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MVP, The Master's Voice Podcast features expert conversations with the Most Valuable Players / Professionals / People from media, marketing and other areas of industry, in conversation with Pavan R Chawla, Founder Editor of MediaBrief.com. These are MVP conversations with actionable insights and learnings.
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क्या आपको कहानी सुनना अच्छा लगता है? स्टोरीजैम में सुनिए कहानियां, कुछ जानी पहचानी, कुछ अनजानी. प्रेमचंद के गाँव हो या मन्नू भंडारी का कनाट प्लेस, भीष्म साहनी का पंजाब या फणीश्वर नाथ रेनू का बिहार, देश भर की चुनिंदा कहानियां आप यहाँ सुन सकते हैं तो सुनो कहानी स्टोरीजैम में आरती की ज़ुबानी ! I read aloud stories/ kahaniyan to you. Stories that are sometimes well known, sometimes lesser known, always memorable! From Premchand to Mannu Bhandari, Bhisham Sahani to Renu, you're sure to find a stor ...
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Send us a text Ajay Kakar of Adani Group joins Pavan R Chawla for a deep, honest masterclass on brand integrity, storytelling, creativity, and marketing’s future. In this powerful episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, host Pavan R Chawla sits down with Ajay Kakar, Head of Corporate Branding at the Adani Group, for an hone…
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Qurratulain Hyder could weave a story in a manner that was quick in its pace and yet lingering in its mood. Her characters, often from urban backgrounds, live lives riddled with irony, while Qurratulain Hyder narrates their story with sardonic humour. One of the sharpest minds of her times, she spread her wings wide in the literary skies- she wrote…
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Send us a text This, episode 126 of the award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast from Mediabrief.com, has host Pavan R Chawla speakingwith Prasanth Kumar (PK), CEO of GroupM South Asia. Their chat (shot at GroupM in Mumbai on 7th March) charts PK’s remarkable journey from a spirited young student to becoming one of India’s most influential me…
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Send us a text In this, the 127th episode of the award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, host Pavan R Chawla speaks with Dr. Ram Kumar Kakani, Director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur. A globally respected academic and institutional leader, Dr. Ram shares how IIM Raipur is shaping purpose-driven leaders throug…
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An important name among the post Premchand novelists, Jainendra Kumar was known for his psychoanalytic writing. He had the ability to discover hidden meanings and subtle signals in everyday conversations. He wove his observations skillfully into his characters’ lives in a way that their psychological and philosophical state of mind took precedence …
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Listen to Hindi kahaniyan and Urdu Kahaniyan by famous as well as lesser known writers. You will find here stories from everyone from Premchand to Ismat Chughtai ; Suryabala to Mohan Rakesh, Kaleshwar and Mannu Bhandari.---There are certain tropes that one comes across in Hindi narratives, whether it be stories, TV series or films. One such is that…
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Send us a text In this episode of MVP – The Master's Voice Podcast, Vinay Kumar Swamy, Country Head, Pearson India, is in conversation with show host Pavan R Chawla, who is also Founder-Editor of Mediabrief.com. Vinay shares how the global education leader Pearson is reshaping learning in India through digital transformation, skilling, and purpose-…
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Mirza Hadi Ruswa recounts in the preface of his novel, Umrao Jaan Ada, how he came to write the story of a courtesan from Lucknow. His friend Munshi Ahmad Hussain had rented a floor in a chowk in Lucknow and this is where he organised mushairas for his friends. Next to his house lives a most mysterious woman who is never seen, but sometimes late at…
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With a diploma in mechanical engineering, Swayam Prakash worked many jobs- in shipping, zinc industry and postal department but his heart was not in anything as much as writing. A keen observer of human nature, he became an important voice in modern story writing in Hindi. मैकेनिकल इंजीनियरिंग में डिप्लोमा हासिल कर, स्वयं प्रकाश ने कई नौकरियाँ कीं …
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Ashok Pande writes. In a world increasingly driven by the “business” of writing, Ashok Pande just keeps writing regardless. He translates works because he likes to, not because a publisher asked him to (though it would be great to see his translations published!). He blogs. His social media page is a rage amongst his readers. He wrote a book of poe…
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पदामश्री सम्मानित हिंदी और मैथिली भाषाओं की साहित्यकार उषा किरण खान ने उपन्यास, कहानियाँ और बच्चों के लिए लेखन किया। उनकी पचास से अधिक पुस्तकें प्रकाशित हो चुकी हैं। साथ ही वे एक सेवानिवृत्त अकादमिक इतिहासकार भी थीं और पटना कॉलेज में प्राचीन भारतीय इतिहास और पुरातत्व विज्ञान की विभागाध्यक्ष रह चुकी थीं। उनकी कहानियों के महिला किरदार अविस्मरणीय हैं।…
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गुलशेर ख़ाँ शानी का जन्म 16 मई, 1933 में जगदलपुर में हुआ।वे एक प्रसिद्ध कथाकार एवं साहित्य अकादमी की पत्रिका 'समकालीन भारतीय साहित्य' और 'साक्षात्कार' के संस्थापक-संपादक रहे ।साथ ही 'नवभारत टाइम्स' में भी इन्होंने कुछ समय काम किया। इनकी रचनाओं का अनुवाद अनेक भारतीय भाषाओं के अलावा रूसी, लिथुवानी, चेक और अंग्रेज़ी हुआ । शानी साहित्‍य और प्रशासनिक पद…
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सूर्यबाला जी को वर्ष २०२४ के व्यास सम्मान की बहुत बहुत बधाई! सूर्यबाला का जीवन परिचय, व्यक्तित्व, कृतित्व और उपलब्धियॉ-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------सूर्यबाला जी का जन्म 25 अक्टूबर 1944 को वाराणसी में हुआ। वे एक लेखिका और व्यंगकार के रूप में सुप्रसिद्ध हैं। अपने जन्मस्थान वाराणसी से सूर्यबाला जी…
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Varsha Vashisht speaks her mind, calmly and clearly. Just the way girls her age and of her social background were not supposed to. When Surendra Verma created her character in 1993, little could he have known that Varsha would continue to speak to women years after her character was born on the pages of “Mujhe Chand Chahiye”. For Varsha takes ‘birt…
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Ali Akbar Natiq was born in a village in the Punjab province of Pakistan, where he received his initial education. Later due to financial constraints he started to work as a mason, and became skilled at building domes, mosques and minarets. His love for education, literature and history specifically, had him complete his BA and MA degrees privately…
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Send us a text Episode 123 of MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast features Vikas Chawla, MD of Compass Group India. With over two decades of experience, Vikas discusses how the company serves 900,000 meals daily across 45 cities with a 38,000-strong team. In conversation with Pavan R Chawla, Founder-Editor, Mediabrief.com, Vikas speaks of several thin…
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When two literary giants meet, not in person but in a common creative playground called ‘translation’, the results are always interesting and satisfying. Oscar Wilde’s short story “ The Devoted Friend” is a satire about a friendship that is anything but nurturing or even reciprocal. Dharamvir Bharti translates without losing any nuance and makes th…
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Send us a text In this episode of MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, Angela Scaffidi, Founding Partner & Global Chair of SenateSHJ and Global Chair at PROI Worldwide, discusses strategic communications, leadership, and the evolving PR landscape. She is in conversation with show host Pavan R Chawla. Through SenateSHJ, Angela and her team tackle compl…
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The stories of losing home are the most profoundly disturbing. Yet these “stories” are the reality of millions of people across the world, everyday. Today there are over 117.3 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. We forget and we repeat ad infinitum the same patterns of greed, revenge and loss. And yet, in the midst of …
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If Premchand was looking down from the heavens above at school kids across Hindi speaking India, reading the same two or three stories of his, with the teacher blaring ‘morals’ at the end of class, he would be appalled. In popular imagination over the last seventy five years, Premchand’s writing has come to mean stories set against a depressing pov…
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Send us a text From Pavan R Chawla: On this episode of our award-winning series MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, I host dear friend and popular Advertising and Marketing industry stalwart Bipin R Pandit, COO of The Advertising Club, Mumbai. As a well-respected figure in the advertising and marketing space, Bipin is widely known for his exceptional…
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हिन्दी के सुपरिचित लेखक, कहानीकार, उपन्यासकार व आलोचक राजेंद्र यादव हिन्दी साहित्य में ‘नयी कहानी आंदोलन' के संस्थापक माने जाते हैं। मुंशी प्रेमचन्द द्वारा सन् 1930 में स्थापित साहित्यिक पत्रिका ‘हंस’ जो की सन् 1953 में बन्द हो गयी थी, के पुनर्प्रकाशन की बाग डोर राजेंद्र यादव जी ने सँभाली और उसे प्रेमचन्द की जयन्ती के दिन 31 जुलाई 1986 को पुनः प्रा…
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Sahitya Akademi and Vyas Aamman awardee Nasira Sharma pens a poignant story of how amidst mindless violence and bleak poverty, humanity sprouts in small gestures and kind words. साहित्य अकादमी और व्यास सम्मान पुरस्कार विजेता नासिरा शर्मा द्वारा लिखी मार्मिक कहानी जिसमे हिंसा और दरिद्रता के बीच पनपती है इंसानियत और करुणा।#hindi #kahani,#hindisahitya…
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Send us a text In this special Independence Day episode of MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, we are honored to have kiran khalap, co-founder and MD of chlorophyll, as our esteemed guest. In conversation with series host and creator and Founjder-Editor of Mediabrief.com - Pavan R Chawla. This conversation celebrates 25 glorious years since chlorophy…
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Vijaydan Detha, popularly knowne as “Bijji”, spent several decades collecting folk stories from in and around his village Borunda in rajasthan. In their retelling his stories straddled myths and legends, reality and fantasy, observation and a commentary on the world of his beloved Rajasthan. His work received national and international acclaim – he…
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Love is a complex emotion. One that few have been able to understand, let alone explain. Mannu Bhandari delves into the mind of a young woman at crossroads, as she tries to untangle the emotions she feels for the two men in her life.There are few love stories as candid and powerful as this one. The story was made into a memorable film by Basu Chatt…
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मुग़लों ने अपनी सल्तनत अंग्रेज़ों को कब और कैसे बक्शी, ये जानिए गप्पबाज़हीरो जी से। लेकिन अगर वाकयी हिंदुस्तान पर अंग्रेज़ी हुकूमत के पीछे की कहानी पता लगानी है तो William Dalrymple और Anita Anand की podcast 'Empire' सुनिए यहाँ -https://open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58hSTReUQiK4axYUVx?si=659c1a5311b94616 Thumbnail Art:Title: Shah 'Alam, Mughal Emperor …
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Send us a text Join us for Episode 119 of the award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice podcast, featuring an enlightening conversation with the peerless PR and Comms leader, Madan Bahal, co-founder and Managing Director of India's largest independent PR and Marketing firm Adfactors PR. This is a rare media appearance by Madan; to our knowledge, his f…
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Shrilal Shukla was a civil servant and a very observant one too! What he saw around him the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh and in the corridors of power in big cities gave him ample material for his rich life as a writer. Rural decay and urban apathy, all found their way in his satirical novels. The best known of which remains ‘Raag Darbari’. The nov…
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Send us a text This, our 118th episode of MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast with advertising genius Piyush Pandey of Ogilvy, just landed into our lap from what was to have been a very short telephonic chat about Ogilvy’s latest ad film entitled Jugalbandi for Pidilite’s powerful brand Fevicol. But transcribing this chat into text to try to capture t…
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Send us a text This, the latest episode (#117) our award-winning series MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, features Eeshan Lokhande and Veer Patel, the innovative co-founders of the CEAT Indian Supercross Racing League (ISRL), in conversation with show host and Founder-Editor of MEDIABRIEF.COM, Pavan R Chawla. The discussion dives into the world of …
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There are some relationships that have copious amounts written about them, and then there are a handful that we seldom read about. One such is that of a father-in-law and daughter-in-law. In India their conversations are seldom spoken about, often buried under the heavy burden of familial hierarchy. This story by Ajay Jugran offers a glimpse of ten…
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Send us a text Ujaya Shakya, Founder of Outreach in Nepal and author of Brandsutra, and the first vice president of the Advertising Association of Nepal, is my very special guest on this, the 116th episode of our award-winning MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast. We caught up with Ujaya for this Vodcast and Podcast which is available on both – YouTube…
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1960’s was an era of literary experimentation and introspection. The stories often reflected on the juggernaut of rapid urbanisation and the social changes transforming post-independence India. Gyanranjan, despite having written far fewer stories than his contemporaries became one of the most popular names in Sathotri Sahitya (literature of the 60’…
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Send us a text Our guest on the 115th episode of MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast is Deepika Bhan, President of Packaged Foods at Tata Consumer Products Limited. She shares insights with series host Pavan R Chawla, who is also Founder-Editor of Mediabrief.com. (READ THE COMPLETE POST ON MEDIABRIEF.COM. YOU CAN ALSO WATCH THE VODCAST ON YOUTUBE. VIS…
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Shekhar Joshi was born in Almora, Uttarakhand. His stories carried his home in them. An important voice in the ‘Nayi Kahani’ movement of Hindi literature, Joshi’s stories talked of the struggles of his people, their poverty, exploitation and resistance. This story ‘Dajyu’ was also made into a film by the Children’s Film Society of India. ​​हिंदी सा…
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Send us a text India’s Top ranked Media & Entertainment Analyst (as per Asia Money Brokers Poll 2021-22-23), Karan Taurani, SVP Elara Capital, speaks with Pavan R Chawla, host of MVP The Master’s Voice Podcast, in this, the 112th episode of the award-winning series. They speak of the Media & entertainment Industry in India, with a focus on Live Spo…
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देश का राजनैतिक तापमान बढ़ता जा रहा है। इस पसीने छुड़ा देने वाली रस्साकशी के माहौल में दो पल रुक कर मीठे व्यंग का शरबत पीजिये। और हाँ, एक सहानुभूति भरी नज़र ज़रा उस छुटभैये नेता की ओर भी जिसका भविष्य हर इलेक्शन से पहले थाली में कंचे सा डोलता है।As the mercury rises on the nation’s elections, we are all sure to get caught in the crossfire of barbs and b…
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Send us a text This, the 111th episode of our award-winning series MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, features Pankaj Krishna, Founder & CEO of Chrome DM, whose company and its verticals are helping keep the Media & Marketing space empowered with credible measurements across the spectrum of distribution, OTT, News consumption and more, including the…
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Born in Rawalpindi in 1942, playwright and author Swadesh Deepak made Ambala his home. He lived there until 2006, when one day he stepped out of his house for a walk and never returned. His play “Court Martial” is said to have had over 5000 shows across the country and yet Deepak shunned fame. Battling Bipolar disorder he stepped away for treatment…
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Much has been written about Manto. In his times, he was perhaps talked about more than his written works. Dragged into court, condemned by the custodians of culture, ridiculed by the scholars of “serious literature”, Manto lived and wrote as he pleased. He was asked why he wrote and he replied with a honest and witty article, “Main afsana kyunkar l…
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Send us a text Brajesh Singh, President – Arthur D Little India, on powering enterprise with strategy and innovation This, the 110th episode of the award-winning series MVP – The Master's Voice Podcast, features Brajesh Singh, President of Arthur D. Little India, in a dialogue that sheds light on the cutting-edge strategies and digital transformati…
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Send us a text This, the 109th episode of our award-winning series Master's Voice Podcast (MVP) on MediaBrief.com features Saumya Rathor, Category Lead for the Potato Chips (Lays) division at PepsiCo India, in conversation with series host and Mediabrief.com Founder-Editor Pavan R Chawla. Saumya sheds light on the intricacies of brand management an…
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Send us a text Srinivasan K Swamy (popularly known as Sundar), Chairman of R K Swamy Ltd, joins tMVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast series host Pavan R Chawla for a conversation on the cusp of the company's historic milestone: becoming the first Indian integrated marketing conglomerate to go public and list on the Indian Stock Exchange. The IPO, sche…
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नमस्कार, मेरा नाम आरती है और में Storyjam में हर हफ्ते आपको सुनाती हूँ हिंदी में एक कहानी। अगर आप को कहानियां सुनना अच्छा लगता हैं , तो इस चैनल को सब्सक्राइब ज़रूर करें। धन्यवाद! सूर्यबाला जी का जन्म 25 अक्टूबर 1944 को वाराणसी में हुआ। वे एक लेखिका और व्यंगकार के रूप में सुप्रसिद्ध हैं। अपने जन्मस्थान वाराणसी से सूर्यबाला जी की बहुत सी यादें जुड़ी है…
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Winner of the Sahitya Academy Award in 1968, Kulwant Singh Virk wrote inboth Punjabi and English. His stories that revolve around the partition of India and Pakistan are especially poignant.I was intrigued by the ending of this story. It could mean different things to different readers, based on their gender, age and when in history they read it. W…
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Send us a text This, the 107th episode of our award-winning MVP - The Master's Voice Podcast, features respected professional Lakshmi Narayanan B, Chief Marketing Officer at CEAT Ltd as our distinguished guest, in conversation with series host Pavan R Chawla. Lakshmi leads marketing for India and globally at CEAT, which is a household name since it…
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ग़ालिब पुरुस्कार से सम्मानित कन्हैया लाल कपूर , जिन्हे केएल कपूर के नाम से भी जाना जाता है, व्यंग हास्य और उपहासपूर्ण पैरोडी के लिए जाने गए। अविभाजित भारत में उनका जन्म 1910. में लायलपुर में हुआ। विभाजन के उपरांत वे मोगा पंजाब में आ बसे और यहाँ कॉलेज में प्रिंसिपल के रूप में कार्यरत रहे। Listen to Hindi kahaniyan and Urdu Kahaniyan by famous as wel…
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Send us a text In the 106th episode of the award-winning series MVP – The Master's Voice Podcast from MediaBrief.com, Samir K Modi, the dynamic Managing Director of Modi Enterprises and the visionary behind Colorbar Cosmetics, takes center stage with series host Pavan R Chawla, Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com. Having celebrated Colorbar's 19th suc…
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Send us a text This, the 105th episode of our award-winning series MVP – The Master’s Voice Podcast, brings you a deep-dive, inspiring, often chuckle-inducing conversation with the remarkable Jo Jackson, CEO of the globally respected D&AD. As the first female CEO of D&AD, Jo passionately emphasizes the organization's commitment to diversity and equ…
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