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professor toofaanii publishers is honored to announce their 70th book
Hindi Film Geet Kosh Saga of Compiler's Odyssey in HINDI
by Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'
(Edited by Prof Surjit Singh)
The Compilers' story of 50 years of hard work, in his own words, in HINDI. This is how it started,
"The story is old but not more than 10 years as my age is less than 28 years. Readers can consider this as an interesting story as well.... During 1969-70 as a new regular listener of the programmes of Radio Ceylon, I used to participate in it as well. At that time, along with other programmes, I had a special interest in a programme named ‘Vaakya Geetanjali’. The announcer would announce a meaningful sentence of 7-8 words and wanted the listeners to provide the songs starting from each word of that sentence. Instead of worrying about my name to be announced amongst the listeners who sent correct solution of this puzzle, my interest was more on whatever songs I had quoted were found correct or not. Thus, one can say that indirectly, the thought of a ‘Geet Kosh’ generated from this practice. I used to compile songs in alphabetical order. Volume of compilation thus started increasing slowly day by day. Whenever I used to come across a difficult word in the ‘Vaakya Geetanjali’ programme for which I couldn’t make out a song, I used to get restless. Then I thought as to why not a systematic compilation of Film/Non Film songs produced till date be made. As soon as this thought struck to me, I started focusing more on the compilation of songs. When this idea of compiling the songs related information struck to me, I didn’t think it to be difficult. The compilation work had thus started."
Paperback (HINDI), 6 by 9, 68 pages.
First few pages may be read here
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professor toofaani publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 74rd book
ANIMAL FAIRY TALES FOR ALL AGES
Khawar Sohail Siddiqui,
Aimee Siddiqui
From the Author:
This is my third book containing animal fairy tales for all ages. All stories are co-written with my daughter, Aiman Siddiqui. These tales have poems and a great deal of drama and humor, something along the lines of an animated thriller. People of all ages, especially children, will be amused reading them.
The book is fully illustrated with colored images including pencil drawings and rock paintings by us. Given the current trend, there are numerous AI-generated artwork in the book. These images were created with the help of CHAT GPT 4.0 and DALL•E3.
We hope readers of all ages will love reading our book as much as we enjoyed writing it.
Premium and Standard color, fully illustrated, Hardback, 161 pages, 6 by 9 in.
First 10 pages may read here
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professor toofaani publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 73rd book
Early Hindi Film Advertisements III (1944-48)
N Ramaswamy
Professor Surjit Singh
Until recently, the only way to access old newspapers and magazines was to visit their offices, go through many hurdles and answer dozens of questions to actually see the old collections. Mercifully, most had been converted to microfilm for the convenience of the researchers.
Thanks to the advent of the internet and the latest digital technology, quite a few newspapers and magazines have been digitized and are available without visiting the dusty old archives. However, most of the digital collections are available only after paying hefty fees.
There are some silver lines among the clouds. Many big companies like Google and Microsoft have undertaken a massive effort to digitize every available print material and put it on the internet for free. Many world libraries, associations, museums, special collections are doing the same. A huge repository of such items in the Internet Archive.
In this book, we present more than 870 images of early talkies ads. We had a lot of fun working on them, to capture them and making them suitable for print, organizing them. We hope that you will also enjoy this peek into the early history of the talkies.
This book, third in the series, covers 1944-48.
Size by 9, pages 285, black and white
First few pages may be read here, as usual
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