"producer Richard B. Goodwin; ""E.M. Forster: A Profile of an Author"", covering some of the main themes of the original book; ""An Epic Takes Shape"", in which cast and crew members discuss the evolution of the film; ""An Indian Affair"", detailing the primary production period; ""Only Connect: A Vision of India"", detailing the final days of shooting at Shepperton Studios and the post-production period; ""Casting a Classic"", in which casting director Priscilla John discusses the challenges of bringing characters from the book to life; and ""David Lean: Shooting with the Master"", a profile of the director. On 15 April 2008,"
"friendship, confusing Forster with constant avowals of his love. LGBT E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists."
"E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists. He was the only child of Alice Clara ""Lily"" (née"
"""The humanist has four leading characteristics – curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."" Forster's two best-known works, ""A Passage to India"" and ""Howards End"", explore the irreconcilability of class differences. ""A Room with a View"" also shows how questions of propriety and class can make human connection difficult. The novel is his most widely read and accessible work, remaining popular long after its original publication. His posthumous novel ""Maurice"" explores the possibility of class reconciliation as one facet of a homosexual relationship. Sexuality is another key theme in Forster's works. Some critics"
"libretto ""Howards End, America"" was created in 2016 by Claudia Stevens. Forster achieved his greatest success with ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The novel takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj. Forster connects personal relationships with the politics of colonialism through the story of the Englishwoman Adela Quested, the Indian Dr. Aziz, and the question of what did or did not happen between them in the Marabar Caves. Forster makes special mention of the author Ahmed Ali and his ""Twilight in Delhi"" in"
"in the overt political content, as opposed to the lighter tone and more subdued political subtext in works such as ""Howards End"" and ""A Room With a View"". ""A Passage to India"" deals with the delicate balance between the English and the Indians during the British Raj. The question of what actually happened in the caves remains unanswered in the novel. ""A Passage to India"" sold well and was widely praised in literary circles. It is generally regarded as Forster's best novel, quickly becoming a classic of English literature. Over many years several film directors were interested in adapting the"
"Forster's death. It is considered one of his minor works, in comparison with his novels ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). James Ivory was interested in making a screen adaptation after the critical and box office success he achieved with another of Forster's novels, ""A Room with a View"". While involved in this earlier project Ivory had read all of Forster's books, and eventually came to ""Maurice"". ""I thought,"" Ivory said, ""that it was interesting material and would be enjoyable to make – and also something we could make in that it wouldn't require too much organization"
"(1866–1946). Though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian elements"". E. M. Forster's ""A Passage to India"" (1924), reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier works such as ""A Room with a View"" (1908) and ""Howards End"" (1910), examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling ((1865–1936), a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). A significant English writer in the"
"From a View to a Death From a View to a Death is the third novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. It combines comedy of manners with Powell’s usual interest in the subtleties of British 20th-century society in a bitterly funny narrative. Here, Powell begins to write in the mode that he would perfect in A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1933, the novel is set largely in and around Passenger Court, the country seat of the Passenger family. In its depiction of village pageants, churchgoing, village idiots and eccentrics, and, above all, the hunt, From"
"British Library. Non-fiction books and essays Novels and short stories Donald Hinds Donald Hinds (born in 1934) is a Jamaican-born writer, journalist, historian and teacher. He is best known for his work on the ""West Indian Gazette"" and his fiction and non-fiction books portraying the West Indian community in Britain, particularly his 1966 work ""Journey to an Illusion"", which has been called a groundbreaking book that ""captured the plight of Commonwealth immigrants and foresaw the multicultural London of today"". Hinds was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1934 and grew up in a village in the parish of St. Thomas with"
"Donald Hinds Donald Hinds (born in 1934) is a Jamaican-born writer, journalist, historian and teacher. He is best known for his work on the ""West Indian Gazette"" and his fiction and non-fiction books portraying the West Indian community in Britain, particularly his 1966 work ""Journey to an Illusion"", which has been called a groundbreaking book that ""captured the plight of Commonwealth immigrants and foresaw the multicultural London of today"". Hinds was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1934 and grew up in a village in the parish of St. Thomas with his grandparents, his mother and stepfather having migrated to Britain."
"Richard B Goodwin Richard B Goodwin (born 13 September 1934, Bombay, India) is a British film producer. In a career spanning 40 years, Richard Goodwin has been involved in a number of well-known British films. As a film producer, he received an Academy Award nomination for A Passage to India (1984), as well as BAFTA nominations. His filmography includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The Mirror Crack'd, Evil under the Sun, A Passage to India, Little Dorrit, and Seven Years in Tibet. Born in Bombay, in 1934, Richard"
"1982, including Best Picture, its writer Colin Welland declared ""the British are coming!"". When ""Gandhi"" (1982), another Goldcrest film, picked up a Best Picture Oscar, it looked as if he was right. It prompted a cycle of period films – some with a large budget for a British film, such as David Lean's final film ""A Passage to India"" (1984), alongside the lower-budget Merchant Ivory adaptations of the works of E. M. Forster, such as ""A Room with a View"" (1986). But further attempts to make 'big' productions for the US market ended in failure, with Goldcrest losing its independence"
"Asian looks at Africa"" (1965) and ""Behind the Bamboo Curtain"". Other books listed here include ""Introduction to India"" (1945. co-authored with H L Stimson), ""Report on Mao's China"" (1953); ""Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography"" (1956); ""Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas"" (1957); ""Yonder One World: A Study of Asia and the West"" (1957); ""India Today"" (1960); ""Nehru, Sunlight and Shadow"" (1964); ""John Kenneth Galbraith Introduces India"" (1974, co-edited); and his political autobiography, ""Witness to an Era: India 1920 to the Present Day"" (1973). In obituaries to his son, the poet and writer Dom Moraes, Frank Moraes was called an ""author ... sometime editor of"
"elements"". H. G. Wells was a prolific author who is now best known for his science fiction novels, most notably ""The War of the Worlds"", ""The Time Machine"", ""The Invisible Man"" and ""The Island of Doctor Moreau"" all written in the 1890s. Other novels include ""Kipps"" (1905) and ""Mr Polly"" (1910). Forster's most famous work, ""A Passage to India"" 1924, reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier novels, such as ""A Room with a View"" (1908) and ""Howards End"" (1910), examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. Another major work of science fiction, from the early 20th"
"the most notable critiques comes from literary professor Edward Said, who referenced ""A Passage to India"" in both ""Culture and Imperialism"" and ""Orientalism"". In his discussion about allusions to the British empire in early 20th century novels, Said suggests that though the work did subvert typical views of colonization and colonial rule in India, it also fell short of outright condemning either nationalist movements in India or imperialism. Of Forster's attitude toward colonizer-colonized relationships, Said says Forster:"". . . found a way to use the mechanism of the novel to elaborate on the already existing structure of attitude and reference"
"act of protest. The ""Analytical Review"" recorded It is probable that Smith also earned money as a copyist of other artists: William Brummell, father of Beau Brummell, owned a copy of a Joshua Reynolds work that Reynolds himself could barely distinguish from the original. Smith returned to India, working there from 1800 to 1811. In 1802, he published ""A Trip to Bengal"", another two-act musical work, dedicating it to Macpherson in appreciation of his past hospitality. Described as an opera, this also was performed at Covent Garden and it included as its centrepiece a traditional melancholy Urdu song, ""Dil ne"
"To the Ends of the Earth To the Ends of the Earth is the name given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novels—""Rites of Passage"" (1980), ""Close Quarters"" (1987), and ""Fire Down Below"" (1989)—by British author William Golding. Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class (assumed status) and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's passengers and crew. The first of the books, ""Rites of Passage,"" was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 1980. The trilogy as a"
"instructor in the English faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, in 1971, also working as a freelance writer. She adapted the novel ""A Passage to India"", with author E. M. Forster’s approval, for the theater. The play of the same name was produced for the Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, United Kingdom, moved to the West End in London, United Kingdom, in 1960 for 261 performances, and then on to Broadway in New York City where it was staged 109 times. It was adapted by John Maynard and directed by Waris Hussein for BBC television's ""Play of the Month"" in"
"by Goodwin, was published by Collins. Later, Goodwin went on to shoot and produce a collection of films, titled ""Barging Through Europe"", on his travels, on another boat, the Regina, depicting the vanishing trades of France. Richard B Goodwin Richard B Goodwin (born 13 September 1934, Bombay, India) is a British film producer. In a career spanning 40 years, Richard Goodwin has been involved in a number of well-known British films. As a film producer, he received an Academy Award nomination for A Passage to India (1984), as well as BAFTA nominations. His filmography includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Tales"
"have been under the impression that the trip was a professional one, and that she made her non-consent known. Singh published over 14 books. In the last of these, ""A Way into India"" (2002), published posthumously, the Ambassador car in which he travelled in all his journeys across Indian since 1957 becomes a camera obscura. Singh uses its doors and windshield to frame and divide his photographs. In the accompanying text, John Baldessari compares Singh to Orson Welles for his juxtaposition of near and far and to Mondrian for his fragmentation of space. In 1998 the Art Institute of Chicago"
"attracted scornful reviews, George Dallas at least made his name with an exotic adaptation. This was ""The India Guide, or Journal of a Voyage to the East Indies in the Year 1780: In a Poetical Epistle to Her Mother by Emily Brittle"" (Calcutta 1785), which he dedicated to Anstey. Several more authors rushed in where Anstey had feared to tread and adapted his style, and even his characters, to political themes. They include Ralph Broome's ""The Letters of Simkin the Second, poetic recorder of all the proceedings upon the trial of Warren Hastings"" (London 1789); ""The New Parliamentary Register in"
"for certain television productions, mostly based on war-related themes. He graduated to the role of production manager by the early 1950s, and finally became a producer in his own right in 1958, with ""Harry Black"" a romantic story set in India, with war as the distant context. This was followed by ""Sink the Bismarck!"" in 1960. War, Empire and India were recurrent themes in his work, and ""A Passage to India"" (1984) is among his most acclaimed works. His filmography also includes ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""Death on the Nile"" (1978), and ""Little Dorrit"" (1988). In 1970, he"
"a similar theme. The novel was also influenced by E. M. Forster's ""A Passage to India"" (1924) which dealt with the English in India and the cultural factors that separate them from the country's natives. ""Heat and Dust"" also borrows from Forster's own life in the construction of two characters: the Nawab and his English close friend Harry. They were inspired by Forster and his younger friend J. R. Ackerley. Both men were homosexuals and wrote reminiscences about their time living in India. In ""Hindoo Holiday"" (1932) J. R. Ackerley leaves an account of his experience as secretary to an"
"Forster's ""A Passage to India"" published three years earlier. His other Indian novels include ""A Farewell to India"" (1931) and ""A Letter from India"" (1932). The scholar Harish Trivedi has noted that ""[Thompson] deserves to be revived as the fourth of the top quartet of Raj novelists, next in interest only to Kipling, Forster and Paul Scott"". ""These Men, Thy Friends"" (1927) is a fictionalized novel of events in Mesopotamia in 1916-1918, which is presumably based on his own experiences. ""The Other Side of the Medal"" (1925), which examines the Revolt of 1857 from an Indian perspective, ""The Reconstruction of"
"Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was a Kashmiri-American poet. His collections include ""A Walk Through the Yellow Pages"", ""The Half-Inch Himalayas"", ""A Nostalgist's Map of America"", ""The Country Without a Post Office"", ""Rooms Are Never Finished,"" the latter a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001. The University of Utah Press awards the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize annually ""in memory of a celebrated poet and beloved teacher"". Agha Shahid Ali was born in the illustrious and highly educated Agha family of Srinagar, Kashmir. He was raised in Kashmir but left"
"Marc Awodey Marc Awodey (November 4, 1960—October 13, 2012) was an American contemporary artist and poet. His poetry collections include ""Telegrams from the Psych Ward"" (1999), ""New York City; ""Head to Head"" Haiku (Paperback) The Minimal Press (2001); A Haibun Journey"" (2003). and ""Senryu and Nudes"" (2008) from Kasini House Books. He also authored the collection of essays ""Art and Machine: 95 theses"" (2004) discussing his poetry vending machine project of the late 1990s. Awodey's paintings can be found in the Vermont State House collection and in many private collections throughout the United States. A prominent solo exhibition of his"
"social observations and murderous wit"". Voyage to the End of the Room Voyage to the End of the Room is a 2003 novel by British author Tibor Fischer, about a wealthy woman who never leaves her apartment. The central character Oceane is a former dancer who worked in Barcelona's sex industry, before making her fortune in software, and is now rich enough that she need never leave her flat. Inside, she acts out foreign expeditions within her apartment walls in the manner of the hero of J.-K. Huysmans' ""A Rebours"". However, when she receives a letter from a dead lover,"
"observed that ""As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed."" Pico Iyer Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ""Video Night in Kathmandu"", ""The Lady and the Monk"" and ""The Global Soul"". An essayist for ""Time"" since 1986, he also publishes regularly in ""Harper's"", ""The New York Review of Books"", ""The New York Times"", and other publications. Iyer was born Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer in Oxford, England,"
"""Stories of Partition of India"" (1994). It was adapted into a Hindi stage play by theatre director, Vinod Kumar in 2011. The Train Has Reached Amritsar The Train Has Reached Amritsar (Hindi original: ""Amritsar Aa Gaya Hai"") is a short story by Hindi author and playwright, Bhisham Sahni set during the Partition of India. In the story a group of refugees are travelling from what has now become Pakistan towards Amritsar, the first border town in India, and the horrors and destruction they witness on the journey. Sahni also wrote his epic novel ""Tamas"" (Darkness, 1974) around partition, which was"
"M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India. According to Adwaita P. Ganguly, the institution known as ""Chandrapore College"" in the novel is ""a replica of Patna College"". Forster met Charles Russell and V. H. Jackson, who were professors of the college, in the course of writing his novel, A Passage to India. Forster had collected Hiuen Tsang's ""Indian Diary"" from Russell before he made his visit to ""Barabar Caves"" that appear as an important location in the novel. A hostel in the campus of the college is named after Jackson. The legendary filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, used the picturesque campus of"
"Voyage to the End of the Room Voyage to the End of the Room is a 2003 novel by British author Tibor Fischer, about a wealthy woman who never leaves her apartment. The central character Oceane is a former dancer who worked in Barcelona's sex industry, before making her fortune in software, and is now rich enough that she need never leave her flat. Inside, she acts out foreign expeditions within her apartment walls in the manner of the hero of J.-K. Huysmans' ""A Rebours"". However, when she receives a letter from a dead lover, memories of her past are"
"Pico Iyer Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ""Video Night in Kathmandu"", ""The Lady and the Monk"" and ""The Global Soul"". An essayist for ""Time"" since 1986, he also publishes regularly in ""Harper's"", ""The New York Review of Books"", ""The New York Times"", and other publications. Iyer was born Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer in Oxford, England, the son of Indian parents. His father was Raghavan N. Iyer, an Oxford philosopher"