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Kalpana Saxena
Kalpana may refer to: Film and television * ''Kalpana'' (1948 film), an Indian Hindi-language dance film * ''Kalpana'' (1960 film), a romantic Bollywood film * ''Kalpana'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Kalpana'' (2012 film), an Indian Kannada-language comedy horror film * ''Kalpana'' (TV series), an Indian TV series People Mononym * Kalpana (Kannada actress) (1943–1979), Indian Kannada film actress * Kalpana (Malayalam actress) (1965–2016), Indian Malayalam film actress Surname * Venkatacher Kalpana (born 1961), Indian cricketer Given name * Kalpana Chakma, Bangladeshi indigenous women's rights activist * Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), Indian American astronaut lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster * Kalpana Dash (born 1966), Indian lawyer and mountaineer * Kalpana Datta (1913–1995), Indian independence movement activist and fighter * Kalpana Iyer (born c. 1950), Indian beauty pageant contestant and Hindi film actress * Kalpana Kartik (born 1931), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana (1948 Film)
''Kalpana'' () is a 1948 Indian Hindi-language dance film written and directed by dancer Uday Shankar. It is his only film. The story revolves around a young dancer's dream of setting up a dance academy, a reflection of Shankar's own academy, which he founded at Almora. It starred Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar as leads and 16-year-old actress Padmini, making her screen debut. It also marks Usha Kiran's debut film too. ''Kalpana'' was the first film to present an Indian classical dancer in the leading role, and was entirely shot as a dance ballet and a fantasy. It was shown at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa) (2008), as a part of the section "Treasures from NFAI" (National Film Archive of India), with other "rare gems" from the archives. Cast * Uday Shankar as Udayan & Writer * Amala Uday Shankar as Uma * Lakshmi Kanta as Kamini * Dr. G. V. Subbarao as Drawing Master * Birendra Banerji as Noor * Swaraj Mitter Gupta as Ramesh * Anil Kumar Chopra as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Kartik
Mona Singha (born 19 August 1931), also known by her stage name Kalpana Kartik, is a retired Hindi film actress. She starred in six films in the 1950s. She is the widow of the late Hindi film actor and film maker Dev Anand. Mona Singha was a beauty queen while studying at St. Bede's College, Shimla. She was introduced to films by Chetan Anand of Navketan Films with the film '' Baazi'' in 1951. She co-starred with Dev Anand, whom she worked with in all her subsequent films. Her screen name – Kalpana Kartik – was given to her by Chetan Anand during this period. Her other films were '' Aandhiyan'' (1952), '' Humsafar'' (1953), ''Taxi Driver'' (1954), '' House No. 44'' (1954) and ''Nau Do Gyarah'' (1957). Career Mona Singha was born in a Punjabi Christian family in Lahore. Her father was a Tehsildar of Batala in Gurdaspur District and she was the youngest of five brothers and two sisters. After the partition, her family moved to Shimla. She was a student of the St. Bede' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana (supercomputer)
Kalpana was a supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division and named in honor of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster and had worked as an engineer at Ames Research Center prior to joining the Space Shuttle program. It was built in late 2003 and dedicated on May 12, 2004. Kalpana was the world's first single-system image (SSI) Linux supercomputer, based on SGI's Altix 3000 architecture and 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors. It was originally built in a joint effort by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) labo ... (AMC), and Goddard Space Flight Center to perform high-res ocean analysis with the ECCO (Estimating t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana (imagination)
''Kalpanā'' (Sanskrit: कल्पना) is derived from the root - ''kalpanama'' (कल्पनम्) + ना, and means – 'fixing', 'settlement', 'making', 'performing', 'doing', 'forming', 'arranging', 'decorating', 'ornamenting', 'forgery', 'a contrivance', 'device'. and also means – 'assuming anything to be real', 'fictional'. Suresvaracharya in his ''Taittirīyavārttika'' (commentary on Śankāra's work on the '' Taittirīya Upanişad'') (II.297) has used the term ''kalpanā'' to mean – 'inferior conception'. Vishnu Purana (VI.vii.90) and Naradiya Purana (lxvii.70) define ''kalpanā'' as a two-termed relation which is a distinction between the contemplation and the object-to-be-contemplated. Badarayana has used the word ''kalpanā'' only once in his composition, Brahma Sutras, but while translating Sri Govinda Bhāshya of Baladeva Vidyabhushana, a commentary on Vedānta sutras, this word has been translated by Srisa Chandra Vasu to mean – 'the creative pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Swaminathan
Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for ''Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit''. Bibliography *1993: ''The True Adventures of Prince Teentang'' *1994: ''Dattatray's Dinosaur and Other Stories'' *1997: ''Cryptic Death'' *2000: ''Ordinary Mr Pai Two Urban Fairy Tales'' *2002: ''The Weekday Sisters'' *2002: ''Gavial Avial'' *2003: ''Ambrosia for Afters'' *2003: ''Jaldi's Friends'' *2006: ''The Page Three Murders'' *2006: ''Bougainvillea House'' *2007: ''The Gardener's Song'' *2009: ''Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit'' *2010: ''The Monochrome Madonna'' '' |
Kalpana Saxena
Kalpana may refer to: Film and television * ''Kalpana'' (1948 film), an Indian Hindi-language dance film * ''Kalpana'' (1960 film), a romantic Bollywood film * ''Kalpana'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Kalpana'' (2012 film), an Indian Kannada-language comedy horror film * ''Kalpana'' (TV series), an Indian TV series People Mononym * Kalpana (Kannada actress) (1943–1979), Indian Kannada film actress * Kalpana (Malayalam actress) (1965–2016), Indian Malayalam film actress Surname * Venkatacher Kalpana (born 1961), Indian cricketer Given name * Kalpana Chakma, Bangladeshi indigenous women's rights activist * Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), Indian American astronaut lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster * Kalpana Dash (born 1966), Indian lawyer and mountaineer * Kalpana Datta (1913–1995), Indian independence movement activist and fighter * Kalpana Iyer (born c. 1950), Indian beauty pageant contestant and Hindi film actress * Kalpana Kartik (born 1931), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Raghavendar
Kalpana Raghavendar (born 8 May 1980) is an Indian playback singer, winner of Idea Star Singer Malayalam and participant in Bigg Boss Telugu Season 1, songwriter and actor. She started her career as a playback singer at the age of five, and as of 2013 had recorded 1,500 tracks and performed in 3,000 shows in India and abroad. In 2010 she was the winner of the south Indian singing show ''Star Singer'' season 5, conducted by the Malayalam TV channel Asianet. she was a judge of ''Super Singer Junior 6''. Early life and background Kalpana was born in a musical family. Her father, T. S. Raghavendra, was a reputed playback singer, actor and composer, while her mother, Sulochana, is also a singer. She has a younger sister, Shekinah Shawn (born Prasanna Raghavendar) who is popular as an Opera singer. Kalpana took her Carnatic music lessons under Madurai T. Srinivasan. Apart from her proficiency in singing, she holds a Master of Computer Applications degree and is pursuing Master of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Pandit
Kalpana Pandit (born 20 January 1967) is an Indian actress, model, and emergency physician. She owns the film production company ''House of Pandit (TM)''. She is known for her works in Bollywood, and Kannada cinema. In 2008, she hosted the technical awards ceremony of Zee Cine Awards in London. In 2012, Pandit served as one of the jury of the Mrs. America Pageant 2012, which took place on 29 August 2012, at Tucson, Arizona. In November 2013, Pandit served on the Celebrity Judging Panel of "Mrs World 2013" held in Guangzhou, China. Early life and career Kalpana Pandit is the granddaughter of Ayurvedic physician Bhishagratna Ayurveda Vidwan Sri B. V. Pandit. After gaining a M.B.B.S. degree from the prestigious Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, she obtained an M.D. in internal medicine, from USA. She then worked as an emergency physician in USA She modeled for television commercials; products like Wheel detergent powder, Mysore sandal talc, Nyle, and Ranipal stain r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Ramesh Narhire
Narhire Kalpana Ramesh ( mr, कल्पना नरहिरे) (born 25 October 1969) is a Shiv Sena politician from Osmanabad district. She was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing Osmanabad Osmanabad (; pronounced as ''Usmānābād''),is a city and a municipal council in Osmanabad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Osmanabad derives its name from the last ruler of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan. Osmanabad city is the adm ... constituency of Maharashtra. Positions held * 1995: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (1st term) * 1999: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (2nd term) * 2004: Elected to 14th Lok Sabha References External links Shiv Sena Home PageOfficial biographical sketch in Parliament of India website {{DEFAULTSORT:Narhire, Kalpana Ramesh Living people 1969 births Maharashtra MLAs 1995–1999 Maharashtra MLAs 1999–2004 India MPs 2004–2009 Marathi politicians People from Osmanabad Women m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Mohan
Kalpana (18 July 1946 – 4 January 2012), born Archana Mohan, was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi cinema in the 1960s. She appeared with Shammi Kapoor in the 1962 film ''Professor'', with Shashi Kapoor and Kishore Kumar in ''Pyar Kiye Jaa'' (1966), with Dev Anand in ''Teen Devian'', with Pradeep Kumar in ''Saheli'' and with Feroz Khan in ''Tasveer'' and ''Teesra Kaun''. Daughter of revolutionary Avani Mohan, she was also an accomplished Kathak dancer trained under Pandit Shambhu Maharaj. She lived in Pune with her family. She lived for some time in Ambala Cantt. For some years she went to a school in Ambala Cantt. Her father was working in Khadi and village Industries Commission in the state office situated on Nicklson road in Ambala Cant during 1962-63. Early life Kalpana Mohan was born as Archana Mohan in Srinagar on 18 July 1946. She is of Panjabi and Dogra descent. Her father, Avani Mohan, a freedom fighter and an active member of the All India Congress Committee, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Lajmi
Kalpana Lajmi (1954–2018) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Lajmi was an independent filmmaker working more on realistic, low-budget films, which are known in India as parallel cinema. Her films were often woman-oriented. She had been for a long time manager with Bhupen Hazarika. She was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2017 and died on 23 September 2018 at the age of 64. Biography Kalpana Lajmi was the daughter of painter Lalita Lajmi and Navy Captain Gopi Lajmi. She was niece of filmmaker Guru Dutt, debuted as an assistant director under the veteran film director Shyam Benegal who was also her relative of the Padukone family. She later went on to work as an assistant costume designer in Shyam Benegal's '' Bhumika: The Role''. She made her directorial début with the documentary film ''D.G. Movie Pioneer'' in 1978 and went on to direct more documentaries like ''A Work Study in Tea Plucking'' (1979) and ''Along the Brahmaputra'' (1981). She debuted as a fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Iyer
Kalpana Iyer (born 26 July 1956) is a former Indian actress, singer, and model, who is best known for her works in Hindi cinema throughout the 1980s and 1990s. She appeared in over 100 films, and is accredited for her performances in many popular dance numbers as well as for her supporting and guest roles in many films. Career Modelling She was the first runner-up at Miss India in 1978,. She went on to represent her country at the Miss World 1978 beauty pageant where she was a top 15 semi-finalist. Acting Kalpana mostly appeared as a vamp in a number of Hindi films, continuing in the tradition of Bindu, Helen and Aruna Irani. Some of her famous dance numbers are "Hari om Hari" in '' Pyaara Dushman'' (1980), "Tu Mujhe Jaan" in ''Wardat'' (1981) and "Rambha Ho" in '' Armaan'' (1981). Some of her renowned films are ''Satte Pe Satta'' (1982), ''Disco Dancer'' (1982), ''Anjaam'' (1994), ''Raja Hindustani'' (1996), and ''Hum Saath Saath Hain'' (1999). She was critically acclai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
