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Calcutta Nights
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Author : Hemendra Kumar Roy
language : en
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Release Date : 2020-01-06
Calcutta Nights written by Hemendra Kumar Roy and has been published by Niyogi Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Calcutta nights (Raater Kolkata) is the real-life story and memoir of the enigmatic ‘Meghnad Gupta’, pen name of famed Bengali fiction writer Hemendra Kumar Roy. Translated into English by Rajat Chaudhuri almost a century after the first publication of Raater Kolkata in 1923, Roy reveals to contemporary readers The darkest secrets of an earlier Calcutta. The first two decades of the last century, the backdrop for this book, were politically turbulent times. Those days, Calcutta, the erstwhile capital of British India, was teeming with people from different parts of the country besides Europeans and other foreigners. It was a city of sin, pleasure and suffering. Indians who arrived and settled here mingled with locals, some of them picking up dress, manners and the wanton lifestyles of the Bengali ‘Babu’, while others kept their identities intact. All this created a unique cosmopolitan setting, coloured with shades of debauchery, darkness and crime that this first-hand account brilliantly recounts. Written in an age very different from ours, certain views of the author could be jarring for the present times. However, these need to be tempered by the understanding of the sociopolitical contexts and the distance of a century separating us from Meghnad Gupta’s Calcutta. Calcutta nights is the hootum pyanchar naksha (published in 1862 and penned by kaliprasanna Sinha) of the early twentieth century, a book that will help anyone understand the contrasts and colours of a unique Indian metropolis.
Days And Nights In Calcutta
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Author : Clark Blaise
language : en
Publisher: Saint Paul, Minn. : Hungry Mind Press
Release Date : 1995
Days And Nights In Calcutta written by Clark Blaise and has been published by Saint Paul, Minn. : Hungry Mind Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with India categories.
In 1973, Clark Blaise and his Bengali wife, Bharati Mukherjee, decided to spend a year with her family in Calcutta. Clark came as a Westerner; Bharati, as an adult woman examining her life as it might have become had she followed the traditional course expected of her. They recount a modern passage to India with insight, humor and compassion.
Days And Nights In Calcutta
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Author : Clark Blaise
language : en
Publisher: New York : Grove Weindenfeld
Release Date : 1990
Days And Nights In Calcutta written by Clark Blaise and has been published by New York : Grove Weindenfeld this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
An Evening In Calcutta
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Author : K. A. Abbas
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2015-12-03
An Evening In Calcutta written by K. A. Abbas and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-03 with Fiction categories.
The strength of [his] short stories ... lies in the fact that [he] grasped the weaknesses of his characters and their strengths' - Mulk Raj Anand 'A man of literature, a journalist of distinction, a film-maker who created a genre of his own' - Gulzar---- An Evening in Calcutta is a collection of celebrated writer and award-winning film-maker K.A. Abbas's most memorable stories. His characteristically crisp narratives and bold plotlines, informed as deeply by historical detail as they are by contemporary politics, reach into the familiar to draw out startling truths.
Bengal Nights
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Author : Mircea Eliade
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-04-01
Bengal Nights written by Mircea Eliade and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman á clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a European fascination with the mysterious subcontinent. Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair. A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. "Bengal Nights is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of India informed by clear-eyed understanding. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter. It is enough to make stones weep." — Literary Review Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Many of his scholarly works, as well as his two-volume autobiography and four-volume journal, are published by the University of Chicago Press. Translated into French in 1950, Bengal Nights was an immediate critical success. The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in 1987.
Walking Calcutta
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Author : Keith Humphrey
language : en
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07-11
Walking Calcutta written by Keith Humphrey and has been published by Grosvenor House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-11 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This wandering odyssey through the city's pullulating backstreets 0and serpentine byways reveals a Calcutta rarely glimpsed by western travellers. Arranged as a series of journeys on foot through the older quarters of the city seldom trod by outsiders, the narrative chronicles the topography, social and historical background and the vibrant street life and characters which give Calcutta its uniqueness. Complete with detailed directions and street maps for the areas explored, the book provides a storehouse of indispensable information for the intrepid traveller.
The Condition Improvement And Town Planning Of The City Of Calcutta And Contiguous Areas
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Author : E. P. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-21
The Condition Improvement And Town Planning Of The City Of Calcutta And Contiguous Areas written by E. P. Richards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-21 with Architecture categories.
By 1900 the British had undertaken various types of urban planning in their colonial territories, but the early twentieth century brought new ideas and the birth of the modern planning movement. In India these new planning ideas inspired several specialized reports after 1900, most of which drew explicitly on British, or occasionally German, ideas. The most complete of these studies was the Richards Report on Calcutta, prepared for the Calcutta Improvement Trust and published in 1914. Its major concerns included the building and widening of roads, slum clearance and improvement, legislation, and suburban planning. As background, it included written and visual documentation of living conditions, through charts, photographs, and maps. Richards emphasized that conditions in Calcutta differed greatly from those in urban Britain, and made some allowance in that regard. In general, however, his report exemplifies the attempt by British planners, along with Indian elites, to impose their vision on colonial cities. Richards’ report was well-received by leading British planners of the day. A notice in Garden Cities and Town Planning claimed that it was "the most complete report on town conditions and possibilities which has yet been issued". While the immediate impact of the report in Calcutta is moot - Richards was highly critical of the past practices of local officials, and his views were unpopular with his superiors - the Richards Reports remains a crucial insight into both the development of modern town planning and the colonial period in India.
I Loved Jesus In The Night
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Author : Paul Murray
language : en
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Release Date : 2016-08
I Loved Jesus In The Night written by Paul Murray and has been published by Paraclete Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08 with Belief and doubt categories.
A compelling story of one priest's memories of the icon of compassion powerfully illuminates the letters of Mother Teresa, uncovering why she had feelings of being a "saint of darkness."
City Of The Dreadful Night
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
City Of The Dreadful Night written by Rudyard Kipling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Short stories categories.
Representing Calcutta
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Author : Swati Chattopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Representing Calcutta written by Swati Chattopadhyay and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Calcutta (India) categories.
Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.