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Author : Rathin Mitra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Calcutta, Then and Now written by Rathin Mitra and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Publisher : Roli Books
ISBN 13 : 9788193750193
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Calcutta Then Kolkata Now written by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray and published by Roli Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles bound back to back in inverted form.
Author : Mary Poplin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868488
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Finding Calcutta written by Mary Poplin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Poplin's chronicle of her volunteer work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta provides an inside glimpse into Mother Teresa's life of service to the poor. Transformed by the experience, Poplin discovered how all of us can find our own places of meaningful work and service.
Author : Kushanava Choudhury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163557157X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Epic City written by Kushanava Choudhury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Keith Humphrey
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190844729X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Walking Calcutta written by Keith Humphrey and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Evan Cotton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Calcutta, Old and New written by Evan Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962172
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Calcutta written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes “place” as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimate, luminous portrait of Calcutta. Chaudhuri guides us through the city where he was born, the home he loved as a child, the setting of his acclaimed novels—a place he now finds captivating for all the ways it has, and, perhaps more powerfully, has not, changed. He shows us a city relatively untouched by the currents of globalization but possessed of a “self-renewing way of seeing, of inhabiting space, of apprehending life.” He takes us along vibrant avenues and derelict alleyways; introduces us to intellectuals, Marxists, members of the declining haute bourgeoisie, street vendors, domestic workers; brings to life the city’s sounds and smells, its architecture, its traditional shops and restaurants, new malls and hotels. And, using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the nineteenth century, when the city burst with a new vitality, and toward the politics of the present, finding a city “still not recovered from history” yet possessed of a singular modernity. Chaudhuri observes and writes about Calcutta with rare candor and clarity, making graspable the complex, ultimately ineluctable reasons for his passionate attachment to the place and its people.
Author : Tom Vater
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Kolkata Noir written by Tom Vater and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becker is a British traveler in trouble. Madhurima is a rising star police officer. In these three explosive tales, the two join forces to investigate the city's crooked high society. On the way, they take on deluded would-be messiahs in search of Mother Teresa's stolen millions, encounter fanatics, circus freaks and cannibals, fall in and out of love and pay homage to one of the world's most beautiful and toughest cities. Amidst passion, murder and mayhem, is there room for two lovers driven by justice and compassion? Tom Vater's 'Kolkata Noir' is a riveting crime fiction cycle of three novellas set in the past, the present and the future.
Author : Evan Cotton
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781360629247
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (292 download)
Download or read book CALCUTTA OLD & NEW written by Evan Cotton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Clark Blaise
Publisher : Saint Paul, Minn. : Hungry Mind Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Days and Nights in Calcutta written by Clark Blaise and published by Saint Paul, Minn. : Hungry Mind Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351581724
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Calcutta written by Tanika Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, films and music in the city. This is an unusual feature of any city but is interestingly characteristic of Calcutta. The originality of the work lies in blending poetry with historical writing, retaining the essence of both forms against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of the critical decades, as against the entire historical period of a city. This historical method together with twenty-one papers give the reader a sense of the pulse of this complex city ‘emerging creatively and chaotically from its colonial past’.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551993198
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book A Dead Hand written by Paul Theroux and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta. In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?
Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840542
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Missionary Position written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine?
Author : Geoffrey Moorhouse
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571281133
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Calcutta written by Geoffrey Moorhouse and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the foreword to the first edition Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote:'In a sense, the story of Calcutta is the story of India . . . It is the story of how and why Empire was created and what happened when Empire finished . . . The imperial residue of Calcutta, a generation after Empire ended, is both a monstrous and a marvellous city. Journalism and television have given us a rough idea of the monstrosities but none at all of the marvels. I can only hope to define the first more clearly and to persuade anyone interested that the second is to be found there too'. Geoffrey Moorhouse succeeds triumphantly in his aims. First published in 1971 this title has stood the test of time. Remarkably it was the first full-length study of Calcutta, seat of the British Raj, since 1918.'The book is organized out of a profound understanding of the true issues and is brilliantly executed.' Paul Scott, Guardian
Author : Steve Raymer
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780198082187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Redeeming Calcutta written by Steve Raymer and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at one of Asia's great cities, a metropolis of hope and decay that was once the Second City of the British Empire after London. With around 200 photographs, including historic black-and-white images, coupled with a timely and detailed text, the book takes us through the streets, ghats, and corridors of Calcutta and paints an inclusive and nuanced portrait of the city.
Author : Noel Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585790074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Black Hole of Calcutta written by Noel Barber and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a bare, low-ceilinged dungeon, stench-ridden and stifling in the murderous summer heat of India. Measuring only abouteighteen feet long and fourteen feet wide, with twosmall barred air-holes, the cell known as the Black Hole prison, in the British East India Company's seemingly impregnable Fort William on the Hoogly River of Calcutta, was intended to hold at most a couple of prisoners. But on the terrible night of June 20, 1756, at the end of a four-day battle of astonishing ferocity which saw a vast Indian horde overwhelm the Fort's great outnumbered defenders, one hundred and forty-five men, and one woman, were cruelly herded into the Black Hole, and what they suffered during the ten horrific hours of their confinement - well, suffice it to say that only twenty-three survived till their release at dawn. The siege of Calcutta (for the British, an incredible saga of blundering and bad luck, poisoned by egregious instances of cowardice and treachery), and the night of the Black Hole, together comprise one of the most dramatic episodes of British Imperial history.
Author : Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415343596
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Representing Calcutta written by Swati Chattopadhyay and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
