Introductory Essay by Samik Bandyopadhyay. Calcutta: Seagull Books‚ 1997. 130 pages. Rs 160. Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli‚ Rudali—From Fiction to Performance. Translated with an Introductory Essay by Anjum Katyal. Calcutta: Seagull Books‚ 1997. 156 pages‚ Rs 175. Mahasweta Devi‚ Five Plays. Translated by Samik Bandyopadhyay. Cal cutta : Seagull Books‚ 1997. 149 pages. Rs 150. Mahasweta Devi‚ Breast Stories. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Calcutta: Seagull Books‚ 1997. 160 pages. Rs 175
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urban areas like Calcutta and Cairo in less economically developed countries (LEDCs) and New York City in a more economically developed country (MEDC). Cities in both LEDCs and MEDCs suffer from similar problems like pollution‚ housing and transportation for urban migration. However‚ the severity and the impact of these urban problems vary depending on economic situation. For example‚ New York City as a leading world city is much less affected by similar problems as compared to Calcutta‚ Rio and Cairo
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BLESSED MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian-born Indian Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity. She was a very devout catholic who dedicated her life to caring for well-being of others and helping those in need of love and affection. Her beliefs and values of life reflected her religious identity and purpose‚ which developed and contributed to her life and work. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu‚ in Macedonia‚ on the 26th of
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Introduction: A great step was taken in the Indian legal history when the supreme court of judicature was created at Calcutta under the regulating act of 1773. Bengal‚ Bihar and Orissa were in the grip of confusion‚ chaos and anarchy after the battle of plassey. The company’s servants exploited the people‚ amassed the wealth and returned to England. All servants high or low suffered from one obsession only how to achieve easy fortune in India and return to England as soon as possible. These people
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District School‚ standing first in the Calcutta University‚ whose jurisdiction in those days extended from Bengal ’undivided) and Bihar to Burma including Assam‚ Orissa etc. He now came to Calcutta and joined the Presidency College where he studied Science. He took his degree in Law and joined the bar of the Calcutta High Court. When Patna High Court was established (1917)‚ he shifted his practice to that Court. Meanwhile‚ from his student-day in Calcutta‚ he came under the influence of Satis Mukherjee’s
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different houses in the city of Calcutta which are near each other‚ has all been done in extraordinary profundity and detail: There were two rooms on the second and highest stories. The first was the expansive one confronting the street... There were two beds‚ one of all
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health and cared for them. “On 21 December she went for the first time to the slums. She visited families‚ washed the sores of some children‚ cared for an old man lying sick on the road and nursed a woman dying of hunger and TB.” (Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center). Mother Teresa also had over 4000 followers‚ or as she called them‚ sisters. She had inspired so many people‚ and her actions impressed so many people around the world. “… the Missionaries of Charity established their first house outside
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River upstream of Calcutta)‚ about 150 km north of Calcutta and south of Murshidabad‚ then capital of Bengal. The belligerents were Nawab Siraj-ud-daulah‚ the last independent Nawab of Bengal‚ and the British East India Company. The battle was preceded by the attack on British-controlled Calcutta by Nawab Siraj-ud-daulah and the Black Hole incident. The British sent reinforcements under Colonel Robert Clive and Admiral Charles Watson from Madras to Bengal and recaptured Calcutta. Clive then seized
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Everyday Life in the Patas of Kalighat A.K.M. Khademul Haque Assistant Professor Department of Islamic History and Culture University Of Dhaka The word Pata (pronounced as ‘pot’) means picture in general‚ but it is particularly ascribed as a kind of picture painted on cloth. Since the mythical age‚ a community of artisans in rural Bengal used to make a kind of painted scroll depicting a series of stories and earn their livelihood showing them in public as well as narrating the story. The
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house in London‚ Clive cut his own throat with a pen knife. The Fall and Recapture of Calcutta: War with Siraj ud Daulah (1756-1757): Early in 1756‚ Siraj ud Daulah had succeeded his grandfather as Nawab of Bengal. In June‚ Clive received news that the new nawab had attacked the English Act Kasim Bazaar and he had taken the fort at Calcutta. The Company incurred huge losses because of the fall of Calcutta. Clive marched with his small force through the entire nawab’s camp‚ despite being
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