India produces more films than any other country but its popular cinema has remained peripheral to western cinema buffs. This book is the first to provide a historical and cultural survey of Indian cinema--popular, artistic and regional--and to introduce readers to its distinctive forms. Intended for general readers as well as students of Indian cinema, the book reviews nine decades of Indian cinema and examines its influence on people in India and Asians in the ...
This superb collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written in the last fifty years, both in English and in the regional languages. Some of these stories-'We Have Arrived in Amritsar' by Bhisham Sahni, 'Companions' by Raja Rao, 'The Sky and the Cat' by U.R. Anantha Murthy, 'A Devoted Son' by Anita Desai-have been widely anthologized and are well known. Others, like Premendra Mitra's 'The Discovery of Telenapota', Gangadhar Gadgil's 'The Dog that ...