College Street Boi Para: Photo Album
College Street is the largest book market in India as well as Asia and the largest second hand book market in the whole world. View photos of College Street boipara.
Footnotes for Article on Women Entering Workforce After Partition
Sabitri Chattopadhyay, “Amar Katha: Ki kore nayika holam” (“My Story: How I became a Heroine”) in Anandalok, Pujo Sankhya 1990. 238-69. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from Bengali are mine. Narayan Gangopadhyay, Bidisha in Narayan Gangopadhyay Rachanavali v. 9 (Narayan Gangopadhyay’s Works) (Calcutta: Mitra and Ghosh, 1985), 26. The novel was first published in 1952. […]
Teachers, Movie Stars, and Train Hawkers: Partition, Women, and Wage-Work
We were going through very difficult times. My father didn’t have an income. We had to rent out one room of the small two-room house where we were living, and use the rent-money towards domestic expenses. But it didn’t do much. … So, to help my father run the household, I cast aside all inhibitions and lined up at the gates of the film studio day after day.