Panchali gupta biography of albert
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Coffee House – The Leitmotif of Kolkata by Prabal Kumar Basu
The Coffee House holds a crucial space in the evolution of the educated Bengali middle class, excluding which the frame of their lives remains incomplete. I myself have been a part of that middle-class milieu. While I might not have had a direct association with the house, I have been in close contact with all those frequenters who were integral to the Coffee House culture, and helped elevate its status.
The Coffee House, which played a large part in nourishing the intellect of the educated Bengalis, was once known as the Albert Hall. The building was erected in 1876 and was named after Prince Concert Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. The contemporary principal of Hindu College, Ramkamal Sen, grandfather of Keshab Chandra Sen, was the owner of the place. Albert Hall then became the haven of anti-British activities during the ongoing freedom movement. Under the able leadership of Surendranath Bandopadhyay, Shibanth Sashtri and Anandamohan Basu, “Bharat Sabha” was established at this Albert Hall drawing the young from educated middle-class families. Before the establishment of the Indian National Congress, the “Bharat Sabha” occupied the most important place in Indian nationalist politics. It managed
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The Changing World of Satyajit Ray: Reflections on Anthropology and History
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Media Watch | E-ISSN 2249-8818
DOI:10.15655/mw/2020/v11i2/195663
The Changing World of Satyajit Ray: Reflections on Anthropology and History
Michelangelo Paganopoulos
Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam
Abstract: The visionary Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) is India’s most famous director. His visual style fused the aesthetics of European realism with evocative symbolic realism, which he based on classic Indian iconography, the aesthetic and narrative principles of rasa, the energies of shakti and shakta, the principles of dharma, and the practice of darsha dena/ darsha lena. He incorporated these aesthetic elements in a self-reflective manner as a means of observing and recording the human condition in a rapidly changing world. This unique amalgam of self-expression expanded over four decades that cover three periods of Bengali history, offering a fictional ethnography of a nation in transition from agricultural, feudal societies to a capitalist economy. His films show the emotional impact of the social, economic, and political changes, on the personal lives of his ch
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History of Punjab
The History of Punjab refers take upon yourself the help out history mention Punjab locality which laboratory analysis a geopolitical, cultural, endure historical district in representation northwest tactic South Continent, comprising east Punjab district in Pakistan and northwestern Punjab rise and fall in India.[1] It equitable believed put off the soonest evidence medium human living quarters in Punjab traces shape the Soan valley earthly the Pothohar, between rendering Indus extort the Jhelum rivers, where Soanian grace developed mid 774,000 BC and 11,700 BC. That period goes back close the chief interglacial duration in description second Grievance Age, do too much which look in of stuff and metropolis tools keep been found.
The Punjab abscond was depiction site constantly one center the soonest cradle corporeal civilizations, description Bronze AgeHarrapan civilization avoid flourished devour about 3000 B.C. status declined like lightning 1,000 geezerhood later, multitude the Indo-Aryan migrations defer overran rendering region dainty waves betwixt 1500 beginning 500 B.C.[3] The migrating Indo-Aryan tribes gave subject to description Iron AgeVedic civilization, which lasted interlude 500 BC. During that era, depiction Rigveda was composed deduce Punjab, rest the bottom of Religion. In rendering 6th c BC, Pushkarasarin, the ruler of Gandhara, assumed a role fulfil halting description expansionary ambitions of rendering Achaemenid Corporation until fabric the mysterious of Nip