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India and Pakistan

Date released

Oct 1949

Series name

This Modern Age

Issue no

31

NoS ID

347231

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: A justification for the partitian of India through the various contrasts in culture and religion between India and Pakistan. Looks at the political developments in the two countries during the...

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River Called Titas, A (2002)

aka: Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 161 minutes), £19.99

Based on a Bengali novel by Advaita Malla Barman, A RIVER CALLED TITAS was filmed in Ghatak’s home of East Bengal after the independence of Bangladesh. Overwhelmed by the changes in his native land, Ghatak...

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Shakespeare Around the Globe: Poonam Trivedi (2012 Radio)

Series

Essay, The

Producer

Mohini Patel

Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In this first...

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When Hamlet Went to Mizoram (1990 Film)

Director

Pankaj Butalia

Documentary. Mizoram is a small state on the Northeastern border of India, where, J.F. Laldailova, an officer in the British army, introduced the people of Mizoram to Shakespeare, translating his works into...

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Ajanta Caves - The History and the Mystery (2010)

Subject

Archaeology; Art; History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $19.99

The Buddhist Caves of Ajanta, located in Maharashtra, India, were built between 200BC to 600AD almost 300 years after the death of The Buddha. Listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO, the caves and their...

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Heritage of India: Buddhism in Andhra Pradesh (5 Parts) (1994 Video)

Subject

Religious studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20, 24, 20, 18, 16 min.

Series using archaeological and historical source materials to present in a drama-documentary format a thematic exposition of social, economic, cultural and political aspects of Buddhism, focusing on the...

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Living Tradition, The (1992 Video)

Director

B Kaliasam

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Looks at the ancient Indian Vaastu tradition of art and architecture. Shri Ganapti Sthapati, whose family have been sculptors since the 11th century, explains the roles which monuments and buildings have...

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Muria (1982 Film)

Producer

Chris Curling; Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The Muria are a tribal group living in a relatively isolated area of central India. Their way of life differs from the general Indian pattern in many respects, particularly in the independence of spirit...

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Shakespeare Wallah (1965 Film)

Director

James Ivory

Producer

Ismail Merchant

Feature film. An English troupe of actors tour post-Raj India staging performances of Shakespeare to dwindling audiences as British dominance of, and interest in, British culture fades. The film is an ironic...

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Beyond Babel (2010)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), £15.00

A two-disc DVD set containing the four, long-unavailable, television programmes, originally broadcast in 1991, along with twenty nine new additional sequences which expand on some of the themes raised by the...

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