#111 - ਹੋਪ ਕੌਰ ਉਰਫ਼ ਜਾਗਤੇ ਰਹੋ ਬਈ - ਜਸਵੰਤ ਦੀਦ | Hope Caur urf Jaagte Raho Baee | होप कौर ऊर्फ़ जागते रहो बई -जसवन्त दीद |AudioBooks by Manpreet Sahota

# 116 - ਬੁੱਤ-ਸ਼ਿਕਨ - ਅਜੀਤ ਕੌਰ | But-Shikan - Ajit Cour | बुत -शिकन - अजीत कौर | AudioBooks by Manpreet Sahota

Mrs Chaudhary, a lecturer in a college remains aloof and keeps to her work, but many of her colleagues seek to make her join their cliques. What happens when they discover a 'secret' about her? Listen to the story to find out. About the author:Ajeet Cour is an eminent Punjabi fiction writer, memoirist and cultural activist. Born in Lahore in 1934, she moved to Delhi with her family following the Partition of India. Her deeply personal and socially conscious writing explores women’s lives, unequal relationships, displacement, domestic oppression and the search for dignity and belonging. Her celebrated autobiography Khanabadosh received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985, and she was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2006. Beyond literature, she founded the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature, promoting cultural dialogue and peace across South Asia. Please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@Dr.ManpreetSahota]as well and share this audiobook with family and friends. 🙏📩 podcast.nextpage@gmail.com 🌐 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Dr.ManpreetDhindsaSahota/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dr.manpreetsahota/ 📜 Threads - https://www.threads.net/@dr.manpreetsahota #manpreetsahota #PunjabiAudiobooks #PunjabiLiterature #PunjabiStories #pakistan #HindiLiterature #UrduStories #SouthAsianCulture #LiteratureLover #AudiobookChannel #AglaWarqa #ChaiLunge #redfmcanada #redfm93 #Gurmukhi, #punjabi , #punjabiliterature , #ManpreetSahota, #reading , #narration , #fiction , #education , #Storiesinpunjabi, #panjab

# 115 - ਬਰਫ਼ ਦੀ ਬੁਲਬੁਲ - ਅਜਮੇਰ ਸਿੱਧੂ। Barf di Bulbul - Ajmer Sidhu | बर्फ़ दी बुलबुल - अजमेर सिद्धू | AudioBooks by Manpreet Sahota

'Barf di Bulbul' (The Ice Nightingale) is the story of a successful doctor. After a lifetime spent healing others and sacrificing himself for his family, Dr. Manjinder Singh Khela is left exhausted and deeply lonely. When Savi enters his life, she brings unexpected warmth and companionship—but her presence also threatens the interests of those closest to him. Barf Di Bulbul is an unsettling story about loneliness, dependence, and the uncertain boundary between artificial intelligence and human need for closeness. About the author: Ajmer Sidhu is a distinguished Punjabi short-story writer, biographer, editor, science communicator, and former theatre practitioner. His story collections include Nachiketa Di Maut, Khooh Girda Hai, Khushk Akh Da Khwab, and Rang Di Baazi. He has also written biographies of revolutionary figures and edited several important works on Punjabi writers and activists, including Pash and Sant Ram Udasi. Sidhu edited the science magazine Vigyan Jyot for twenty-one years and the literary magazine Raag for four years, while also documenting the oral histories of prominent Doaba villages for Nawan Zamana. His first collection, Nachiketa Di Maut, received Guru Nanak Dev University’s Bhai Vir Singh Fiction Award in 2000, followed by the Kartar Singh Dhaliwal Award in 2003 and the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad’s national Yuva Puraskar in 2005–06. His writing has inspired six MPhil and thirteen PhD research projects, and Khushk Akh Da Khwab has been translated into Hindi and transliterated into Shahmukhi. Ajmer is a school teacher by profession. Please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@Dr.ManpreetSahota]as well and share this audiobook with family and friends. 🙏📩 podcast.nextpage@gmail.com 🌐 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Dr.ManpreetDhindsaSahota/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dr.manpreetsahota/ 📜 Threads - https://www.threads.net/@dr.manpreetsahota #manpreetsahota #PunjabiAudiobooks #PunjabiLiterature #PunjabiStories #pakistan #HindiLiterature #UrduStories #SouthAsianCulture #LiteratureLover #AudiobookChannel #AglaWarqa #ChaiLunge #redfmcanada #redfm93 #Gurmukhi, #punjabi , #punjabiliterature , #ManpreetSahota, #reading , #narration , #fiction , #education , #Storiesinpunjabi, #panjab

# 114 - ਜਲਾਵਤਨ - ਸੁਕੀਰਤ | Jalawatan- Sukirat | جلاوطن - سوکیرت| जलावतन - सुकीरत | AudioBooks by Manpreet Sahota

'Jalawatan' (Exile) is the story of two lovers each of whom are processing their relationship within their own silence, and choices made long ago. When they meet again after twenty-five years, buried emotions return—raising a haunting question: Who was truly forced into exile, and who spent a lifetime hiding from her own truth?Sukirat Singh Anand (better known as Sukirat) is a short story writer, journalist and translator. He was born in 1956 in an illustrious literary and political family of the Punjab: his maternal grandfather (nana) being Gurbaksh Singh of Preet Lari and his father Jagjit Singh Anand, a communist leader, and editor of Nawan Zamana. His mother Urmila was a prose writer in her own right. He spent 24 years in Moscow from the early 1970s till late 1990s and witnessed the transformation in Russia. He wrote a book My years in Russia; A Time to Remember" and recorded his memoirs. Sukirat has published eight books of short fiction and prose in Punjabi. Please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@Dr.ManpreetSahota]as well and share this audiobook with family and friends. 🙏📩 podcast.nextpage@gmail.com 🌐 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Dr.ManpreetDhindsaSahota/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dr.manpreetsahota/ 📜 Threads - https://www.threads.net/@dr.manpreetsahota #manpreetsahota #PunjabiAudiobooks #PunjabiLiterature #PunjabiStories #pakistan #HindiLiterature #UrduStories #SouthAsianCulture #LiteratureLover #AudiobookChannel #AglaWarqa #ChaiLunge #redfmcanada #redfm93 #Gurmukhi, #punjabi , #punjabiliterature , #ManpreetSahota, #reading , #narration , #fiction , #education , #Storiesinpunjabi, #panjab

# 113 - ਡੌਗ ਫਾਰਮ-ਬਲਵੰਤ ਫ਼ਰਵਾਲ਼ੀ | Dog Farm-Balwant Pharwali | डॉग फार्म - बलवंत फरवाली| AudioBooks by Manpreet Sahota

'Dog Farm' is the story of attachment, guilt and parental love and loss. Through Kukku, the family dog, and Gulab, the son, Balwant Pharwali draws a powerful parallel between losing a beloved pet to a misunderstanding, and losing a child toemigration. The "dog farm" becomes both a literal place and a symbol of irreversible separation. The story ultimately suggests that relationships, once broken through fear or haste, leave wounds that endure long after the moment has passed. This short story was shortlisted for the Urmila AnandSimriti Puraskar-2024 Balwant Pharwali( b 1977) - has published two poetrycollections, one short-story collection and one novel titled 'Shivcharan'. He is Punjabi teacher by profession and teaches high school. Please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@Dr.ManpreetSahota]as well and share this audiobook with family and friends. 🙏📩 podcast.nextpage@gmail.com 🌐 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Dr.ManpreetDhindsaSahota/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dr.manpreetsahota/ 📜 Threads - https://www.threads.net/@dr.manpreetsahota #manpreetsahota #PunjabiAudiobooks #PunjabiLiterature #PunjabiStories #pakistan #HindiLiterature #UrduStories #SouthAsianCulture #LiteratureLover #AudiobookChannel #AglaWarqa #ChaiLunge #redfmcanada #redfm93 #Gurmukhi, #punjabi , #punjabiliterature , #ManpreetSahota, #reading , #narration , #fiction , #education , #Storiesinpunjabi, #panjab

# 112 - ਹਜ਼ਾਰ ਮੀਲ ਲੰਮੀ ਬਾਂਹ -ਅਜਮੇਰ ਰੋਡੇ | Hazaar Meel Lammi Baanh - Ajmer Rode | हज़ार मील लम्मी बाँह - अजमेर रोडे | AudioBooks by Manpreet Sahota

Hazaar Meel Lammi Baanh (The Thousand Mile Arm) is a unique experiment in Punjabi short story writing where the author juxtaposes two widely diverse societies and geographies to interconnect humanity. Kishan Singh, the cart maker and Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic scientist are placed on two ends of the same spectrum on which the newly made bullock cart makes its journey.Ajmer Rode (b 1940 - Rode) has published books of poetry, drama, prose and translation in Punjabi and English. His works have been widely anthologized, and are being prescribed in several educational settings. His collaborative poetry project 'Leela' with his poet-brother Navtej Bharti is considered one of the most outstanding works of 20th century Punjabi poetry. He translated Gurdial Singh's iconic novel 'Marhi Da Diva' as 'The Last Flicker.' It was published by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Ajmer Rode plays a pivotal role in promotion of Punjabi writing in Canada. Rode lives in Surrey, BC with his writer wife Surjit Kalsey. Please subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@Dr.ManpreetSahota]as well and share this audiobook with family and friends. 🙏📩 podcast.nextpage@gmail.com 🌐 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Dr.ManpreetDhindsaSahota/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dr.manpreetsahota/ 📜 Threads - https://www.threads.net/@dr.manpreetsahota #manpreetsahota #PunjabiAudiobooks #PunjabiLiterature #PunjabiStories #pakistan #HindiLiterature #UrduStories #SouthAsianCulture #LiteratureLover #AudiobookChannel #AglaWarqa #ChaiLunge #redfmcanada #redfm93 #Gurmukhi, #punjabi , #punjabiliterature , #ManpreetSahota, #reading , #narration , #fiction , #education , #Storiesinpunjabi, #panjab