Ashraf Aziz
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Ashraf Aziz
Ashraf Aziz received his schooling in East Africa. But his real schooling had started much earlier at home – in Hindustani film songs, which became a life-long passion. After attending the Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), he was awarded a scholarship to go to the United States in 1965, where he completed his Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974. In the same year he became an instructor in the anatomical sciences at Howard University, College of Medicine, Washington, D.C., where he is currently a professor. He continues to do research in the anatomical sciences as well as the popular culture of South Asia.
- Light of the UniverseINR 350
Starting with the premise that Hindustani cine-song and cine-music has been the main narrative, rather than a pleasant diversion, for the movie-loving public, the author has undertaken a journey in...
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Hewlett Johnson
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Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood; and st
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Victor Figueroa Clark
Dr Victor Figueroa Clark is scholar of Latin American history and politics specialising in Chile. He has written widely on Latin American events, is a former lecturer at the LSE, and a contributing
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Shad Naved
Shad Naved teaches in the Comparative Literature programme, School of Letters, Ambedkar University Delhi. He is currently working on a monograph, Against Vernacularity: Historical Eros in the Urdu
Parvathi Menon
Parvathi Menon trained as a historian, and recently retired as a journalist with The Hindu group.
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C.P. Chandrasekhar
C.P. Chandrasekhar is a professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published widely in academic journals, and is the co-author of seve