Fasana E Azad | Pt Ratan Nath Sarshar | Narrated by Raman Sagwal

Excerpts from Fasana e Azad by Pt Ratan Nath Sarshar

Narrator: Raman Kumar Sagwal

Curator: Irfan

We are thrilled to continue our Read Aloud Collective on Listen with Irfan, featuring a unique narration of the 19th-century Urdu novel Fasana-e-Azad by Ratan Nath Sarshar. This captivating performance is brought to life by Raman Kumar Sagwal, an officer at Income Tax Department from Panipat and a passionate reader of classical Urdu-Persian literature. Raman believes that timeless texts like Fasana-e-Azad are literary treasures, yet sadly, few recordings of such works exist. Fasana-e-Azad (The Adventures of Azad), serialized in Avadh Akhbar from 1878 to 1883 and later published in four volumes by the Nawal Kishore Press, follows the wandering protagonist Azad and his companion Khoji. Their journey takes them from the vibrant streets of late-nineteenth-century Lucknow to the battlefields of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) in Constantinople and Russia.

We are deeply grateful for narrators like Raman Sagwal, whose proactive and generous contributions enrich our collective. As previously mentioned, our initiative is neither competitive nor profit-driven. It is a repertoire of self-motivated narrators who cherish India’s treasured literary traditions and celebrate the beauty and diversity of reading aloud.

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