Bashir Badr with Amy Singh

Zabaan-e-aam is back with a new episode. Our first in 2026. :) This year's May Day episode is by our young comrade Ashwani, who has shared his observations in the form of poetry. The poem looks at how the city invisibilizes labour. As we go about our busy lives, the workers and labourers who comp…

Zabaan-e-aam presents a story about love and heartbreak and walks you through the lanes of Hyderabad. Listen to Purnima Tammireddy's story 'Emotional Pregnancy' in this episode. In the story, she turns an ordinary tale of one-sided love and friendzoning into a deeper meditation of unfulfilled emoti…

A lot has happened in India and globally in the past two months and I had stopped reading and working on my podcast till I opened the book The Veiled Suite, a collection of poems by Agha Shahid Ali. It brought me to tears reading about the passing away of Begum Akhtar and another poem on the atroci…

Welcome to the 20th episode of Season 2 of the Zabaan-e-aam podcast. Today I have a story that I have written in Punjabi about the displacement of people in Gaza.   Please share your feedback in the comments. Thank you!   If you would like to support our podcast, please click on the link below…