Nameeta chandra biography of william hill
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One month before the 10th anniversary of South Asia’s largest and most renowned literary festival, Jaipur Literature Festival founder and co-director Namita Gokhale (with William Dalrymple) sat down with Jaya Bhattarcharji Rose to talk about her latest, and eighth novel Things to Leave Behind. It is a multi-generational story set between 1840-1912 in Nainital and Sat anförande, Kumaon, part of the Himalayas.
How did Things to Leave Behind come about?
A tangle of memories about a time I sensed and knew. I had accessed a rich treasure of kunskap through Mountain Echoes, the book of oral biographies I had compiled and transcribed. Then there was Clever Wives and Happy Idiots, folktales that had been recorded in the memoirs of Russian spy and adventurer, Ivan Minayev, which we at Yatra Books [a Delhi-based publishing house specialising in translations where Gokhale works as director] published
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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Introduction
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a principal figure in the 19th century, recognized for his assistance as a philosopher, educationist, social reformer, author, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He advocated for females' education and played a significant part in establishing girls' schools in Calcutta and other locations. Vidyasagar also worked towards improving the condition of widows in Hindu society by promoting widow remarriage and opposing child marriage.
His efforts led to the passing of the Widow Remarriage Act in 1856. He is remembered for making the Bengali language simpler and modern. He also simplified the Bengali alphabet and established schools to teach it. He promoted the Sanskrit language and introduced Western thought in Sanskrit College. In a 2004 poll, he was voted as the 'best Bengali ever'.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Biography
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born into a poor Brahm
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