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Sahni
Sahni (alternatively Sawhney, Sahney, Shahani , or Sahani ) is an Indian (Khatri) surname found among the Hindus or Sikhs of Punjab. Notable people with the surname include: * Ajai Sahni, author and expert on counter-terrorism * Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Indian Civil Servant (Former Secretary, MEITy, 2016-2022) * Baljit Sahni (born 1987), Indian football player * Balraj Sahni (1913–1973), Hindi film actor * Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003), Hindi writer, playwright, and actor * Birbal Sahni (1891–1949), an Indian paleobotanist * Harpreet Sawhney, American engineer * Jaideep Sahni (born 1974), Indian screenwriter, songwriter, and film producer * Mahendra Sahni, Indian politician * Mohanbir Sawhney, professor at Kellogg School of Management * Nilam Sawhney, Indian Civil Servant (Former Chief Secretary, Andhra Pradesh) * Nitin Sawhney, British Indian musician and composer * Parikshit Sahni (born 1940), Indian actor * Pritam Singh Sahni, Punjabi poet * Rajan Sawhney (born 1970/71), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birbal Sahni
Birbal Sahni Royal Society, FRS (14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. He also took an interest in geology and archaeology. He founded what is now the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in 1946. His major contributions were in the study of the fossil plants of India and in plant evolution. He was also involved in the establishment of Indian science education and served as the President of the National Academy of Sciences, India and as an Honorary President of the International Botanical Congress, Stockholm. Formative years Birbal Sahni was born in Bhera, Shahpur, Pakistan, Shahpur District, in today's Pakistani Punjab, on 14 November 1891. He was the third child of Ishwar Devi and the pioneer Indian meteorologist and scientist Lala Ruchi Ram Sahni who lived in Lahore. The family came from Dera Ismail Khan and they frequently made visits to Bhera which was close to the Salt Range and Khew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parikshit Sahni
Parikshit Sahni (born 1 January 1944) is an Indian actor who is known for playing the lead in TV series Barrister Vinod, ''Gul Gulshan Gulfaam'' (Doordarshan) and ''Gaatha'' (Star Plus). He has also appeared in three of Rajkumar Hirani's blockbuster films ''Lage Raho Munna Bhai'', ''3 Idiots'', and '' PK''. He is the son of actor Balraj Sahni and nephew of writer Bhisham Sahni. Early life He was born in Muree in the Rawalpindi District of the Punjab Province of British India (present day in the Murree District of Punjab, Pakistan), into a Punjabi Hindu family, while his father was teaching English at Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan of Rabindranath Tagore, and his mother was doing her Bachelors. Most of his schooling was done at the Lawrence school Sanawar. He then went to study at Delhi's St. Stephen's College. Later, Sahni began his career as a child artist. Personal life Sahni's parents were both theatre and film actors, although his mother acted in only a coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhisham Sahni
Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay '' Tamas'' ("Darkness, Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002. He was the younger brother of the noted Hindi film actor, Balraj Sahni. Biography Bhisham Sahni was born on 8 August 1915 in Rawalpindi, in undivided Punjab. He earned a master's degree in English literature from Government College in Lahore, and a Ph.D. from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1958. He joined the struggle for Indian independence. At the time of Partition, he was an active member of the Indian National Congress and organized relief work for the refugees when riots broke out in Rawalpindi in March 1947. In 1948 Bhisham Sahni started working with the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), an organization with which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sartaj Sahni
Professor Sartaj Kumar Sahni (born July 22, 1949, in Pune, India) is a computer scientist based in the United States, and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Education Sahni received his BTech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Following this, he undertook his graduate studies at Cornell University in the USA, earning a PhD degree in 1973, under the supervision of Ellis Horowitz. Research and publications Sahni has published over 280 research papers and written 15 textbooks. His research publications are on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, data structures, parallel computing, interconnection networks, design automation, and medical algorithms. With his advisor Ellis Horowitz, Sahni wrote two widely used textbooks, ''Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms'' and ''Fundamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baljit Sahni
Baljit Sahni (born 12 January 1987) is an Indian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Career JCT Sahni had played for JCT for 5 years. In the 2009–10 season he scored the first hat trick of the season against Shillong Lajong. On 11 November 2009 however Sahni was seriously injured in a bike accident along with teammate Sunil Kumar Thakur in Margao, Goa while the team were preparing for an upcoming match against Salgaocar in the I-League. As a result of the accident Sahni required 25 stitches and he fractured his shin. At this point in the season Sahni was in top form with six goals in the opening seven matches. However, on 28 January 2010 Sahni played in his first game since the accident, coming on as a second-half substitute and he even scored a goal as JCT Mills defeated Sporting Goa 2–0. East Bengal In 2010 Sahni signed with I-League giants East Bengal. Retirement and financial struggle Sahni faced monetary issues while playing, so he decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajai Sahni
Ajai Sahni is an author on counter-terrorism, and serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, which maintains the ''South Asia Terrorism Portal'', a website focusing on terrorism in South Asia. Background Sahni earned his PhD at the University of Delhi, where his dissertation was titled ''Democracy, Dissent & the Right to Information''. In 2006, Ajai Sahni submitted written evidence to the UK House of Commons, Select Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding Islamic terrorism in South Asia which is available on the House of Commons' website. In February 2009, Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, included Sahni in a panel of leading experts debating how to combat global terrorism with UK Parliamentarians. Sahni also edits 'South Asia Intelligence Review' and 'Faultlines'. Political position After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Sahni criticized the Indian government. Madhur Singh, writing in ''Time'', quoted Sahni "We have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahni, Punjab
Sahni is a village near Lakhpur, Tehsil Phagwara, Kapurthala district, in Punjab, India. The village is also known as Lakhpur Sahni. This village is located on the road from village Rawal-pindi to village Panchhata. Demographics According to the 2001 Census, Sahni has a population of 1,264 people. Neighbouring villages include Lakhpur, Malikhpur, Nasirabad, Rampur Khalyan, Prempur, Harbanspur, Rampur Sunra and Bir Dhadoli. Sahni is situated on the Phagwara-Hoshiarpur Road. It is 14 km from Phagwara, 29 km from Hoshiarpur, 35 km from Jalandhar and 55 km from Ludhiana Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the most densely populated urban centre in the state. I .... Most of the population belongs to Kaushal and Kahlon clans. The village has a Government High School. References {{Kapurthala dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaideep Sahni
Jaideep Sahni (born 1968) is an Indian screenwriter, songwriter and creative producer, who wrote the screenplays for films like ''Chak De! India'', ''Khosla Ka Ghosla'', ''Company'', ''Bunty Aur Babli'', '' Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year'' and ''Shuddh Desi Romance''. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue as well as Filmfare Award for Best Story for ''Company'' (2002), and the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for ''Khosla Ka Ghosla'' (2006). He also won the IIFA award 2008 for best story, for ''Chak De! India'' . Early life and education Born and brought up in New Delhi, Jaideep Sahni studied at the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar. He started working as a computer engineer,Close EncounterIndian Express/ref> and has worked for NIIT. Career He became a lyricist after jam sessions with Palash Sen, and after discovering the screenplay for the film ''Gandhi'' in a New Delhi bookshop, he started writing screenplays, at age 27. He wrote both the screenplay and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S K Sahni
S K Sahni is a retired lieutenant general in the Indian Army. He retired in 2006. On February 19, 2011, he was sentenced to jail by a general court martial in Jalandhar on six charges of "intent to defraud" relating to food past its expiry date which was supplied to Indian Army troops in Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent * Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory * Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered .... This was the first instance when a retired Indian Army lieutenant general was jailed by a court martial. References Indian generals Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{crime-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahendra Sahni
Shri Mahendra Sahni (b 4 April 1940 Brahmapura, Muzaffarpur district, Bihar d. 6 Nov 2009) was an Indian politician of the Janata Dal (United) party who was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Bihar in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament The Parliament of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the .... He was member of Bihar Legislative Council during 1994-2000. References External links Profile on Rajya Sabha website {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahni, Mahendra Janata Dal (United) politicians Rajya Sabha members from Bihar 2009 deaths 1940 births Members of the Bihar Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khatri
Khatri is a caste of the Indian subcontinent that is predominantly found in India, but also in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the subcontinent, they were mostly engaged in mercantilistic professions such as banking and trade, they were the dominant commerical & financial administration class of Late-Medieval India some in Punjab often belonged to hereditary agriculturalist land-holding lineages, others were engaged in artisanal occupations such as silk production and weaving while some were scribes learned in Sanskrit and Persian too During the British colonial era, they also served as lawyers and engaged in administrative jobs in the colonial bureaucracy. Some of them served in the British Indian army after being raised as Sikhs. The Sikh religion was founded by Guru Nanak, a Bedi Khatri. Subequently, all the Sikh religious leaders or Gurus were Khatris. During the Sikh Empire, many Khatris formed the military vanguard of the Khalsa Army and it's administrative class as Dew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pritam Singh Sahni
Pritam Singh Sahni, or "Kasad" (1924–2008) was a Punjabi poet from New Delhi, India. Kasad was active in Punjabi Kavi circles. He authored more than 20 books of Punjabi poetry and was also a playwright. Kasad's family moved from Gah, Pakistan during Partition of India in 1947. Although he struggled to support his family and settle in a new place, he was able to write poetry and to participate in gatherings all over India. In 1962, Kasad received a letter of appreciation from Jawaharlal Nehru and, in 1999, he was part of the ''Kavi Darbar'' celebrating the birthday of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Kasad had two sons and four daughters. In 2022, on his 14th death anniversary, Jassi released a track reciting one of his classic poems. Works * Aazadi De Vedi tei, November 1956, a collection of patriotic poems. * Jaag Manukhata Jaag, November 1958, a collection of social reform poems * Kesri Nishan, April 1961, poems on sovereignty in Sikhism * Kharag Khalsa, January 1986, poems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
