Postcards From Darjeeling

Author : Swastika Mukherjee
Publisher : Pencil
ISBN 13 : 935610526X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards From Darjeeling written by Swastika Mukherjee and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book: Living in the beautiful hills of Darjeeling, June's life seems to be anything but beautiful. Kritika, on the other hand, has moved to Darjeeling recently from Kolkata, with her artist mother, after her father passed away a year ago. When the two imperfect characters meet, their worlds change, interlock and widen. They discover identity, passions and voices which are often suppressed in Indian society, as they explore the mystical Darjeeling. The story follows June capturing the beauty in her film camera and Kritika expressing it through art, which happens to be the size of a postcard. This is the tale of true friendship, loss and self-discovery. Postcards From Darjeeling is an account of a friendship lost in the ups and downs of life. About the author: Swastika Mukherjee is sixteen years old. She resides in Kolkata, India. Swastika is an aspiring writer. She is currently pursuing her senior secondary education. She also volunteers as a tutor in a student-led organization to teach underprivileged people. She loves writing, reading, photography and watching movies.

Author : Éléonore Muhidine
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839467160
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Architecture in Postcards written by Éléonore Muhidine and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.

Author : Subhas Chandra Bose
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788178241029
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to Emilie Schenkl, 1934-1942 written by Subhas Chandra Bose and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Many People Known About Bose`S Love For Emile Schenkl, His Austrian Wife. The Volume Includes 162 Letters Written Between 1934 And 1942 An Alos 18 Letters Of His Wife That Have Survived. Illuminate The Human And Emotional Aspects Of His Life.

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184755430
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant collection of stories richly evokes the Dehradun of old, but all is not as it seems in this sleepy town: behind the tranquil facade, Dehra is home to a cast of colourful characters. The dashing young army captain in ‘At Green’s Hotel’ might be the perfect gentleman—or a murderer. And in ‘The Skeleton in the Cupboard’, an old scandal is revived, leading to wholly unexpected results. By turns charming and poignant, witty and exhilarating, Secrets is vintage Bond.

Author : Saloni Mathur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520941052
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India by Design written by Saloni Mathur and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display maps for the first time a series of historical events—from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day—through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Situated at the convergence of discussions in anthropology, art history, museum studies, and postcolonial criticism, this dynamic study investigates with vivid historical detail how Indian objects, bodies, images, and narratives circulated through metropolitan space and acquired meaning in an emergent nineteenth-century consumer economy. Through an examination of India as represented in department stores, museums, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era, the book carefully confronts the problems and politics of postcolonial display and offers an original and provocative account of the implications of colonial practices for visual production in our contemporary world.

Author : Lydia Pyne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178914485X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards written by Lydia Pyne and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections—links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.

Author : Sutapa Dutta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000186407
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping India written by Sutapa Dutta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textiles, regime changes, personal histories and migration. The essays in the volume examine historical events and movements which questioned the traditional parameters of identity and forged a new direction for the people and the nation. Viewing the age through diverse disciplinary angles, the book also reflects on the various reimaginings of India at the time. This volume will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern Indian history, cultural studies and literature. It will also appeal to scholars interested in the anthropological, sociological and psychological contexts of imperialism.

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520069466
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satyajit Ray written by Andrew Robinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life of the Indian director, and discusses the making of each of his films

Author : Clare E. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226317501
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museum on the Roof of the World written by Clare E. Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.

Author : Savita Rao
Publisher : Tulika Books
ISBN 13 : 9788181469984
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Ura written by Savita Rao and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the daily lives of children living in Bhutan.