Mira is an Indian woman in her 50s looking back at her incredible journey from Calcutta to London. During her youth she was directionless, but as she goes through life, chance encounters with extraordinary people help Mira define her purpose. She realizes that what brings her maximum joy is when she is able to help people live richer lives, enjoy increased wellbeing, and find fulfilment. ‘Mira and Dev’ is a story about the magic of believing. Written to both amuse and inspire, Mira goes through plenty of ups and downs in her life, which include finding Dev and enduring the hardship of those pandemic years. This is a muti-generational story which is largely set in London and parts of India, with New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and the Lake District in England playing key roles. The tone is light and the characters are from all over the world. As Mira goes through life, she finds her purpose and learns that home is a feeling, not just a place.
Mira is an Indian woman in her 50s looking back at her incredible journey from Calcutta to London. During her youth she was directionless, but as she goes through life, chance encounters with extraordinary people help Mira define her purpose. She realizes that what brings her maximum joy is when she is able to help people live richer lives, enjoy increased wellbeing, and find fulfilment. ‘Mira and Dev’ is a story about the magic of believing. Written to both amuse and inspire, Mira goes through plenty of ups and downs in her life, which include finding Dev and enduring the hardship of those pandemic years. This is a muti-generational story which is largely set in London and parts of India, with New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and the Lake District in England playing key roles. The tone is light and the characters are from all over the world. As Mira goes through life, she finds her purpose and learns that home is a feeling, not just a place.
This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic literature, visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore’s drama, and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia’s first Nobel Laureate, Tagore’s highly original plays occupy a central position in the Indian theatrescape. Tagore experimented with dance, music, dance drama, and plays, exploring concepts of environment, education, gender and women, postcolonial encounters, romantic idealism, and universality. Tagore’s drama plays a generous host to experimentations with new performance modes, like the writing and staging of an all-women play on stage for the first time, or the use of cross-cultural styles such as Manipuri dance, Thai craft in stage design, or the Baul singing styles. This book is an exciting re-exploration of Tagore’s plays, visiting issues such as his contribution to Indian drama, drama and environment, feminist readings, postcolonial engagements, cross-cultural encounters, drama as performance, translational and adaptation modes, the non-translated or the non-translatable Tagore drama, Tagore drama in the 21st century, and Indian film. The volume serves as a wide-ranging and up-to-date resource on the criticism of Tagore drama, and will appeal to a range of Theatre and Performance scholars as well as those interested in Indian theatre, literature, and film.
The College Street Coffee House is still a much-revered institution in Kolkata. Its mystique lingers, despite its dilapidated appearance that evokes another era. Intellectuals from a range of disciplines met to discuss compelling ideas in a free-flowing style – the quintessential Bengali adda, punctuated with many cups of coffee. Twenty-six intellectual, political, and cultural icons including Rabin Mandal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Usha Ganguly, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, and Ashim Chatterjee share their memories of Coffee House. Their portrait photos and absorbing reminiscences capture the tumultuous and changing intellectual, political, and cultural currents that surged through Bengal from the 1950s to the 1990s. “Such a pleasure to have this account of a great unofficial institution from a disarming multiplicity of perspectives - photographic, personal, and intellectual - and to listen in on its hubbub.”Amit Chaudhuri
While economic and social indicators in many Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have improved over the past three decades, the region’s blue natural assets—clean air, healthy seas, and coastlines—have degraded virtually everywhere. Air pollution levels in the region’s cities are among the highest in the world. Per capita marine plastic pollution is among the highest in the world; coastal erosion rates are the second fastest in the world. These combined challenges threaten local communities, livelihoods, and economies. In fact, the economic cost of MENA’s deteriorating skies and seas is estimated at more than 3 percent of GDP per year. Blue Skies, Blue Seas: Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa reviews integrated solutions that the authors identify as the “four I’s†?: • Inform stakeholders about the sources of these challenges. • Provide incentives that improve environmental outcomes for the public and the private sector. • Strengthen institutions to lower air and plastic pollution and to mitigate uncontrolled development and erosion of coastlines. • Invest in abatement options and promote sustainable solutions. Restoring MENA’s blue skies and seas will benefit the health, livelihoods, and incomes of residents. There will inevitably be trade-offs, but choosing a path of green growth will create jobs, diversify economies, and make the region a better place for current and future generations. The actions of policy makers today will shape the trajectory of economies and communities for decades to come.
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