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Calcutta Lost And Found

By: Aditi Chakraborty

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Seeped in nostalgia, Calcutta Lost And Found, is a collection of hilarious, wistful and touching coming-of-age stories written in the backdrop of ‘80s and ‘90s Kolkata. A roller-coaster ride of emotions and experiences comes to life in vivid characterisation and intricate detailing of the ‘city of passion’ in a retrospective narrative.

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Notion Press

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ISBN 13

9798892772495

Dubai Heights

By: Aditi Chakraborty

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Dubai Heights

By: Aditi Chakraborty

Dubai Heights, a prominent building in downtown Dubai, is home to diverse nationalities. A sneak-peek into the lives of a few residents of this much sought-after address offers an insight into the complex web of unconventional relationships set in the transient city. Simona, Lavanya, Elaina and Priyanka are contemporary women who experiment and explore the labyrinth of relationships with their partners to live their dreams. Are they achievers or losers? In this fast-paced book, multiple stories unfold as the city provides a framework to tempt fate and rewrite the layered and fragmented lives of regular people, who moved to the Emirates in search of opportunities. This book is about those who took their chances, which they would have otherwise not taken in their own countries.

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165

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Notion Press

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1647835623

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9781647835620

Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora

Skilled Prabasi Bengali Migration within and beyond India

By: Aditi Chatterji

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Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora

Skilled Prabasi Bengali Migration within and beyond India

By: Aditi Chatterji

Bengalis have been great travellers for centuries and are famous for recreating their way of life wherever they go. This book critically analyses skilled Bengali migration within and beyond India and looks at landscapes created by the Bengali diaspora beyond the terrain of their homeland, ranging from those of nostalgia and imagination (Durga Puja/Saraswati Puja) to those of subjugation and loss of identity. This book demonstrates the relationship between landscape and diaspora in terms of perception, imagination, space and place, ethnicity, race, caste, and class. With case studies from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Dehra Dun, Oxford, Aberdeen, New York, and the Bay Area (USA), it brings together themes like evolution of the Bengali diaspora, transnationalism and identity, stratification and segregation, urban social space, adaptation and assimilation, and questions of discrimination from other communities. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of over 300 skilled Bengalis, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of diaspora studies, urban studies, ethnic studies, migration studies, geography, sociology, history, and political studies.

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184

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Taylor & Francis

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1000811255

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9781000811254

Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India

I Can Change

By: Aditi Mitra

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Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India

I Can Change

By: Aditi Mitra

New updated version now available! This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study that looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes who work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower women from all classes of society. Unlike many studies that focus on grassroots women who are the beneficiaries of NGO and developmental projects, this book looks at those women who, as volunteers and activists, help carry out these projects to the best of their abilities. These women are often overlooked from mainstream studies on women in developing nations. But their role is invaluable and crucial in defining the agendas and strategies used to enhance feminist consciousness and developing organizational structures. This book is significant because it offers awareness and alternative views to the challenges (and motivations) faced by middle and upper-class women volunteers and activists in building a career in the non-profit sector of NGOs in Kolkata. Through the testimonies of these women, it examines alternative processes of agency and change in order to define these challenges and motivations. Also revealed by the analysis, is useful information about the oppression and subordination of these women in contemporary gender-stratified civil society in India. But more importantly, this book examines the various ways urban, educated Indian women construct a feminist praxis in terms of their everyday lived experiences as volunteers and activists. In terms of their lived experiences, the women in this study reflect on the social challenges they encounter and motivations they experience as volunteers and activists, while also discussing their understanding of feminism and views on the image of a “feminist” in the postcolonial context. The results demonstrate the power of feminist standpoint theorizing and how it raises consciousness, empowers women and stimulates resistance to patriarchal oppression and injustices. Finally, this book produces new knowledge and research on the conception of feminism among women volunteers and activists in a non-western setting and how they construct the image of a feminist.

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200

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Lexington Books

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0739138537

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9780739138533

Dubai Heights

By: Aditi Chakraborty

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Notion Press

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1647835623

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Calcutta Lost And Found

Calcutta Lost And Found

Dubai Heights

Dubai Heights

Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora

Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora

Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India

Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India

Dubai Heights

Dubai Heights

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