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Stree (publisher)
Bhatkal & Sen is a publishing partnership between Mandira Sen and Popular Prakashan. The company is based in Kolkata and publishes the imprints Stree and Samya. It is noted for publishing authors such as Kancha Ilaiah, Om Prakash Valmiki, Uma Chakravarti, Gail Omvedt, Manikuntala Sen, Ashok Mitra, V. Geetha, and Bani Basu, and has prominent scholars such as Susie Tharu and Maithreyi Krishnaraj as editors. It publishes academic works in the social sciences, memoirs and classic fiction in translation in English and Bengali. Popular Prakashan is a Bombay-based publishing firm established in 1920 by Ganesh R. Bhatkal, a former employee of OUP Bombay. Beginnings of Stree Mandira Sen worked as a publisher's editor for Houghton Mifflin among others in the US, until she returned to India in 1978. She worked for a year for Orient Longman, then set up Mandira, which published bilingual children's books; with English text on the verso pages and the same text in an Indian language on the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Prakashan
Popular Prakashan is an Indian independent publisher and bookseller founded in Bombay in 1924. History In 1924, founder Ganesh R. Bhatkal, a former employee of Oxford University Press India, established the Popular Book Depot as an independent bookseller. In 1962, his successors Sadanand and Ramdas G. Bhatkal created Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. as a publishing company. Publications Cookery Popular Prakashan specialises in cookery titles. Sanjeev Kapoor of ''Khana Khazana'' is Popular’s best-selling author and Popular has published more than 85 books by him. These are also available in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati. Rasachandrika: Saraswat Cookery Book is a great compilation of delectable recipes from Maharashtrian and Konkani cuisine. Asha Khatau and Jeroo Mehta have also been published through Popular. Arts, culture and women's studies In 1990, Popular Prakashan set up a Kolkata-based associate firm, Bhatkal and Sen, for specialized publishing in the fields of culture and wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi Language
Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 million native speakers as per the 2017 census, and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, as per the 2011 census. The language is spoken among a significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written using the Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Perso-Arabic script; in India, it is written using the Gurmukhi alphabet, based on the Indic scripts. Punjabi is unusual among the Indo-Aryan languages and the broader Indo-European language family in its usage of lexical tone. History Etymology The word ''Punjabi'' (sometimes spelled ''Panjabi'') has been derived from the word ''Panj-āb'', Persian for 'Five Waters', referring to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saroj Pathak
Saroj Pathak (1 June 1929 – 16 April 1989) was Gujarati novelist, story writer and essayist from Gujarat, India. Life Saroj Pathak was born on 1 June 1929 to Narandas Uddeshi in Jakhau in Cutch State (now Kutch district, Gujarat). She completed her primary and secondary school from Bombay (now Mumbai). She matriculated in 1947. She completed BA in Gujarati in 1960 and MA in 1964 from Gujarat University. She was associated with Akashvani in 1956–57. She was also associated with Soviet Information Service in 1957–58. She was professor at college in Bardoli from 1964. She died in Bardoli on 16 April 1989. Works Her husband was a humourist and used to write stories which inspired her to write. Her first story, ''Nahi Andharu, Nahi Ajvalu'' was published in ''Jivanmadhuri'' magazine. Her ''Sarika Pinjarstha'' was praised. Her first short story collection ''Prem Ghata Zuk Aai'' (1959) was published by Chetan Publishers which earned her prize from Government of Bombay State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Desai
Kamal Desai (10 November 1928–17 June 2011) was an Indian novelist writing in Marathi. She was born in Yamkan Mardi in the Belgaum district. She studied in Belgaum, going on to complete a master's degree in Marathi at Bombay University. Desai began writing in 1955 and retired to Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million .... She is best known for her 1975 novel ''Hat Ghalnari Bai'' (Woman Wearing a Hat). Selected works * ''Rang'' (Colours), stories (1962) * ''Ratrandin Amha Yuddhacha Prasang'' (We confront the war day and night), novel (1963) * ''Kala Surya'' (Dark sun), novel (1972) * ''Rang-2'', stories (1998) References 1928 births Indian women novelists Indian women short story writers Marathi-language writers People from Belagavi district Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulekha Sanyal
Sulekha Sanyal (15 June 1928 – c. 1962) was a Bengali writer and activist. She emerged as an early feminist in the region through her work ''Nabankur'' (''The Seedling'') in 1956. The work has been translated to English in 2001 by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay. Early life and career Sanyal grew up in Korokdi, now in Faridpur Bangladesh, in a decaying zamindar family that had once been indigo planters, and was to become a member of the Communist Party of India. An early influence on her was the Brahmo philosopher and reformer, Ramtanu Lahiri, who was related to her mother. Senyal passed the matriculation exam as a private candidate in 1944 and intermediate exam from Rajendra College, Faridpur in 1946. She then went to Kolkata and enrolled herself in Victoria Institute. ''Nabankur'' was published in English by Stree in 2001. Its heroine, ''Chhobi'', is a young girl from a rural zamindar family in Bengal of the 1930s, and the book follows her as she learns to fight injustice, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamla Bhasin
Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education, human development and the media. She lived in New Delhi, India. She was best known for her work with Sangat - A Feminist Network and for her poem ''Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai''. In 1995, she recited a refurbished, feminist version of the popular poem ''Azadi'' (Freedom) in a conference. She was also the South Asia coordinator of One Billion Rising. She resigned from her job at the U.N. in 2002, to work with Sangat, of which she was a founder member and adviser. She believed in a form of advocacy that combines feminist theory and community action. She worked with underprivileged women from tribal and working communities, often using posters, plays and other non literary methods to get through to communities with low literacy rates. She had always maintained that in order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1905 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into Jadavpur University in 1955. In 2022, it was ranked fourth among universities in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). It also achieved 11th rank in the engineering category and 12th rank overall in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2022. History In 1910, the Society for the Promotion of Technical Education in Bengal which looked after Bengal Technical Institute (which later became College of Engineering and Technology, Bengal) was amalgamated to NCE. NCE henceforth looked after the College of Engineering and Technology, Bengal. After Independence, on 24 December 1955, Jadavpur University was officially established by the Government of West Bengal with the concurrence of the Government of India. Campus Jadavpur University is semi-residential, which at present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalyani Dutta
Kalyani may refer to: Film and television * ''Kalyani'' (1940 film), a Hindi film * ''Kalyani'' (1952 film), a Tamil film * ''Kalyani'' (1971 film), a Kannada film * ''Kalyani'' (1979 film), a Telugu film * ''Kalyani'' (1983 film), an Oriya Ollywood film * ''Kalyani'' (TV series), an Indian Telugu language soap opera Places * Kalyani, Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India * Kalyani, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India * Kalyani, West Bengal, a city in the Nadia district of West Bengal, India * Kalyani Dam, in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India * Kalyani Nagar, a neighbourhood in Pune, Maharashtra, India * Kalyani River, in Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh, India * Kalyani subdivision, Nadia district, West Bengal, India * Ancient name for Basavakalyan, Karnataka, India People * Baba Kalyani (born 1949), Indian businessman * Galyani Vadhana (1923–2008), princess of Thailand * Shrikant Kalyani (born 1964), Indian cricketer * Kalyani Bondre (born 1981), academic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhadralok
Bhadralok (, literally 'gentleman', or 'well-mannered person') is Bengali for the new class of 'gentlefolk' who arose during British rule in India in the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Caste and class makeup According to Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, the ''Bhadraloks'' primarily, though not exclusively, belonged to "the three traditional upper castes of Bengal", Brahmin, Baidya and Kayastha. Wealth, English education, and high status in terms of administrative service were the factors which led to the rise of this 'new aristocracy' and since a large number of the three upper castes had administrative skills and economic advantages, they formed the majority of Bhadralok in 19th century Bengal, but the ''Bhadralok'' "was never a closed status group", rather in practice it was an open social group. Majority of the Brahmins and Kayasthas being poor and illiterate were not regarded as ''Bhadralok''. By late 19th century many of middle ranking peasant and trading c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moushumi Bhowmik
Moushumi Bhowmik (born 29 December 1964) is an Indian singer-songwriter, writer and researcher based in Kolkata, she is known to perform Bengali folk songs, as well as her own compositions. She has released four albums― ''Tumio Chil Hao'' (1994), ''Ekhono Galpo Lekho'' (2000), ''Ami Ghor Bahir Kori'' (2001), ''Songs from 26H'' (2017). She has composed for documentaries and art cinema. Bhowmik created The Travelling Archive, based on field recordings from Bengal. Moushumi Bhowmik submitted her PhD dissertation on 'Songs of Absence and Presence: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal 1931-34' at Jadavpur University. . Family and early life Moushumi Bhowmik was born on 29 December 1964 at Jalpaiguri, a small town of West Bengal, India. Moushumi's father Bhupendranath Bhowmik, who was originally from Pabna district of East Bengal (Now Bangladesh), moved to West Bengal for education and a job. Her mother Anit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chhaya Datar
Chhaya Datar (also Chāyā Dātāra born 1944) is an Indian activist, writer and feminist. Datar writes in Marathi and English. Career Datar began writing and becoming politically active out of frustration as living as a housewife. She wrote her first collection of short stories in Marathi, ''Goshta Sādhī'' ''Saral Sopī'' in 1972 and her second, ''Vartulacha Ant'' in 1977. She is also one of the founders of a publishing group based in Bombay, called Stri Uvach (A Woman Said). After her short stories, she went on to work on studying women's issues. Earning a scholarship to study in the Netherlands, she completed a master's degree at the International Institute of Social Studies of Rotterdam in 1981. She returned to India and was one of the founders of an anti-violence group called the Forum Against Rape. In 1988, she became a women's studies lecturer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Later she earned a PhD from the SNDT Women's University, and became head of the women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Hosken, Fran P., 'Towards a Definition of Women's Rights' in ''Human Rights Quarterly'', Vol. 3, No. 2. (May 1981), pp. 1–10. Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, to work, to fair wages or equal pay, to have reproduct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
