Bombay Going

Author : Susanne Åsman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498558550
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bombay Going written by Susanne Åsman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanne Åsman's compelling ethnographic account examines migration for sex work in the Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal. Åsman explores how this migration, known as "Bombay Going," is understood by the locals. With a focus on agency, Åsman investigates how the migrants carve out a space for themselves and create relatedness in the spaces in between, from their homes in rural Nepal to the brothels of Mumbai. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of sex trafficking, gender, migration, or the global south.

Author : Debashree Mukherjee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551673
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bombay Hustle written by Debashree Mukherjee and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city. Drawing on original archival research and an innovative transdisciplinary approach, Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic portrait of the consolidation of the Bombay film industry during the talkie transition of the 1920s–1940s. In the decades leading up to independence in 1947, Bombay became synonymous with marketplace thrills, industrial strikes, and modernist experimentation. Its burgeoning film industry embodied Bombay’s spirit of “hustle,” gathering together and spewing out the many different energies and emotions that characterized the city. Bombay Hustle examines diverse sites of film production—finance, pre-production paperwork, casting, screenwriting, acting, stunts—to show how speculative excitement jostled against desires for scientific management in an industry premised on the struggle between contingency and control. Mukherjee develops the concept of a “cine-ecology” in order to examine the bodies, technologies, and environments that collectively shaped the production and circulation of cinematic meaning in this time. The book thus brings into view a range of marginalized film workers, their labor and experiences; forgotten film studios, their technical practices and aesthetic visions; and overlooked connections among media practices, geographical particularities, and historical exigencies.

Author : Ajanta Chakraborty
Publisher : Culture Groove / Bollywood Groove
ISBN 13 : 1945792590
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Visit Mumbai! (Maya & Neel's India Adventure Series, Book 2) written by Ajanta Chakraborty and published by Culture Groove / Bollywood Groove. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** NEW ** Cultural Screen Time for kids! SUBSCRIBE FREE: CultureGroove.com/youtube Learn Hindi with English rhymes, Indian Festivals & Culture! Our 9 titles on Amazon worldwide (4 Best Sellers!): Diwali (ranked #387 of 8 million Amazon books), Navratri, Holi, Indian Wedding, Mumbai, Ramadan & Eid, Vaisakhi, Gift Set 1, Gift Set 2 ------------ Did you know Bollywood is based in Mumbai? In this multicultural and educational series from Bollywood Groove, join Maya, Neel and their pet squirrel, Chintu, as they visit their cousin Arnav to explore Mumbai, one of India’s most fun cities! Kids will learn about history, famous places, food, language and cultural elements of Mumbai... all while making two new best friends! ** Book Includes: ** INFO-ZOOM: Bollywood, Dabbawalas of Mumbai INFO-RECAP: Pictorial summary of Mumbai ** Parents: ** Our books provide a glimpse into the beautiful cultural diversity of India, including occasional mythology references. ** Check out our website: ** For more kids products and to sign up for book updates please visit: http://www.CultureGroove.com/books

Author : Tanuja Desai Hidier
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545229944
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Confused written by Tanuja Desai Hidier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanuja Desai Hidier's fantastically acclaimed cross-cultural debut comes to PUSH!Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. To make matters worse, her parents arrange for her to meet a "suitable boy." Of course it doesn't go well -- until Dimple goes to a club and finds him spinning a magical web . Suddenly the suitable boy is suitable because of his sheer unsuitability. Complications ensue. This is a funny, thoughtful story about finding your heart, finding your culture, and finding your place in America.Author BioTanuja Desai Hidier is the critically acclaimed author of the groundbreaking novels Bombay Blues and Born Confused, which was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and hailed by Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone as one of the best YA novels of all time. Born and raised in the USA, Tanuja is a writer/singer-songwriter now based in London. For more about Born Confused and Bombay Blues, as well as her "booktrack" albums of original songs to accompany them, please visit www.ThisIsTanuja.com.

Author : Suketu Mehta
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307574318
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maximum City written by Suketu Mehta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.

Author : Sujata Massey
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641291052
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bombay Prince written by Sujata Massey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay. November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she’s horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince’s grand procession is passing by her college. Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Feeling guilty for failing to have helped Freny in life, Perveen steps forward to assist Freny’s family in the fraught dealings of the coroner’s inquest. When Freny’s death appears suspicious, Perveen knows she can’t rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets, rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections, and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?

Author : Raghu Rai
Publisher : Om Books International
ISBN 13 : 9380069731
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mumbai, where Dreams Don't Die written by Raghu Rai and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mumbai has been extensively photographed over the past century. Like New York, it is a city full of men and women with aspirations of making it big in life. Mumbai is also known as a dream factory because of the overwhelming presence of its film industry, one of biggest in the world. This book collects nearly three decades of work from Raghu Rai, one of Indias foremost photojournalists. The pictures encompass life in all its manifestations from the high-rise skyscrapers to the gushing waves of the Arabian sea. It shows movement and activity that almost never ceases fairs and festivities, political demonstrations, films in the making, and the advertising and modelling scene.

Author : Shivya Nath
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353052653
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shooting Star written by Shivya Nath and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Author : James MacQueen
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam written by James MacQueen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam" by James MacQueen. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Thomas Hood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Choice Works of Thomas Hood written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: