Snehal dabi biography books free download
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The post-World War II novels of the Bengali writer S. N. (Sudhin or Sudhindra Nath) Ghose (1899–1965) received critical recognition in India, Europe, and the United States; however, the short stories and plays he published in London in the early 1920s have been largely neglected. He published stories in Sylvia Pankhurst’s East London newspaper, the Workers’ Dreadnought, and literary magazine, Germinal, which comprise some of the earliest examples of fiction written in English by a South Asian author and published in Britain.[1] They appeared several years before his more famous contemporary Mulk Raj Anand published his first short story, “The Lost Child,” produced on Eric Gill’s handpress in County Buckinghamshire.[2] While Anand’s interactions with writers in Britain have recently been recognized within modernist studies, Ghose’s literary activities in London in the 1920s have been almost entirely forgotten.[3]
Born in 1899, Ghose grew up in Burdwan, Bengal, the son of a High
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Hera Pheri (2000 film)
2000 Indian film directed by Priyadarshan
Hera Pheri (transl. Foul Play) is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language heistcomedydramafilm directed by Priyadarshan and written by Neeraj Vora, starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Tabu, Om Puri and Gulshan Grover.[4] The film is a remake of 1989 Malayalam film Ramji Rao Speaking which itself was inspired by the 1971 American TV movie See The Man Run.[5][6][7] It is the first instalment of the Hera Pheri franchise. The plot revolves around two tenants, Raju and Shyam, and their landlord, Baburao Ganpatrao Apte, who are in desperate need of money. They chance upon a ransom call through a cross-connection and hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.
The film was released on 31 March 2000. It opened to mixed reviews, some of whom applauded the performances of Kumar and Rawal particularly. The film is considered Kumar's foray into the comedy genr
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Waiting for Swaraj: Inner Lives of Indian Revolutionaries 9781108838085, 2021005366, 2021005367, 9781108937146
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~ Waiting for Swaraj ~ Set in British India of the 1920s, Waiting for Swaraj follows the cadence and tempo of the lives of the intrepid revolutionaries of the Hindustan Republican Association and the Hindustan Republican Socialist Association who challenged the British Raj. This book seeks to comprehend the revolutionaries’ self-conception: When does a person say, ‘I am a revolutionary’? How did a revolutionary live out the vision of revolution? What was their everyday like? Did life in revolution transform an individual? What was their truth and how was it different from that of others? What did they do when not thinking about the revolution? The secret nature of the revolutionaries’ organisation and operations meant it was the more spectacular and heroic moments of their lives when they threw a bomb, carried out an assassination or were caught bygd t