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Indira (name)
Indira is a Hindu/Sanskrit Indian popular feminine given name, which means "beauty" and "splendid". Given name India's former Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) is the most notable figure bearing this name. Indira may also refer to— * Indira Ampiot (born 2004), French model and Miss France 2023 * Indira Devi Chaudhurani (1873–1960), Bengali Indian literateur, author and musician, niece of Rabindranath Tagore * Indira Devi (1892–1968), Indian autobiographer, princess turned queen and Maharaja of Cooch Behar Jitendra Narayan's wife * Indira Hridayesh (1941–2021), Indian politician * Indira Miri (1910–2004), Indian educationist * Indira Sant (1914–2000), Indian poet * Indira Parthasarathy, (born 1930), Indian writer and playwright * Indira Jaising (born 1940), Indian lawyer, feminist, human rights activist and solicitor * Indira Freitas Johnson (born 1943), Indian artist and nonviolence educator * Indira Kadambi (born 1969), Indian perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geopolitically, it includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka."Indian subcontinent". ''Oxford Dictionary of English, New Oxford Dictionary of English'' () New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; p. 929: "the part of Asia south of the Himalayas which forms a peninsula extending into the Indian Ocean, between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. Historically forming the whole territory of Greater India, the region is now divided into three countries named Bangladesh, India and Pakistan." The terms ''Indian subcontinent'' and ''South Asia'' are often used interchangeably to denote the region, although the geopolitical term of South Asia frequently includes Afghanist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Kadambi
Indira Kadambi (born 30 September 1969, Kundapur, Karnataka) A brilliant performer, a sensitive, innovative and intelligent choreographer, Indira Kadambi has carved a niche for herself as one of the excellent exponents amongst her generation of Bharatanatyam artists today. Her abiding commitment, integrity and passion for the art give a sheen to her recitals. Early life Starting her initial training in Bharathnatayam at the age of six under Sri Janardhan Sharma. Later she pursued under Smt. Usha Datar and performed her debut in 1988. Pursuing dance as a career, she further got trained under Smt. Narmada and Smt. Savitri Jagannath Rao. She took advance lessons in Abhinaya under renowned teacher Padma Bhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan. She has also learnt Mohiniattam under Kalyanikutty Amma. In addition to that, she learnt Carnatic Vocal music from Belakawadi Srinivasa Iyengar and Nattuvangam from Kamala Rani of Kalakshetra, chennai. Along with her love for dance and music, she is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Talwani
Indira Talwani (born October 6, 1960) is a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Biography Talwani received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1982, from Radcliffe College. She received a Juris Doctor in 1988 from UC Berkeley School of Law, graduating Order of the Coif. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Stanley A. Weigel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, from 1988 to 1989. She served as an associate at the San Francisco, California, law firm of Altshuler Berzon LLP, from 1989 to 1995 and as a partner at that law firm, from 1996 to 1999. From 1999 to 2014, she served as a partner at the Boston, Massachusetts, law firm of Segal Roitman LLP, where she focused her practice on civil litigation at the State and Federal trial court and appellate levels. Federal judicial service On September 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Talwani to serve as a United States District Judg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Stefanianna
Indira Stefanianna (born Indira Stefanianna Christopherson; December 15, 1946), also credited as Indira Danks and Stefanianna Christopherson, is an American actress and singer of Icelandic heritage, perhaps best known for her role as the original voice of Daphne Blake on ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' during its first (1969) season. Early life Christopherson was born and raised in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Lorne Christopherson, who was from Manitoba, and her mother, Hrafnhildur ( née Snorradóttir), who was born in Iceland. She and her mother would sing nursery rhymes together when Christopherson was a little girl, and she aspired to one day become a professional singer and actress. After graduating high school, Christopherson studied voice and piano at the Peninsula Conservatory of Music, and attended two colleges: the College of San Mateo and San Francisco State University. Career Christopherson has worked as a character actor, stage actress, and recording a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Spence
Indira Spence (born 8 September 1986, in Trelawny) is a Jamaican athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten Hurdling, hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first h .... She represented her country at the 2011 World Championships reaching the semifinals, as well as the 2014 World Indoor Championships. She has personal bests of 12.92 seconds in 100 metres hurdles (+1.3 m/s, Kingston 2012) and 8.05 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Fayetteville 2010). Competition record 1Did not finish in the final References 1986 births Living people Jamaican female hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Trelawny Parish Competitors at the 2011 Summer Universiade Commonwealth Games competitors for Jamaica {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Vizcaíno Silva while her father worked in the city but grew up in Colima.
Indira Vizcaíno Silva (born 14 January 1987) is a Mexican politician from the Morena party. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Colima. In 2021, she became the second female Governor of Colima after Griselda Álvarez, as well as the first non- PRI governor of the state in over 90 years. The daughter of former politician Arnoldo Vizcaíno, she was born in Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana" (US) and < ... References 1987 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Samarasekera
Indira Vasanti Samarasekera (née Arulpragasam; April 11, 1952) is the former president and former vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta. She has been a member of the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, which advises on appointments to the Senate of Canada, since 2016. Biography Samarasekera was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, and was married to a Sinhalese, Sam Samarasekera and was divorced when her children were 7 and 3 years. Education and career Samarasekera received her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sri Lanka in 1974 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis as a Fulbright Scholar in 1976. In 1977, she immigrated to Canada, where she received her PhD in Metallurgical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1980. That year, she began working in the Department of Metals and Materials Engineering at UBC with a focus on the continuous casting and hot r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Radić
Indira Radić (; ; born 14 June 1966) is a Bosnian Serb pop-folk singer. She has established herself on the music scene of the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and sings almost exclusively in her native tongue. In the period from 1992 to 2015 she released 16 albums mixing pop, dance and traditional folk elements. This hybrid style, described as turbo-folk, brought her success throughout the region with songs like "Ratovanje" that incorporated Music of India, Indian elements. Early life Indira Radić was born as Indira Subotić to Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb parents Živko Subotić and Rosa Radić in the village of Dragalovci near the Bosnia (region), Bosnian town of Doboj. She was named after the Prime Minister of India, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. After finishing primary school, she enrolled in a medical school in Doboj before working as a nurse for three years in the Mladen Stojanović Hospital in Zagreb. Career 1992–98 During the early 1990s, Radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Neville
Indira Neville (born 1973) is a New Zealand comics artist, community organiser, musician and educationalist. She is notable for her work in the Hamilton-based comics collective Oats Comics, her own long running serial comic ''Nice Gravy'' and in recent times taking a prominent role in the promotion and recognition of New Zealand women's comics through her association with the ''Three Words'' anthology. Indira Neville is also notable for her work as an educationalist. She was a CORE Education eFellow, a winner of a Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award for her teaching, and a former principal of a primary school. She is also an active performer, and is currently fronting the Auckland band The Biscuits. Biography Neville began her career working in television production after graduating from Auckland University of Technology in 1993. After gaining a graduate diploma in teaching in 1997, Neville worked in the field of primary education. She became recognised for her educational work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Nath
Indira Nath (14 January 1938 – 24 October 2021) was an Indian immunologist. Her major contribution in medical science deals with mechanisms underlying immune unresponsiveness in man, reactions and nerve damage in leprosy and a search for markers for viability of the Leprosy bacillus. Prof. Nath's fields of specialisations are Immunology, Pathology, Medical biotechnology, and communicable diseases. Career Nath received her MBBS from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She joined AIIMS as MD (pathology) after mandatory hospital training in the UK. During the 1970s, India has the world's largest number of leprosy patients of 4.5 million. In 1970, Nath was in the UK with a Nuffield Fellowship. During this period, she came to specialise in immunology. She worked in the area of infectious diseases, particularly leprosy, with Professor John Turk at the Royal College of Surgeons and Dr. RJW Rees at the National Institute for Medical Research, London. She sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Naidoo
Indira Naidoo is an Australian author, journalist and television and radio presenter. Education Naidoo's parents were Indian South Africans, who were politically active during the apartheid years. Her father was a dentist and her mother a teacher. They lived in Pietermaritzburg, before leaving the country when Naidoo was two years old, owing to the discrimination which limited her parents' occupations. She was educated in England, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tasmania, attending 12 schools, completing year 12 in Adelaide, South Australia. Career Journalism Naidoo completed a journalism degree at the South Australian College of Advanced Education (now the University of South Australia) and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide in 1990 as a news cadet. After several years as a political and industrial reporter, she went on to anchor ABC Weekend news and '' The 7.30 Report''. Naidoo then moved to the ABC's ''National Late Edition News'' in Sydney where she develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Anant Maydeo
Indira Anant Maydeo was an Indian parliamentarian who represented Pune South in the 1st Lok Sabha as a member of the Indian National Congress. Early life Born on 7 September 1903, Maydeo attended the Fergusson College, from where she received her B.Sc. degree. Career Maydeo was actively involved in the Indian independence movement and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). In 1933, she joined the Maharashtra division of Harijan Sevak Sangh. She was the most prominent women member of the party in Pune (then in Bombay State) and when the first general elections of independent India were held, the INC made her its official candidate for Pune South constituency. Maydeo obtained roughly 64% of the votes cast and defeated the Socialist Party candidate Shridhar Limaye to become the first women representative of Pune in the house. She still holds this record. As a Member of Parliament, she brought a bill in the Lok Sabha concerning divorce but it was not discussed and ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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