SHEKHAR KAPUR'S DEVI - FREE SAMPLER

SHEKHAR KAPUR'S DEVI - FREE SAMPLER
Author: Shekhar Kapur
Publisher: Graphic India
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2014-01-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9810795440

Dive into the world of Devi with this free sampler comic! Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth, Four Feathers, Bandit Queen). Tara Mehta, an unsuspecting young woman in the futuristic Asian city, Sitapur is the Devi. She has no idea that she is about to become the centerpiece of a divine battle between the Gods of Light and the demon Lord Bala. Devi is a powerhouse of a story about a young woman battling for survival in a landscape of ancient legends, duty and fate. She walks the line between tradition, destiny and free will. Where will she fall? Between the Divine and the Diabolical there is Devi.

Devi

Devi
Author: Shekhar Kapur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781934413111

Tara Mehta felt trapped in her aimless life, always suspecting she was destined for greater things. But being the avatar of the celestial warrior Devi, an entire pantheon's champion destined to fight the renegade god Bala, was a bit out of her league. Nevertheless, the Goddess and the Human in her joined forces and prevailed over Bala. Now Tara's mind must maintain its sanity as the divine and the human coexist. Will she be able to live up to her promise of being not just a champion for the gods, but also the harbinger of hope for the entirety mankind? Ancient and primal apocalyptic forces awaken from their eon-old slumber and head straight for the city of Sitapur, with only Devi standing in their way. Writer Saurav Mohapatra (India Authentic) and artist Saumin Patel join forces for Devi's deadliest test, "Karmageddon."

Soft Computing for Problem Solving

Soft Computing for Problem Solving
Author: Kedar Nath Das
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 980
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 981150184X

This two-volume book presents the outcomes of the 8th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, SocProS 2018. This conference was a joint technical collaboration between the Soft Computing Research Society, Liverpool Hope University (UK), and Vellore Institute of Technology (India), and brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges in order to select potential future directions. The book highlights the latest advances and innovations in the interdisciplinary areas of soft computing, including original research papers on algorithms (artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and particle swarm optimization) and applications (control systems, data mining and clustering, finance, weather forecasting, game theory, business and forecasting applications). It offers a valuable resource for both young and experienced researchers dealing with complex and intricate real-world problems that are difficult to solve using traditional methods.

The Film Book

The Film Book
Author: Ronald Bergan
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780241484838

Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.

A Fragile Inheritance

A Fragile Inheritance
Author: Saloni Mathur
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1478003383

In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.

Bollywood Sounds

Bollywood Sounds
Author: Jayson Beaster-Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199993475

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.

A Short History of Film, Third Edition

A Short History of Film, Third Edition
Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0813595169

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.

'Photos of the Gods'

'Photos of the Gods'
Author: Christopher Pinney
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781861891846

Chris Pinney demonstrates how printed images were pivotal to India's struggle for national and religious independence. He also provides a history of printing in India.

Shammi Kapoor

Shammi Kapoor
Author: Rauf Ahmed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9789385609626

In his quest for a fresh, vibrant image for himself, Shammi had infused an exciting element of aggression into the hero's persona, stripping him of his contrived 'innocence' that characterised a typical Bollywood hero of the times.