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Upadhyay
Upadhyaya is a Brahmin name from Sanskrit ''upādhyāya'' "teacher" (from ''upa'' ‘with, under’ + ''adhyāya'' ‘studying’).https://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=Upadhyay Notable people *Amar Upadhyay, Indian model, film and television actor *Amod Prasad Upadhyay (born 1936), Nepalese social worker and politician *Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay (1865–1947), writer of Hindi literature *Brahmabandhav Upadhyay (1861–1907), Bengali Brahmin, nephew of the Indian freedom-fighter Kalicharan Banerjee *Chabilal Upadhyaya (1882–1980), Nepali Brahmin(Bahun), First President (Selected) of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee *Chintan Upadhyay (born 1972), Indian artist, accused of a 2015 murder * Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay, Indian politician *Deendayal Upadhyaya (1916–1968), Indian politician and thinker, co-founder of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh *Darshan Upadhyaya, Canada-born American esports player *Harilal Upadhyay (1916–1994), Gujarati author *Hema Upadhyay (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deendayal Upadhyaya
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968) was an Indian politician, proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Upadhyaya started the monthly publication ''Rashtra Dharma'', broadly meaning 'National Duty', in the 1940s to spread the ideology of Hindutva nationalism. Upadhyaya is known for drafting Jan Sangh's official political doctrine, ''Integral humanism'', by including some cultural-nationalism values and selectively appropriating few Gandhian socialist principles such as sarvodaya (progress of all) and swadeshi (self-sufficiency). Early life He was brought up in a Brahmin family by his maternal uncle. His education, under the guardianship of his maternal uncle and aunt, saw him attend high school in Sikar. The Maharaja of Sikar gave him a gold medal, Rs 250 to buy books and a monthly scholarship of Rs 10. and did his Intermediate in Pil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brahmabandhav Upadhyay
Brahmabandhav Upadhyay (born ''Bhavani Charan Bandyopadhyay'') ( bn, ব্রহ্মবান্ধব উপাধ্যায়; 11 February 1861 – 27 October 1907) was an Bengalis, Indian Bengali theologian, journalist and freedom fighter. He was closely attached with Keshub Chandra Sen, classmate of Swami Vivekananda and close acquaintance of Rabindranath Tagore. Early life Brahmabandhab Upadhyay was born as ''Bhavani Charan Bandyopadhyay'' in a ''Kulin'' Brahmin family. His father, Debi Charan Bandyopadhyay was a police officer of the British regime. Debicharan had three sons. The eldest was Hari Charan, who became a doctor in Calcutta, the second was Parbati Charan who practiced as a pleader, and the third was Bhavani Charan. He was born in village Khannyan in Hooghly district of undivided Bengal (presently in West Bengal). Bhavani Charan lost his mother Radha Kumari when he was only one year of age and was raised by one of his grand mothers. Bhavani Charan recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Upadhyay
Amar Upadhyay (born 1 August 1976) is an Indian actor. He started his career with modelling and he is best known for his collaborations with Ekta Kapoor in the television shows namely '' Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'' (2000-2002), '' Kalash'' (2001), '' Kasautii Zindagii Kay'' (2005), '' Kkusum'' (2005), ''Molkki'' (2020–2022) etc. His other television shows include '' Dekh Bhai Dekh'' (1993-1994), '' Viraasat'' (2006-2007), '' Chand Ke Paar Chalo'' (2008-2009), '' Saath Nibhaana Saathiya'' (2015-2017), ''Ishqbaaaz'' (2019). Apart from television shows, he has appeared in many films like ''Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge!'' (1998), '' Dhund: The Fog'' (2003), ''LOC Kargil'' (2003), '' 13B'' (2009), '' It's My Life'' (2020), ''Kaagaz'' (2021) and ''Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2'' (2022). Early life Amar Upadhyay was born on 1 August 1976 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat into a Gujarati family. He grew up in the Malad suburb of Mumbai, and studied chemical engineering in college. After college he attended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hema Upadhyay
Hema Upadhyay (born Hema Hirani; 1972 – 11 December 2015) was an Indian artist based in Mumbai. She was known for photography and sculptural installations. She was active from 1998 until her death in 2015. Personal life Born Hema Hirani in Baroda, she met her future husband and fellow artist Chintan Upadhyay in 1992. The couple married in 1998, and settled in Mumbai. They worked together in many exhibitions, before filing for a divorce in 2010. They were officially divorced in 2014. Chintan then moved to Delhi; she lived in their flat on the Juhu-Tara road. Early works Hema had her first solo exhibition, titled ''Sweet Sweat Memories'', at Gallery Chemould, now Chemould Prescott road (Mumbai), in 2001. The exhibition consisted of mixed media on paper works. In these works she has incorporated her own photographs to communicate her ideas of migration having moved to Bombay in 1998. Hema's paintings were usually characterised by the inclusion of small-collaged photograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amod Prasad Upadhyay
Amod Prasad Upadhyay ( ne, आमोद प्रसाद उपाध्याय; born March 29, 1936) is a Nepalese social worker and politician.Constituent Assembly of Nepal, Member Details (Nepali). Retrieved Sep 18, 2013 Early life Upadhyay was born in to Janak Prasad Upadhyay and Chandrakumari Upadhyay. He studied at Adarsha Vidyala in Biratnagar and completed his higher secondary education from[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satish Upadhyay
Satish Upadhyay (born 6 March 1962) is an Indian Politician serving as the Vice Chairman of New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC). He was former President of the Delhi Unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Councillor from the Malviya Nagar's Ward No. 161 in the South Delhi Municipal Council (SDMC). He was elected President of the Delhi BJP in July 2014 in the Lok Sabha elections. Prior to his taking presidential office, he served as Vice President of the Delhi BJP unit from 2010-2012 and as Secretary of the Delhi BJP unit from 2009-2010. Upadhyay joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in the 1980s. He has also been a Member of the Censor Board of Film Certification and the TAC in Delhi. Student life He has a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Political Science from Delhi University. While in college, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and contested Delhi University Student Union elections as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samrat Upadhyay
Samrat Upadhyay ( ne, सम्राट उपाध्याय)(born 1964) is a Nepalese born American writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States in 1984 at the age of twenty-one. He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington, Indiana. In 2001, Upadhyay won a Whiting Award for fiction. He was an English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio before moving to Indiana in 2003. His books specially portray the current situation in Nepal, which Upadhyay views largely through the lens of contemporary American realist fiction. According to the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Upadhyay is "like a Buddhist Chekhov." Selected texts ''Arresting God in Kathmandu'' (2001) First pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chabilal Upadhyaya
Chabilal Upadhyaya was born on 12 May 1882 at Budhigang (Undivided Darrang) present day Biswanath district, was the first (selected) president of the Assam Pradesh Congress committee. In 1919 Upadhyaya's family settled at Mazgaon (Gongmouthan), Behali Tehsil. Political contributions Chabilal Upadhyaya, popularly known as Chabilal Babu was a prominent leader of the Indian Freedom Movement from Assam.Upadhyaya joined the war of independence. On April 18, 1921, a meeting chaired by Upadhyaya was held in jorhat where the '' Assam Association'' was merged with ''Indian National Congress'' to form ''Assam Pradesh Congress Committee''. He became the first (selected) president of the Assam Pradesh Congress committee. He was arrested by the British for joining the Congress and paid a jail term of six months by joining the ''Non-Cooperation movement'' under Gandhiji's leadership. Upadhyaya played an important role in establishing various local schools in Gohpur Sub-division. Under his l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chintan Upadhyay
Chintan Upadhyay (born 1972) is an Indian artist. He was awarded the Charles Wallace Foundation Award for Residency in Bristol, UK in 2012. He began as a painter, but now creates sculptures and installations, the surfaces of which he paints. His best known sculpture project is perhaps the Pet Shop project, which is an ongoing production of a "model baby" for every season, ''Baby fetish''. Early life Chintan was born in 1972 in Partapur, Rajasthan, India, and gained a BFA Painting Faculty of Fine Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India in 1995 and MFA Painting Faculty of Fine Arts from M.S. University, Gujarat, India in 1997. Accused of murder In December 2015, Upadhyay was accused and arrested in connection with the double murder of his estranged wife Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani. Their bodies were found in khakhi-coloured cardboard boxes floating in a nullah. He has twice been denied bail and the case is ongoing. Solo shows *201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrikrishna Upadhyay
Krishna Upadhyay (also Srikrishna or Shrikrishna) (born 1945) is a Nepalese entrepreneur and economist. Career Upadhyay worked with the Agriculture Development Bank for 28 years, leaving in 1990. From 1991 to 1994, he served as a member of the National planning Commission and was in charge of the Poverty Alleviation Programme. In 1991, he was the founder of the organization ''SAPPROS'', Support Activities for Poor Producers of Nepal. His notable books are Pro-Poor Growth and Governance in South Asia–Decentralization and Participatory Development, and Economic Democracy through Pro-Poor Growth. In 2010, he was recognized for his work in alleviating poverty as a winner of the Right Livelihood Award. Asked if there was a common formula for bringing villages out of poverty, he advocated a "participatory approach and involving people in the planning, design, execution and management of small projects in rural areas hatwill enhance their capacity and increase impact and sustainability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay
Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay (3 August 1898 – 26 June 1983) was an Indian politician, statesman, and leader in the Indian independence movement. He was a Member of Parliament from Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, belonging to the Indian National Congress. Early life He was born 3 August 1898 in Lakshmanpur Village, Lalganj Tehsil of Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, to Gazadhar Prasad Upadhyay. He was an exceptionally bright student and learner. He matriculated from Somvanshi Higher Secondary School (PB Inter College), Pratapgarh and did his post-graduation at Kayastha Pathshala, Allahabad, and law education from Allahabad University. Soon he started working with the mayor's office in Allahabad. He married Annapoorna Upadhyay in 1933. Political life He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and was the only person from Pratapgarh who signed the draft of the Indian Constitution. Post-independence, he became the first candidate from Pratapgarh to become a Member of Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umesh Upadhyay
Umesh Upadhyay is a veteran Indian television journalist and media executive. He is currently President & Director Media at Reliance Industries Limited., prior to which he was President News at Network 18. Early life and career A career spanning over 25 years in media industry and academics, Umesh worked at Janmat TV (Channel Head), Zee News (Executive Producer and Editor, Output), SAB TV, Home TV (Executive Producer), Doordarshan (Correspondent), and Press Trust of India (Sub Editor). He started his career as a lecturer at Delhi University. He has been associated with All India Radio (AIR) as a political analyst and commentator. He is a noted member of the Editors Guild of India. Umesh held a senior position in the academic field as Director of Disha Education Society, Raipur. Apart from managing affairs of Disha Group of Institutions, he was designated as Pro VC of the upcoming Disha University. Umesh has been nominated by the Government of India to the Executive Council of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
