The end of colleges' golden age?

In Satyajit Ray's 1956 film Aparajita, set in the 1920s, 10-year-old Apu watches his father, Harihar Roy, struggle to earn a living reciting Sanskrit slokas on the banks of the holy Ganges at Varanasi. When Harihar gives up this struggle and dies, Apu and his mother, Sarbajaya, are left to fend for themselves. She takes little Apu and goes to their village, Nischindipur in Bengal, to apprentice him to his old uncle...

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