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Anurag Thakur
Anurag (Devanagari: अनुराग) (pronounced "Anurāg"), sometimes shorted Anu, is a common Indian first name. There are various meanings of Anurag in Sanskrit such as attachment, devotion, passion and eternal love. Notable people named Anurag include: * Anurag Basu, Bollywood film director, actor and producer * Anurag Dikshit, billionaire Indian businessman, co-founder of PartyGaming * Anurag Kashyap (director), Hindi film screenwriter-director, including ''Black Friday'' and ''Dev D'' (2009) * Anurag Singh (director), film director from Punjab * Anurag Kumar, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Communication at Indian Institute of Science * Anurag Anand, author of books like ''The Legend of Amrapali'' (2012) and ''The Quest for Nothing'' (2010) * Anurag Mathur, writer, author of the 1991 novel ''The Inscrutable Americans'' See also * Anu (name) Anu is a given name and surname found independently in several cultures. The Indian name is a short form o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient Brahmi script, ''Brāhmī'' script, used in the northern Indian subcontinent. It was developed and in regular use by the 7th century CE. The Devanagari script, composed of 47 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 33 consonants, is the fourth most widely List of writing systems by adoption, adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages.Devanagari (Nagari) , Script Features and Description, SIL International (2013), United States The orthography of this script reflects the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies. Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda, a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anurag Basu
Anurag Basu (born 8 May 1974) is an Indian director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He began his directing career in television, moving to feature films in 2002. Basu achieved initial success with his films tackling the themes of passion and adultery such as '' Life in a... Metro'', ''Kites'', ''Gangster'' and '' Murder''. Later, he directed comedy-drama films such as the critically acclaimed and commercially successful ''Barfi!'' along with the commercially unsuccessful ''Jagga Jasoos''. His latest work is a black comedy Netflix film '' Ludo''. Early life Basu was born into an upper-middle-class Bengali family in Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh (now in Chhattisgarh). His parents, Subrato Bose and Deepshikha Bose (ex-executives in SAIL Bhilai Steel Plant in Cokeovens and Education department (Organic Chemistry) respectively), were award-winning theatrical artists and Basu grew up watching them performing in his father's theatre company (Abhiyaan). He attended BSP Senior Secondary Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anurag Dikshit
Anurag Dikshit (; born 1973) is an Indian businessman who, in connection with the online poker company PartyGaming, entered a guilty plea to one count of online gambling in violation of the Federal Wire Act and received a $300 million fine. He sold off the remainder of his stake in PartyGaming in January 2010, after selling 23% of his stake in the company's initial public offering, and a further two-thirds of the remainder, in October 2009. He completed schooling at De Nobili School, FRI. Following graduation, Dikshit worked as a software developer in the United States at CMC, as a systems analyst for Websci and later as a consultant for AT&T. PartyGaming At age 26, Dikshit was asked by PartyGaming founder American Ruth Parasol to write the company's betting software. In 2000, Dikshit hired a friend from his alma mater, Vikrant Bhargava, to begin working at PartyGaming with him and others. Party Poker was launched in August 2001. Since online gambling is illegal in the US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anurag Kashyap (director)
Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian filmmaker and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and letters) in 2013. After writing a television serial, Kashyap got his major break as a co-writer in Ram Gopal Varma's crime drama '' Satya'' (1998) and made his directorial debut with ''Paanch'', which never had a theatrical release due to censorship issues. He then went on to direct '' Black Friday'' (2004), a film based on the namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. Its release was held up for two years by the Central Board of Film Certification because of the pending verdict of the case at that time but was released in 2007 to widespread critical appreciation. Kashyap's follow-up, '' No Smoking'' (2007) met with negative reviews and perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anurag Singh (director)
Anurag Singh is an Indian film director. He is a Mumbai-based film director and writer known for '' Kesari'' which is the biggest blockbuster of 2019 in the Bollywood industry as well as for ''Punjab 1984'', ''Jatt and Juliet'' Series and ''Yaar Annmulle''. ''Jatt and Juliet'' series and ''Punjab 1984'' are the top 3 highest grossers of Punjabi Cinema. He has also directed a Bollywood film '' Raqeeb'' which didn't do well at the box office. Anurag has assisted many blockbusters of Bollywood cinema. In 2005, he was married to his childhood sweetheart Madhurjeet Sarghi, a theatre artist and an actress who also hails from Jalandhar. In 2016 Anurag and Sarghi were blessed with a baby boy named Shivaye Anurag Singh. Anurag has an elder brother named Armaan Singh who is a well known chief engineer in California, United States. Anurag gets to interact a lot with kids especially his nephews and nieces who live in Jalandhar. Anurag made his production debut by producing '' Super Singh'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anurag Kumar
Anurag Kumar (Born Gopalganj, Bihar) was the Director of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India from 2014–2020. He is a professor at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, and has served as the Chairperson of the Electrical Sciences Division at the Indian Institute of Science, before being appointed as the Director in 2014. Education and career Anurag Kumar obtained his BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1977, and was awarded the President of India's gold medal. He then obtained the PhD degree from Cornell University (1981), where he worked under the guidance of Prof. T.L. Fine. He was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, N.J., for over 6 years. During this period he worked on the performance analysis of computer systems, communication networks, and manufacturing systems. His current research areas of interest include communication networks, cyber physical systems, distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anurag Anand
Anurag Anand (born 2 November 1978) is an Indian artist, corporate professional, and author with several bestselling titles in the self-help, general fiction and historical fiction genres. His corporate experience pansBooks Club of India Interview across industries like , and . Edu ...
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Anurag Mathur
Anurag Mathur (अनुराग माथुर) is an Indian author and journalist mainly known for his 1991 novel ''The Inscrutable Americans''. He was educated at the Scindia School (Gwalior, India). He earned his bachelor's degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and his master's from the University of Tulsa. Bibliography *''The Inscrutable Americans ''The Inscrutable Americans'' is a 1991 novel by Anurag Mathur. Tri-Color Communications adapted the book The Inscrutable Americans (film), into a film in 2001. Plot Gopal Kumar, the son of a hair oil tycoon in Madhya Pradesh, arrives in Americ ...'' * ''Making the Minister Smile'' *''Are All Women Leg-Spinners asked the Stephanian'', later republished as ''The Department of Denials'' *''Scenes From an Executive Life'' *''22 Days in India'' *''A Life Lived Later - Poems'' *''Popat Lal Bhindi'' *''The country is going to the dogs'' (2014) References Living people University of Tulsa alumni Indian male novelist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anu (name)
Anu is a given name and surname found independently in several cultures. The Indian name is a short form of Anuradha, Anurag, Anubhooti, etc. The Finnish and Estonian name is derived from the Karelian variant of the name Anna, which became popular after Kersti Bergroth's play ''Anu ja Mikko'' of 1932. The Nigerian name which means 'Mercy', is a short form of Anuoluwa, Anuoluwapo, etc from the Western Yoruba tribe. Notable persons Given name Indian origin * Anu Aga (born 1942), Indian businesswoman and social worker * Anu Aggarwal (born 1969), former Indian model and actress * Anu Aiyengar, finance professional * Anu Choudhury (born 1979), Indian actress * Anu Elizabeth Jose, Indian Malayalam-language lyricist * Anu Garg (born 1967), American author and speaker * Anu Hasan (born 1968), Indian Tamil-language actress and TV anchor * Anu Lama, Nepalese women's footballer * Anu Malhotra (born 1961), Indian film-maker * Anu Malik (born 1960), Indian Hindi-language music dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
