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The present volume is a collection of papers presented in an international seminar organised by INTACH. The aims of the publication are: 1) spreading awareness of the existence and dangers of loss of endangered languages, 2) ascertaining the place of minority and regional languages in education and society, and 3) recommending viable solutions on a future course with emphasis on education.
In the Top of the Raintree, Kamalini Sengupta deftly explores Calcutta in its heyday. Intricate personal, social, political and religious ironies are reflected through the surreal, the mundane and the real. The Rajmahal, a magnificent turn-of-the-century Calcutta Mansion on Chowringhee, is imbued with a life of its own, its spaces inhabited by pigeons, ghosts and a diversity of tenants. Surjeet Shona, a complex hybrid, gets involved with the tenants, and their ...