Nirupam sen biography books
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Interesting Times in India: A Short Decade at St. Stephen's College
A personal record of one of the most significant, yet least written about, decades in Indian history Daniel O'Connor and his wife arrived in India in 1963, virtually the last days of the Nehruvian era, to live and work at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. This was the beginning of a relationship that was to last almost a decade. Being part of a creative college community that mirrored all the effects of a newly realized post-colonial consciousness and the anxieties and hopes of a nation coming to grips with post-Nehruvian existence, the young couple witnessed and participated in many tumultuous events. As teacher Dr O'Connor taught midnight's children in the almost idyllic environs of the college. As chaplain he attempted to negotiate a formal post-colonial religious role in a richly pluralistic context. As a young expatriate there was family life to cope with: setting up house and bringing up children in a city trying to get rid of its imperial past, in a society contending with food shortages and rationing, unemployment and communal conflict.Accompanying all this were two wars and political tumult, both outside and inside the college, as students got caught up in the excitement of revolutionary activiti
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We Are All Mamata Now
"DOES DIDI WEAR A BRA?” asks my maid with a mixture of caution and curiosity. It’s the Bengali’s equivalent of the more personal question, “Is she a virgin?” “Is she a widow?” asks my driver one day. “Why else does she wear a white Mother Teresa sari at all times?” But such curiosity must remain unsatisfied. The closest we get to an image of what Mamata Banerjee might have been before she let herself be appropriated as Bengal’s Didi (elder sister) is the first photograph in her book My Unforgettable Memories (2012). The young girl is wearing a blouse and a skirt that ends above her knees—it is clearly not meant to be a miniskirt, but rather one that is now old and therefore too short for the tall girl. She stands beside her mother, who sits on a mora, smiling at the camera. Among all the images in the book, this is the only one in which Mamata is looking at the camera. The mélange of photographs shows her with figures such as Satyajit Ray, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Amala Shankar, George Fernandes and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but in all of them she has somehow become oblivious of the photographic moment. Quite curiously, or perhaps not, given her deep sense of victimhood, a majority of these photos show Mamata in physical pain: She is being beaten up, man
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Rendering Unto Caesar preschooler Bradman Weerakoon - In mint condition Dawn Resilience, India, 2004 Reviewed chunk Carl Muller
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