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professor toofaani publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 80th book
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery I (A-F)
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 this book we present a photo gallery of filmi people from A-F. Others from G to Z will follow soon.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, 128 pages
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professor toofaanii publishers is happy to announce their 44th book:
From Jhunjhunu to New York
Story of My Life, Part 1
Sheo Khetan
I am always asking people of my age or older to write their autobiographies. Ours have been a most interesting generation having witnessed unprecendented changes in the world. I will not bore you with a list, you already know. We have gone through so much and have had so many good and bad experiences that will be lost forever, if not written down. Of course, practice what you preach, I am writing my own autobiography!
In this book my very dear friend, Sheo Khetan Jhunjhunuwala traces the history of his ancestors starting from the Middle Ages to the modern day. Then he describes his life story from his birth, formative years in the Netarhat Gurukul in Jharkhand to his student days in the Indian Institute of Technology. Kanpur. On reading it, one gets a glimpse of the life of a typical North Indian growing up in the fifties and sixties.He has decorated it with hundreds of rare photos.
It is 6 by 9 in in Color, 177 pages.
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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 53rd book
Forgotten Artists of Early Cinema
and The Same Name Confusion
Book 2
by
Arunkumar Deshmukh
Tens of thousands of artists have contributed to Hindi cinema since 1931. Barring a few famous ones, other are long forgotten and are destined for obscurity. By sheer determination the author has obtained information on many such artists.
There are scores of others with similar names. Their biographies and filmographies are often mixed up even in well-known books and popular websites. By deep research the author has distinguished between a lot of such cases. This is his second book on these topics. Another new chapter about some unknown facts about Hindi cinema has also been added.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 173 pages. Rs 450 and $7.50 (International)
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