Download or read book Mumbai Dreams written by JOYGOPAL PODDAR and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUMBAI DREAMS is the story of six unique destinies in India's maximum city - two ambitious young men from the foothills of the Himalayas and ordinary police constable an aspiring actress an ageing diva and a superstar. As some journey to glorious futures and others into decline, their lives get intertwined with each other and with the great city they have and their home.Those who get ahead are those who dare to dream. But high ambition can also lead to great danger - and, sometimes, untimely death. #v&spublishers

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 Wages of Violence written by Thomas Blom Hansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 280 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.

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Download or read book Story Behind the Notes written by Bharath Shenoy and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story revolves around two friends, who are about to enter their final year of engineering but seek something else in life. While Deepak aspires to be a singer, his friend Maddy wants to peruse his career in cinematography. One day, they bump into an old music video of a Mumbai based reality show singer, Sripathy Rao on YouTube and instantly fall in love with his voice. Maddy suggests Deepak to get trained from him. As the semester holidays had just begun, the duo with no second thoughts, go in search of Sripathy with a hope of meeting him in person. In the process of finding him, the duo get to witness the endless struggles and insecurities behind a singer's life. Will they succeed in meeting him? Does he agree to train Deepak? "Story behind the notes" unfurls their roller coaster ride and much more.

Download or read book Staging British South Asian Culture written by Jerri Daboo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage. From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent, Jerri Daboo reconsiders the centrality of Bollywood and bhangra to theatre made for or about British South Asian communities. Addressing rarely discussed theatre companies such as Rifco, and phenomena such as the emergence of large- scale Bollywood revue performances, this volume goes some way towards remedying the lack of critical discourse around British South Asian theatre. A timely contribution to this growing field, Staging British South Asian Culture is essential reading for any scholar or student interested in exploring the highly contested questions of identity and representation for British South Asian communities.

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Download or read book British Musical Theatre since 1950 written by Robert Gordon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical introduction to British musical theatre since 1950 is the first book to discuss its post-war developments from the perspective of British – as opposed to American – popular culture. The genre is situated within the historical context of post-war British society in order to explore the range of forms through which significant sociocultural moments are represented. Introductory chapters analyse the way British musicals have responded to social change, the forms of popular theatre and music from which they have developed and their originality in elaborating new narrative strategies since the seventies. A key feature of the book is its close readings of twelve key works, from Salad Days (1954) and Oliver! (1960) to global smash hits such as Les Misérables (1985) and The Phantom of the Opera (1986) and beyond, including the latest critical and box-office success Matilda (2011). Also analysed are British favourites (Blood Brothers, 1983), cult shows (The Rocky Horror Show, 1975) and musicals with a pre-existing fan-base, such as Mamma Mia! (1999).

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Download or read book Criminal Cities written by Molly Slavin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis. Examining late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels set in London, Belfast, Mumbai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Nairobi, and urban areas in the Palestinian West Bank, Criminal Cities considers the marks left by neocolonialism and imperialism on the structures, institutions, and cartographies of twenty-first-century cities. Molly Slavin suggests that literary depictions of urban crime can offer unique capabilities for literary characters, as well as readers, to process and negotiate that lingering colonial violence, while also providing avenues for justice and forms of reparations.

Download or read book Travels of Bollywood Cinema written by Anjali Gera Roy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries: from the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and East and South Africa to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. While looking at the meanings of nation, diaspora, home, and identity in cinematic texts and contexts, the essays also examine how localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism, politics and aesthetics, as well as spectatorship and viewing contexts.

Download or read book Begging Street Politics and Power written by Sheba Saeed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begging, Street Politics and Power explores the complex phenomenon of begging in the context of two different religions and societies in South Asia. Focusing on India and Pakistan, the book provides an in-depth examination of the religious and secular laws regulating begging along with discussion of the power dynamics involved. Drawing on textual analysis and qualitative field research, the chapters consider the notion of charity within Hinduism and Islam, the transaction of giving and receiving, and the political structures at play in the locations studied. The book engages with the conflicting compassionate and criminal sides of begging and reveals some of the commonalities and differences in religion and society within South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars working across the fields of religious studies, social science, law and Asian studies.

Download or read book The Urbanism of Exception written by Martin J. Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the 'city' - or 'urbanism' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailing conceptual frameworks that predominate in conventional urban theory are no longer capable of explaining the evolving patterns of city-making. Global urbanism has increasingly taken shape as vast, distended city-regions, where urbanizing landscapes are increasingly fragmented into discontinuous assemblages of enclosed enclaves characterized by global connectivity and concentrated wealth, on the one side, and distressed zones of neglect and impoverishment, on the other. These emergent patterns of what might be called enclave urbanism have gone hand-in-hand with the new modes of urban governance, where the crystallization of privatized regulatory regimes has effectively shielded wealthy enclaves from public oversight and interference.

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Download or read book SAMANYA GYAN 2016 written by V&S EDITORIAL BOARD and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: izLrqr iqLrd lkekU; Kku 2015 oh ,.M ,l ifCy'klZ dh uohure izLrqfr gSA bl iqLrd esa lkekU; Kku ds vUrxZr vkus okys lHkh fo"e;k;ksa dk flyflysokj ve;;u izLrqr fd;k x;k gSAlkekU; Kku ds ys[kd Lo;a Hkh ;wih,llh ijh{kk ds vH;FkhZ gS] mUgksaus izfr;ksxh vH;fFkZ;ksa dh t:jrksa dks e;ku esa j[krs gq, bl iqLrd esa T;knk ls T;knk ikB~; lkexzh nsdj xkxj esa lkxj Hkjus dh dksf'k'k dh gSA fo'ks"e;krkSj ij lelkef;dh fo"e;k; esa ys[kd us gky dh uohure jk"e;VAh;@vUrjkZ"e;VAh; ?kVukvksa dk fo'ys"e;k.k izLrqr fd;k gS] vkxkeh izfr;ksxh ijh{kkvksa esa bu iz'uksa ds iwNs tkus dh lEHkkouk gSA;wih,llh] jsyos] cSad] DydZ] ,;jiQkslZ] usoh] rFkk lHkh jkT;Lrjh; ijh{kkvksa esa mi;ksxhAiqLrd dh izeq[k fo'ks"e;krk,!H lelkef;dh H bfrgklH vFkZ'kkL=k H jktdh; O;oLFkkH HkkSfrdh H jlk;u 'kkL=kH tho foKku H [ksy vkSj f[kykM+hH uohure pfpZr iqlrdsa

Download or read book Musical Theatre Histories written by Millie Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narrative, however, depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more, having grown out of frequent and substantial interactions between both centres (and beyond). Through multiple thematic 'histories', Millie Taylor and Adam Rush take readers on a series of journeys that include the art form's European and American origins, African American influences, negotiations arounddiversity, national identity, and the globalisation of the form, as well as revival culture, censorship and the place of social media in the 21st century. Each chapter includes case studies and key concept boxes to identify, explain and contextualise important discussions, offering an accessible study of a dynamic and ever evolving medium. Written and developed for undergraduate students, this introductory textbook provides a newly focused and alternative way of understanding musical theatre history.

Download or read book Making a Mantra written by Ellen Gough and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of Tantra: Jainism, unlike the others, does not contain a tantric path to liberation. But in Making a Mantra, historian of religions Ellen Gough refines and challenges our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over two millennia of a Jain incantation, or mantra, that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second-century text into a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day. Typically, Jainism is characterized as a celibate, ascetic path to liberation in which one destroys karma through austerities, while the tantric path to liberation is characterized as embracing the pleasures of the material world, requiring the ritual use of mantras to destroy karma. Gough, however, argues that asceticism and Tantra should not be viewed in opposition to one another. She does so by showing that Jains perform “tantric” rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and maṇḍalas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices, Gough provocatively argues, because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation.