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professor toofaanii publishers is proud to announce their 66th book:
Poems Written in a Flutter
by Hashmat Rahimtoola
Hashmat Rahimtoola was born in Santa Cruz, Mumbai in 1943 to Indurani, a film star in Bollywood in the 40s. She grew up with a love of nature, playing in the garden of Ishrat Bungalow with her five brothers and sisters and visiting the lakes and hill stations beyond the city. She wrote her first poem at thirteen. She was educated by nuns at St. Teresa’s Convent and went on to study English Literature at St. Xavier’s College. There, she stood first for both her BA Honors in English Literature and her minor in Islamic Culture in Bombay University. For her highest achievements in Islamic Culture she was offered a scholarship for further studies at Al Azhar in Cairo, which she declined. She taught sixth grade for one year at Sacred Heart Boy’s School. She also tutored English Literature at Narsi Monjee College for five years, where she worked with the students enrolled in the Cambridge Education enrollment partner program. Her essay on P.B. Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound,” received the College’s Book Award. In 1977, Hashmat and her husband Rafique moved to the United States where she raised a family, worked as a teacher’s assistant, and continued to write poetry.
The book is in English, 6 by 9 paperback, 69 pages, has Table of Contents. Poems are in English and in Urdu (Roman script).
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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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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 90th book
Films and Shows in Bombay - 1932
Ajit Sidhu
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Professor Surjit Singh
A persistent question about Hindi (or Indian) films is when and where was it released? We have to depend on hearsay, I saw it in Minerva first day, first show, or, reviewers would mention the release info, or the newspapers ads would say, coming soon on such and such a date etc. Until now no reliable source had been available.
This project attempts to answer this question once and for all, at least for films released in Bombay. This second book is for the year 1932.
It is based on the daily, later weekly newspaper Bombay Chronicle, available on the Internet Archive. The lead author has looked at each ad in each issue to extract the relevant information in a tabular form. Date, film name, theater name, show times and any other relevant information is captured.
This is, of course, a part of the Master Database Project, and we do hope to gather information from the advent of the Silent cinema to all the available years.
[Note: A similar project on Madras theaters was undertaken by MV Surender and a book has been published. Also another similar book on 1941 by N Ramaswamy has been published.]
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 146 pages.
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