Zakir Hossain has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 1★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is In the Shadow of the Red-Light.
In the Shadow of the Red-Light
Summary
A multifaceted documentary on sex trafficking in South Asia, this audiobook is set in five South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, but it deeply and shockingly represents the entire global sex trade. This multibillion-dollar industry is a form of modern-day slavery, where women are enslaved, raped, tortured, and forced into sex 20 to 30 times a day; end up with incurable diseases, such as HIV; and are finally thrown away once their bodies are no longer sellable. This audiobook is a deeply researched and creatively composed investigative piece.
©2014 Zakir Hossain (P)2015 Zakir Hossain
Table Number 7
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"Number Seven, Love is Heaven" was his nickname to his bosom friends. Others used to call him Romeo. He was a Romeo indeed, a Romeo with multiple Juliets. He was a handsome man in his late 20s, with a good job. He was as free as a bird. With endless freedom, his Romeo-ness was blossoming. Some his friends shortened "Number Seven, Love is Heaven" to only "Number Seven", so they used to call him Number Seven. And, for some unknown reasons, Romeo used to love the number. Anything associated with seven was his favorite. Seven a.m. or Seven p.m. or seven apples or seven x two =14 tennis balls to practice tennis with, or seventh, 14th, 21st, or 28th day of a month to arrange some important meetings, and so on. In one word, he was addicted to seven; he didn’t know why, though. Perhaps it was an astrological or numerological influence on him, he thought. And, coincidentally, this particular story began on the table number seven in a restaurant, on July 7th, 2001. It could have been more synchronized if the date was July 7th, 2007, as per as Romeo’s love for seven is concerned. Perhaps that little bit of rhythm-less-ness turned Romeo’s life a bit rhythm-less, accidentally, and that accident created this extraordinary, humorous story, which we all are going to hear now. On July 7th, at table number seven, what really happened?
©2019 MD Zakir Hossain (P)2021 MD Zakir Hossain
A Drop of Silence, a Drop of Zen, the Taste of True Religion
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This is not a guided meditation audiobook, but, then again, it is; no other audiobook of meditation intends more than this one to take you to the meditative state where you find your inner peace, where you find your true self. This is not a history of Zen, but, then again, it is a little bit of that, too. It recalls, explains, and reads history, stories, poetry, anecdotes, jokes, and so on, and by doing everything it does in here, it wants to offer you nothing but a taste of pure silence, a taste of meditation, a taste of Zen, and a taste of true religion.
©2018 MD Zakir Hossain (P)2018 MD Zakir Hossain
A Single Drop of Tear
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The original poetry written during the pandemic....
©2020 MD Zakir Hossain (P)2021 MD Zakir Hossain
The Prophet
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A collection of original poems on human misery, love, and the search for ultimate freedom... Misery, love, freedom - that is the philosophical order of the book. The last poem, "The Prophet", is the target point, and all else is an educational journey within this very life to reach the final destination: the prophetic wisdom, the ultimate freedom. Our struggles, frustrations, confusion, fears - through all these we search for the ways to be free; we try to love, we try to be loved, conditionally and unconditionally.... All these experiences slowly grow us up over a period of time. Through all ups and downs, someday, some of us find the ways to the ultimate freedom, the ultimate peace, the path of a prophet. These selected original poems were written over the period 1992-2013.
©2013 Zakir Hossain (P)2015 Zakir Hossain
The Auction: A Documentary-Novel on Forced Marriage
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An ugly, inhuman, act like forced marriage has been practiced throughout history for centuries in one way or another; men and women, especially women, were forced into marriages by their parents, guardians, authorities, or rulers for various reasons, and they went through inexplicable sufferings. Forced marriage is still a big issue even in this 21st century when we consider ourselves the most developed species on earth; it is happening all over the world. This compelling documentary-novel The Auction deeply examines the ignorance and dark practices in our society that are responsible for forced marriages and the great sufferings of its victims. It is a novel with an emotional power that expressively portrays human sufferings caused by many harmful cultural, traditional, religious and social practices. It is a blood-chilling thriller based on a true story of a young British-Asian woman who was forced into marriage.
©2017 Zakir Hossain (P)2017 Zakir Hossain