My Book

My Book

My Book is a podcast in English about books and their authors, taken to the next level. Each week, a new host from our panel of book lovers takes a deep dive with an author and a book they've written to learn about their narrative. My Book provides a digital platform to some of the internationally acclaimed writers, as well as new authors, to discuss their process of writing and their interests in a wide variety of subjects such as books, music and films, all through an informal conversation. Produced by well known broadcasters Achala Sharma & Pervaiz Alam, My Book covers a wide range of genres and is a part of London-based, Cine Ink, Private Limited, UK, a well known hub of podcasts in Hindi and Urdu, and now in English as well, available on all major podcast networks. All podcasts are available on YouTube and our website: www.cineink.com Please share your feedback: post@cineink.com

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  1. 30. SEPT.

    EP 12: Spice Ports by Nicholas Nugent

    Nicholas Nugent, former BBC broadcaster and author of a new book ‘Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade’, is in conversation with broadcaster and author Andrew Whitehead on MY BOOK podcast, produced by Cine Ink in London. ‘Spice Ports’ has just been published in September, 2024, by the British Library in London.  Discussing his book Nugent says: “It’s an account of how the trade of spices led to the modern-day globalisation and maritime communication which brought benefits apart from culinary delights: the spread of ideas on art, literature and science”. But he adds, “There's a darker side to this history, in that each of the European nations who were engaged in the trade then attempted to maximise their profits, first by enslaving local people, and later by transporting labourers between continents to work as slaves.” This wide-ranging account of a fascinating period of global history uses original maps and contemporary artists’ views to tell the story of how each port developed individually; while encouraging us to consider contrasting points of view of the benefits and the damages of the maritime spice trade.  Nick has more than 40 years’ experience researching and reporting for BBC World Service. He is the author of a biography of India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi,  published by BBC Books. He has also authored books on   Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Vietnam. Andrew Whitehead, a PhD in the contemporary history of Kashmir, is a veteran broadcast journalist of the BBC and has  reported extensively from India. Currently, he is an honorary professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Nottingham. Author of several books including, ‘A Mission in Kashmir’, ‘The Lives of Freda’ and ‘A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street’, Whitehead also teaches journalism as a guest faculty in India.   The podcast show ‘My Book’ is produced by Achala Sharma and Pervaiz Alam for Cineink, based in London.

    35 Min.
  2. 04.05.2023

    EP 08: Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto, Edited and Translated by Aakar Patel

    Aakar Patel discusses Saadat Hasan Manto and his writings with Loveleen Kacker in this 8th episode of My Book Podcast Show, produced by Cine Ink. 'Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto', edited and translated by Aakar Patel has been republished in March 2023. The 2023 edition has two new essays, on hijab and on graffiti, bringing the total number of essays to 27 in the book. “What would Manto have made of India after 2014? Certainly, he would have found it familiar and understood it in profound ways. He knew and had seen things through his lived experience that we in our generation are discovering decades later.” “Manto would not at all have been surprised, let alone shocked, at the fact that independent India in 2022 had no chief minister, minister in the union cabinet or legislator in parliament from the ruling party belonging to the Muslim community,” says Patel. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955), one of the greatest short-story writers in South Asia, published about 20 collections of short stories in Urdu. Being a multi-faceted author, he went on to write five collections of radio plays, three of essays, two of sketches, one novel, and a number of stories and screenplays for Bombay’s Hindi film industry in the 1940s. Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His books include 'Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here', a study of majoritarianism in India and Pakistan (Westland, 2020), 'Price of the Modi Years', a history of India after 2014 (Penguin Random House, 2021) and 'The Anarchist Cookbook', a guide on why and how to protest (HarperCollins, 2022). He is Chair of Amnesty International India. Author and Podcaster, Loveleen Kacker is a former Indian administrator now based in London. Produced by Cine Ink in London by Achala Sharma and Pervaiz Alam, My Book is a podcast show in English.

    43 Min.
  3. 20.04.2023

    EP 06: Temple Lamp/ English Translation of Mirza Ghalib’s Chiragh-e-Dair by Maaz Bin Bilal

    Chiragh-e-Dair by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1868) is a long poem in Persian on the Indian holy town, Benares. In the 6th episode of Cine Ink podcast ‘My Book’, Maaz Bin Bilal discusses Ghalib’s deep-rooted respect for Hindus and ‘Temple Lamp’, English translation of Chiragh-e-Dair, with Saif Mahmood. Temple Lamp has been published by Penguin Classics. Maaz Bin Bilal is a poet, translator, and academic. His first collection, Ghazalnama: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu (2019), was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. His translation of Fikr Taunsvi’s Partition diary, The Sixth River (2019), was also critically noted. Maaz was awarded the Charles Wallace Trust fellowship in writing and translation in Wales (2018–19) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship in writing at Stuttgart (2022–23). He holds a PhD on the politics of friendship in E. M. Forster’s work from Queen’s University Belfast. Dr Saif Mahmood is a bestselling author (Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets, published by Speaking Tiger), literary critic, translator and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He splits his work between New Delhi and London. Produced by broadcasters, Achala Sharma and Pervaiz Alam, My Book podcast covers a wide range of genres and is a part of the London-based, Cine Ink, Private Limited, UK, a well known hub of podcasts in Hindi and Urdu, available on all major podcast networks, including www.cineink.com

    40 Min.
  4. 06.04.2023

    EP 04: Adeel Hussain discusses his book Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan

    Adeel Hussain, author of ‘Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan’, discusses the history of blasphemy in South Asia with Loveleen Kacker in this 4th episode of ‘My Book’ podcast show, recorded in London for Cine Ink. The book has been published by Hurst Publishers. Described as one of the best researched books on blasphemy by critics, Hussain’s latest work uncovers the hidden stories behind Pakistan’s fixation with blasphemy–tales of revenge, political scheming and sovereign betrayal. Hussain’s account opens in 19th-century colonial Punjab and traces blasphemy killings to the present, linking their emergence to polemic encounters between Hindu and Muslim revivalist sects, namely the Arya Samaj and the Ahmadiyya. Adeel Hussain is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He holds two state examinations in German Law (admitted to the bar in 2018) and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Has also authored ‘Nehru: The Debates That Defined India with Tripurdaman Singh (London: HarperCollins, 2021) and ‘Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). Produced by broadcasters, Achala Sharma and Pervaiz Alam, My Book podcast covers a wide range of genres and is a part of the London-based, Cine Ink, Private Limited, UK, a well known hub of podcasts in Hindi and Urdu, available on all major podcast networks, including www.cineink.com

    49 Min.
  5. 23.03.2023

    EP 02: The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told by Neerja Mattoo

    Prof Neerja Mattoo – academic, writer and translator from Kashmir – discusses her book The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told, a collection of short stories translated in English from Kashmiri language, with Malvika Kaul in this 2nd episode of My Book, a Podcast about Books & Authors with a South Asian touch, produced by Cine Ink in London. The book has been published by Aleph Book Company. The two discuss how conflict and violence have changed the ‘paradise on earth’ and shaped its culture and literature. Prof Mattoo shares why she felt the need to translate stories written by some of the finest Kashmiri language writers. She reads excerpts from the book and snatches of the quaint Kashmiri language. Neerja Mattoo has taught in Kashmir for over three decades. She has published five books, including the critically acclaimed, The Mystic and the Lyric: Four Women Poets from Kashmir. Malvika Kaul is an academic and writer based in New Delhi. She has reported for dailies like The Indian Express, The Times of India, Hindustan Times and The Asian Age, on issues of health, gender and conflict for over two decades. She was recently awarded a PhD for her thesis on how Indian print media reports the conflict in Kashmir. Her thesis examined editorial policy of newspapers, the challenges of a reporter in a conflict zone, and why some narratives dominate Kashmir coverage. My Book podcast has been produced by Achala Sharma and Pervaiz Alam for Cine Ink in London.

    32 Min.

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My Book is a podcast in English about books and their authors, taken to the next level. Each week, a new host from our panel of book lovers takes a deep dive with an author and a book they've written to learn about their narrative. My Book provides a digital platform to some of the internationally acclaimed writers, as well as new authors, to discuss their process of writing and their interests in a wide variety of subjects such as books, music and films, all through an informal conversation. Produced by well known broadcasters Achala Sharma & Pervaiz Alam, My Book covers a wide range of genres and is a part of London-based, Cine Ink, Private Limited, UK, a well known hub of podcasts in Hindi and Urdu, and now in English as well, available on all major podcast networks. All podcasts are available on YouTube and our website: www.cineink.com Please share your feedback: post@cineink.com

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