Download or read book The Gangs of Bangladesh written by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a study of street children’s involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book argues that ‘mastaans’ are Bangladeshi mafia groups that operate in a market for crime, violence and social protection. It considers the crimes mastaans commit, the ways they divide labour, and how and why street children become involved in these groups. The book explores how street children are hired by ‘mastaans’, to carry weapons, sell drugs, collect extortion money, commit political violence and conduct contract killings. The book argues that these young people are neither victims nor offenders; they are instead ‘illicit child labourers’, doing what they can to survive on the streets. This book adds to the emerging fields of the sociology of crime and deviance in South Asia and ‘Southern criminology’.

Download or read book Prison written by Vaasanthi and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison deals with the primary concerns of urban society today; terrorism funded by free ranging sources outside the country, serial bomb blasts, insidious corruption in the police force corruption at all levels of government, over zealous police who beat ‘suspects’ to death eliminating them by staging ‘encounters’. Caught up in all this aftermath of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts is the protagonist, Vivek, a journalist, the son of a rich Hindu father and Muslim mother. He is enmeshed into a trap laid by his father’s powerful enemies. He is jailed in solitary confinement, and as he wilts, the story unfolds the history of the events that led to the incarceration of this innocent young man. Against the picture of mindless cruelty of the world of terrorism – there is the tender narrative of selfless love of Aruna and her unshakeable faith in the innocence of Vivek. Somewhere along the line comes the realization even to the terrorist involved, that behind the politics of terror, lies a cold - blooded struggle for power. Who is then the real traitor? How does innocence find justice, if at all?

Download or read book 1857 written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Global Bollywood written by Anandam P. Kavoori and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Bollywood brings together leading scholars to examine the transnational and transmedia terrain of Bollywood. Defining Bollywood as an arena of public culture distinct from Hindi-language Bombay cinema, this volume offers a new critical framework for analyzing the institutional, cultural, and political dimensions of Bollywood films and film music as they begin to constitute an important circuit of global flows in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Getting Away With It written by Simon Eyre and published by Reluctant Backpacker Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When death is around every corner the only choice is to fight back and to fight hard. A suspenseful, gripping adventure thriller that will have the reader hooked until the very last twist. Daniel Sawyer’s life is falling apart when a chance meeting with London gangster, Eddie Fowler, leads to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What starts as a simple courier job turns bad on the overcrowded streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Now Daniel is on the run, with not only his new boss on his tail but also the notorious Mastaan crime syndicate and a brutal, corrupt local police sergeant. They’re after his blood and won’t rest until they get what they crave. With the help of his friends Kristi and Asi, Daniel finds himself fleeing across continents with the ever-present risk of capture, torture and death. The only way out is for the hunted to turn hunter. With the help of Kristi’s ingenious hacking abilities and Asi’s brute strength, Daniel decides to execute a daring heist and steal Bitcoin worth millions of dollars from his new employer. It’s time to enter the Lion's Den. As the story unfolds towards a heart-stopping climax, Daniel Sawyer and his friends find out if they have what it takes to get away with it. If you enjoy suspenseful thrillers by authors like McNab, Ryan, Baldacci, Leather or Child, you won't be able to put down Getting Away With It, the first in the Daniel Sawyer thriller series. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW. Book two in the Daniel Sawyer series is coming in the Autumn of 2024. What people are saying about Getting Away With It "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant. I couldn't put it down. The sign of a good book to me is being able to picture the story as I read and I was certainly able to do that. Can't wait for the next one.." "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a page-turner, hard to believe it’s the author’s first novel. So many twists and turns but a scenario that could easily happen making it more real than some novels. I can’t wait for the sequel.." "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I genuinely enjoyed the plot and loved the characters. Daniel is thoroughly likeable, you're rooting for him!." "⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great thriller which I started reading the day it arrived (paperback) and hardly put down until I finished it a few days later."

Download or read book Deeper Aspects of Hinduism written by Mumtaz Ali and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revolves around the life experience and teachings of Mumtaz Ali. It deals with some of the deeper aspects of Hinduism and will be of great interest to students of Hinduism, contemporary religion and seekers for truth around the world.

Download or read book The Fluid Frame in Cinema written by Pradipta Mukherjee and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close reading of cinema that keeps cultural contexts and their socio-historical roots firmly in sight. This collection does not consider the “frame”, that oft-referenced basic unit of vision in films, as a limiting structure. Rather, it brings into purview what is left out. Divided into three sections, the essays look firstly at Indian cinema, both Bollywood and regional films, tracing the journey of Indian cinema from the periphery to the center. The second section focuses on Adaptation Studies and takes an unorthodox look at classic adaptations of literature. The final section is a reappraisal of directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. The essays propose that, even though the film as an artwork does not change fundamentally over time, it still strikes a contemporary critical gaze differently.

Download or read book The Illustrated Weekly of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mumbai where Dreams Don t Die written by Raghu Rai and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2010 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mumbai has been extensively photographed over the past century. Like New York, it is a city full of men and women with aspirations of making it big in life. Mumbai is also known as a dream factory because of the overwhelming presence of its film industry, one of biggest in the world. This book collects nearly three decades of work from Raghu Rai, one of Indias foremost photojournalists. The pictures encompass life in all its manifestations from the high-rise skyscrapers to the gushing waves of the Arabian sea. It shows movement and activity that almost never ceases fairs and festivities, political demonstrations, films in the making, and the advertising and modelling scene.

Download or read book Third International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology SASCV 28 29 January 2016 Goa India written by K. Jaishankar and Natti Ronel and published by K. Jaishankar. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka written by Rasheda Rawnak Khan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion. The book considers how the people of poor neighborhoods encounter the exclusionary behavior of city development, and how their inclusionary attempts have influenced the urban design. The book is presented in two parts: first, it explains how people in poor neighborhoods face exclusion because of the imbalance of power and politics. Second, it demonstrates how the existing exclusion of urban poor is affecting their strategies to gain access to urban services through people’s power and politics. Focusing on the transdisciplinary field of urban anthropology, the chapters uncover the urban forces, policies and actions that facilitate urban politics. It also investigates the people who live in poor neighborhoods, who in the face of exclusion, have included themselves in urban development planning and design by employing diverse strategies against those forces in the urban politics, e.g., accepting dominance, bargaining, or having control over their lives. This book will recontextualize an ethnographic inquiry into the exclusion and inclusion of the people within city development design, plans and innovations in applications of anthropological theory and methodology. This book will encourage the reader to understand the politics of state’s development projects and plans, and furthermore instigate the city government, planners and policymakers to focus on the people's political power and agency that enables them to achieve inclusion. It will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of urban planning and development, urban geography, and urban anthropology, as well as planning professionals and policymakers.

Download or read book Kankana Banerjee The Journey of a Khayal Queen written by Debottam Sarma and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Kankana Banerjee-The Journey of a Khayal Queen’ attempts to bring to the fore the life and contributions of one of India’s most acclaimed and foremost Classical vocalists Vidushi Kankana Banerjee. As a young girl of eleven, Kankana came under the tutelage of Ustad Amir Khan and learned from him for more than fifteen years. She was later trained by Pandit Pratap Narayan of the Mewati gharana. As a performing artist, she was particularly marked by experts for her cuckoo-like voice and soulful renditions that were built on the rudiments of the Indore style of singing and carried the ethos and marrow of her Ustad. Fame and recognition were sure to come, but not easily. Life had been unsparing at times. Her land of promises froze on several occasions, leaving her torn and devastated. But her unflagging determination kept her going. Despite all odds, she could establish herself as a singer of repute; a name to reckon with. Her sundry contributions as a performing artist, a Guru, and a composer would indubitably be of interest to arbiters of music, aesthetes, students and her devotees around the globe. This book not only gives one the opportunity to know Kankana only as a songstress of rare brilliance but also allows us to peep into the artist’s unostentatious life yet worthy of attention, from close proximity.

Download or read book Truck de India written by Rajat Ubhaykar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The share auto I squeeze into next seems unusually vulnerable after a night in the truck - too compact, too low down. Perhaps, these are the usual side effects of prolonged riding with the king of the road, I think to myself. But it is only when I fill in ‘truck’ as my mode of transportation in the hotel ledger at Udaipur does the utter ludicrousness of my endeavour truly hit home" Think truck drivers, and movie scenes of them drunkenly crushing inconvenient people to their gravelly deaths come to mind. But what are their lives on the road actually like? In Truck De India!, journalist Rajat Ubhaykar embarks on a 10,000 km-long, 100% unplanned trip, hitchhiking with truckers all across India. On the way, he makes unexpected friendships; listens to highway ghost stories; discovers the near-fatal consequences of overloading trucks; documents the fascinating tradition of truck art in Punjab; travels alongside nomadic shepherds in Kashmir; encounters endemic corruption repeatedly; survives NH39, the insurgent-ridden highway through Nagaland and Manipur; and is unfailingly greeted by the unconditional kindness of perfect strangers. Imbued with humour, empathy, and a keen sense of history, Truck De India! is a travelogue like no other you've read. It is the story of India, and Indians, on the road.

Download or read book Puranas Reimagined written by Pooja Jain and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puranas Reimagined: Attaining Enlightenment Through Samudra Manthan shares a new perspective of the popular folklore of Samudra Manthan cited in the Holy Scriptures. It draws an allegory between the religious folktale of the Daityas, the Devtas and the celestial gifts with inner sciences of spirituality. Each celestial gift obtained, such as Airawat, Kalpvriksha, Shankh, etc., in the tale, is considered as an amazing psychic power or Siddhi. The miraculous powers can be developed by an individual following the Ashthang Yoga or the eight-fold path of yoga. Further, following extensive research, the book highlights astounding anecdotes from the lives of revered Holy Saints who had engaged the said Siddhi in their life. In the words of Galileo: “All truths are easy to understand, once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” The book comprehends and shares a new dimension of the truth of the immortal tale.

Download or read book Wages of Violence written by Thomas Blom Hansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of intense ethnic conflict and violent nationalism. Wages of Violence is a startling account of how the city's atmosphere, dominant public languages, and power structures have changed since the 1960s. The book centers on how Shiv Sena, a militant Hindu movement, has advanced a new, ''plebeian'' political culture and has undermined democratic rule in India's premier city. Drawing on a large body of archival material and conversations with people from all walks of life, Thomas Blom Hansen paints a vivid picture of this dynamic and violent movement. Challenging conventional views of recent trends in Indian politics, Hansen shows that the xenophobic public culture of today's Mumbai has deep roots in the region's history and its contested identities. We are also given revealing insights into the city's Muslim communities and the authorities' understanding and control of the ethno-religious subcultures in the city. Hansen argues cogently that Shiv Sena's success represents the violent possibilities of the ''vernacularization'' of democracy in India. Unfolding at a juncture where the globalization of India's economy is having a deepening impact on the lives of ordinary people, this is a story that resonates with the directions urban growth is taking both elsewhere in India and beyond.

Download or read book Towards the Within written by Reece Willis and published by Worldworx. This book was released on 2018 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the further you distance yourself, the closer you are to the truth. What starts out as a simple trip around India soon becomes a psychological journey into the darkness of Sam's past. One he knows there's no running from. When Sam decides to give up his mundane life and travel to India he has no idea what he'll do when he gets there and it isn't long before his lack of preparation takes its toll. Vulnerable and alone, Sam is haunted by memories of his childhood and as he struggles to make sense of the pain he has suffered he follows a dangerous path that has devastating consequences.

Download or read book The Naxalites written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the Naxalites, a militant leftist movement in India since 1967.