professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 100th book

Autobiography of a Moderately Unknown Indo-American PART I

by

Prof Surjit Singh

From the Preface:

Born during the partition, grew up in Jamalpura, Maler Kotla (primary school), Ludhiana (high school and college), Chandigarh (Masters degree), Pittsburgh (Doctoral degree), Shillong (Lecturer), Bombay (Visiting Scientist), Waterloo, Canada and Lubbock Texas (Visiting Research Associate Professor), San Diego, California (Senior Scientist), Lansing and East Lansing, Michigan (retired), I hereby declare myself to be a “Moderately Unknown Indian-American”.

Listening to songs in 1949 and 50s and 60s, watching movies since 1952, collecting music since 1969, writing about Hindi films since 1996, publishing books since 2015, I hereby declare myself to be a “Die-hard Movie fanatic, Period”.

This is a partial record of my life, regular and musical, I have too much to remember and put down. This is the first in a series, mainly based on my website and my Facebook posts. I had a lot of fun writing it. I hope you like it too!

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 102nd book

Early Radio Artists: A Pictorial: Part I

by

Aftab Datta

The Indian Listener was started in December 1935, which became Akashvani in January, 1958 in India. Besides the program, the magazine had essays on music, biographies and photos of artists, reports about musical conferences etc.

Until recently the only way to read the old issues was to visit the archives. Luckily, a lot of old issues were scanned and put on the internet. I downloaded a lot of the issues and was happy to read the articles and see old photos.

My joy knew no bounds when Vinay Pande mentioned that Aftab had painstakingly captured hundreds of photos from those issues. I immediately got in touch with him and suggested that a book should be published on this material. Very generously he sent me all the photos.

In this first part, we present about 700 images with names from A to L. Part 2 will have the rest.

Paperback 6 by 9, Black and White, 191 pages, Royalty-free, sold at printing cost.

Now You Know!

First few pages may be read here

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is proud to announce their 121st book

Film Song Compilations Part II

by Girdharilal Vishwakarma

The author, a well-known collector from Jodhpur, has one of the largest collections of 78rpm gramophone records. After lot of research and hard work of 15 years he made compilations of 80 artists [music directors, singers and lyricists of Hindi Films]. These lists have 22,000 songs with full details based on authentic information.

This is Part II.

Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 226 pages.

Now You Know!

As usual, first few pages may be read here