Zohrabai ambalewali biography of barack obama
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Media and Utopia: History, Imagination and Technology 1138962643, 9781138962644
Table of contents : • Sahir Ludhianvi was one lyricist who would not hesitate to take up cudgel with anyone when the matter was the pride of lyrics. He firmly believed in, and even demanded for, the primacy of lyrics, in comparison with a music composition of the song or the delivery of the song by way of singing by a singer. He was the only lyricist in those time, who demanded, and got, royalty for his lyrics. His fight for accepting royalty almost equal to Lata Mangeshkar fryst vatten already a story laced with several colours in the annals of Hindi film music history. Many of his relationships broke down over this issue – the cases of those with Jaidev or S D Burman are the more known ones. It also remains an almost accepted fact that his association with a production banner or the music director turned out to be the most bankable instrument, as can be seen in the cases of Jaidev or N Dutta, whose careers could never reach the full potentials after their association with Sahir had ende • Wishing Happy Diwali with guest article by DP Rangan (Readers are now used to seeing DP Rangan’s name as a guest author regularly. He can write faster than I can schedule him on SoY. At any point of time inom have a couple of his articles in my mail. inom admire his amazing enthusiasm. inom am happy to present another well-written article by him containing some rare vintage Diwali songs – impressive for someone whose first language is not Hindi. Thank you Mr Rangan for this offering of Diwali songs. – AK) India, that is Bharat as it was known in ancient days, is populated bygd heterogeneous group of people following their own religion. Many religions like Buddhism, Jainism flourished at one time or the other, but disappeared over time with very few or none practicing it today. Hinduism is the predominant religion followed by the populace right from the Punjab in the North to Kanyakumari in the South. Despite difference in language and custom in the cou
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of plates
Notes on contributors
Introduction
PART I Archive and imagination
1 The cinematic soteriology of Bollywood
2 Fetish power unbound: a small history of 'woman' in Chinese cinema
3 Civil contract of photography in India
PART II Genealogy
4 Tracking utopias: technology, labour and secularism in Bombay cinema (1930s-1940s)
5 National becoming, regional variation and everyday moments: the Film Enquiry Committee, Uttar Pradesh and the student cinema-goer
6 Museum as metaphor: the politics of an imagined Ahmedabad
PART III Nostalgia
7 The labour of self-making: youth service workers and postsocialist urban development in Kolkata
8 Nostalgia and the mediatic imagination in Tito's Yugoslavia
9 Past futures of old media: Gulammohammed Sheikh's Kaavad: Travelling Shrine: Home
10 Sonic ruptu Month: September 2021
Bollywood celebrates Deepavali