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Saurav Mohapatra
Saurav Mohapatra is a filmmaker and writer based out of San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, California, USA. His comic book work includes the ''Devi (comics), Devi'' (#11 onwards), ''The Sadhu'' : "The Silent Ones (miniseries), The Silent Ones" and Deepak Chopra's ''India Authentic'' from Virgin Comics. He is the co-creator/writer of the crime-noir comic book series Mumbai Confidential from Archaia. His recent work includes Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Chander pahar into a graphic novel called ''Moon Mountain'' for Penguin India, Penguin Random House (India) and Sholay: Gabbar, an authorized prequel graphic novel for the iconic Hindi film, Hindi feature film Sholay. He wrote all eight episodes of season one of the streaming series ''Nakaab'' (directed by Soumik Sen and starring Mallika Sherawat, Esha Gupta, and Gautam Rode) that released on MX Player on Sep 15, 2021. As a filmmaker, he's known for his short film ''The First Rule'', that he wrote and directed. The First Ru ...
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Moon Mountain
''Chander Pahar'' () is a Bengali adventure novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and published in 1937. The novel follows the adventures of a young Bengali man in the forests of Africa. The novel is one of the most-loved adventure novels in the Bengali literature and is one of Bibhutibhushan's most popular works. It spawned a media franchise. Plot summary This novel tells the story of an ordinary young Bengali man, Shankar Ray Choudhuri, as he adventures in Africa in the years 1909 and 1910. After graduating from college at 20-years-old, his family's financial struggles almost force him take a job in a jute mill in Shyamnagar — a prospect he absolutely loathes. Shankar loves the subject of geography, he wants to follow the footsteps of renowned explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, and Marco Polo. He wants to explore the wilderness, passionate for learning about African forests and animals. By a stroke of luck, he gets a job as a clerk at the Uganda Railway an ...
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Graphic India
Graphics () are visual perception, visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustration, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software. Images that are generated by a computer are called Computer graphics (computer science), computer graphics. Examples are photographs, drawings, line art, graph of a function, mathematical graphs, line chart, line graphs, charts, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine character (computer), text, illustration, and color. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flyer, poster, web site, or book without any other element. The objective can be clarity or effective c ...
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Dimdim
Dimdim was a software company that provided a web-based platform for realtime collaboration and meetings. Dimdim provided web conferencing service where users could share desktops, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk, and broadcast via webcam. It was compared to the WebEx 2.0 web conferencing application. Dimdim was acquired by Salesforce.com for $31 million on January 6, 2011. Investors Dimdim was financially backed by Index Ventures, Nexus India Capital and Draper Richards. Open source Dimdim was made available primarily as an enterprise edition and as a Virtual Machine appliance, but an open source community edition has also been made available to developers under the GNU General Public License (GPL), giving them the option to install and host Dimdim in their own networks. The most recent open source version, released in December 2008 and hosted at sourceforge.net, is V4.5 "Liberty". However, no installation instructions were provided, and the software had several ar ...
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Kharagpur
Kharagpur () is a planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Kharagpur subdivision. It is the largest, most populated, multicultural and cosmopolitan city of the district.It is located 120 kms west of state capital Kolkata and 1300 kms south east of national capital New Delhi. The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kharagpur), one of the Institutes of National Importance, was founded in Kharagpur in May 1950. It has one of the largest railway workshops in India, and the fourth longest railway platform in the world (1072.5 m). Also it is the headquarters of the Kharagpur Division of South Eastern Railway. History Kharagpur received its name from the twelfth king of the Mallabhum dynasty, Kharga Malla, when he conquered it. Kharagpur was a part of the Hijli Kingdom and ruled by Hindu Odia rulers as a feudatory under Gajapati Kings of Odisha. Historians claim that in th ...
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Indian Institute Of Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. They are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, declaring them as Institutes of National Importance and laying down their powers, duties, and framework for governance as the country's premier institutions in the field of technology. The act currently lists twenty-three IITs. Each IIT has autonomy and is linked to others through a common council called the IIT Council, which oversees their administration. The Minister of Education of India is the ex officio Chairperson of the IIT Council. List of institutes History The history of the IIT system nearly dates back to 1946 when Sir Jogendra Singh of the Viceroy's Executive Council set up a committee whose task was to consider the creation of ''Higher Technical Institutions'' for post-war industrial ...
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MX Player
MX Player is an Indian video streaming and video on demand platform developed by MX Media & Entertainment (formerly J2 Interactive). It has over 280 million users globally. The platform currently operates on an ad-supported model and has a streaming library of over 150,000 hours in 11 languages. It is available on iOS, Android and the web. In 2018, Times Internet acquired a majority stake in MX Player for $140 million. In October 2019, MX Player raised $110.8 million in an investment led by Chinese conglomerate Tencent. History Video player MX Player launched as a video player on 18 July 2011. It featured subtitle support and offline video viewing capabilities. OTT platform On 20 February 2019, MX Player was relaunched as an OTT platform with original programming. It has also licensed contents from various Indian and International studios including FilmRise, Sonar Entertainment, Screen Media Films, Goldmine, Hungama, Shemaroo, Paramount Pictures, Sony Entertainment and Su ...
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Gautam Rode
Gautam Rode (born 14 August 1977) is an Indian television actor known for his roles in ''Baa Bahoo Aur Baby'', '' Lucky'', '' Saraswatichandra'', ''Suryaputra Karn'', and ''Kaal Bhairav Rahasya 2''. Early life Rode was born on 14 August 1977. Earlier, Rode and his family used to stay in New Delhi, but later they shifted to Mumbai. Rode's father, Surendra Rode is a retired broker and his mother, Sangeeta Rode is a jewellery designer. Rode did his schooling from Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan in Delhi. He completed his college from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College. Career Rode made his debut to Indian television with the show ''Jahan Pyaar Mile'' on Zee TV. In 2000, he played episodic roles in TV shows such as ''Rishtey'', ''Apna Apna Style'' and ''Thriller at 10''. In 2002, he made his debut to Bollywood with the film '' Annarth'' co-starred Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty and Preeti Jhangiani. He played the role of Inspector Sameer Deshmukh in this film. Taran Adarsh of entertainment p ...
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Esha Gupta
Esha Gupta (; born 28 November 1985) is an Indian actress, model and the winner of the Miss India International title of 2007. She has established a career in Bollywood films. Gupta entered the Femina Miss India contest in 2007, where she placed third and won the Miss India International title, and later represented India at Miss International pageant. She soon received offers for film roles, and made her acting debut in the 2012 commercially successful crime thriller ''Jannat 2'', that fetched her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Gupta received praise for her portrayal in the political drama '' Chakravyuh'' (2012) but her performance in the comedy film ''Humshakals'' (2014) met with negative reviews. Her highest-grossing releases came with the horror thriller '' Raaz 3D'' (2013), the crime drama '' Rustom'' (2016) and ''Baadshaho'' (2017). Early life Gupta was born in New Delhi. Her father is a retired Air Force Officer and her mother is a homemaker. ...
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Mallika Sherawat
Reema Lamba (born 24 October 1976), better known as Mallika Sherawat, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Hindi language films. Known for her bold onscreen attitude in films like ''Khwahish'' (2003) and ''Murder'' (2004), Sherawat has established herself as a sex symbol and as one of the most popular celebrities in Bollywood. She then appeared in the successful romantic comedy ''Pyaar Ke Side Effects'' (2006) which won her much critical acclaim. Since then, she has appeared in successes like '' Aap Ka Suroor'', ''Welcome'' (both 2007) — her biggest commercial success so far — and ''Double Dhamaal'' (2011). She is one of the few Bollywood stars trying to cross over to Hollywood, with films like ''Hisss'' (2010) and ''Politics of Love'' (2011). Early life Sherawat was born as Reema Lamba in Moth, a small village in Hisar district of Haryana to a Jat family. Mallika's father is named Mukesh Kumar Lamba and she was born in the family of Seth Chhaju Ram, a leading ...
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Soumik Sen
Soumik Sen is an Indian screenwriter and film director. He has written the screenplay for films such as '' Anthony Kaun Hai?'' (2006), '' Ru Ba Ru'' and '' Meerabai Not Out'' (2008) and ''Hum Tum Aur Ghost ''Hum Tum Aur Ghost'' (; earlier titled as ''Kaun Bola?!'' ) is a 2010 Indian Hindi supernatural comedy-drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik and produced by Arshad Warsi, starring Arshad Warsi and Dia Mirza in the lead roles. This unofficial ...'' (2010). In 2014 he directed and wrote the screenplay and composed the songs of the crime film ''Gulaab Gang''. Sen's debut picture was described by ''Indiatimes'' as "full of self deprecating humour and quiet confidence that stems from his script and leading lady, Madhuri Dixit-Nene". He directed and composed songs for the 2019 release ''Why Cheat India''. He has also directed a Bengali film, "Mahalaya", the biopic of Birendra Krishna Bhadra, produced by Nideas. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Indian cinema, Sen wa ...
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