Download or read book Manik and I written by Bijoya Ray and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is unusual to come across a life so rich in varied experiences as the one that Bijoya Ray, wife and constant companion to the renowned film-maker Satyajit Ray, has lived. Despite being closely related, Satyajit—‘Manik’ to his friends and family—and Bijoya fell in love and embarked on a life together years before Ray’s groundbreaking film Pather Panchali was made, and their long, happy married life lasted right until Ray’s death in 1992. Bijoya Ray never felt the urge to write her memoirs, but was finally persuaded to pick up the pen when she was well into her eighties. Manik and I brims over with hitherto unknown stories of her life with Satyajit Ray, told in candid, vivid detail.
Download or read book Manik written by Amo Jones and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Beatrice Kennedy, but everyone calls me Beat. I live a low-key life, fresh out of college and drifting from town to town until I find my home. I love music, and how it stirs even the deepest and untouched parts of your soul. Depending on what you choose to listen to, would depend on what it touches. It's the drug we all damper in, only different strains. My strain is Jazz. The smooth instrumental strums that take over me. The sound of cigar smoke, bourbon and an old dusty fedora hat. My strain wasn't rap, and it sure wasn't laced with some A-class shit like murky blue eyes casted down from the Lord and the Devil's handcrafted smile. I knew who he was--the whole world did. One fateful night set off a chain of events, events that no one was coming back from. You can't save people who don't want to be saved. You can't pull them up from the ocean when they've latched themselves to an anchor. Love was my anchor, destruction was the water that was drowning me, and the rope that was so tightly clamped around my ankles, was woven with the lyrics of Aeron Romanov-Reed, also known as, 'Manik. He steals hearts from all around the world, but one night, he stole something that wasn't his to steal. Me.
Download or read book Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne written by Upendra Kishore Ray Choudhury and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist, Musician, Man Of Science, Upendrakishore Roychoudhury Was A Man Of Many Parts. But It Is For His Writing For Children That He Is Best Remembered. This Book Is A Selection Of The Best Of His Stories And The Most Fascinating Of His Characters: Goopy And Bagha, Dedicated But Unsuccessful Musicians Who Are Cast Out Of Their Homes Because Their Music Drives Their Families And Neighbours Crazy; Tuntuni, The Little Bird; The Clever Fox; Majantali Sarkar, The Cat; The Intrepid Granny Hunchback; And Many Others. Swagata Deb S Vibrant Translation Brings Upendrakishore S Unique Magic To A Wider Audience.
Download or read book The Quest written by Mridul Dutta and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest is a fiction set in the northeastern region of the country with a rural backdrop. Madhab, the narrator, who is a young Major in a crack infantry battalion of the Indian Army is set to get married in a few days. Just then, a tragedy strikes the family. Madhab's twentythree year old younger brother gets killed in a motorcycle accident. Madhab smells a rat and strongly feels that the accident was stage managed. He vows to get to the bottom of it at any cost. Sometimes, Major Madhab's progress is hindered due to certain strict parameters that come with his profession, but being a hardened commando, his quest for the truth becomes unrelenting, often landing him in a do-or-die situation. The tale as told by this versatile armyman will make you fantasize about the romanticism in the army; he will give you a new meaning to the vexed issues of human relationships, he will transport you to some of the most exotic and little known places on earth, and he will make you wonder what he will do next.
Download or read book Teatime for the Firefly written by Shona Patel and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1940's India. During this volatile and transitional time in the country's fight for independence, Layla is astrologically doomed never to marry. Manik's career and arranged marriage were charted for success. But by cleverly manipulating the hand fortune has dealt her, Layla has found love with Manik. Layla's life as a newly married woman takes her away from home and into the jungles of Assam, where the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run by native labor and British efficiency. Fascinated by this culture of whiskey-soaked expats who seem fazed by neither earthquakes nor man-eating leopards, she struggles to find her place among the prickly English wives with whom she is expected to socialize, and the peculiar servants she now finds under her charge.
Download or read book Village Diary of a Heretic Banker written by Moin Qazi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "VILLAGE DIARY OF A HERETIC BANKER is more a diary than an instructive guide. The diary provides the flavour of the author’s personal experiences as a rural banker and his engagement with the poor in the remote crannies of India. The seed around which the book crystallises is the intrinsic tenacity and grit of poor rural women that can be harnessed into energetic powerhouses to drive our rural society onto the road to prosperity. The book carries in its pages the poignant nostalgia of the author for villages but it is also tinged at places with rage and despair. The message in this book is that there is no grand, universal formula for poverty reduction. The battle has to be fought on several fronts and what works in one place does not necessarily work everywhere. The way forward lies in grassroots field experiments for understanding the causal relationships in poor people’s behaviour and in learning by doing. The author’s faith in poor people’s ability to climb out of the rut is unshakeable and his core belief is gradualism. The author believes that lasting social change most often—and perhaps always—comes slowly rather than in a burst of revolutionary fervour. It is this belief that has shaped his work. He also believes that lasting change can be effected only when women are given equal opportunities for financial empowerment The author firmly believes that it is possible to eliminate poverty in our country—provided we re-examine the received wisdom of our assumptions. The poor are poor not because they are unskilled or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labour. They neither own capital, nor does anyone give them access to credit, except on the most unreasonable terms. They live on the edge, in constant fear of a catastrophe or tragedy, but they have no insurance because insurance companies consider them a losing proposition. And the State’s social safety nets are not only grossly inadequate but mired in corruption and bureaucratic red tape. During his efforts in development finance and rural development work for over three decades, the author has seen projects and strategies succeed as well as fail. He has seen misguided project designs, poor implementation and squandering of large sums of money. But he also witnessed incredible achievements. When development works well, he argues, it can transform lives by providing the underprivileged the capital and knowledge that can open up opportunities for them and reduce their poverty. "
Download or read book What Happens After Midnight written by K. L. Walther and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Summer of Broken Rules comes a new coming-of-age romance about senior year, first love, and finding yourself. Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduation quickly approaching Lily is worried that she's somehow missed out on the fun of being in high school. So, when she receives a mysterious note inviting her to join the anonymous senior class Jester in executing the end-of-year prank, Lily sees her chance to put her goody-two-shoes reputation behind her. When Lily realizes the Jester is none other than Taggart Swell, her ex- boyfriend, she's already in too deep to back out. Lily might've dumped Tag, but she still has major feelings. Plus, his brilliant plan to steal the school's yearbooks, targets none other than Lily's prom date: the Senior Class President, Daniel. As the group of pranksters hide cryptic clues across campus for Daniel to find, Lily and Tag find themselves in close quarters. As the exes dodge Campus Safety guards, night owl teachers, a troop of freshmen, and even Daniel himself, new sparks fly. But old hurts and painful secrets refuse to be ignored. And with graduation on the horizon, Lily can only hope that breaking the rules will help mend her heart. Perfect for fans of: Taylor Swift The Summer I Turned Pretty Sarah Dessen BookTok Favorites
Download or read book Reports of Cases Determined in the Court of Nizamut Adawlut for 1851 1859 written by Bengal (India). Sadr Nizāmat 'Adālat and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Stolen Legacies written by Aditya Banerjee and published by Aditya Banerjee. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A box goes missing in the state archives, and no one is entirely sure of its contents. The police aren’t interested in investigating the case. A young journalist looking into its disappearance is struggling to recover from his last article, which caused a scandal at his newspaper. He is paired up with a senior journalist who is not well-liked in the organization. As they start investigating the disappearance of the box, they quickly realize that it is connected to other incidents—one with deadly consequences. As they start getting closer to the truth, they find that no one wants the contents to be made public. They are unsure of whom to trust, and the story has the makings of a deep-rooted conspiracy. Help and resistance both come from unlikely sources. Any action they take will have profound personal consequences for the people involved and create a nationwide uproar. In the midst of an election, there are too many powerful forces working against them. They must decide how far they want to go and whether solving the mystery of the missing papers is worth the price and the risks.
Download or read book Twilight in a Knotted World written by Siddhartha Sarma and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soil of central India hides more than the bones of long-dead giants. The East India Company is master of almost the entire subcontinent, but real power is now with the Crown. Far from the great games of the empire, Captain William Henry Sleeman is content to administer Jabalpur district and dig for remnants of petrified bones with his charming and knowledgeable wife. Until he is tasked with investigating the activities of an obscure group of criminals who are said to strangle their victims. As Sleeman uncovers the many layers of the Phansigar problem, he finds a language unlike any other, and a set of beliefs, lore and superstitions seemingly drawn from the soul of the countryside. He finds orchards of corpses, and a hierarchy of stranglers, but also ordinary men driven to murder. He hears subtle murmurs of discontentment at the changes which have come to a land believed by some to be unchanging. He finds auguries of a conflict to come. And behind it all, the legend of a mysterious, beautiful man, whose capture might be the key to understanding the Phansigars. Sleeman’s inquiries will make him confront the nature of his beloved adopted homeland and of the mighty people in Calcutta who he serves. Through the prism of caste, the consequent web of intricate social and cultural relationships, and the nature of travel in the hinterland, he will see the real face of India and come across its uncomfortable, bleak truths. But to unravel such truths is not easy…
Download or read book Memories of a Cairo Fugitive written by KRISHNA WASHBURN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a hasty escape to Egypt to avoid punishment for his partner, Lord Greenwich's vast financial crimes, former Mombasa solicitor and gigolo, Manik Mudigonda, is forced to adapt to a life without parties and without company in pre-World War I Cairo. Once again, the rejected Brahmin prince from Benares tries to find a niche for himself in an alien land that doesn't initially seem to have a niche for a piebald, red-eyed, bulimic criminal lawyer without much self confidence, and yet it is in arid, claustrophobic, poorly governed British Egypt that Manik's professional and personal lives come into full bloom. Not only does Manik's legal career flourish against all odds, fighting for his criminal clients' rights to appeal, coping with embedded corruption, racism, and constant condescention, but also he succeeds at initiating his first monogamous relationship, hidden from the disapproving glare of Egyptian culture. An ode to resiliance in the face of unusual hardship, the synchronicity of strength and fragility of the human psyche, and the elusive, inexplicable nature of love, Manik Mudigonda tries to narrate his life, if for no other reason than to try to remember.
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Download or read book Unconscious consciousness written by Angelo Aulisa and published by Angelo Aulisa. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unconscious & consciousness self help non fiction inner guide to meditation to inner being , witness consciousness , mirror like quality to inner universal consciousness emptiness nothingness absence of things gate less gate to non being body incorporeal where time space forms , duality of mind and dialectic of opposite complementary completely annihilate and consciousness too annihilate because consciousness is always in relation to a subject or object into non being body incorporeal no relation forms survive and consciousness having no more relation annihilate turn twisted into formless awareness unfocused expand everywhere and nowhere in particular into the infinity of non being body incorporeal awareness is just an i am ness infinite light bliss a great relaxation , ultimate essence into the core and source of the mystery of the universal body and of life and death and of duality of mind and dialectic ,eternity itself meaning no begin no end , infinite light that is why the term enlightenment , eternity is an open relativity not absolute at all is an endless opening into infinity , eternity is infinite freedom from all and everything time space forms duality of mind and dialectic the real freedom just freedom , eternity is infinite bliss ecstasy peace , silence within intrinsic zest bliss ecstasy a silence full of zest bliss , into eternity you at home enlightenment unfold and you are awake from unconscious asleep and various hypnosis , enlightened forever immortal eternal , eternity is eternal life into eternity resurrection unfold the resurrection is a conscious alchemy subtle mysterious experience not material not physical not gross but a conscious alchemy from unconscious to inner being witness consciousness mirror like quality to inner consciousness emptiness nothingness gate less gate to non being body incorporeal to awareness formless unfocused awareness to the core and source of eternity itself where one day when you leave the body your light empty consciousness will annihilate diffuse , your quality , essence data of intelligence that is the refinement of your DNA fragrance will melt annihilate into eternity itself and forever pulsating alive intrinsic to eternity itself , a new begin you in essence will assume an universal body and flow pulsate alive as the core and source of universal consciousness you in essence quality will be intrinsic to all forms of the universal body , galaxies stars planets , ear winds the sky the oceans the nature into all and every things all forms of the universal body and within all living being flower roses you will be roses intrinsic to the fragrance of roses so when you smell the fragrance of roses you have smell in a split second the all eternity, that the mystical resurrection eternal life eternal alive pulsating , a human being beyond transcendental to ego mind unconscious which is an impossible task his eternity itself it belong to eternity by birth right his eternity itself immortal enlightened already resurrected and one day when he leave the body in consciousness awareness he will return in a circle of zero into eternity itself , the inner journey his from here to here where you think you are going when you leave the body the inner journey is from eternity to eternity you will remain here intrinsic to eternity , this book unconscious &consciousness is a diamond of wisdom on mysticism and psychology and physic , a master piece of rare grandeur a jewel a diamond , the best book ever write in the history of humanity that out date all other books for a corollary of contemporary that the author Angelo Aulisa live in he uses all the tools that humanity as provide in his thousand years of evolution and the synthesis is sacred holy divine it surpasses all human understand up to today days ,enjoy delight here at your finger tips the emperor of mysticism smile please welcome thank you Angelo Aulisa
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
