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Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and other Forgotten Lives (P.B)
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Devasis Chattopadhyay
| Language:
English
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Paperback
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Paper Missile
Author:
Devasis Chattopadhyay
Language:
English
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Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives is a fascinating collection of nine carefully curated chronicles related to the city in the 19th century. They are rare to find. Some of them were discovered inside dusty files in government archives, many were retrieved from the pages of old newspapers, and others were prised out of private family memoirs. They tell us relatively unknown narratives about Kolkata and the fascinating accounts surrounding them.
The protagonists are middle to junior civil or military officials and puisne judges, along with an opera impresario, an entertainer, a piano tuner, a mercenary, a hotelier, a writer, a publisher, a lawyer, and a real-life police detective-cumcrime writer. A few of them merely passed through the city, and many never left. However, most of them are unremembered, unsung. Through this book, we step back in time to look at this period of change and upheaval, when Kolkata’s syncretic identity was moulded in part by these European and American settlers when the things we take for granted today were yet to be invented or experienced. And yet, they made astonishing contributions. These are those forgotten stories
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Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives is a fascinating collection of nine carefully curated chronicles related to the city in the 19th century. They are rare to find. Some of them were discovered inside dusty files in government archives, many were retrieved from the pages of old newspapers, and others were prised out of private family memoirs. They tell us relatively unknown narratives about Kolkata and the fascinating accounts surrounding them.
The protagonists are middle to junior civil or military officials and puisne judges, along with an opera impresario, an entertainer, a piano tuner, a mercenary, a hotelier, a writer, a publisher, a lawyer, and a real-life police detective-cumcrime writer. A few of them merely passed through the city, and many never left. However, most of them are unremembered, unsung. Through this book, we step back in time to look at this period of change and upheaval, when Kolkata’s syncretic identity was moulded in part by these European and American settlers when the things we take for granted today were yet to be invented or experienced. And yet, they made astonishing contributions. These are those forgotten stories
About Author
By profession, Devasis is a corporate reputation advisor and a brand strategist. By passion, he is a columnist and a writer. Devasis completed his graduation in commerce from Calcutta University, followed by a post-graduate diploma in PR, as well as executive certificate courses from IIM (Calcutta) and Harvard Business School. Initially, he chose his career in advertising, but later on, he took up Public Relations as his calling. Since the early 1980s, he has been writing freelance nonfiction features during his spare time for various Indian newspapers and magazines. After nearly two decades of writing, his articles became few and far between due to varied domestic and overseas senior executive roles and assignments, Currently, Devasis divides his time between Kolkata and Mumbai. Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives is his second book and first non-fiction. He wrote his first novel, Without Prejudice, in 2017.
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