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Shankar Abhyankar
Shankar may refer to: People *Shankar (name), including a list of people with the name * Sankar (writer) (Mani Shankar Mukherjee), Bengali writer *L. Shankar, Indian violinist *S. Shankar, Indian film director commonly credited as Shankar *Sankar (writer & director), Indian film director, screenwriter, short story writer, and Novelist from Kerala. * Shankar (actor) (Shankar Panicker, born 1960), Indian film actor and director popularly known as Shankar *Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, an Indian musical trio which composes music for film soundtracks Fictional * Shankar Roy Chowdhury, protagonist of the ''Chander Pahar'' franchise Places *Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India *Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran See also *Shankar's Virus, a computer virus that infects Word documents *Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi *''Shankar's Weekly'', a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai * Shankar Party unofficial name giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar (name)
Sankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss". Shankar is also the name of Hindu god, Lord Shiva (Shiva shankara). The south Indian version of Shankara is sometimes written as "Sankara". Notable people with this name include: Given name * Sankar (writer) (Mani Shankar Mukherjee), Bengali writer * Shankar Balasubramanian, UK Chemical Biologist * Shankar Bhattacharyya (born 1946), American engineer * Shankar Lamichhane, Nepalese Essayist * Shankar Mahadevan, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio * Shankar Nagar, Nepalese town * Shankar Painter (1946–2020), Indian poet * Shankar (actor) (Shankar Panikkar, born 1960), Indian film actor and director popularly known as Shankar * K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), Indian cartoonist * Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi, half of the Shankar Jaiksan music-director duo * Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999), ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997 * Shankar Tucker, American clarinetist and mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankar (writer)
Mani Shankar Mukherjee (commonly known as ''Sankar'' in both Bengali and English-language literature) is an Indian writer in the Bengali language, who also served as the Sheriff of Kolkata. He grew up in Howrah district of West Bengal. Personal life Sankar is the son of Avaya Mukherjee known as Gouri Mukherjee. Sankar's father died while he was still a teenager, as a result of which Sankar became a clerk to the last British barrister of the Calcutta High Court, Noel Frederick Barwell. At the same time he entered in Surendranath College (formerly Ripon College, Calcutta) for study. He worked in various field as typewriter cleaner, private tutor, Hawker for the livelihood. Literary career After Noel Barwell's sudden death, ''Sankar'', the professional version of his name adopted for the law courts, sought to honor Barwell. "First, I wanted to build a statue. It was not possible. I then wanted to name a road. Even that was not feasible. And then I decided to write a book about him, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankar (writer & Director)
Vijayamma Rajappan Sankar, commonly known as Sankar ( Malayalam – ശങ്കർ), is an Indian film director, screenwriter, short story writer and novelist who works in Malayalam cinema and literature. Early and personal life Sankar was born on 13 April 1981 in Palamoodu village near Vembayam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. After schooling from LPS and Gvt.BHS Kanniakulangara, he completed his graduation from Govt. College Nedumangad. He started his career as a media journalist and short story writer. He has also done audio programmes for Aakashavani, Thiruvananthapuram. As director Sankar is a self-taught filmmaker. His debut film as a director is ''Streetlight''. ''Streetlight'' ''Streetlight'' (Malayalam - സ്ട്രീറ്റ്ലൈറ്റ് ''Sţrīṛṛlaiṛṛ'') is a Malayalam film written and directed by Sankar. The film was shot entirely in Kerala with a cast that includes Aparna Nair, Irshad, Krishnan Balakrishnan and Maya Viswanath. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar (actor)
Shankar is an Indian actor who has worked in Malayalam and Tamil films. He acted in nearly 200 films.In the 80s and early 90s he was the most prominent romantc lead actor of Malayalam cinema. Shankar's debut Tamil film '' Oru Thalai Ragam,'' and Malayalam debut, ''Manjil Virinja Pookkal,'' completed a theatrical run of 365 and 250 days respectively. Early life Shankar was born to Thekkeveettil N. K. Panicker and Sulochana in Kechery, Thrissur, Kerala in 1960. His family later moved to Chennai when he was four years old. His father was a senior manager at Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited. He has two siblings, Krishnakumar and Indra. He completed the schooling from St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Chennai. He pursued a Bachelors in History from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Rishikesh. Later he joined South Indian Film Chambers of acting completing 2 years of an acting course. Career As an actor Shankar's first film was legendary superst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy () is an Indian musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. They have composed music for over 50 soundtracks across five languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and English. Amongst the most critically acclaimed Indian musicians, the trio have won numerous awards, including National Film Award (India), Filmfare Awards, and IIFA Awards. They are often referred to as the "Amar Akbar Anthony" of the Hindi film music industry. Members Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan, the main vocalist of the trio, was born and brought up in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai, in a Tamil family from Kerala. He learned Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing the veena at the age of five. He studied under Shrinivas Khale, a popular Marathi music composer. After graduating in 1988 with a degree in Software Engineering from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai under the auspices of Mum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar Roy Chowdhury (character)
Shankar Ray Choudhuri is a fictional character and the hero of the novel of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, ''Chander Pahar'', a young Bengali man from a village in undivided Bengal, India. He is a smart, brave person who has a penchant for adventures. A franchise has been adapted from the novel which features Shankar. Background Shankar is an ordinary young Bengali boy, from a nondescript village of Bengal. He is a 20-year-old youth, recently graduated from college and due to financial difficulties in the family, was about to take up a job in a jute mill of Shyamnagar, a prospect he absolutely loathes. In Africa Since childhood, geography has been his pet subject; he has wanted to follow the footsteps of renowned explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, and Marco Polo, all of whom he has read about. He yearns for adventure, wild lands, forests and animals and the continent of Africa. By a stroke of luck, he secures a job as a clerk in Uganda Railway through an acquaintance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar, Jalandhar
''Shankar'' is a village in the Nakodar tehsil of Jalandhar district in Punjab, India. About Shankar is a large size village that lies on the Nakodar-Jandiala Road. The nearest railway station to this village is Shankar Railway station about 2 km from the village. One of the oldest villages of the state of Punjab, this village has given birth to many scholarly people, politicians, army officers, engineers, doctors, prominent teachers and journalists. Notable persons * Swaran Singh - India's longest-serving union cabinet minister. External links ''Chhinjh Mela Shankar''Shri Krishan Akhada, Chhinjh Committee, VPO: Shankar, Jalandhar, Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ... (INDIA-144042) References Villages in Jalandhar district Villages in Nako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar, Iran
Shankar ( fa, شنکر; also known as Shankī) is a village in Ladiz Rural District, in the Central District of Mirjaveh County Mirjaveh County ( fa, شهرستان میرجاوه) is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Mirjaveh. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Mirjaveh District of Zahedan County Zah ..., Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 38, in 8 families. References Populated places in Mirjaveh County {{Mirjaveh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar's Virus
Shankar's Virus (also known as W97M.Marker.o) is a polymorphic computer virus that infects Microsoft Word documents and templates. It was discovered on 3 June 1999. Creation The virus may have originated as a program initially intended to be used in conjunction with Microsoft Word 1997. Some sources attribute the name Sam Rogers to be the identity of a programmer who may have created the virus or contributed to its creation. One source contests that Shankar's Virus has existed since internet immemorial and cites the on/off code in the eighth sub-line of the viruses main code evidence that Sam Rogers or some other individual simply awoke it from dormancy. The polymorphic nature of its code caused some programmers to believe that the virus cycles between long period of activity and inactivity, during numerous iterations of this cycle it steadily absorbed more data from modern systems becoming much harder to delete over time. Potentially the virus can wield a limitless amount of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar's International Dolls Museum
The International Dolls Museum is a large collection of dolls in Delhi, India. It was set up by K. Shankar Pillai, a political cartoonist. Housed in the Children's Book Trust building on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, accessed through a separate entrance, a winding staircase, leading up to a foyer. The museum has a floor area of and occupies a portion of the first floor. History K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), noted cartoonist, set up Children's Book Trust, a pioneering work in the field of children's literature in India, in 1957. Later, a gift of a doll from a Hungarian diplomat gave Shankar the idea of collecting dolls from countries he visited. He often held exhibitions for poor children, and at one exhibition in Delhi, among the hundreds of visitors were the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru accompanied by his daughter Indira Gandhi. Indira was inspired and together with Shankar set up an international museum for dolls, eventually materializing on 30 November 1965. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar's Weekly
''Shankar's Weekly'' was an Indian satirical magazine published between 1948 and 1975. It was founded and run by Keshav Shankar Pillai, a pioneering political cartoonist. The magazine has been compared to the UK's '' Punch''. The weekly printed its first issue in 1948 after Pillai left the '' Hindustan Times'' following pressure from ''Times'' editor Devdas Gandhi to stop publishing cartoons critical of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent Congress leader. The magazine was launched by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, with whom Pillai shared a close friendship, even though Pillai described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment". ''Shankar's Weekly'' became a platform for aspiring cartoonists across the country. Prominent cartoonists who published in the weekly include R K Laxman, Rajinder Puri, Kevy, Kutty, Bal Thackeray and Yesudasan. The magazine invited contributions from readers in a designated space. Many cartoonists, such as E. P. Unny, published through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIVV
The ''Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya'' (Hindi, translates as "Spiritual Godly University". Devanagari: आध्यात्मिक ईश्वरीय विश्वविद्यालय) claims itself to be a reformative splinter group within the Brahma Kumaris religious movement. Followers of the ''Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya'' (AIVV) refer to themselves as the ''Prajapita Brahma Kumaris'' (PBKs) or Advance Party. The AIVV sees itself and the Brahma Kumaris Organization as two halves of the same spiritual family who will eventually re-unite to transform this world from hell into heaven, although the BKWSU does not share the same belief. The organisation is based in Kampil, Uttar Pradesh, India Beliefs Central to the PBKs' beliefs is that at the beginning of the movement, there was a different medium, Dada Lekhraj's business partner, who died in 1942, reincarnated as the AIVV's leader Virender Dev Dixit and has, since Lekhraj Kripalani's death, become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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