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                               Poets and Pancakes – Summary Poets and Pancakes, is taken from Asokamitran’s book ‘My Years with Boss’. Asokamitran worked in The Gemini Studios. His duty was to cut out newspaper clipping on a wide variety of subjects and preserve them in files. Summary ‘Pancakes’ was the brand name of a make-up material. The Gemini Studios bought a lot of it. Many well-known actresses must have used that material. It was used by make-up men to turn decent looking players into hideous looking monsters. In fact it was because most of the shooting of a film was done on the sets. The sets and the studios lights required that every pore of players’ faces was closed. A strict hierarchy was maintained in the make-up department to make the player look ugly. The chief make-up man made the hero and heroine ugly. His senior assistant made the second hero and heroine ugly and so forth. It was the o...

INDIGO SUMMARY   'Indigo’ Louis Fischer describes how Mahatma Gandhi took an interest in the poor peasants/farmer of Champaran in 1916 . The sharecroppers of Champaran were forced to grow indigo according to an old agreement . The cruel and cunning landlords extorted money from the poor and illiterate peasants. They made them sign a new agreement. They wanted more money for freeing their land. Gandhi’s long and heroic struggle ended with the victory of the civil disobedience. The English landlords were compelled/forced to return twenty-five percent of the money they had extorted/taken from the sharecroppers. 1. The idea of the departure of the British Gandhi Ji tells Louis when the idea of the departure of the British came in his mind. It was in 1917 . Gandhi Ji had gone to the December 1916 annual convention/meeting of the Indian national convention of the Indian national congress in Lucknow. A poor peasant came up to him. It was Rajkumar Shukla . He was from Champaran....