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Finders, Keepers (Saxena Novel)
''Finders, Keepers'' is a novel by Sapan Saxena. The story takes place across the Indian subcontinent starting from the holy town of Allahabad. It visits several holy sites in India. The story takes place at various places of spiritual importance in India. The novel deals with mythological themes, with a conflict between a newly active historical sect worshipping Shiva and a powerful secret organization, the Nine Unknown Men. Plot summary A murder takes place in the town of Haridwar. The victim is a history professor who had little or no affinity with the place. The killer is unknown but has left some religious symbols on the naked body of the professor which is found a few kilometers away from the place of murder. A week later, another murder takes place in similar circumstances in the holy town of Srikakulam. Troubled by the murder of two of his most trusted allies and by two subsequent heists in Kolkata and Bikaner, the working head of National Society for Hindu Consciousness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapan Saxena
Sapan Saxena (born April 5, 1985) is an Indian author, best known for his novels ''Finders, Keepers'', UNNS-The Captivation and ''The Tenth Riddle'' Early life and education Sapan was born on April 5, 1985 at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. His father, Umesh, is a senior bank officer with UCO Bank. He did his Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad Sapan started writing blogs in the year 2011 and his blog was covered by national mainstream media outlets like ''The Times of India'' on a couple of occasions. He often credits his father and the readers of his blog for pushing him into the world of fiction novels Career As Software Engineer He has worked for 14 years in the software industry and currently works with UKG As an author Sapan then started working on his novel ''Finders, Keepers'' which was launched in January 2015 at Bhubaneshwar. The launch as covered by The New Indian Express and was attended by Padma Shri Prafulla Kar and eminent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santanu Kumar Acharya
Santanu Kumar Acharya (born 1933) is a National Sahitya Academy Award-winning Indian writer. Life Acharya, born in 1933 in Kolkata, comes from the village Siddheswar Pur of the Cuttack district Odisha. He served the Government of Odisha as a college teacher for 34 years, from 1958 to 1992. He retired as the Registrar of Utkal University. Selected works Acharya has written 16 novels, 23 short story collections comprising about 400 stories, and 11 children's books. Novels * ''Nara-Kinnara'', 1962 (The Man and the Sub Humans) * ''Shatabdira Nachiketa'', 1965 (The Nachiketas of the Century) * ''Tinoti Ratira Sakala'', 1969 (The mornings of three dark nights) * ''Dakshinabarta'', 1973 (The turning point) * ''Jatrara Prathama Pada'', 1976 (The First Leg of the Journey) * ''Anya Eka Sakaala Anya Eka Bharat'', 1977 (It is another morning and it is another India) * ''Shakuntala'', 1980 (a novel on the Naxallite movements) * ''Mantrinka Share'', 1988 (The Minister's Share) * ''Dharitri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Ujala
''Amar Ujala'' is a Hindi-language daily newspaper published in India which was founded in 1948. It has 21 editions in six states and two union territories covering 180 districts. It has a circulation of around two million copies. The 2017 Indian Readership Survey reported that with 46.094 million it had the 4th-largest daily readership amongst newspapers in India. It has a circulation of 26 lakh copies daily as per the latest ABC Survey. ''Amar Ujala'' was founded in Agra in 1948. In 1994, ''Amar Ujala'', along with another Hindi daily, shared nearly 70 per cent of the Hindi newspaper readership in the state of Uttar Pradesh. ''Amar Ujala'' sold 4.5 lakh copies through its five editions. ''Amar Ujala'' publishes a daily 16- to 18-page issue, as well as supplements focusing on matters such as careers, lifestyle, entertainment and women. Editions ''Amar Ujala'' has 21 editions, in six states (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi NCR and Uttar Pradesh) and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friday Fever
Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday. In countries that adopt the traditional "Sunday-first" convention, it is the sixth day of the week. In countries adopting the ISO-defined "Monday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week. In most Western countries, Friday is the fifth and final day of the working week. In some other countries, Friday is the first day of the weekend, with Saturday the second. In Israel, Friday is the sixth day of the week. In Iran, Friday is the last day of the weekend, with Saturday as the first day of the working week. Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Kuwait also followed this convention until they changed to a Friday–Saturday weekend on September 1, 2006, in Bahrain and the UAE, and a year later in Kuwait. The UAE changed its weekend from Friday-Saturday to Saturday-Sunday on January 1, 2022. Etymology The name ''Friday'' comes from the Old English ', meaning the "day of Frig", a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after '' The Times of India''. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. The current chairperson of the group is Malini Parthasarathy, a great-granddaughter of Iyengar. Except for a period of about two years, when S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, the editorial positions of the paper were always held by members of the family or held under their direction. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajendra Agarwal
Rajendra may refer to: * Rajendra (name), a male given name (including a list of persons with the name) * ''Rajendra'' (moth), a moth genus * Rajendra Radar, a phased array radar {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meerut
Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital Lucknow. , Meerut is the 33rd most populous urban agglomeration and the 26th most populous city in India. It ranked 292nd in 2006 and is projected to rank 242nd in 2020 in the list of largest cities and urban areas in the world. The municipal area (as of 2016) is . The city is one of the largest producers of sports goods, and the largest producer of musical instruments in India. The city is also an education hub in western Uttar Pradesh, and is also known as the "Sports City Of India". The city is famous for being the starting point of the 1857 rebellion against Company rule in India. Origin of the name The city may have derived its name from 'Mayarashtra' (Sanskrit: मयराष्ट्र), the capital of the kingdom of Mayasura, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharatiya Janta Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi, the incumbent Indian prime minister. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics, and its policies have historically reflected a traditional Hindu nationalist ideology; it has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as state legislatures. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. After The Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party; it defeated the then-incumbent Indian National Congress in the 1977 general election. After three years in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of . According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world (after Tokyo). The topography of the medieval fort Purana Qila on the banks of the river Yamuna matches the literary description of the citadel Indraprastha in the Sanskrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girdhar Malviya
Girdhar or Giradhara (1787–1852) was an ancient Gujarati poet. Works Girdhar is known for his poetic epic ''Ramayana'' (1837) which is popular in Gujarat. He derived the story from '' Ramayana'' of Tulsidas and several other Puranic texts. His version is lucid and musical as it is in simple language and uses traditional metres and melodies. His poetry ''Radha Virahna Barmas'' is influenced by the poetry of Vaishnavism. His ''Tulsi Vivah'' narrates the wedding of Krishna and Tulsi in 26 lyrics. It resemble the ''Kadva'' (cantos) style of medieval Gujarati poetry. He also wrote lyrics on Gopi and Krishna relations and wrote ''Ashwamedha'' and ''Rajsuyayajna''. He based a large number of his poems on ''Dasamskandha'' of ''Bhagavata The Bhagavata tradition, also called Bhagavatism, refers to an ancient religious sect that traced its origin to the region of Mathura. After its syncretism with the Brahmanical tradition of Vishnu, Bhagavatism became a pan-Indian tradition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madan Mohan Malviya
Madan Mohan Malaviya ( (25 December 1861 — 12 November 1946) was an Indian scholar, educational reformer and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. He was president of the Indian National Congress four times and the founder of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha. He was addressed as ''Pandit'', a title of respect, and also as ''Mahamana'' (Great Soul). Malaviya strove to promote modern education among Indians and co-founded the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) at Varanasi in 1916, which was created under the 1915 BHU Act. It is the largest residential university in Asia and one of the largest in the world, with over 40,000 students across arts, commerce, sciences, engineering, linguistic, ritual, medicine, agriculture, performing arts, law, management, and technology disciplines from all over the world. He was the vice chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University from 1919 to 1938. Malaviya was one of the founders of The Bharat Scouts and Guides. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
