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Sonita may refer to: * Sonita Kingdom, an ancient Indian kingdom *Sonita Alizadeh, Afghan rapper * Sonita Sutherland, Jamaican athlete * ''Sonita'' (film), a documentary about the Afghan rapper *A common misspelling of Sinitta Sinitta Malone (born 19 October 1963), known mononymously as Sinitta, is an American-born British singer, actress and television personality. She initially found commercial success in the mid-1980s with the single "So Macho" and had several ot ...
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Sonita Kingdom
Sonita was the country of Asura king Bana or Vana. His daughter ''Usha'' married Vasudeva Krishna's grandson Aniruddha. References in Mahabharata ''The link between Sonita kingdom and its king Bana is made clearer in the Bhagavata Purana'' King Bana of Sonita is mentioned as follows:- Vasudeva Krishna hath slain Jarasandha, and Vakra, and Shishupala of mighty energy, and Bana in battle, and numerous other kings also have been slain by him (5:130). At (5:64) Krishna is again mentioned as the slayer of Vana and Bhumi's son Naraka (of Pragjyotisha Kingdom). At (9:46) Bana is mentioned as the son of Bali. (Diti (Matriarch) > Hiranyakasipu > Prahlada > Virochana > Bali > Bana (1:65). See also * Kingdoms of Ancient India References *Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli *Bhagavata purana of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa Krishna Dvaipayana ( sa, कृष्णद्वैपायन, Kṛṣṇadvaipāyana), better known a ...
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Sonita Alizadeh
Sonita Alizadeh ( prs, سونیتا علیزاده; born 1996) is an Afghan rapper and activist who has been vocal against forced marriages. Alizadeh first gained attention when she released "Brides for Sale," a video in which she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families. With the help of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian documentary filmmaker who over three years documented her story in the film '' Sonita'', Alizadeh filmed the video to escape a marriage her parents were planning for her, even though it is illegal for women to sing solo in Iran, where she was living at the time. After releasing the video on YouTube, Alizadeh was contacted by the Strongheart Group, which offered her a student visa and financial help to come and study in the United States of America, where she then relocated and has resided since. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. Early life Alizadeh grew up in Herat, Afghanistan, under the rule of the Taliban. Her fam ...
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Sonita Sutherland
Sonita Sutherland (born 9 July 1987 in Manchester) is a Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...n 400 metres runner. Her personal best is 51.13 seconds, achieved in April 2006. International competitions References * 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Manchester Parish Jamaican female sprinters 21st-century Jamaican women {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Sonita (film)
''Sonita'' is a 2015 documentary film about Sonita Alizadeh, a 15-year-old Afghan rapper and refugee living in Tehran. The film was directed by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the festival's World Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. ''Sonita'' follows Alizadeh, who fled the Taliban in Herat Herāt (; Persian: ) is an oasis city and the third-largest city of Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Selseleh-ye Safē ..., Afghanistan as a child and is an undocumented refugee, over a three-year period. During the making of the documentary, Alizadeh's relatives attempt to sell her into marriage. Ghaemmaghami intervened by paying them $2,000 to delay the marriage, and later helping Alizadeh to secure a scholarship in the United States. Ghaemmaghami 's interference in her documentary subject's life ...
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