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People *Ravindra Jain (1944–2015), an Indian music composer and lyricist *Ravindra Mahajani, an Indian film actor * Ravindra Pushpakumara (b. 1975), a Sri Lankan cricketer *Ravindra Randeniya, a Sri Lankan actor and politician *Ravindra Khattree (b. 1959), an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University *Ravindra Kelekar (1925–2010), a noted Indian writer *Ravindra Jadeja * Paritala Ravindra (1958–2005), a political leader in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, India *Ravindra Mankani (b. 1956), a veteran actor who is noted for his work in many a daily soaps, plays and films *Ravindra Patil (b. 1955), a politician from Jalgaon *Ravindra Prabhat (b. 1969), an Indian poet, writer & journalist * Ravindra Lakmal (b. 1981), a Sri Lankan cricketer *Ravindra Samaraweera, a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka *Ravindra Mhatre, an Indian diplomat in UK who was kidnapped and later murdered in Birmingham in 1984 *Ravindra S ...
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Ravindra Jain
Ravindra Jain (28 February 1944 – 9 October 2015) was an Indian music composer, lyricist and playback singer. He started his career in the early 1970s by composing for several hit movies. His notable works include '' Chor Machaye Shor'' (1974), ''Geet Gaata Chal'' (1975), ''Chitchor'' (1976) and ''Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se'' (1978), '' Nadiya Ke Paar'' (1982), ''Ram Teri Ganga Maili'' (1985) and ''Vivah'' (2006). He composed music for many films and TV shows including Ramanand Sagar's epic ''Ramayan'' (1987), which became iconic. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India in 2015 for his contribution to arts. Early life and education Ravindra Jain was born blind on 28 February 1944 to Pandit Indramani Jain and Kiran Jain as the third child of seven brothers and one sister. He belongs to the Jain community. His father was a Sanskrit pandit and his mother was a homemaker. His father recognised his talent and sent him to stalwa ...
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Ravindra Mhatre
Ravindra Hareshwar Mhatre was a 48 year old Indian diplomat in the UK who was kidnapped and later killed in Birmingham in 1984 by British Kashmiri militants who were associated with the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. Abduction and killing Ravindra Mhatre, a second-ranking official in India's consular office in Birmingham, was abducted in Birmingham as he stepped out of a bus, carrying a birthday cake for his daughter Asha. He was held captive for three days in the Alum Rock neighborhood of Birmingham, an area that was predominantly inhabited by British Mirpuris. According to a police spokesman, Mhatre's body was found two days later in a farm lane about 20 miles southeast of Birmingham. The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Army claimed responsibility and demanded a ransom of 1 million pounds ($1.84 million) and the release of militant prisoned in India. The kidnapping was a failed attempt to secure the release from prison of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front's founder Maqbool B ...
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Ravindra Bharathi
Ravindra Bharathi is an auditorium located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was named after Rabindranath Tagore. History On 23 March 1960, the then Governor of Uttar Pradesh and a former Chief minister of Andhra State, Bezawada Gopala Reddy laid the foundation stone of the auditorium. The building was designed by Mohammad Fayazuddin, an alumnus of Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Built during the birth centenary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore, the auditorium was constructed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for over a year. On 11 May 1961, former President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan inaugurated it to serve the cultural needs of the region. The inaugural program was a performance of Tagore's ''Mukta Dhara'' (The Waterfall) under the auspices of the Osmania University Dramatic Club as part of the celebrations of Tagore's centenary. The auditorium The auditorium continued to be maintained by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. In 200 ...
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Rabindra Bharati University
Rabindra Bharati University is a public research university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. It is located at the Tagore family home, Jorasanko Thakur Bari. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Performing Arts and Visual Arts under the Faculty of Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and other subjects under the Faculty of Arts. The current Vice-Chancellor of the university is Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, a noted social scientist and political commentator. History Tagore museum The Jorasanko Thakur Bari is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. The first non-European Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was born here. Notable alumni * Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor and independent filmmaker. * Basabdatta Chatterjee, Indian Actress * Ajoy Chakrabarty, Indian Hindustani clas ...
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali'', he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi. A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district* * * and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-yea ...
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People *Ravindra Jain (1944–2015), an Indian music composer and lyricist *Ravindra Mahajani, an Indian film actor * Ravindra Pushpakumara (b. 1975), a Sri Lankan cricketer *Ravindra Randeniya, a Sri Lankan actor and politician * Ravindra Khattree (b. 1959), an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University *Ravindra Kelekar (1925–2010), a noted Indian writer *Ravindra Jadeja * Paritala Ravindra (1958–2005), a political leader in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, India *Ravindra Mankani (b. 1956), a veteran actor who is noted for his work in many a daily soaps, plays and films * Ravindra Patil (b. 1955), a politician from Jalgaon *Ravindra Prabhat (b. 1969), an Indian poet, writer & journalist * Ravindra Lakmal (b. 1981), a Sri Lankan cricketer *Ravindra Samaraweera, a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka *Ravindra Mhatre, an Indian diplomat in UK who was kidnapped and later murdered in Birmingham in 1984 * Ravindr ...
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Gujjula Ravindra Reddy
Gujjula Ravindra Reddy (born 1954) is a former member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and former mayor of Altlandsberg. He was born in Neredupalli (village), Pedacherlopalli (mandal) Kanigiri, Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Reddy visited areas devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. In four villages near Avanigadda, Andhra Pradesh tsunami shelters doubling as school buildings were constructed using charitable donations from the German Government and organisations such as Lions Club, Altlandsberg, Solidarity Service International (SODI) and Aktion Deutschland Hilft and Berlin-Lichtenberg Lichtenberg () is a quarter (''Ortsteil'') of Berlin in the homonymous borough (''Bezirk'') of Lichtenberg. Until 2001 it was an autonomous district with the localities of Fennpfuhl, Rummelsburg, Friedrichsfelde and Karlshorst. History The hi .... External links Dr Ravindra was felicitated by President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee during the World Telugu Con ...
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Ravindra Pinge
Ravindra Pinge (Devanagari: रवींद्र पिंगे; 13 March 1926 – 17 October 2008) was a Marathi writer. His family hailed from Upale-Prindavan area near Kharepatan, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. Though he grew up in Mumbai, his writings depicted his love for Konkan. He retired as an official at All India Radio All or ALL may refer to: Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners * Allar language (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band * ''All'' (All .... Both his parents were teachers, and he claimed that it created in him a soft corner for the profession of teachers. He had a son named Sambaprasad Pinge and a daughter named Chitra Pinge (Now Chitra Wagh). He was loosely associated with Socialist Party while growing up in Mumbai in 1940s. Pinge was fond of travelling, and before travel became commonplace in India, he visited, often in the c ...
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Ravindra Kumar (political Scientist)
Ravindra Kumar (born 1959) is a Political Scientist, Peace Educator, an Indologist, a Humanist, Cultural Anthropologist and a former Vice-Chancellor of CCS University, Meerut (India). He has worked an Ombudsman of Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut and the editor-in-chief of Global Peace International Journal. He has written more than one hundred books and four hundred articles on greatest personalities of the Indian sub-continent, especially Gautama Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and on various social, political, educational, cultural and academic issues to his credit. Early life and education Born in 1959 at Kakrauli village of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh, India, he is M. A. in Political Science & Philosophy, PGD in Gandhian Studies, Ph. D. and D. Lit. Career A well-known Indologist and the former Vice-Chancellor of CCS University Meerut, India, Kumar has been associated with several national and internati ...
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Ravindra Varma
Ravindra Varma (9 April 1925 – 10 October 2006) was a Gandhian politician who served as the Minister for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Morarji Desai Ministry in India from 1977 to 1979. Politics He entered active politics in 1942. He plunged into the vortex of the freedom struggle while studying at the Christian College in Chennai. He was founder-president of the Indian Student Congress and the World Youth Assembly. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Thiruvalla in Kerala in 1962 on a Congress ticket. When Congress split in 1969, he stayed on as the General Secretary of Congress (Organisation) founding the organization along with Morarji Desai, Nijalingappa and Kamaraj. He was politically active in resisting the Emergency (1975–77) and organized underground cells. He was next elected in 1977 from Ranchi in Bihar as a Janata Party candidate. He represented Mumbai North in 7th Lok Sabha from 1980 to 1985. He had been the Chairman of the Gandhi Pea ...
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Ravindra Svarupa Dasa
Ravindra Svarupa Dasa (; born William H. Deadwyler, III) is a religious studies scholar and a Hare Krishna religious leader. He was initiated by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1971. He has been a member of ISKCON's Governing Body Commission since 1987, Chairman of that Commission's North American GBC Continental Committee, is the president of ISKCON of Philadelphia, and an ISKCON Guru. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on Vaishnava philosophy and used his education to further the discourse of Gaudiya Vaishnava Theology within the context of ISKCON. He is the author of ''Encounter with the Lord of the Universe: Collected Essays 1978-1983'' (Washington, DC: Gita Nagari Press, 1984). He also is featured on Shelter's ''Attaining the Supreme,'' where he gives a lecture on a hidden track. Publications * William H. Deadwyler ''Necessity and the Cosmic Organism: ...
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