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The Menagerie and Other Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteries

Author : Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143061960
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Menagerie and Other Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteries written by Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byomkesh Bakshi's appeal as the self-styled inquisitor, a detective not by profession but by passion, has found him a dedicated following among generations of readers. The present collection of stories, all set in Calcutta of the fifties and sixties, brings together four mysteries that put the sleuth's remarkable mental agility to the ultimate test. In The Menagerie (adapted by master film-maker Satyajit Ray for his 1967 film Chiriakhana) Byomkesh cracks a strange case involving broken motor parts, a seemingly natural death and the peculiar inhabitants of Golap Colony who seem capable of doing just about anything to safeguard the secrets of their tainted pasts. In The Jewel Case, he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a priceless necklace, while in The Will That Vanished he solves a baffling riddle to fulfil the last wish of a close friend. And in The Quills of the Porcupine, the shrewd detective is in his element as he expertly foils the sinister plans of a ruthless opportunist. Byomkesh's exploits just as it does Bandyopadhyay's remarkable portrayal of a city struggling to overcome its colonial past and come into its own.

Picture Imperfect

Author : Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187918
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Picture Imperfect written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic tales of crime detection featuring Byomkesh Bakshi, the master inquisitor Written long before Satyajit Ray’s Feluda series, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries heralded a new era in Bengali popular fiction. Set in the old-world Calcutta of the Raj, these stories featuring the astute investigator and his chronicler friend Ajit are still as gripping and delightful as when they first appeared. Byomkesh’s world, peopled with wonderfully delineated characters and framed by a brilliantly captured pre-Independence urban milieu, is fascinating because of its contemporary flavor. In the first story, Byomkesh works undercover to expose an organized crime ring trafficking in drugs. In ‘The Gramophone Pin Mystery’, he must put his razor-sharp intellect to good use to unearth the pattern behind a series of bizarre roadside murders. In ‘Calamity Strikes’, the ace detective is called upon to investigate the strange and sudden death of a girl in a neighbour’s kitchen. In the next story, he has to lock horns with an old enemy who has vowed to kill him with an innocuous but deadly weapon. And in ‘Picture Imperfect’, Byomkesh Bakshi unravels a complex mystery involving a stolen group photograph, an amorous couple, and an apparently unnecessary murder. Available in English for the first time in a superb translation, these stories will captivate every lover of crime fiction, young and old alike.

The Rhythm of Riddles

Author : Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184756968
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Rhythm of Riddles written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saradindu Bandyopadyay's immortal detective Byomkesh Bakshi has enjoyed immense popularity for several decades. From being a household name in the Calcutta of 1930s, when he first created, to a popular face on TV in the 1990s, Byomkesh along with his friend-cum-foil Ajit is perhaps the best-loved of India's literary detectives. This collection brings together three of his classic whodunnits. From a murder in a boarding house with too many suspects to a mystery with a supernatural twist, and then busting a black - marketeering ring in rural bengal, these stories take the super sleuth to different locales on his quest for truth, and bring out his ingenuity and astuteness. Translated into English for the first time by award-winning translator Arunava Sinha, the breathless pace and thrilling plots of these action-packed adventures will win Byomkesh a new genertion of admirers.

Byomkesh Bakshi

Author : Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher : Rupa Publ iCat Ions India
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Byomkesh Bakshi written by Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by Rupa Publ iCat Ions India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective fiction has never lacked devoted fans. The undying popularity of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot vouch for that fact. In the early thirties, a detective by the name of Byomkesh Bakshi made an unobtrusive entry into the world of Bengali fiction. He preferred calling himself a satyanneshi, a seeker of truth and within days was a household name, courtesy his cerebral skills and the exciting situations he found himseft in. In the tradition of Doyle and Christie, Byomkesh is accompanied on his adventures by his friend, Ajit, Slightly obtuse and the perfect foil to him.

The Mystery of the Fortress and Other Stories

Author : Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher : New Central Book Agency
ISBN 13 : 9788178190655
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Fortress and Other Stories written by Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by New Central Book Agency. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collected Short Stories

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9352140818
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Short Stories written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best short stories of Satyajit Ray Best known for his immensely popular Feluda mysteries and the adventures of Professor Shonku, Satyajit Ray was also one of the most skilful short story writers of his generation. Ray’s short stories often explore the macabre and the supernatural, and are marked by the sharp characterization and trademark wit that distinguish his films. This collection brings together Ray’s best short stories—including such timeless gems as ‘Khagam’, ‘Indigo’, ‘Fritz’, ‘Bhuto’, ‘The Pterodactyl’s Egg’, ‘Big Bill’, ‘Patol Babu, Film Star’ and ‘The Hungry Septopus’—which readers of all ages will enjoy. A collection of forty-nine short stories

The Burmese Box

Author : Līlā Majumadāra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143331483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Burmese Box written by Līlā Majumadāra and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'm going to find that box, the box that's been missing for a hundred years - Do you know, there are precious gems in it, worth a king's ransom? Emeralds the size of a rooster's egg, rubies as big as pigeons' eggs, pearls the size of a duck's egg!

By the Tungabhadra

Author : Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789350290118
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book By the Tungabhadra written by Śaradindu Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bidyunmala, the princess of Kalinga, is on her way for a marriage of political convenience with Devaraya, the king of Vijaynagar, when a mysterious young man called Arjunvarma makes his appearance in her life and becomes part of her entourage. While preparing to wed the beautiful Bidyunmala, Devaraya is threatened by a treacherous brother within and enemies preparing for war without; worse still, Bidyunmala seems to be in love with Arjunvarma, a man Devaraya has come to trust. And so begins Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's classic tale of intrigue, love and war, set on the banks of the river Tungabhadra in fourteenth-century India.

The Unmanageable Consumer

Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446228460
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Unmanageable Consumer written by Yiannis Gabriel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This book was radically challenging when it was first published, and is only more so today as the concept of consumer collapses under the weight of its many meanings' - Madeleine Bunting, Columnist, The Guardian Western-style consumerism appears unstoppable. Yet it is has failed to deliver greater happiness and is now facing major environmental, population and political challenges. This book examines the key Western traditions of thinking about and being a consumer. Each chapter posits a consumer model with examples from the international community. Readers are invited to enter an exciting and radical analysis of contemporary consumerism which suggests that consumerism is fragile and consumers unpredictable. Updated with new material, this Second Edition looks at the impact of new technologies on consumerism and the consolidation of consumerism and 'consumer' language in spheres like education and health. The authors discuss the spread of consumerism to developing countries like India and the effect of demographic change and migration. The fallout from 9/11 and United States military hegemony is examined, as is the influence on consumerism of Islamic fundamentalism, the anti-globalization movement, environmental concerns and depleting natural resources. This book is of interest to advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking courses on behaviour, buyer behaviour, customer behaviour, consumers and society and retailing. Any one interested in better understanding consumerism will also find this book a fascinating read.

Sherlock in Shanghai

Author : Xiaoqing Cheng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824830997
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Sherlock in Shanghai written by Xiaoqing Cheng and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s—"the Paris of the Orient"—was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin (badly) and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893–1976), "The Grand Master" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle’s highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering them first into classical and later into vernacular Chinese. In the late 1910s, Cheng began writing detective fiction very much in Conan Doyle’s style, with Bao as the Watson-like-I narrator—a still rare instance of so direct an appropriation from foreign fiction. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote detective stories to introduce the advantages of critical thinking to his readers, to encourage them to be skeptical and think deeply, because truth often lies beneath surface appearances. His attraction to the detective fiction genre can be traced to its reconciliation of the traditional and the modern. In "The Shoe," Huo Sang solves the case with careful reasoning, while "The Other Photograph" and "On the Huangpu" blend this reasoning with a sensationalism reminiscent of traditional Chinese fiction. "The Odd Tenant" and "The Examination Paper" also demonstrate the folly of first impressions. "At the Ball" and "Cat’s-Eye" feature the South-China Swallow, a master thief who, like other outlaws in traditional tales, steals only from the rich and powerful. "One Summer Night" clearly shows Cheng’s strategy of captivating his Chinese readers with recognizably native elements even as he espouses more globalized views of truth and justice.

Chowringhee

Author : Śaṃkara
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143101031
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Chowringhee written by Śaṃkara and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Day And Night Were Interchangeable. The Immaculately Dressed Chowringhee, Radiant In Her Youth, Had Just Stepped On To The Floor At The Nightclub. Set In 1950S Calcutta, Chowringhee Is A Sprawling Saga Of The Intimate Lives Of Managers, Employees And Guests At One Of Calcutta S Largest Hotels, The Shahjahan. Shankar, The Newest Recruit, Recounts The Stories Of Several People Whose Lives Come Together In The Suites, Restaurants, Bar And Backrooms Of The Hotel. As Both Observer And Participant In The Events, He Inadvertently Peels Off The Layers Of Everyday Existence To Expose The Seamy Underbelly Of Unfulfilled Desires, Broken Dreams, Callous Manipulation And Unbidden Tragedy. What Unfolds Is Not Just The Story Of Individual Lives But Also The Incredible Chronicle Of A Metropolis. Written By Best-Selling Bengali Author Sankar, Chowringhee Was Published As A Novel In 1962. Predating Arthur Hailey S Hotel By Three Years, It Became An Instant Hit, Spawning Translations In Major Indian Languages, A Film And A Play. Its Larger-Than-Life Characters The Enigmatic Manager Marco Polo, The Debonair Receptionist Sata Bose, The Tragic Hostess Karabi Guha, Among Others Soon Attained Cult Status. With Its Thinly Veiled Accounts Of The Private Lives Of Real-Life Celebrities, And Its Sympathetic Narrative Seamlessly Weaving The Past And The Present, It Immediately Established Itself As A Popular Classic. Available For The First Time In English, Chowringhee Is As Much A Dirge As It Is A Homage To A City And Its People.

Second Thoughts

Author : Shobhaa De
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184751028
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Second Thoughts written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya is pretty, young and eager to escape her middleclass home. Ranjan is handsome, driven, well born and wealthy. Their arranged marriage seems a match made in heaven until Maya discovers that underneath her husband’s charming facade lies a cold-hearted, rigidly conservative monster. As the young woman struggles with her marriage, she meets and finds solace in Nikhil, her charming college-going neighbour. Soon the stage is set for an explosive tale of love and betrayal.

Complete Adventures of Feluda Vol. 2

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin Enterprise
ISBN 13 : 9780143425045
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Complete Adventures of Feluda Vol. 2 written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin Enterprise. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who enjoyed the adventures of Feluda in Volume 1, this second omnibus volume holds more delights. Accompanied by his cousin Topshe and the bumbling crime writer Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu), Feluda travels from Puri to Kedarnath, from Kathmandu to London in his pursuit of culprits; he tracks down Napoleon's last letter, a forgotten painting by Tintoretto and a stolen manuscript.

Malloban

Author : Jibanananda Das
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9354921868
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Malloban written by Jibanananda Das and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malloban is set in North Calcutta in the winter of 1929. The eponymous protagonist, a lower-middle-class office worker, lives in College Street-a locality known for its bookstores, publishing houses, and universities-with his wife Utpala and their daughter Monu. The novel unfolds through a series of everyday scenes of dysfunction and discontent: bickering about bathrooms and budgeting, family trips to the zoo and the movies, a visit from Utpala's brother's family which displaces Malloban to a boarding house, and the appearance of a frequent late-night visitor to Utpala's upstairs bedroom. Meanwhile, the daughter Monu bears the brunt of her parents' "unlove." Arguably the most beloved poet in modern Bangla after Tagore, Jibanananda wrote a significant number of novels and short stories discovered and published after his death. Malloban is his most popular novel.

A World of Nourishment. Reflections on Food in Indian Culture

Author : C. Pieruccini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788867055432
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book A World of Nourishment. Reflections on Food in Indian Culture written by C. Pieruccini and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Before We Visit the Goddess

Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476792003
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Before We Visit the Goddess written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"--

Classic Satyajit Ray

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin India
ISBN 13 : 9780143418610
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Classic Satyajit Ray written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of Satyajit Ray's best short stories in one volume! Best-known for his immensely popular short stories mysteries and the A collection of forty-nine Feluda adventures of Professor Shonku, Satyajit Ray was also one of the most skilful short story writers of his generation.