Kafka: Hindi Books & Audio

Kafka is a reading app for Hindi and world classics: Premchand's complete stories, Manto, Tagore, Jaishankar Prasad, Nirala and Dinkar in Hindi; Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus, Austen, Dickens, Conan Doyle and Wodehouse in English; 3,000+ books and 1,000+ audiobooks, every one hand-formatted and typeset by people who read it first. We don't dump text on a screen. Each paragraph, each verse, each stage direction sits on the page the way it was meant to be read. READ AND LISTEN AT ONCE Kafan, Idgah, Poos ki Raat, Shatranj ke Khiladi, Usne Kaha Tha, Camus's The Stranger in Hindi, Chekhov's The Bet and Misery in English: narrated, with the line being spoken lit up on the page. Listen on the commute, read at night, pick up where you left off either way. HINDI AND URDU Godan, Nirmala, Gaban and the Mansarovar stories. Manto's Toba Tek Singh, Thanda Gosht, Khol Do. Tagore, Prasad, Guleri, Nirala, Dinkar, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Bhagat Singh, Gandhi, Ambedkar. Diwans of Mir and Ghalib with meanings a tap away, dohas of Kabir and Rahim. Urdu audiobooks by Manto, Bedi, Ghulam Abbas, Qasmi and Khadija Mastoor. WORLD LITERATURE Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kafka, Camus, Maupassant, Wilde, Poe, Lu Xun, Akutagawa. Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, Hardy, Conrad, Wells, Verne, Shakespeare, Plato, Russell. New Hindi translations of world classics every week. A READER THAT KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE A ghazal isn't a novel. Urdu verse renders with each couplet on its own lines and annotations for hard words. Drama gives you tappable speaker names. Letters keep their greetings. Epigraphs are set apart. Scripture is set as scripture. IN THE APP • Tap any word for a meaning that fits the book, not just a dictionary entry • Select a passage and ask for it to be explained • Highlights, notes and bookshelves, synced across devices • 15+ fonts including Hindi-specific typefaces, with size, spacing and margins • 8 themes, warm ambient sound mixes • Import your own EPUBs • Read offline once a book is opened • Sleep timer and speed for audio Kafka is built by one person who thinks these books deserve better than bad scans. No ads, no feed, no store pushing bestsellers. Just the book and you. Free. No ads. Read beautifully, listen on the go.