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Vivek Gurav
Vivek (or Bibek/Bivek in some regions) (विवेक in Devanagari script) is a masculine given name that is popular in South Asia, particularly in India and Nepal. It is of Sanskrit origin and means "wisdom" and/or "conscience". Vivek may refer to: * Vivek (actor) (1961–2021), Indian Tamil film actor * Vivek Borkar (born 1954), Indian electrical engineer and mathematician * Vivek Chibber, American sociologist and Marxist theorist * Vivek Dahiya (born 1984), Indian television actor * Vivek Gupta (businessman) (born 1960s), Indian-born American businessman * Vivek Harshan (born 1981), Indian Tamil film editor * Vivek Kar, Bollywood composer * Vivek Kundra (born 1974), US Federal CIO * Vivek Lall (born 1969), Famous aerospace leader * Vivek (lyricist) (born 1985), Indian Tamil film lyricist * Vivek Mahbubani (born 1982), Hong Kong stand-up comedian * Vivek–Mervin, are an Indian musical duo * Vivek Murthy (born 1977), 19th Surgeon General of the United States * Vivek Oberoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devanagari Script
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient Brahmi script, ''Brāhmī'' script, used in the northern Indian subcontinent. It was developed and in regular use by the 7th century CE. The Devanagari script, composed of 47 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 33 consonants, is the fourth most widely List of writing systems by adoption, adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages.Devanagari (Nagari) , Script Features and Description, SIL International (2013), United States The orthography of this script reflects the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Mahbubani
Vivek Ashok Mahbubani ( sd, وويڪ محبوباڻِي; born 25 September 1982) a.k.a. Ah V (), is a stand-up comedian in Hong Kong,"How to write a joke in China", ''Time'' 15 November 2007 a musician and an award-winning new media designer. Biography Vivek is a of Indian descent and was born and raised in . He grew up in an Indian household where he spoke English and says he faced a lot of cultural challenges because he was surrounded by non-Indians. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivekachudamani
The ''Vivekachudamani'' (; IAST: ) is an introductory treatise within the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism, traditionally attributed to Adi Shankara of the eighth century, though this attribution has been questioned and mostly rejected by scholarship. It is in the form of a poem in the ''Shardula Vikridita'' metre, and for many centuries has been celebrated as a (teaching manual) of Advaita. ''Vivekachudamani'' literally means the 'crest-jewel of discrimination'. The text discusses key concepts and the ''viveka'' or discrimination or discernment between real (unchanging, eternal) and unreal (changing, temporal), Prakriti and Atman, the oneness of Atman and Brahman, and self-knowledge as the central task of the spiritual life and for Moksha.Sri Sankara’s Vivekachudamani Achyarya Pranipata Chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swami Vivekananda (other) , a bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India
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Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a chief disciple of Ramakrishna. Swami Vivekananda or Vivekanda may also refer to: * ''Swami Vivekananda'' (1955 film) * ''Swami Vivekananda'' (1998 film) *Swami Vivekananda Airport * Swami Vivekananda Bridge or Ellis Bridge * Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology *Swami Vivekanand Road (Mumbai) * Swami Vivekananda Road metro station, Bangalore *Vivekananda Setu Vivekananda Setu (also called Willingdon Bridge and Bally Bridge) is a bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. It links the city of Howrah, at Bally, to Kolkata, at Dakshineswar. Completed on 1931, it is a multispan truss bridge a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka
The ''Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka'' or ''Vâkyasudhâ'' is an Advaita Vedanta text attributed to Bhāratī Tīrtha or Vidyaranya Swami (c. 1350) Authorship Although also attributed to Adi Shankara, the text is most commonly attributed to Bharatī Tīrtha (c. 1350). It is also known as ''Vakya Suddha'', which is attributed to Adi Shankara. Contents The ''Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka'' contains 46 slokas performing an inquiry into the distinction between the "seer" (''Dṛg'') and the "seen" (''Dṛśya''), an overview of ''samadhi'', centering on ''savikalpa'' and '' nirvikalpa'', and the identity of ''Atman'' and ''Brahman''. See also * Self-enquiry * Ajativada * Viveka ''Viveka'' ( sa, विवेक, viveka) is a Sanskrit and Pali term translated into English as discernment or discrimination. Viveka is considered as first requirement for the spiritual journey. The next requirement in the joureny in Vedanta, ... * Sakshi (Witness) References Sources ;Printed sources * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Wadhwa
Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic. He is Distinguished Fellow & Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley and Distinguished Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is also author of books ''Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain—and How to Fight Back'', ''Driver in the Driverless Car,'' ''Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology'', and ''Immigrant Exodus''. Early life and education Wadhwa was born in Delhi, India. He graduated from the University of Canberra in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in Computing Studies, and from New York University in 1986 with an MBA. Career At Credit Suisse First Boston, Wadhwa led the development of a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool to develop client-server model software. First Boston spent $150 million on these development efforts. The CASE technology was spun off by First Bos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Tiwary
Vivek J. Tiwary (born May 15, 1973) is an American author and theater producer. Early life Vivek J. Tiwary was born in New York City to immigrant parents from India. He graduated from New York's Collegiate School high school and, in 1996, from the University of Pennsylvania, ''magna cum laude'', with undergraduate degrees from both the Wharton School of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences. Career Early on in his career, Tiwary held several major label music-industry positions, including launching and heading the Alternative Marketing Department at Mercury/PolyGram Records, and managing Video Promotion for Mercury/PolyGram, where he worked closely with MTV and VH1. In 2004, Tiwary was a lead producer for a Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's ''A Raisin in the Sun''. In 2010, Tiwary was a co-producer for both the Broadway productions of Green Day's rock opera, '' American Idiot'' and '' The Addams Family''. In total, Tiwary's Broadway productions have garnered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Singh (other)
Vivek Singh may refer to: * Vivek Singh (cricketer) Rohit Vishwakarma (born 1 November 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Railways. He made his first-class debut on 15 November 2015 in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy, playing for Railways Rail transport (also known as train transport) is ... (born 1993), Indian cricketer * Vivek Singh (field hockey) (1967–2007), Indian Olympic hockey player * Vivek Singh (sport shooter), Indian sports shooter * Vivek Singh (chef) (born 1971), London-based Indian chef {{Hndis, Singh, Vivek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Shraya
Vivek Shraya (born February 15, 1981) is a Canadian musician, writer, and visual artist. She currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, where she is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the University of Calgary. As a trans woman of colour, Shraya often incorporates her identity in her music, writing, visual art, theatrical work, and films. She is a seven-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, and considered a Great Canadian Filmmaker of the Future by CBC Arts. Shraya is dedicated to bringing creative writing opportunities to emerging BIPOC writers over the age of 50 through the founding of her award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books, which serves as a "mentorship and publishing opportunity" for these writers. Shraya is also a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, which fights for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ women. Currently, she is focusing on the adaptation of her debut play, ''How to Fail as a Popstar'', for use on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Ranadivé
Vivek Yeshwant Ranadivé (; born 7 October 1957) is an Indian-American business executive, engineer, author, speaker and philanthropist.D'Agostino, RyanThe Man Who Knows Everything ''Esquire''. 19 January 2012. Ranadivé is the founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of TIBCO Software, a business intelligence software company, and of Teknekron Software Systems.Gladwell, MalcolmHow David Beats Goliath ''The New Yorker''. 11 May 2009.World Economic Forum Davos 2012: Vivek Ranadivé launches social networking site TopCom for leaders to interact ''Economic Times''. 26 January 2012. Ranadivé is also a co-owner and chairman of the |
Vivek Ranade
Vivek Vinayak Ranade (born 1963) is an Indian chemical engineer, entrepreneur and a professor of chemical engineering at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the Queen's University, Belfast. He is a former chair professor and deputy director of the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He is known for his work on bubble column, stirred and trickle-bed reactors and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy. and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2004. Biography Ranade, born on 15 October 1963 at Jalgaon in the Indian state of Maharashtra to Vinayak Bhagwant Ranade and Vijaya, did his graduate studies at the Department of Chemical Tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy (born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur in the healthcare and technology sectors, a political commentator, and a ''New York Times'' bestselling author. In 2022, he founded Strive Asset Management and currently serves as the Executive Chairman. Prior to Strive, he founded the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences. He is the author of ''Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam'', which was published in August 2021, and ''Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence'', published September 13, 2022. Prior to founding Roivant in 2014, Ramaswamy co-founded a technology company and was a partner at an investment firm. He is writing and speaking against stakeholder capitalism, big tech censorship, and critical race theory more recently. He has been called by the US Federalist Society "one of the most compelling conservative voices in the country". Personal life and education Ramaswamy was born a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
