Menoka Has Hanged Herself
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Menoka Has Hanged Herself
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Menoka Has Hanged Herself
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Author : Sharmistha Gooptu
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-12-03
Menoka Has Hanged Herself written by Sharmistha Gooptu and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with Fiction categories.
A telephone call from the studio, night of the new year…1937. Menoka, heroine of Bharat Talkies, has hanged herself by her own sari, in costume for her new film… Silent films are now the talkies. Bioscope pictures are a rage and film stars subjects of gossip and fantasy. The world of films is a phantasmagoria, a place where young girls become prey in the hands of those that have the power to give them fame and fortune. Two women, both remarkably different and both stars of this world of bioscope films might now lose all... and one even her life, if they take the wrong steps forward. Sickness lurks in a lust for dead flesh... unlikely bonds are forged... and an impossible love rears up. In this world of shadows and greyness, unlikely people come into their own.
Unspoken
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Author : Sharmistha Gooptu
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-06-27
Unspoken written by Sharmistha Gooptu and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-27 with Fiction categories.
The summer of 2024. Sixty-four-year-old Mrs G starts to reminisce about her love affair with a man she calls ‘A’. To Aisha, her daughter, ‘A’ appears to be a figment of her mother’s dementia-afflicted mind. ‘Miu, there was no A. You were happily married to Boy,’ an exasperated Aisha tells her mother. Even as it starts to seem that her mother had, for years, lived a whole other life. A life peopled by those who had together played out the obsession of love, morbid jealousy, hurt, harm and finally death. ‘Shree’s death,’ her mother whispers to Aisha. But how could it be? Her father had been so deeply in love with her mother and theirs was almost the perfect marriage. Who were these people that her mother now spoke about at odd hours? And the death that seemed to weigh so deeply on her mind… a death that leads Aisha to the holy city of Varanasi where people go to die.
Bengali Cinema
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Author : Sharmistha Gooptu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-11
Bengali Cinema written by Sharmistha Gooptu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Covering the years spanning cinema’s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema’s last phase of transition in the 1980s. Arguing that Bengali cinema has been a key economic and social institution, the author highlights that the Bengali filmic imaginary existed over and above the imaginary of the Indian nation. This book argues that a definitive history of Bengali cinema presents an alternative understanding to the currently influential notion of the Hindi film as the ‘Indian’ or ‘national’ cinema. It suggests that the Bengali cinema presents a history which brings to the fore the deeply contested terrain of ‘national’ cinema, and shows the creation of the ‘alternative imaginary’ of the Bengali film. The author indicates that the case of the Bengali cinema demonstrates the emergence of a public domain that set up a definitive discourse of difference with respect to the ‘all-India’ Hindi film, popularly classified as Bollywood cinema, and which pre-empted its subsumption within the more pervasive culture of the Bombay Hindi cinema. As the first comprehensive historical work on Bengali cinema, this book makes a significant contribution to both Film and Cultural Studies and South Asian Studies in general.
The Hour Before Dawn
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Author : Bhabendra Nath Saikia
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-10-09
The Hour Before Dawn written by Bhabendra Nath Saikia and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-09 with Fiction categories.
‘She had given her husband four children, had bared her body and soul to him... why did he want to remarry? Today, what made him dress in a new silk kurta, become a bridegroom once again, and leave on elephant-back to take another woman as his wife?’ When Menoka’s dissolute husband Mohikanto takes a second wife she is devastated by the heedless manner in which he squanders her unquestioning loyalty. But after the initial anguish she finds new strength – in her womanhood when she embraces a tender but illicit relationship with a village outcast; in her role as a fiercely protective mother, and, eventually, in a compassionate humanity towards her frail and battered co-wife and needy stepchildren. The story also poignantly explores Menoka’s troubled but ultimately redemptive relationship with Indro, her firstborn son, who is unwittingly exposed to a bewildering world of adult complexities and feels compelled to leave the village.
Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema
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Author : Ashish Rajadhyaksha
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema written by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Social Science categories.
The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film, this new revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema includes vastly expanded coverage of mainstream productions from the 1970s to the 1990s and, for the first time, a comprehensive name index. Illustrated throughout, there is no comparable guide to the incredible vitality and diversity of historical and contemporary Indian film.
The Weirdos
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Author : Chinmay Chakravarty
language : en
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-31
The Weirdos written by Chinmay Chakravarty and has been published by Ukiyoto Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-31 with Fiction categories.
Weirdos roam everywhere around us, at times they move within us too. However, one cannot be definitive about the salient features or the rich attributes that make them so. The short stories of this book do accept this fact and therefore, the titular characters described in those stories are not marked out as them, leaving the onus on the intelligent readers to judge for themselves.
Encyclopaedia Of Indian Cinema
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Author : Ashish Rajadhyaksha
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
Encyclopaedia Of Indian Cinema written by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Drawing on the work of a large team of specialists, this book contains 500 entries on all the leading directors, stars, studios and genres in Indian cinema. In addition to comprehensive filmographies, it also features 1450 entries on key films from all periods and regions, with cast and credits as well as concise critical evaluations. A chronicle of film history, together with basic production statistics and an index, complete the volume.
Calcutta Municipal Gazette
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Calcutta Municipal Gazette written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Calcutta (India) categories.
The Ganga
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Author : Pranab Kumar Parua
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-01-12
The Ganga written by Pranab Kumar Parua and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-12 with Science categories.
From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world. The actual location of the port of call varied from time to time in line with the natural hydrographic changes. From the early decades of the second millennium AD, traders from the European con- nent also joined the traders from the Arab countries, who had been the Forerunners in maritime trading with India. Daring traders and fortune seekers from Denmark, Holland, Belgium and England arrived at different ports of call along the Hooghly river. The river had been, in the meantime, losing its pre-eminence as the main outlet channel of the sacred Ganga into the Bay of Bengal, owing to a shift of ?ow towards east near Rajmahal into the Padma, which had been so long, carried very small part of the large volume of ?ow. On a cloudy afternoon on August 24, 1690 the British seafarer Job Charnock rested his oars at Kolkata and started a new chapter in the life of a sleepy village, bordering the Sunderbans which was ‘a tangled region of estuaries, rivers and water courses, enclosing a vast number of islands of various shapes and sizes. ’ and infested with a large variety of wild animals. In the language of the British Nobel Laureate (1907) Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). ???? ???? Thus the midday halt of Charnock grew a city.