Vaadach Nahi
PL Deshpande - a doyen of Marathi literature. But what happens when three friends who know him differently sit to discuss his work? Meet Vinit, the expert. He's grown up listening to PL. Then there's Bhupal... he's heard enough PL to know what's going on, but is open to knowing more. And then there's Dhruv... he's, well... the novice! And he's hearing most of this for the first time. It's a journey of learning, discovery, new perspectives and continued awe of the great man's works.
Episodes
January 9, 2022 • 27 mins
Vineet, Bhupal and Dhruv end season 1 of this podcast with a discussion of Pu La’s Raosaheb, a Belgaum man who is passionate and critical, while being well-intentioned. The story also features one of the most poignant endings in Pu La’s Vyakti aani Valli collection, which resonates deeply with Vineet and Bhupal’s own experience of saying goodbye to a place and people they had come to love.
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January 2, 2022 • 37 mins
Perhaps one of Pu La’s most relatable stories, Bigari te Matric presents scenes and themes from classrooms spanning Kindergarten to tenth standard. In addition to discussing some of the more interesting parts of this story, and drawing upon their own experiences, Vineet, Bhupal and Dhruv examine Pu La’s katha kathan in comparison to similar work by other comedians. They come to the conclusion that Pu La’s ability to weave humour in...
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December 26, 2021 • 32 mins
What lies behind the making of each one of us? In this episode, Vineet, Bhupal and Dhruv – all unabashed Punekars themselves - discuss Pu La’s sketch of three cities in Maharashtra that have imprinted their unique environments on the personalities of the individuals living there. Genes make us, but the cities we live in shape our priorities, tendencies, and identities in ways we only appreciate when juxtapositioning ourselves again...
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December 19, 2021 • 27 mins
There are teachers we barely remember, and expect would in turn barely remember us. Then there are teachers we will never forget. And then there is Chitale Master - a teacher for whom teaching is more about building relationships with students than it is about imparting textbook knowledge alone. A teacher who is in tuen with where his students have come from and where they are going. In this episode, Vineet, Bhupal and Dhruv reflec...
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December 12, 2021 • 27 mins
All of us have a few people in our lives who seem to specialize in annoying us while also generally being good of heart. As a result we cannot push them away, since they mean us no harm, and yet wish they had found someone else with whom to pass their time. Pu La brings humour to his interactions with people like this in Mi Aani Maza Shatrupaksha - with the over-enthusiastic home builder and the picture-pushing, recently returned t...
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December 5, 2021 • 19 mins
The purpose of travel is arguably to arrive at a destination. But every journey has within it the opportunity for much more. Trains in particular, with passengers sitting facing each other, offer a higher level of social connection than most other forms of transit. In this episode, Pu La faces a Parsee couple and engages them in a revealing conversation that is woven so well into the surrounding context, that it is hard to imagine ...
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November 28, 2021 • 39 mins
Pu La's Vyakti aani Valli sketch of Antu Barva is in many ways, a meeting of the urban and the rural. Ratnagiri's Antu Barva is quick to make his opinions known, and speaks from direct experience. Vineet, Bhupal and Dhruv unweave the ground truth of the politics of a newly independent India as seen through Antu Barva's eyes, and reflect on some of the moving lines in Pu La's writing that continue to hover in the mind days after lis...
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November 22, 2021 • 32 mins
Birds, cats, dogs. And humans. In Paaliv Praani, Pu La examines both the similarities in our natures, and our relationships with each other. Is Paaliv Praani a social comment through the lens of our fellow urban companions? Is it a critique of the elites? Is it a satire of overzealous pet owners? Is it a series of humorous observations about humans in the context of the larger animal kingdom?It is all of them and more, because it i...
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November 15, 2021 • 39 mins
When a buffalo intercepts an ST bus on its way between Mumbai and Ratnagiri, a beautiful chaos ensues. In what must surely rank as one of Pu La’s most beloved stories, Mhais tells one story that houses within it many others, like buds on a tree.
To Dhruv, Mhais represents the best entry point for anyone new to Pu La’s writings and kathaa kathan. Vineet finds that Mhais represents a microcosm of Maharashtra, with an incredible d...
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November 8, 2021 • 32 mins
Pu La's vivid sketch of Narayan from his 1966 book Vyakti aani Valli paints a picture of sights, sounds and smells while revealing a man who gives of himself without taking anything in return, at that most important of times in our adult lives: the wedding. All our weddings had a Narayan. Or many Narayans - none of their thankless efforts captured in our wedding photo albums and dhaakchik videos. Fortunately, in Narayan, Pu La has ...
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