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Banga (other)
Banga may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Banga'' (album), a 2012 album by Patti Smith * A song by Ali Shaheed Muhammad from the 2004 album '' Shaheedullah and Stereotypes'' * The name of Pontius Pilate's dog in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ''The Master and Margarita'' * BANGA, a collective of Angolan architects Food * Banga (soup), a type of meat, fish and palm fruit soup from Southern Nigeria * ''Agastache rugosa'', a culinary herb known as banga in Korea Places * Banga, Aklan, a municipality in the Philippines * Banga, Angola, municipality in Angola * Banga, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso * Banga, Entebbe, Uganda * Banga, India, a town and nagar panchayat in India ** Banga Assembly Constituency * Banga, Pakistan, a town in Punjab, Pakistan * Banga, South Cotabato, a municipality in the Philippines * Vanga Kingdom (also known as the Banga Kingdom), an ancient name for the region of Bengal in India and Bangladesh People * Banga Sainis, a sub clan of Saini people * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banga (album)
''Banga'' is the eleventh and most recent studio album by American rock musician Patti Smith, released on June 1, 2012 on Columbia Records. Recorded throughout 2011 at New York's Electric Lady Studios and Hoboken's Hobo Recorders, ''Banga'' was produced by Smith, Tony Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty and collaborator Lenny Kaye. The album includes a number of guest musicians including Tom Verlaine of Television, Italian band Casa del Vento, Jack Petruzzelli and Smith's own children, Jackson and Jesse Paris. Inspired by Smith's "unique dreams and observations", the material on ''Banga'' focuses on "a wide range of human experience" and features songs about history, current affairs, death and nature. The album was announced alongside the release of its lead single, "April Fool", as a digital download on April 1, 2012. Recording ''Banga'' was recorded throughout 2011 at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Speaking of the recording process, Smith said: "there's a certain innocence record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banga Sainis
Saini () is a caste of North India who were traditionally landowners ( zamindars) and farmers. Sainis claim to be descendants of a king, Shurasena, as well as of Krishna and Porus, and to be related to the ancient Shoorsaini clan,'' "The Sainis believe that their ancestors were Yadavas and that it was the same lineage in which Krishna was born. In the 43rd generation of the Yadavas there was a king known as Shoor or Sur, the son of King Vidaratha....It was in the name of these, father and son, that the community was known as Shoorsaini or Sursaini."'' People of India: Haryana, p 430, Kumar Suresh Singh, Madan Lal Sharma, A. K. Bhatia, Anthropological Survey of India, Published by Published on behalf of Anthropological Survey of India by Manohar Publishers, 1994 noted in Puranic literature. The Saini community is given representation in government jobs and educational institutes as an Other Backward Class (OBC) in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunga (other)
Bunga may refer to * Bunga mas, a tribute that was sent every three years to the King of Siam from its vassal states in the Malay Peninsula * Bunga River, northeastern Nigeria * ''Bunga bangkai'', a common name in Indonesia for ''Amorphophallus titanum'', the so-called "carrion flower". ''Bunga'' simply means flower in Indonesian and Malay. * ''Bunga raya'', the Malay name for ''Hibiscus rosa-sinensis'', the national flower of Malaysia * Bunga, or Botija, a Caribbean musical instrument of the aerophone type * Bunga bunga, an erotic entertainment * Bunga, one of the main characters from ''The Lion Guard'', a spin-off of ''The Lion King''. * Bunga, Uttarakhand, a hill station in the state of Uttarakhand, India * Bunga, an ethnic slur used in New Zealand for a person of colour, especially a Pacific Islander Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (huma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paschimbanga (other)
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourth-most populous and thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the third-largest metropolis, and seventh largest city by population in India. West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, the coastal Sundarbans and the Bay of Bengal. The state's main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority. The area's early history featured a succession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
