What happens when you give an introvert a microphone? Come hang out as I explore the complexities of life and find the humor and lessons along the way.
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Welcome to our NotAPodcast NotAClass Saturday chats on #ReadingTheStone - an experiment in collectively reading the 18th century Chinese masterwork Story of the Stone, aka Dream of The Red Chamber 紅樓夢 (Hongloumeng). Episodes are unedited and recorded live on TwitterSpaces or Zoom - follow Twitter account @ReadingTheStone or hashtag #ReadingTheStone to participate. To listen in chronological order, please take note of 'season' and 'episode' number. Additional materials housed at readingthesto ...
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This podcast is a platform for my thoughts, opinions, & learning. A millennial-friendly podcast that covers stories, interviews, & discussions around career, motivation, self-help, reading, researching, news analysis, current affairs, and most importantly : development and growth. #NotAPodcast is a brainchild of Nihit Parikh, who is a budding writer, poet, thinker, blogger, conversationalist, marketing enthusiast and founder of "Read Think & Discuss". 'Not A Podcast' is going to be a journey ...
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House of Villians Recap S1E2 | TINAP
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I'll be covering the second episode of House of Villians. Who is going home? Only time will tell. Come hang out for a while!
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The Personality Hire & Why They Are Important
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In this episode, I'm going over why a personality hire is the most valuable tool for a boss to understand their team. I also touch on the correlation between that and Japanese Blood Type Personality Theory. Aye we got some jokes too. Thanks for stopping by! Hang out for a while <3
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House of Villians Recap S1E1 | TINAP
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Call me a raccoon because I love trashy reality television. This episode I am covering the season premiere of House of Villians. This is goingbto be fun!
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POV: You've Hit Rock Bottom and Everything Sucks- Now What?
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On the first episode of TINAP, you'll meet your host, Maggie. (That's me I'm writing this) She discusses rebranding the podcast, the effects of the pandemic, and the steps she has learned to emerge from rock bottom over and over again.Sit back, relax, and take some time to vibe while she shares her perspective and finds the humor of it all.(also th…
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Stories for Kate Episode 3: Not quite Persuasion, but the best company
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We didn't quite manage to chat at length about Persuasion as we had planned, but we definitely shared a few stories for Kate! Original grapes Eily, Jen, Yazmin, and Eileen were back, but a few of Kate's favorite Lowellians also joined us: Tina, Ona, Ned, and Howard! We gave Howard a bit of grief for not having seen us in so long (and we gave him a …
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#ReadingTheStone Season 3 - Stories For Kate Episode 2: Valley Girl, like totally
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The grapes return for another episode of 'Stories for Kate.' This time we do a deep dive into Martha Coolidge's 1983 indie classic Valley Girl, starring a young Deborah Foreman and Nicholas Cage. We talked about aspects of the film that we still love (eileen: still the way NC kisses, swoon; Jen: the storytelling; Yaz: the character of Julie), and a…
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#ReadingTheStone Season 3: Stories for Kate! Ep 1 Preamble: Foundational Romances
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#ReadingTheStone Season 3: We have ventured a bit far afield from Story of the Stone and 18th century Chinese mansions for now, as Season 3 will be stories for (and about) Kate - in which we talk about her favorite books and films and men - and eagerly await her emendations and rebuttals. Episode 1 Our Foundational College-era Romances, from Room w…
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 10 Fellowship of The Stone: our post-120 wrap-up chat
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[Originally recorded on March 25, 2023] "The Fellowship of the Stone" (thank you to one of the episode guests for our new sobriquet!) reconvened for a post #ReadingTheStone wrap-up episode. We welcomed a panoply of new-to-the-group friends - all Hongloumeng scholars and teachers - Paola Zamperini, Canaan Morse, I-Hsien Wu, Carlos Rojas, Emily Wu, S…
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 9 On Baoyu's Farewell, and Ours - Reaching Chapter 120
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[Originally recorded on 3-11-2023] We recorded our first #ReadingTheStone Saturday chat on April 2, 2022, and now nearly 12 months later, we say farewell to Story of the Stone, as we reach Chapter 120 together. In this episode we explore the various 'happy endings' presented at the end of the fiction, and wonder how and if they responded to the que…
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 8: On Haunted Near Endings - the Penultimate Episode of the Jias
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[Originally recorded on 3-4-23] “Before one disaster is over, here’s another!” Pretty much sums up all the chapters lately. - Dani Our heroic trio Waiyee, Ann, and Eileen are reunited (thank you Shelly!) for the penultimate episode discussing Chapters 110-115, alongside the rest of our #ReadingTheStone community. A wide-ranging conversation today f…
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 7 On Justice and Retribution, and Sea Otter Pelts
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[Originally recorded on 2-25-2023] Waiyee and Eileen had other commitments this week, but Ann led the #ReadingTheStone group in a rich discussion of Chapters 105-109, on the dual plot strands of Baoyu's marriage and also of the Fall of the House of Jia, and whether, even for those with power and money and connections like the Jia family, there migh…
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 6: On the Postlapsarian, and also surprisingly, Jia Zheng
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[Originally recorded on 2-18-23] As #ReadingTheStone enters its final dozen chapters, we find ourselves ruminating over the postlapsarian state of things: the scattering and banishment of most everyone from Grand Prospect Garden, Xifeng's decline and Baochai seemingly being groomed to be the next Xifeng, the ethics of appeasement in a large social …
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 5: On Love and Death in the House of Jia
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[Originally recorded on 2-11-2023] The theme of this morning's #ReadingTheStone live chat began earlier, with Kate's Twitter poll on where readers fell on The Baoyu-Daiyu-Baochai ship, and whether Daiyu's quiet off-stage demise in the midst of a wedding was unbefitting the exit of a central character. Some other forked paths of conversation centere…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 11: On Goethe v. Proust, Private v. Public Reading, and Hexes
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[Originally recorded on July 2, 2022] After a lovely first #ReadingTheStone (virtual) face-to-face meetup as part of the Duke APSI Book Club in late June, we returned to our Twitter Spaces live chats in early July, and also dove back into reading the text proper. Eileen revisited one of her favorite moments of multimodal reading at the end of Chapt…
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 4: On Daiyu's Near Demise and Recovery, and Zen Koans
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[Originally recorded on 2-4-23] #ReadingTheStone discussion centered around Chapters 91-95, though we began the conversation where we left off the previous Saturday, on Daiyu willing her own demise by refusing to eat. The group discussed how Daiyu is absolutely the main character of the final 40 chapters, and whether this is yet another element tha…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 10: On Poetry in the Garden, Gaokao exam questions, and is Baoyu a F-boy?
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[Originally recorded on 6-11-2022] Episode 10 saw us ranging widely, though we nominally discussed Chapters 17 to 21. First, we chatted about all the buzz over the 2022 PRC college entrance examination (gaokao) essay question on Dream of the Red Chamber - over tweets and in our live chat this week, we discussed a) whether one needed any knowledge o…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 9 On Embedded Refrains and Incipient Desire in Hongloumeng
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[Conversation originally recorded on 6/4/22] Our 9th week of #ReadingTheStone was lively and wide-ranging both on Twitter and during our Saturday live conversation . Now that the imperial consort's visit has concluded, Chapter 19 seems like a narrative refrain, in showing us the maid Aroma's return visit to an albeit far humbler natal home. We talk…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 8 On Grand Prospect Garden, and The Functions of Naming
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[Conversation originally recorded on 5/28/22] Our eighth #ReadingTheStone conversation took us into the construction and naming of every nook and cranny inside Grand Prospect Garden, aka 大觀園 Daguanyuan, the future home of Baoyu, Daiyu, and all the young people in the story. We talked about naming as possession and naming as care, temporal fluidity …
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 3: On Tragedy, Failure, and Creativity - and Daiyu, of course
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In last week's episode we agreed that the last 40 "Story of the Stone" chapters were giving final season wrap-up-all-the-loose-threads vibes, but perhaps our #ReadingTheStone chats now do that too. We circled back to the topic of one of our first conversations - on failure as generative of creativity, a theme that begins this novel and also structu…
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#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 2: On Daiyu's Anguished Dream, and Final Season Vibes
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The #ReadingTheStone community forged ahead into Chapters 81-85 today, and we encountered so many callbacks to earlier moments to the point that some of us felt that they were giving final-season wrap-up vibes. Many threads and characters' fates are resurfaced, in anticipation of all coming to a head: Baoyu's return to studying for examinations, fu…
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#ReadingTheStone Returns! S2 Episode 1 Our First Eighty Chapters of Reading Together
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#ReadingTheStone had our first Saturday chat of the new year, on January 14, 2023. Last we left off, we had read up to Chapter 80 - and in this first session of the new year, we discussed the textual history of Story of the Stone, how readers and scholars have differentiated between the first 80 chapters (understood to be definitively penned by Cao…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 7: On Baoyu - no, Xifeng's - Education
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#ReadingTheStone Episode 7 was supposed to be a continuation of our discussion of the education of Baoyu, the young scion of the Jia family - but Waiyee, Ann, and Eileen were diverted by questions about the 'creation' of the extraordinary Jia daughter-in-law Wang Xifeng. From her keen knowledge of maths and household economy, to her minimal literac…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 6: On Mirrors and Misguided Readers
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#ReadingTheStone Saturday live chats are back after a week's hiatus, and in this episode Waiyee and Eileen discuss the history of interlinear & eyebrow commentary in Chinese fiction and possible resonances with 21st century online fanfiction community practices; crossover fic potential with Pride and Prejudice; fiction as pedagogy - what is a bad r…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 5: On Entering New Narrative Spaces
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Our fifth Saturday chat continues the past week's conversation on Baoyu's sexual initiation - both in dreamland at the end of Chapter 5, and in the 'real world' at the beginning of the following chapter. Waiyee, Ann, and Eileen chat about Granny Liu 劉姥姥, narrative spaces as seen by outsiders and interlopers, and reader/writerly identifications. Tha…
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 4: On Dreams and Illusion - and Chapter 5
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Eileen, Waiyee, and Ann dive into Chapter 5 of Hongloumeng - and respond to #ReadingTheStone questions about the role of dreams in Chinese literature, translating xian as immortal or fairy, the author's invention of a supernatural pantheon, the illusion of knowledge and the novelistic form, and musical structure as a way of thinking about Chapter 5…
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#ReadingTheStone Begins. S1 Episode 1: Preamble
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Thanks for listening! Find us at readingthestone.com or @ReadingTheStone on Twitter.โดย ReadingTheStone
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 2: On Beginnings
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Thanks for listening! Find us at readingthestone.com or @ReadingTheStone on Twitter.โดย ReadingTheStone
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 3: On Character - Daiyu, Baoyu, Baochai
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In this third round of Saturday chats on #ReadingTheStone, Eileen and Waiyee and special guest Ann Waltner talk about the introduction of key characters in the open four chapters of the Story Of The Stone. Thanks for listening! Find us at readingthestone.com or @ReadingTheStone on Twitter.โดย Eileen
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Ep #10 : Mismatched, Art of Film-making & Prithvi Theatre feat. Sarthak Kakar | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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In this episode, our guest on the podcast, Mr. Sarthak Kakar talks about his experience working as a theatre artist, as an actor in films like Bhangra Paa Le and HighJack. He also shares his experience working as an actor as well as Assistant Director in Netflix Web Series : Mismatched. Having lived the good in both the conventional film set and an…
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EP #09 : NIFT, Matto ki Saikal, Career in Performing Arts feat. Aarohi Sharma | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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Welcome to a brand new episode of "Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh". In this episode, our guest on the podcast, Ms. Aarohi Sharma talks about some of the most interesting topics that have defined her personal and professional life. Ms Aarohi has worked as a lead actress in a Prakash Jha Productions feature film : “Matto Ki Saikal”. She has worked a…
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Ep #08 : History of Palanpur, Women in Leadership & Solopreneurship feat. Harshvardhana Gadhvi | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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Welcome to the first episode of "Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh" in the year 2021. In this episode, our guest on the podcast, Ms. Harshvardhana Gadhvi talks about some of the most interesting topics that have shaped her life's journey. Harshvardhana is Solopreneur of a venture called 'Breathe Candles Store'. She has done her Bachelors in Governanc…
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Ep #07 : Unlearning Startups, LAARI, & Vulnerability feat. Aditya Dave | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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In this episode of "Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh", I along with a guest, Aditya Dave, talk about start-ups & entrepreneurship. Aditya is founder of startups: LAARI and ALLAGII, and has been actively leading communities at Techstars Startup Weekend. Starting his journey from the small city of Nadiad, Aditya has achieved a great deal by working wi…
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EP #06 : Talking about 'A Suitable Boy', Novel & BBC Series feat. Megha Sharma | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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In this episode of "Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh", I along with a guest, Megha Sharma, talk about 'A Suitable Boy', a famous Indian novel written by author Vikram Seth and its BBC Television series directed by Mira Nair and Andrew Davies. There’s something about long-drawn, multi-threaded family sagas. A fascination that becomes habit in watchin…
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In the 5th episode of "Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh", I talk about 5 news items about topics related to Business, Finance, Startups, & Industry; that caught my attention last week. Hope you find this episode interesting and meaningful! You can follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/not_a_podcast_/ --- Support this podcast: https://pod…
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EP #04 : Overthinking in 2020 - Politics, Education & Travel | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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This podcast is a platform of Nihit Parikh's thoughts, opinions, & learning. A millennial-friendly podcast that covers stories, interviews, & discussions around career, motivation, self-help, reading, researching, news analysis, current affairs, and most importantly : development and growth. In the 4th episode of #NotAPodcast, the founder Nihit Par…
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EP #03 : My Engineering Journey | Engineers Day Special | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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This podcast is a platform of Nihit Parikh's thoughts, opinions, & learning. A millennial-friendly podcast that covers stories, interviews, & discussions around career, motivation, self-help, reading, researching, news analysis, current affairs, and most importantly : development and growth. In this 3rd episode of #NotAPodcast, the founder Nihit Pa…
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EP #02 : A Critique of Criticism | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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This podcast is a platform of Nihit Parikh's thoughts, opinions, & learning. A millennial-friendly podcast that covers stories, interviews, & discussions around career, motivation, self-help, reading, researching, news analysis, current affairs, and most importantly : development and growth. In this second episode of #NotAPodcast, the founder Nihit…
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EP #01 : Motivation v/s Reality | Not A Podcast with Nihit Parikh
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This podcast is a platform of Nihit Parikh's thoughts, opinions, & learning. A millennial-friendly podcast that covers stories, interviews, & discussions around career, motivation, self-help, reading, researching, news analysis, current affairs, and most importantly : development and growth. In this first episode of #NotAPodcast, the founder Nihit …
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This podcast is a platform for my thoughts, opinions, & learning. A millennial-friendly podcast that covers stories, interviews, & discussions around career, motivation, self-help, reading, researching, news analysis, current affairs, and most importantly : development and growth. #NotAPodcast is a brainchild of Nihit Parikh, who is a budding write…
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