A Stone's Throw from Kolkata PDF Download

Author: Gajendrakumāra Mitra
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Category : Bengali fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Harinder Cheema, Aritra Dey, Neetha Raman, Mahesh Bhatt, Haimanti Bagchi, Avani Patel, Raksha Sharma, Sudhir Menon, Plabi Pradhan, Priyanka Joshi More
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9390414415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ― Philip Pullman

Author: Kr̥shṇā Basu
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780670999552
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Writer, Educationist And Three-Time Lok Sabha Mp From Kolkata, Krishna Bose Gives A Compelling Account Of Her Journey From The Time She Was A Schoolgirl Witnessing Some Of The Tragic Scenes That Accompanied Partition To Her Stint As Chairperson Of The Parliamentary Standing Committee On External Affairs. Married Into The Family Of Subhas Chandra Bose, Her Acute Yet Sympathetic Observations In An Outsider In Politics Illuminate The Changing World Of The Kolkata Intelligentsia From The 1940S To The Present Day. She Writes Vividly Of Her Experiences As An Academic And A Working Mother And Gives A Ringside View Of The Drama Of Election Campaigns, The Complexities Of Parliamentary Politics And The Forces Shaping India&Rsquo;S Foreign Policy At The Turn Of The New Millennium. This Understated But Elegantly Written Memoir Combines Intimate Family And Social History With A Gripping Political Memoir.

Author: Monideepa Sahu
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184759916
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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‘The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.’ Gitanjali Born in 1861 in one of the foremost families of Bengal, Little Rabi grew up to become a great nationalist, a gifted writer, a talented artist, a brilliant visionary and a reformer of education. He was also Asia’s first Nobel Laureate. His contribution to India’s freedom movement is forever immortalized in Jana Gana Mana, a song he wrote to inspire the nation. This wonderfully insightful biography, rich in anecdotesand little-known facts, brings alive this legendary figure to contemporary readers. Monideepa Sahu vividly recounts Rabindranth’s experiences at school that helped to formulate his vision of Shantiniketan. She also traces the evolution of his poetry from schoolboy rhymes in dog-eared notebooks to universally loved poetry, prose, novels and short stories. Explore the life and times of this remarkable personality in this compelling biography.

Author: Francis Morgan
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Vacation Goose Travel Guide Kolkata India is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 50 city attractions, top 7 nightlife adventures, top 50 city restaurants, top 50 shopping centers, top 50 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Kolkata adventure :)

Author: Toorjo Ghose
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040254624
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This book examines and theorizes about the emergence, growth, impact, collapse, and rejuvenation of a sex worker movement in India, exploring the manner in which the two pandemics – HIV and COVID-19 – bookended a feminist movement through more than a quarter of a century, shaping its trajectory over the course of that time. Focusing on the sex workers’ collective Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) in Kolkata, the book asks these questions: How did a sex workers’ collective rise from the margins of Indian society during the HIV pandemic, to become the vanguard of a global sex work movement, with half a million members, and partner collectives stretching across the world? What were the strategies deployed by the collective to engage with the health, social, and political landscapes surrounding it? Moreover, what were the factors that led to the splintering of a solidarity that had endured for a quarter of a century? Finally, what does the DMSC story tell us about social movements that rise from the extreme margins of society in postcolonial contexts? Drawing on empirical research, the author explores the conceptual and practice implications for the fields of social movement, feminist, public health, and postcolonial political scholarship. The book suggests that activist, public health, social work, and policy initiatives in poor women’s communities in postcolonial contexts need to be informed by the temporal, community, organizational, institutional, and affective markers that emerge in the research. The first book to examine the DMSC sex work movement in India as a significant feminist movement of our times, this book will be of interest to researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including South Asian Studies, Sociology, Social Work, Public Health, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Political Science.

Author: Jayabrato Chatterjee
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Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Kolkata Is A City Of Many Moods And Many Memories. From Early Beginnings As A Center For Trade On The Banks Of The Hoogly To Glorious Days During The British Raj As India'S First City, Kolkata Still Retains A Pedigree And A Sense Of Cosmopolitan History That Is Enchanting. You Cannot Remain Indifferent Once You Have Visited The Lanes And By-Lanes And Seen The Varied Faces That You Come Across. Kolkata'S Stark Contrasts Often Shock You And Compel You To Grasp Its Psyche That Is Both Fragmented And Heartbreakingly Endearing. From Mark Twain'S 'Most Wicked Place In The World' To Mrinal Sen'S 'Eldorado', The Metropolis That Has Been The Home Of Some Of India'S Most Celebrated Nobel Laureates, Film-Makers, Writers And Poets Is Still Considered The Country'S Cultural Capital.

Author: N. Jayapalan
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788126900985
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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The Book, Rural Sociology, Presents The Key Concepts Of Rural Sociology In The Form Of Evaluation And Analysis Made By Eminent Sociologists. For A Proper Understanding Of Rural Sociology As We Find It Today, A Thorough Study Is Very Essential. The First Chapter Presents A Clear Picture Of The Meaning And Definition Of Rural Sociology. The Subsequent Chapters Provide Valuable Informations Regarding Origin And Development Of Rural Sociology, Scope, Importance, Methods Of Study, Relations With Other Social Sciences, Rural Community, Peasant Community, Folk Society, Rural Society, Rural Religion, Festivals, Family, Joint Family, Marriage System, Caste System, Untouchability, Jajmani System, Hooka Group, Rural Leadership And Rural Economy. Further The Book Deals With Indian Rural Agricultural System, Rural Recreation, Rural Housing, Rural Politics, Social Education, Rural Reconstruction, C.D. Programme, Importance Of Co-Operatives, And Health Planning In India In Clear And Lucid Language.The Book Would Be Of Great Value For The Students, Teachers, Trainees, Agriculturists, Social Workers, Planners, Politicians And Common Readers.

Author: P. Thankappan Nair
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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This Book Evaluates The Contributions Of The Kannadigas, Konkanis, Malyalees, Tamilians And Telugus To The Cultural Panorama And Cosmopolitanism Of Calcutta In Its Historical Perspective.

Author: Boria Majumdar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9386797194
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians goes deep into every Indian cricket tour since 1886—taking the reader backstage to when India played its first test in 1932, and bringing the story forward to the more contemporary IPL—to provide a complex and nuanced understanding of the evolution and maturity of the game. Equally, it comes with material that has have never entered the public domain so far—going behind the scenes of cases like Monkeygate, the suspension of Lalit Modi, spot-fixing, and the phase of judicial intervention. It carries not just reportage and analysis, but also player reminiscences, personal interviews, photographs and letters never known or discussed so far in Indian sporting discourse. Weaving together such material, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unflinchingly confronts questions that demand answering, among them: Has internal bickering impacted the on field performance of the Indian cricket team? Did some of our icons fail the country and the sport by trying to conceal important facts during the spot-fixing investigation? And does it matter to the ordinary fan who heads the BCCI as long as there is transparency and accountability in the system? In the end, in telling the story of the role of cricket in colonial and post-colonial Indian life, and the inter-relationship between those who patronize, promote, play and view the sport. Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unravels the story of a nation now considered the financial nerve centre of world cricket.