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Episode 23 - Contemporary Literary Fiction In Malayalam
Part one of our conversation about contemporary literary fiction works in Malayalam, focusing on Benyamin, G R Indugopan, and K R Meera.
Ezhuthappuram Episode 22- Spies and Undercover Agents
We talk about books (and the movie adaptations) based out of spies, undercover operations - both fiction and nonfiction. Day of the JackalOdessa filesHunt for Red October Jack ReacherWar…
Ezhuthappuram Episode 21- Books on War
We speak of some important books that describe the human toll of war, starting with Kurt Vonnegut, Erich Maria Remarque, Joseph Conrad, and others.
Ezhuthappuram Episode 20.3 - Romantic relationships in fiction
We dive deeper into some of the memorable romantic relationshis in fiction, some obvoius and some subtle. There's also a conversation about the portrayal of physical intimacy in novels, and the fine…
Ezhuthappuram Episode 20.2 - Romance in fiction
Now we talk about notable romances in novels and fiction that are not predominantly about romance ! This episode covers Mahabharatha and Wuthering Heights...
Ezhuthappuram episode 20 - Romantic Fiction
On this Valentine's Day, we talk about romantic fiction, our favorite novels about romantic relationships, and some authors and their works that really tugged at our hearts- even though we may seem a…
Ezhuthappuram Episode 19.3 - Fantasy
We look at some of the stalwarts in the fantasy space- Tolkien, George RR Martin and some lesser names that have entertained us.
Ezhuthappuram Episode 19.2 - Fantasy
We continue with some standalone fantasy works, starting from Life of Pi, Piranesi, Alice, Ring shout etc...
Ezhuthappuram Episode 19.1 - Fantasy
We wet our feet in the wide realm of fantasy novels, starting with the first one that comes to the mind- Harry Potter series, followed by The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Deep and Vita Nostra.
Ezhuthappuram Episode 18.2 - 2025 reads roundup - English
The gang discusses their favorite English reads of 2025, highlighting the noteworthy ones and those that didn't quite work for them.
Episode 18.1 - 2025 Year in Reads (Malayalam)
We talk about the Malayalam books we read in 2025. English books to follow in the next episode.
Episode 17- Reader's block
We talk about books that created reader's blocks as well as books that got us out of blocks. Another unstructured, casual banter with lots of digression, especially around piracy of books.
Episode 13.1- Short stories
We had uploaded this a few months ago, but it ended up disappearing by magic. Re-uploading part 1 of the short stories episode
Ezhuthappuram Ep 16- A tribute to Srinivasan
One of the much-loved actors and screenwriters in the Malayalam film industry, the OG screenwriter who redefined clean, intelligent comedy- Srinivasan passed away yesterday. We reminisce on the…
Ezhuthappuram Episode 15.0 - Poetry
We do not claim to be poets nor poetry appreciators. But we took the bold leap of jumping into a conversation about poetry, both Malayalam and English. It was fun, went wa...ay longer than we…
Ezhuthappuram Episode 14.4 - Science Fiction
We talk about the (the dearth in ) Malayalam science fiction novels, Isamov, Doctor Who, Chrichton, Silo series ,and much more...
Ezhuthappuram Episode 14.3 Science Fiction
John Scalzi, Max Brooks, science fiction world-building form the central topic of this episode, the penultimate in science fiction!
Ezhuthappuram Episode 14.2 Science Fiction
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Did the Martian movie drop the desert escape sequence from the book to avoid being an "aadu jeevitham"? Get the answers to these questions and more here, on…
Ezhuthappuram Episode 14.1 - Science fiction
We talk about some of the original science fiction novels that we started with- Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, Jonathan Swift, H G Wells and the likes.
Ezhuthappuram Episode 13.2 - Short stories
We talk about some of our favorite short stories, collections, and anthologies. This is really part 13.3 - 13.2 got stuck with some problems in recording :) . Hopefully we can recover it soon!
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