Author: Sudeep SenPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Postcards from Bangladesh
Author: Sudeep SenPostcards from Bangladesh
Author: Sudeep SenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bangladesh
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Bangladesh
Author: Mikey LeungPublisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 1841624098
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This updated guidebook, with a focus on responsible tourism, offers greater coverage than any other to the Chittagong Hill Tracts where 13 different ethnic groups live, and to the world's largest mangrove forest at the Sundarbans. Personal insights and anecdotes guide trailblazing travellers to those aspects of the country that are almost unknown to visitors - dolphin and whale watching, winter bird-watching in the northern wetlands and golden Bengal's silk and archaeological highlights.
Monsoon Postcards
Author: David H. MouldPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821446770
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In Monsoon Postcards, journalist David H. Mould, notebook in hand, traverses the Indian Ocean—from Madagascar through India and Bangladesh to Indonesia. It’s an unpredictable journey on battered buses, bush taxis, auto-rickshaws, and crowded ferries. Mould travels from the traffic snarls of Delhi, Dhaka, and Jakarta to the rice paddies and ancestral tombs of Madagascar’s Central Highlands; from the ancient kingdom of Hyderabad to India’s so-called chicken neck—the ethnically diverse and underdeveloped northeast; and from the textile factories and rivers of Bangladesh to the beaches of Bali and the province of Aceh—ground zero for the 2004 tsunami. Along the way, in markets, shops, roadside cafes, and classrooms, he meets journalists, professors, students, aid workers, cab drivers, and other everyday residents to learn how they view their past and future. Much like its predecessor, Mould’s Postcards from Stanland, Monsoon Postcards offers witty and insightful glimpses into countries linked by history, trade, migration, religion, and a colonial legacy. It explores how they confront the challenges of climate change, urban growth, economic development, land, water and natural resources, and national and ethnic identity.
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene BensonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Strangers, Aliens and Asians
Author: Anne KershenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135770026
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Focusing on the area of Spitalfields in East London, this volume compares and contrasts the settlement, integration and assimilation processes undergone by three different immigrant groups over a period of almost three hundred and fifty years.
A Girl from Zanzibar
Author: Roger KingPublisher: Helen Marx Books
ISBN: 9781885586605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Girl from Zanzibar is a riveting modern immigration story for a brave, new, and globalized world. Current events, murky international finance, intrigue, and a search for self are played out in the story of Marcella DiSouza. Marcella is a smart, ambitious young woman of Portuguese Indian-Arab background, who follows a dangerous path from her home in Zanzibar to the shadowy business world of London to a teaching position in a small Vermont college. With a heart-stopping plot, written in spare, luminous and elegant prose A Girl from Zanzibar, is reminiscent of the novels of John Le Carre and Graham Greene.
Provincials
Author: Sumana RoyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300266138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guides, English teachers, lovers and letter writers, private tutors and secret-keepers whose lives and work provide varied answers to that question. Combining memoir with the literary, sensory, and emotional history of an ignored people, she challenges the metropolitan's dominance to reclaim the joyous dignity of provincial life, its tics and taunts, enthusiasms and tragicomedies. In a wide-ranging series of "postcards" from the peripheries of India, Europe, America, and the Middle East, Roy brings us deep into the imaginative world of those who have carried their provinciality like a birthmark. Ranging from Rabindranath Tagore to William Shakespeare, John Clare to the Bhakti poets, T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee, V. S. Naipaul to the Brontës, and Kishore Kumar to Annie Ernaux, she celebrates the provincials' humor and hilarity, playfulness and irony, belatedness and instinct for carefree accidents and freedom. Her unprecedented account of provincial life offers an alternative portrait of our modern world.
The Ultimate Guide for PA/SA LDCE Examination
Author: Shubhasmita SahuPublisher: Giri Publication
ISBN: 9334033819
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This guidebook is designed to be a one-stop resource for candidates preparing for the Postal PA/SA LDCE exam. Drawing inspiration and content directly from the India Post website, we aim to provide a detailed and accurate representation of the topics and information essential for success. Our primary focus is to empower you with the knowledge and skills required to excel in each section of the examination. Key Features: Comprehensive Coverage: Every aspect of the Postal PA/SA LDCE exam, as outlined on the India Post website, is covered in detail. From the syllabus to exam patterns, we leave no stone unturned. Practice Material: To enhance your preparation, the book includes a range of practice questions and mock tests, allowing you to assess your progress and identify areas for improvement. Exam Strategies: In addition to content knowledge, we provide valuable insights and strategies to help you navigate the examination effectively. How to Use this Book: Begin your journey by familiarizing yourself with the structure and content of the Postal PA/SA LDCE exam. Use the provided study materials, practice questions, and mock tests to reinforce your understanding. Consider this book as your trusted companion throughout your preparation.
Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity
Author: Zakir Hossain RajuPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317601807
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh, providing a narrative of the uneven process that produced the idea of "Bangladesh cinema." This book investigates the roles of a non-Western "national" film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. Drawing on the idea of cinema as public sphere and the postcolonial notion of formation of the "Bangladesh" nation, interactions between cinema and middle-class Bengali Muslims in different social and political matrices are analyzed. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities. In particular, he illustrates the connections between film production and reception in Bangladesh and a variety of nationalist constructions of Bengali Muslim identity. Questioning and debunking the usual notions of "Bangladesh" and "cinema," this book positions the cinema of Bangladesh within a transnational frame. Starting with how to locate the "beginning" of the second Bengali language cinema in colonial Bengal, the author completes the investigation by identifying a global Bangladeshi cinema in the early twenty-first century. The first major academic study on this large and vibrant national cinema, this book demonstrates that Bangladesh cinema worked as different "public spheres" for different "publics" throughout the twentieth century and beyond. Filling a niche in Global Film and Media Studies and South Asian Studies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of these disciplines.
