Fw: H-ASIA: Food and scarcity in South Asian literature and film

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Food and scarcity in South Asian literature and film

> H-ASIA
> November 4, 2011
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> Food and scarcity in South Asian literature and film
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> From: Priyanka Srivastava <s10.priyanka@gmail.com>
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> Hi,
>
> You might find Satyajit Ray's Ashoni Sanket (1973) that represents the
> Bengal famine of 1943 useful. The first two parts of Ray's Apu
> trilogy also depict rural impoverishment and scarcity in colonial
> Bengal.
>
> Priyanka Srivastava
> University of Cincinnati
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> 2.)
> From: Deb Ranjan Sinha <debsinha@gmail.com>
>
>
> Two films come to mind immediately:
>
> Satyajit Ray's Ashani Sanket (1973)
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069737/
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> and
>
> Mrinal Sen's Akaler Sandhane (1981)
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080341/
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>
> Deb Ranjan Sinha.
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> Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
> Kyoto, Japan
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