respondent‚ Dharmodas Ghose‚ executed a mortgage in favour of Brahmo Dutt‚ a money-lender carrying on business at Calcutta and elsewhere‚ to secure the repayment of Rs. 20‚000 at 12 per cent interest on some houses belonging to the respondent. The amount actually advanced is in dispute. At that time the respondent was an infant; and he did not attain twenty-one until the month of September following. Throughout the transaction Brahmo Dutt was absent from Calcutta‚ and the whole business was carried through
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Our Casuarina Tree is a poem by Toru Dutt‚ an Indian poet.The poem gives an objective description of the tree and the charm associated with poet’s childhood. It begins with an account of the giant tree with a creeper wrapped around it like a huge python. It is the centre of busy life of birds and beasts. The tree is depicted as grand and charming. It has become dear to the poet because of the memories that surround it - memories of a time when happy children played under its shade. The thought brings
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influenced by a similar bombing by a martyr anarchist Auguste Vaillant in the French Assembly. Tha plan was to send Bhagat Singh off to Russia‚ while Batukeshwar Dutt should carry on the bombing with Sukhdev. Sukhdev then forced Bhagat Singh to call for another meeting and here it was decided‚ against the initial agreement‚ that Batukeshwar Dutt and Bhagat Singh would carry on the bombing. Bhagat Singh also disapproved that the two should be escorted after the bombing by the rest of the party. On 8th
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In the first half of the British rule‚ India observed the first staged version of Shakespeare’s plays. The performance of Shakespearean plays in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1770 and in Calcutta (now Kolkata) can be treated as the first few examples of performing Shakespeare in India by the professional English troupes. But these plays have very modest influence to amuse the Indian viewers by the magic of Shakespeare. In 1822‚ through the performance of some celebrated scenes from various plays of Shakespeare
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EXPRESSIONS. A ground breaking exhibition curated by Probir Gupta featuring various folk artists and contemporary photographers. Held at the Gurusday Museum from 27th March- 10th April. This museum was founded by the very well-known Shri Gurusday Dutt held this successful show of pictures and paintings that echoed departures from traditional folk Bengal art. This exhibition gives an extraordinary glimpse into the breadth of various contemporary art and photographs. Here one visualized the situations
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Our Casuarina Tree | | Toru Dutt (1856–77) | | | LIKE a huge Python‚ winding round and round | | The rugged trunk‚ indented deep with scars‚ | | Up to its very summit near the stars‚ | | A creeper climbs‚ in whose embraces bound | | No other tree could live. But gallantly | 5 | The giant wears the scarf‚ and flowers are hung | | In crimson clusters all the boughs among‚ | | Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the
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Top 10 Corruption Scams in India [pic] Project by- Sanya Makan [pic] You can fool some of the people all of the time‚ and all of the people some of the time‚ but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time - Abraham Lincoln. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
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Modern English poetry in India is one of the many new literatures which began to emerge at the end of the Second World War‚ after the end of colonialism. Unlike the Africa and Caribbean creative writings‚ modern Indian poetry in English did not have an obvious direct relationship with the cultural movements that had led to national independence. The emergence of modern English poetry was a part of modernization which included urbanization‚ industrialization‚ mobility‚ independence‚ social change
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soon offered a break as an actor by Prabhat Talkies to star in their Hum Ek Hain (1946). While shooting for the film in Pune‚ Dev struck a friendship with fellow actor Guru Dutt. Soon‚ they were swapping shirts‚ double dating and sharing dreams. They made a pact: if Dev produced a film‚ Guru Dutt would direct it; if Guru Dutt produced a film‚ Dev would act in it. Dev made the grade first. By a strange coincidence‚ Dev was offered his first big break by Ashok Kumar‚ his favourite star. Kumar spotted
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mind boggling variety of theme as well as that poetry is capable of offering.Toru Dutt‚Sarojini Naidu‚Kamala Das‚Imtiaz Dharkar –these poets have often raised their voices against social and cultural conventions that blocks their freedom.They believe that women need to explore their collective consciousness and shared experience in order to transcend the fragmentation and isolation of their lives. Toru Dutt was the first Indian women poet to write in English and her work depicts archetypes
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