writing competition earlier this year and became part of a brilliant book of stories by women called…