Howrah To Brooklyn
Title | Howrah To Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Ramesh Shah |
Publisher | BFC Publications |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2021-07-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9391329845 |
Around 20 years after returning from the United States, he penned down his observations about the various scenarios prevalent in the USA and India, covering topics like Unemployment, Polity, and Bollywood, along with suggestions for improving the state of affairs. Besides this, he also wrote certain fun, weird, and quirky movie scripts, along with some other works.
Global South Asia on Screen
Title | Global South Asia on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | John Hutnyk |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2018-06-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501324985 |
With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology, and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on offer. The book presents Raj-era costume dramas as a commentary on contemporary anti-Muslim racism, a new political compact in film and television studies, and the President watching a snuff film from Pakistan. Hanif Kureishi's postcolonial 'fuck Sandwich' sits alongside Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, updated for the war on terror with low-brow, high-brow versions of Asia that carry us up the Himalayas with magic carpet TV nostalgia. Maoists rage below and books go up in flames while News network phone-ins end with executions on the Hanging Channel and arms trade and immigration paranoia thrives. Multiplying filmi versions of Mela are measured against a transnational realignment towards Global South Asia in a contested and testing political future. Each chapter offers a slice of historical study and assessment of media theory appropriate for viewers of Global South Asia seeking to understand why lurid exoticism and paralysing terror go hand-in-hand. The answers are in the images always open to interpretation, but Global South Asia on Screen examines the ways film and TV trade on stereotype and fear, nationalism and desire, politics and context, and with this the book calls for wider reading than media theory has hitherto entertained.
Colossal
Title | Colossal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Quills Ink Publishing |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2014-06-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9384318094 |
Colossal: The Cobra Symbol is a story that will stay with you forever. It is a battle of fact and fiction. The story uses many historical events and personalities to boost the interest of the reader. It starts where humanity is believed to have taken its first step and continues to present day Munich, Bangalore, Delhi and the mysterious village of Manchale. It is difficult to decide a genre for the book as you will discover a twist in the tale after every few pages, a hint of romance throughout, sarcasm in the dialogues and drama throughout. In short it is the story of two terrorists who are undercover form past two decades in the country cooking up a plan, the key to their plan lies with a young man who is completely unaware and is mourning the separation of a loved one. Unknown to him he holds secrets that dates back to the time when God’s greatest messengers walked the earth. The journey of the characters is shown through continuous flashbacks and instances from their memories. It is surely a tale that is colossal in nature and will enchant you with its magic.
The Black Woods
Title | The Black Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Godine |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2023-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501771701 |
The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship. Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith's suffrage-seeking plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and most leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo, a new Black Adirondack settlement in the woods. Smith's plan was prescient, anticipating Black suffrage reform, affirmative action, environmental distributive justice, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith's offer fell radically short of his high hopes, Smith's zeal cooled. Timbuctoo, Freemen's Home, Blacksville and other settlements were forgotten. History would marginalize this Black community for 150 years. In The Black Woods, Amy Godine recovers a robust history of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. Her immersive story returns the Black pioneers and their descendants to their rightful place at the center of this history. With stirring accounts of racial justice, and no shortage of heroes, The Black Woods amplifies the unique significance of the Adirondacks in the American imagination.
Reader's Digest Almanac
Title | Reader's Digest Almanac PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1130 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Assembly Proceedings; Official Report
Title | Assembly Proceedings; Official Report PDF eBook |
Author | West Bengal (India). Legislature. Legislative Assembly |
Publisher | |
Pages | 802 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook
Title | Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1034 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Almanacs, American |
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