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Hindi Films, all aspects

Details: Published: 08 February 2025; Last Updated: 08 February 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 139th book

Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery VI (O-R)

N Ramaswamy
Professor Surjit Singh

Until recently, the only way to access old newspapers and magazines was to visit their offices, go through many hurdles and answer dozens of questions to actually see the old collections. Mercifully, most had been converted to microfilm for the convenience of the researchers.

Thanks to the advent of the internet and the latest digital technology, quite a few newspapers and magazines have been digitized and are available without visiting the dusty old archives. However, most of the digital collections are available only after paying hefty fees.

There are some silver lines among the clouds. Many big companies like Google and Microsoft have undertaken a massive effort to digitize every available print material and put it on the internet for free. Many world libraries, associations, museums, special collections are doing the same. A huge repository of such items in the Internet Archive.

In the earlier books we presented photo galleries of filmi people from A-N. This book covers O to R.

We had a lot of fun working on them, to capture them and making them suitable for print, organizing them. We hope that you will also enjoy this peek into the early history of the talkies.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 176 pages

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First few pages here

Details: Published: 04 February 2025; Last Updated: 05 February 2025

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International Edition

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INDIA

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI is happy to announce their 138th book, the long awaited Part 2 in English

Beete Hue Din Part-2

Forgotten Memories of Hindi Cinema)

Interviews with Actors of the Golden Era of Hindi Cinema

Shishir Krishna Sharma

Huge amount of information is available about Hindi films on the internet. Unfortunately, not all of it is reliable. Mistakes range from honest clerical errors to outright made-up interviews with famous people. In this book the author describes his real interactions with Hindi film actresses who were active in the 40s to 60s. Most had been away from the industry for a long time and were living anonymously. The author made great effort to seek them out and interviewed them. He has obtained much rare and authentic information, clarifying many misconceptions and finding elaborations of other well-known facts about them. We hope that the readers will enjoy reading about them as much as the author has writing about the interviews.

Paperback, black and white, 134 pages, 6 by 9 size.

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First few pages may be read here

Details: Published: 26 January 2025; Last Updated: 26 January 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 137th book

Atiya Fyzee Rahamin: An intellectual and literary biography (in Urdu) by

Waseem Raza, PhD

Atiya Fyzee Rahamin (1877-1967) was a multi-talented lady from the Indian Subcontinent. She was born in Istanbul and raised in colonial Bombay was an extraordinary woman of her time.

She was one of the first elite Indian Muslim women to receive a modern education, appear in public unveiled and participate in women's organizations.

Noted for her intellectualism, she was a cultural icon - not least on account of her friendships with two of South Asia’s prominent Muslim intellectuals Maulana Shibli Numani and Allama Iqbal.

Her partnership with her husband, artist and writer Samuel Rahamin also earned the couple international acclaim in fields of music, dance, visual arts, theatre, and literature.

This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in travel narratives, gender studies, Urdu literature as well as modern history of India and Pakistan.