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New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India

The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films

By: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

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New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India

The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films

By: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history. The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his subtle and critical engagement with a truism of Indian nationalism: women’s centrality to the (nation-) state’s negotiation with modernity. It looks at the importance Benegal accords to history – its little known, contested, or iconic events and figures – in crafting national culture and identities, and goes on to discuss the filmmaker’s nuanced representation of the developmental agendas of the nation-state. The book presents an account of the relationship of historical film and fiction to official history, and provides a fuller understanding of Indian cinema, and how it is shaped by as well as itself shapes national imperatives. Filling a gap in the literature, the book offers an analysis of cinematic treatment of post-independence narratives and gives important insights into the imagination of the time. It is a useful contribution for students and scholars of Film Studies, South Asian History and South Asian Culture.

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Routledge

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1135021333

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Infinity Papers

By: Anuradha Majumdar

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Infinity Papers

By: Anuradha Majumdar

The discovery of a mysterious crystal rock sets three extraordinary young children – Marina, Gautam, and Tenzin – on an epic journey to the lost land of Infinity; a place that promises peace and beauty to the world. However, they soon learn that the evil corporate, Dargate, wants to destroy the island in its quest towards world domination. It is up to the kids to stop them. Armed with magical stones and a secret mission, the task of saving the world falls upon their young shoulders. They have to find a secret valley in the mountains, spoken of only in legend, and fulfill an ancient prophecy before it gets too late.

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252

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Roli Books Private Limited

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935194011X

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9789351940111

Tipping Point

A Short Political History of India

By: Anuradha Kalhan

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Tipping Point

A Short Political History of India

By: Anuradha Kalhan

This book sketches the history of political forces in modern India. It begins defining these political categories of left, right and far-right with the usual reference to French Revolution (for want of an indigenous equivalent), and discusses movement of forces towards left, or towards the right from the balance of socio-political forces or status quo at a point of time in India. It recalls historical facts, uses chronological order for clarity and leaders’ names and political parties, their world view and ideas of nation, social groups they represented, and their movements. It progresses by reopening only a few windows to modern Indian history and looks at periods like, the 1920-30s, and 1970-80s, when there were significant movements and consolidation of socio-political forces to the right and far right. At the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were a series of policy proposals, legislations to nationalize assets and launch direct attacks on poverty that marked a sharp turn to the leftist ideology in Delhi (the central government of the time). Following these, a coalition of mostly right-wing forces rose to challenge the government at the centre and succeeded. This occurred in the context of heated Cold War geopolitics. Taylor and Francis does not sell or distribute the print editions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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315

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Taylor & Francis

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1000885755

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9781000885750

Auroville

A City for the Future

By: Anuradha Majumdar

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Auroville

A City for the Future

By: Anuradha Majumdar

For those who are satisfied with the world as it is, Auroville obviously has no reason to exist. - The Mother In March 1914, two people met in Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo, the Indian visionary and a leader of India's independence movement who had fled arrest by the British and sought refuge there, and Mirra Alfassa, who was the wife of a French politician, and who later came to be known as the Mother. This serendipitous meeting eventually led to the birth of Auroville, which was heralded as the City for the Future. For thousands of years, people have tried to develop better ways of living but, ironically, these have led to exploitation, divisions and turmoil. Auroville is an attempt to forge a new humanity, where people can focus on inner means and techniques to find an inner knowledge that empowers them to change the world without crushing it.Starting out in 1968 with a few thatched huts strewn across a barren plateau in south India, this future city began with just two things: a charter and a city plan to welcome people from around the world to create a life beyond national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions. Auroville was born to realize human unity through change of consciousness - a concept that still holds value in today's world.Told by someone who has lived the adventure for thirty-six years, this book explores how far the city has grown to resonate with its founding vision. Anu Majumdar examines the life of Auroville both as a resident and as an observer.

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Harper Collins

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9352770293

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9789352770298

Infinity Papers

By: Anuradha Majumdar

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By: Anuradha Majumdar

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New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India

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