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*Smita Patil

DIRECTORS:

*Mrinal Sen
*Guru Dutt
*Satyajit Ray
*A. Gopalakrishnan

*S. Benegal
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FILMS:

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Ka
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HISTORY & AESTHETICS

*Hinduism and Bollywood
*New Indian Cinema
*Film Music
*Political Documentaries in India [PDF]
* Political Documentaries in India [PDF, abridged in German]
*Hindi Cinema -- A Short Research Guide

 

 

LITERATURE

Jnaneshvari
Ramayana
Vidyapati
Folktales & Folklore
Nissim Ezekiel
Bhisham Sahni (review)
T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions
Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August (review)

STORIES BY SATYAJIT RAY:
My Useless Uncle
Suspicions of Mr. Sadhan

ARCHITECTURE

Ajanta
Buddhist Architecture
Mahabalipuram
Kanchipuram
South Indian Architecture
Khajuraho
Orissan Architectur
Mughal Architecture
Fatehpur Sikri
Taj Mahal
Fort Architecture
Stepwells
Vashtushastra

CUISINE

Vegetarianism

DANCE

(coming soon....)

HISTORY AND POLITICS

   

 

GANDHI
Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Kasturba Gandhi
Pietermaritzburg
Dandi March
Quit India
Father of the Nation?
Hind Swaraj
"Hey Ram"
"Man of Action"?
Gambling on Gandhi
Gandhian Ecology
Gandhi, the Law Student
Gandhi & the Nobel Peace Prize
Gandhi: A Select Bibliography
Gandhi’s Not History
Gandhi’s Last Fast
Gandhi . . . & the Future of Dissent
The Tavistock Square Gandhi
Review of R. Fox, Gandhian Utopia

 

INDEPENDENT INDIA

Constitution of India
Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Bhopal
Azad
Sweets and Cricket
Indian History Bibliography
Partition of India
Death of an Empire (Ashis Nandy)
Partitioned Selves...
Partition of India-
Bibliography

Cultural Politics of the National Flag
Sonia Gandhi
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Abul Kalam Azad
Sardar Patel
Indians and the Guiness Book of Records
Anti-terrorist legislation

 

 

HINDU RASHTRA

Veer Savarkar: Ideologue of Hindutva
Nathuram Godse, the RSS, and the Murder of Gandhi

 

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Kashmir Earthquake, 2005
Muhammad Afzal and the Death Sentence
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India's Moment: Elections 2004
Mukhtaran Mai, the Conscience of Pakistan
India - US Relations in 2020

R E L I G I O N

   

 

PATHS

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TEXTS


Bhagvad Gita
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Jnaneshvari

 

 

 

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*At Home.....
*The Future.....
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