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Sethi (other)
Sethi (sometimes spelled Seth) is a surname that is found among the Punjabi Khatris of India . They are a part of Khukhrain sub-caste among the Khatris which also includes the clans of Anand, Bhasin Chadha, Kohli, Ghai, Sahni, Sethi, (Sawhney) and Suri. Most of Sethis are Dual-faith Hindus (who believe in both Hindu and Sikh religions). Some Sethis also follow Islam. The surname is also found among Arora. Historian Kamal Shankar Srivastava writes that all Khukrains including Sethis were originally found near the banks of Indus and Jhelum river especially in the towns of Pind Dadan Khan, Peshawar and Nowshera. Sethi is derived from the Sanskrit word "Sreshta" meaning "Pure" or "Superior" . Notable people * Akshay Sethi (born 1980), Indian television actor * Aman Sethi (born 1983), Indian journalist and writer * Ali Sethi, Pakistani singer and author * Arjun Sethi (entrepreneur), Indian American entrepreneur, investor and executive * Arjun Singh Sethi, Indian American ci ... [...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] |
Arora
Arora is a community of Punjab, comprising both Hindus and Sikhs. The name is derived from their native place Aror. Historically, the Arora section of the Khatri community had been principally found in West Punjab, in the districts to the south and west of Lahore. Scott Cameron Levi, believes that they are a "sub-caste of the Khatris". Their traditional occupations were shopkeeping and moneylending in late pre-colonial and colonial times and even as of 2009 many were prominent shopkeepers in Punjab. After Partition of India, Punjabis who migrated from erstwhile West Punjab were mostly Khatris and Aroras. Studies reveal that "Arora Khatri, Bedi, Ahluwalia etc. are some of the important castes among the Punjabis". Mughal decline and Afghan Revival On 13 April 1752, Lahore and Multan of Punjab were ceded to Ahmad Shah Durrani after the fall of Kaura Mal in the battlefield and retreat of Adina Beg. Afghanistan was the conduit for the trade between Central Asia and India. Grain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najam Sethi
Najam Aziz Sethi (Urdu, pa, ; born 20 May 1948) is a Pakistani journalist, businessman and cricket administrator, currently serving as the chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). He also is the founder of ''The Friday Times'' and ''Vanguard Books''. He has served as a caretaker Federal Minister of Pakistan and Chief Minister of Punjab. As a journalist, he is a left-leaning political commentator who serves as the editor-in-chief of ''The Friday Times'' and serves as Chairman of Pakistan Super League. He has also served as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab during the 2013 election. He formerly used to host primetime current affairs show ''Aapas ki Baat'' on Geo News. He is currently the President of AAP Media Media Network / Indus News. Najam Sethi began his sociopolitical endeavours with the socialist movement working for the rights of Balochistan, leading to his arrest in 1975 before being discharged in 1978. He consequently left politics and established ''Vanguar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Sethi
Mira Sethi (born January 12, 1987) is a Pakistani actress and writer. The daughter of journalists Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin, she attended Lahore Grammar School and Cheltenham Ladies' College then graduated from Wellesley College in 2010; she spent her junior year abroad at the University of Oxford. At Wellesley, she studied English and South Asian studies, and, at her 2010 graduation, was the student commencement speaker. Sethi was a Robert L. Bartley fellow and an assistant book editor at ''The Wall Street Journal'' and also contributed in political commentary for the newspaper, particularly on the subject of Pakistan. Her career at the ''Journal'' lasted about two and a half years. In 2011, Sethi returned to Pakistan to pursue an acting career. Her first role was playing Natasha in the ARY Digital serial drama ''Silvatein''. She followed it with '' Mohabat Subh Ka Sitara Hai'', which aired on Hum TV. Sethi continues to write both fiction and journalism. Her collection of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiran Sethi
Kiran Sethi is a police officer in Delhi, India, known for organizing women's self-defense and police services training camps throughout India, for which she was honored by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in 2015. Biography Kiran Sethi's family comes from Delhi. She studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before joining the police in 1987. She holds the rank of Sub-Inspector of police (SI), and often investigates cases of sexual assault and child sexual abuse. She is a chief trainer in the self-defence course 'Prahar', which by 2015, had trained more than 5,000 school and university students. She has also trained more than 200 hearing and sight impaired students in self-defence. Organising the largest demonstration of self-defence by school students resulted in her name being entered into the Limca Book of Records. In 2014, while off-duty, Sethi saved a blind girl from being kidnapped and assaulted by a drunken man. Martial arts achievements * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geet Sethi
Geet Siriram Sethi (born 17 April 1961) of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s. He is also a notable amateur (ex-pro) snooker player. He is a five-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur world championships, and holder of two world records, in English billiards. Along with Prakash Padukone, Sethi has co-founded Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation for the promotion of sports in India. Career Born in Delhi and grew up in Ahmedabad, Sethi won his first major English billiards event in 1982, the Indian National Billiards Championship (an international event despite its name), defeating Michael Ferreira, and went on to win the NBC again four years in a row, 1985–1988, and made a comeback in both 1997 and 1998 to reclaim the title. He rose to international prominence by winning the IBSF World Amateur Billiards Championships in 1985, versus Bob Marshall in an eight-hour-long fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Singh Sethi
Arjun Singh Sethi is a Sikh American civil and political rights writer, human rights lawyer, and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. Background and career Sethi grew up in Virginia. His parents are Sikhs originally from India. His family was one of the founding Sikh families in Virginia. Sethi received his B.S. from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 2003 and his J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 2008. Sethi previously worked as an attorney with the international law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington D.C., and as the legislative counsel/policy advisor with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), also in Washington, D.C. He has represented victims of domestic violence, asylum seekers, national security detainees, and criminal defendants on death row. Writing Sethi is, according to CNN, "a frequent commentator on civil rights and social justice-rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Sethi (entrepreneur)
Arjun Sethi (born January 15, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur, investor and executive. He is co-founder and partner at venture capital firm Tribe Capital. He previously was partner at Social Capital and served as an executive at Yahoo! where he launched Yahoo! Livetext. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of MessageMe (acquired by Yahoo!) and he was CEO of Lolapps, the developer behind Ravenwood Fair. Career Lolapps In 2008, Sethi took the role as CEO of Lolapps, which developed social games on the Facebook platform. Lolapps developed Ravenwood Fair which had 10 million monthly active users. At its peak, Lolapps had 150 million monthly active users across its portfolio of games. Lolapps merged with game publisher 6waves in 2011 which made the merged entity 6waves Lolapps the second largest game publisher on Facebook measured by monthly active users after Zynga. Sethi became Chief Product Officer in 6waves Lolapps, which went on to raise $35 million in fundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Sethi
Ali Aziz Sethi (Urdu/; ; born July 2, 1984) is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, composer, and author. Sethi rose to prominence with his debut novel, '' The Wish Maker'' (2009). In 2012, Sethi began focusing on his musical career and made his film debut as a singer in Mira Nair's 2012 film, ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist,'' with the song "Dil Jalane Ki Baat Karte Ho." In recent years, Sethi has released numerous cover singles and has appeared on several seasons of ''Coke Studio Pakistan''. Sethi began releasing original music in 2019 and has collaborated with Grammy-winning producer Noah Georgeson. His most recent single for ''Coke Studio'' – " Pasoori" (2022) – became the first Pakistani song to feature on Spotify's "Viral 50 - Global" chart, eventually climbing to the top of the chart in May 2022. With 436 million views on YouTube as of November 11, 2022, "Pasoori" is currently the most watched ''Coke Studio'' music video of all time. Sethi is noted for his ability to blend Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aman Sethi
Aman Sethi (Hindi: अमन सेठी) is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the editor-in-chief of openDemocracy. Sethi was editor-in-chief of HuffPost India until it ceased operations in November, 2020. He is known for his debut ''A Free Man'', a work of narrative reportage. Born in 1983 in Mumbai, Sethi completed his schooling at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi. He studied chemistry at St. Stephen's College, Delhi before moving on to study journalism at Asian College of Journalism, Chennai and business journalism in 2008 at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as an Inlaks Scholar. As Chhattisgarh correspondent for ''The Hindu'' newspaper Sethi reported extensively on Maoist insurgency in the state for two years. He also won the International Red Cross committee award for the best Indian print media article on humanitarian issues in 2011. In August 2012, Sethi was named ''The Hindu's'' Africa correspondent, based in Addis Ababa. Writing Sethi's first book, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akshay Sethi
Akshay Sethi (born 2 October 1980) is an Indian model and television actor. He is well known for playing the double role in ''Sasural Genda Phool'' on Star Plus. Early life Akshay Sethi was born on 2 October 1980 in Maharashtra, India. Career Akshay did many commercials like Herohonda, Rin, Limca, Rediff, Hutch, Tvsapache, Bigbazaar etc. before television. He made his television debut with '' Saat Phere: Saloni Ka Safar'' as Yug on Zee TV. Akshay also played the role of Raunak, in ''Grihasti'' on Star Plus. After that he did '' Waaris'' on Zee TV & '' Rahe Tera Aashirwaad'' on Colors TV. He also did episodic roles in ''Adaalat'', '' C.I.D.'', ''Hum Ne Li Hai- Shapath'', '' Crime Patrol'', ''Savdhaan India''. He was last seen in ''Sasural Genda Phool'' as Deepak on Star Plus StarPlus is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. The network's program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowshera District
Nowshera District ( ps, نوښار ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city. Overview and history Nowshera was a tehsil (sub division) of Peshawar until 1988, when it became a district. It is bordered by Peshawar District to the West, Mardan District to the North, Charsadda District to the North West, Swabi District to the North East, Kohat District to the South, Orakzai Agency to the South West & Attock District to the East. Previously it was known as Nowkhaar Province till it was annexed into British India via the Durand Line Agreement. Prior to its establishment as a separate district in 1990, Nowshera was part of Peshawar District. The district was also part of the Peshawar Division until the reforms of The Government of Pakistan. Total area of Nowshera is 1,748 km². The population density is 608 persons per square kilometre. The total agricultural a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
