Author: Prosenjit Das GuptaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
10 Walks in Calcutta
Author: Prosenjit Das GuptaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Walking Calcutta
Author: Keith HumphreyPublisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 190844729X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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 Epic City
Author: Kushanava ChoudhuryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 163557157X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice. Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. Once the capital of the British Raj, and then India's industrial and cultural hub, by 2001 Calcutta was clearly past its prime. Why, his relatives beseeched him, had he returned? Surely, he could have moved to Delhi, Bombay or Bangalore, where a new Golden Age of consumption was being born. Yet fifteen million people still lived in Calcutta. Working for the Statesman, its leading English newspaper, Kushanava Choudhury found the streets of his childhood unchanged by time. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish-sellers squatted on bazaar floors; politics still meant barricades and bus burnings, while Communist ministers travelled in motorcades. Sifting through the chaos for the stories that never make the papers, Kushanava Choudhury paints a soulful, compelling portrait of the everyday lives that make Calcutta. Written with humanity, wit and insight, The Epic City is an unforgettable depiction of an era, and a city which is a world unto itself.
The Indian News and Chronicle of Eastern Affaires
Author: The Book Review
Author: Memory's Gold
Author: Amit ChaudhuriPublisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 9780670082520
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Kipling&Rsquo;S &Lsquo;City Of Dreadful Night&Rsquo;, The &Lsquo;Nightmare Experience&Rsquo; Of Jawaharlal Nehru, &Lsquo;Heroine Of A Hundred Thousand Loves&Rsquo;, A &Lsquo;Pestilential Behemoth&Rsquo;&Mdash;Calcutta Provokes Extreme Reactions In Almost Everyone Who Has Encountered The City. Despite Having &Lsquo;Probably The Filthiest Climate On Earth&Rsquo;, Described By Mark Twain As &Lsquo;Enough To Make A Doorknob Mushy&Rsquo;, Despite The Doomsday Predictions About It Being A &Lsquo;Dying City&Rsquo;, Calcutta Throbs With A Life And A Vitality All Its Own, Drawing People From All Walks Of Life To Engage With It. &Nbsp; This Anthology Brings Together Essays, Stories, Poems And Memoirs Of People Who Have Shared An Ardent Relationship With Calcutta. From Henry Meredith Parker&Rsquo;S Early Nineteenth-Century Vignettes Of Life In The City To Ulrike Draesner&Rsquo;S Overwrought Images At The Turn Of The New Millennium, From Tagore&Rsquo;S Elegiac Reminiscences Of His Childhood Home To Sandipan Chattopadhyay&Rsquo;S Hallucinogenic Depictions Of Nights Spent On The Footpath, Memory&Rsquo;S Gold Celebrates The Coexistence Of The Sacrosanct And The Blasphemous, So Characteristic Of Calcutta Itself. &Nbsp;
Delhi 14 : Historic walks
Author: Liddle, SwapnaPublisher: Tranquebar Press
ISBN: 9789381626245
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Delhi: capital of India and a walker's paradise. This book shows you how, in 14 easy steps.
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Home in the World: A Memoir
Author: Amartya SenPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324091622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called “a global intellectual” (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places “home,” including Dhaka, in modern Bangladesh; Kolkata, where he first studied economics; and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he engaged with the greatest minds of his generation. In Home in the World, these “homes” collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century life. Here Sen, “one of the most distinguished minds of our time” (New York Review of Books), interweaves scenes from his remarkable life with candid philosophical reflections on economics, welfare, and social justice, demonstrating how his experiences—in Asia, Europe, and later America—vitally informed his work. In exquisite prose, Sen evokes his childhood travels on the rivers of Bengal, as well as the “quiet beauty” of Dhaka. The Mandalay of Orwell and Kipling is recast as a flourishing cultural center with pagodas, palaces, and bazaars, “always humming with intriguing activities.” With characteristic moral clarity and compassion, Sen reflects on the cataclysmic events that soon tore his world asunder, from the Bengal famine of 1943 to the struggle for Indian independence against colonial tyranny—and the outbreak of political violence that accompanied the end of British rule. Witnessing these lacerating tragedies only amplified Sen’s sense of social purpose. He went on to study famine and inequality, wholly reconstructing theories of social choice and development. In 1998, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to welfare economics, which included a fuller understanding of poverty as the deprivation of human capability. Still Sen, a tireless champion of the dispossessed, remains an activist, working now as ever to empower vulnerable minorities and break down walls among warring ethnic groups. As much a book of penetrating ideas as of people and places, Home in the World is the ultimate “portrait of a citizen of the world” (Spectator), telling an extraordinary story of human empathy across distance and time, and above all, of being at home in the world.
Author: B. S. Kesavan