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Culrav
Culrav is the annual cultural festival of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. Initiated in 1986, Culrav is a college-based festival in Northern India. It includes competitions, pro-nites and informal events by which Culrav attracts visitors from colleges all over the country. The festival draws students from colleges such as IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT-BHU, NIT Bhopal, Allahabad University, BHU, IIIT-A, HBTI, IET Lucknow. Previous performers in Culrav include Farhan Akhtar, Suraj Jagan, Shruti Pathak, Shirley Setia, Euphoria, Ahsaan Qureshi, Zaeden and DJ MARNIK Marnik is an Italian progressive house duo formed by Alessandro Martello and Emanuele Longo. History On 17 March 2017, Marnik scored their first hit with "Children of a Miracle", a collaborative effort with Don Diablo and Galantis singer Reece .... Previous guest speakers include Munawwar Rana, Ashok Chakradhar, Ronnie Screwvala and Piyush Mishra. The 2019 Culrav took place f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Culrav is the annual cultural festival of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. Initiated in 1986, Culrav is a college-based festival in Northern India. It includes competitions, pro-nites and informal events by which Culrav attracts visitors from colleges all over the country. The festival draws students from colleges such as IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT-BHU, NIT Bhopal, Allahabad University, BHU, IIIT-A, HBTI, IET Lucknow. Previous performers in Culrav include Farhan Akhtar, Suraj Jagan, Shruti Pathak, Shirley Setia, Euphoria, Ahsaan Qureshi, Zaeden and DJ MARNIK Marnik is an Italian progressive house duo formed by Alessandro Martello and Emanuele Longo. History On 17 March 2017, Marnik scored their first hit with "Children of a Miracle", a collaborative effort with Don Diablo and Galantis singer Reece .... Previous guest speakers include Munawwar Rana, Ashok Chakradhar, Ronnie Screwvala and Piyush Mishra. The 2019 Culrav took place f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suraj Jagan
Suraj Jagan (born 11 May 1967) is an Indian playback singer. He is noted for the song ''Give Me Some Sunshine'' from the award-winning movie 3 Idiots. The song received the "Best Emerging Male Performer" award in the Max Stardust Award. Jagan's singing career began in 1990, and has included both solo work and as front man for the rock band Dream Out Loud. He has also worked in advertising jingle campaigns, Bollywood playback singing, acting in theatre productions and an acting role in the Bollywood film ''Rock On!!'' & "Hunterrr". Television and film work Suraj Jagan began his career working in ad jingles, including the jingle ''You and I in this beautiful world'' for the award-winning " Hutch TVC" ad, before making his Bollywood debut with the song ''Hum Naujawan Hai'' from the movie ''Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi'' in 1997. The song was given to him by fellow rock vocalist Vishal Dadlani, who was one of the music directors of the film. From 2007 onwards his Bollywood playback son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shruti Pathak
Shruti Pathak is a Filmfare Award-nominated Indian playback singer and lyricist working in Hindi film industry. Early life She is a Gujarati, and was born and brought up in Ahmedabad, she moved to Mumbai to pursue singing as a career after finishing her master's degree in Psychology. Career Pathak began her singing career after singing for various remix albums. Her "Leke Pehla Pehla Pyaar" for the Baby Doll series in 2004. With her song "Mar Jawa" from ''Fashion'' (2008) Pathak became popular. She earned nominations in both Filmfare and Screen Awards for the song. She is also the lyricist along with being singer of the song "Payaliya" from ''Dev.D'' (2009). In 2013 she wrote one more song "Shubhaaramabh" for Amit Trivedi in Kai Po Che. She has also done many stage shows. She has performed at the Culrav 2012 Cultural fest of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, the Flare (Techno-Cultural Fest) of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, the Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology, Allahabad
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (MNNIT or NIT Allahabad), formerly Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College (MNREC), is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technology, located in Allahabad (Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh, India. The college has the distinction of being the first in the country to start an undergraduate programme in Computer Science & Engineering, in 1976–77. History Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College was established in 1961. MNREC was started with one branch of engineering – Electrical. The foundation stone was laid by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, and the institute was named after his father, lawyer, and freedom fighter, Motilal Nehru. The founding principal of the college was Gopal Kishore Agrawal. It has great historical importance. The main building of the college was inaugurated by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on 18 April 1965. Effective from 26 June 2002, the college became a deemed univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piyush Mishra
Piyush Mishra (born as Priyakant Sharma; 13 January 1963) is an Indian actor, lyricist, playwright, musician and screenwriter. Mishra grew up in Gwalior, and graduated from National School of Drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter, he started his career in Hindi theatre in Delhi. Over the next decade, he established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist and singer. He moved to Mumbai in 2002, receiving acclaim for his acting in ''Maqbool'' (2003) and ''Gangs of Wasseypur'' (2012). As a film lyricist and singer, he is noted for his songs ''Arre Ruk Ja Re Bandeh'' in '' Black Friday'', (2004), ''Aarambh Hai Prachand'' in ''Gulaal'' (2009), ''Ik Bagal'' in '' Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1'', (2012), and ''Husna'' in '' MTV Coke Studio'', (2012). Early life and background Mishra was born on 13 January 1963 in a Brahmin family in Gwalior to Pratap Kumar Sharma. He grew up as Priyakant Sharma and was adopted by his father's eldest sister Taradevi Mishra, who had no children. Later, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Screwvala
Rohinton Soli "Ronnie" Screwvala (born 8 September 1956) is an Indian entrepreneur. He has been named on Esquire's List of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century and ranked 78 among the 100 most influential people in the world on the Time 100 (compiled by Time Magazine, 2009). He was also listed amongst 25 Asia's Most Powerful people by Fortune Magazine. Based in Mumbai, India, Ronnie pioneered cable television, built a Media and Entertainment conglomerate (UTV Software Communications) that partnered with News Corp, 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company and Bloomberg and later in 2012, he divested the company to Disney for an enterprise value of US$1.4 billion. From 2013 onwards, he and his wife scaled their Non-Profit ''The Swades Foundation'' whose goal is to work with a million people in rural India, empower them and move them out of poverty every 6–7 years and then move to another geography. He has co-founded ''UpGrad'' which is into Online Education i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashok Chakradhar
Born on February 8, 1951 in Ahirpada Mohalla of Khurja (Uttar Pradesh)Ashok Chakradhar is an Indian author, poet and former head of the department of Hindi at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University). After serving for 29 years, he took voluntary retirement to focus on working towards the propagation and development of the Hindi language. In 2007 he became the Hindi coordinator at the Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) at the University of Delhi and in 2009 was appointed as the vice-chairman of Hindi Academy, Government of Delhi and as the vice-chairman of the Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal, Ministry of HRD, Government of India. He is the son-in-law of Kaka Hathrasi Career Chakradhar is a retired professor of the Hindi Department at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. He has been actively associated with radio and television and has scripted a number of dramas, satires and poems for children. He has appeared in some television soaps, like "Chhoti Si Asha" with Sandh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munawwar Rana
Munawwar Rana (born 26 November 1952) is an Indian Urdu poet. Early life Munawwar Rana was born in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1952, but spent most of his life in Kolkata, West Bengal. Poetic style He uses Hindi and Awadhi words and avoids Persian and Arabic. This makes his poetry accessible to Indian audiences and explains his popularity in the poetic meets held in non-Urdu areas. ''Ghazals'' Munawwar has published several ''ghazals''. He has a distinct style of writing. Most of his ''shers'' (couplets) have Mother as the centre point of his love. His Urdu ghazals have been translated into English by Tapan Kumar Pradhan. :- Awards * Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu Literature (2014). He returned the award about one year later. He vowed to never again accept a government award due to rising intolerance in the country leading to state sponsored communalism. * In 2012 he was awarded Maati Ratan Samman by Shaheed Shodha Sansthan for his services to Urdu literature. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ MARNIK
Marnik is an Italian progressive house duo formed by Alessandro Martello and Emanuele Longo. History On 17 March 2017, Marnik scored their first hit with "Children of a Miracle", a collaborative effort with Don Diablo and Galantis singer Reece Bullimore of " No Money" fame. In December 2017, Marnik worked with The Golden Army worked and Kshmr on a psy-trance big room house-influenced track called "Shiva". In May 2018, in collaboration with Steve Aoki, they released a dance version of " Bella ciao", a traditional folk protest song from the 19th century that became very popular within the anti-fascist movement during the Italian civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ... (1943-1945). Marnik's version of the track generated controversy as many commentators felt i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaeden
Sahil Sharma (born 2 July 1995), better known by his stage name Zaeden, is a singer and record producer. Early life and career beginnings Zaeden was born in Gurugram, India to Latika and Ashish Sharma. He also has a sister named Sanjana Sharma. Growing up, he attended The Heritage School, where he played the tabla and piano throughout school. At the age of 14, he began performing as a DJ. He briefly studied mass communication at Amity University, Noida before relocating to Mumbai to study sound engineering. Sharma stated that his given name was too common in India, and so he chose the stage name "Zaeden" as it meant "out of the box thinking" in Latin. Career Sharma began his career at the age of 14, by mixing tapes of dance music releases and distributing them among his friends, which led him to release his first single titled "Land of Lords" in 2014. That same year, his remix of Coldplay's "Magic" aired on Dutch DJ Hardwell's radio show Hardwell On Air, making him one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahsaan Qureshi
Ahsaan Qureshi, also known as Ehsaan Qureshi, is an Indian stand-up comedian. He was born in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh. He is the 2005 runner-up of ''The Great Indian Laughter Challenge'', a stand-up comedy competition on Star One. Qureshi has been a stage performer for the last 20 years. Most of his jokes focus on political satire and social issues. He had put in his name for the reality show at the behest of his friends. Lately he has been seen acting in a Bollywood movie, '' Bombay to Goa'' released in 2007, ''Ek Paheli Leela'' released in 2015, and the Bhojpuri film ''Hanuman Bhakt Hawaldar'' released in 2007. He was seen in SAB TV Sony SAB (formerly SAB TV) is an Indian pay television channel owned by Culver Max Entertainment. History Sony SAB was launched as SAB TV by Gautam Adhikari and Markand Adhikari under their company Sri Adhikari Brothers (thus the acronym) on ... comedy show '' Hum Aapke Ghar Mein Rehte Hain''. He was a contestant in '' Bigg Boss 2'' in 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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