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Details: Published: 29 October 2024; Last Updated: 29 October 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 126th book

Beyond Imagination: Mindscapes

Sci-Fi, Thrillers, and Murder Mysteries

A Collection of 22 Short Stories

Khawar Sohail Siddiqui

Spanning the realms of science fiction (biology, physics, and chemistry), the supernatural, parapsychology, and murder mysteries, with two stories set against a backdrop of sports, and the final tale as an action thriller. Each of the twenty-two short stories is a suspenseful thriller.

6 by 9 paperback, 210 pages

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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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Details: Published: 02 December 2024; Last Updated: 02 December 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 132nd book

Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1971 Part C

Kharag Singh
and
Professor Surjit Singh

In November 2022, I was surprised by an email from Kharag Singh from Ghatsila, Jharkhand informing me that he had captured thousands of pictures of Junior Artists and Background Dancers from hundreds of movies. He asked for my help in identifying them. I sent him books on these people published by me. He was very happy.

Naturally I asked him if he would help me with a similar project, he gladly agreed. I requested him to capture pictures of the cast from 1971-1980. Within days he stared sending me a large number of photos from movies. I realized that he is capturing so many photos that a book on 1971 alone will run to almost 500 pages! So we decided to split 1971 into many parts. This third and last one is for movies beginning with the letters N to Y.

When you peruse the book you will realize that he has become an expert on recognizing obscure and small faces; obviously he has studied the books I sent him on Junior Artists and Group Dancers very thoroughly. I am proud to say that he can recognize people better and faster than me.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 172 pages, BW interior, Color Cover.

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