Nalini (
Devanagari
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 syste ...
: नलिनी) is a female gender
Indian
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given name, which means "lotus", "goddess Gayatri","mother of Vedas", "sweet nectar", "Amrit", Feminine "lily" in
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
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[''Baby Names'']
"Nalini"
Retrieved on 9 January 2016. The name may refer to:
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Nalini Selva (actress) (born 1984), Indian actress
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Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady (March 20, 1959 – October 28, 2013) was an Indian-American social psychologist and a leading expert on nonverbal behavior and interpersonal perception. She was born in Calcutta, India and earned her bachelor’s degree at Lady S ...
(1959–2013), Indian psychologist
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Nalini Anantharaman
Nalini Anantharaman (born 26 February 1976) is a French mathematician who has won major prizes including the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012.
Life
Nalini Florence Anantharaman was born in Paris in 1976 to two mathematicians. Her father and her mot ...
(born 1976), French mathematician
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Nalini Bala Devi
Nalini Bala Devi (23 March 1898– 24 December 1977) was an Indian writer and poet of Assamese literature, known for nationalistic as well as mystical poetry. Das, p. 197 She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1957 for her c ...
(1898–1977), Indian writer
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Nalini Balbir
Nalini Balbir (born 1955) is a French Indologist who lives in Paris. She is a scholar of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism. She was a direct student of Indologist Colette Caillat. She is known for her work on the publication ...
(born 1955), French scholar
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Nalini Bekal
Nalini Bekal (born 15 October 1954) is a Malayalam novelist and short story writer.Nalini Chatterjee
Sir Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee (died 6 September 1942) was a judge of the Calcutta High Court, India from 1910 to 1926 and officiated as Chief Justice on three occasions. He was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours. He became a ...
(died 1942), Indian judge
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Nalini Jameela
Nalini Jameela (born 18 August 1954) is an Indian best selling author, sex worker activist and former prostitute, sex worker from Thrissur, Kerala. She is the author of the books ''The Autobiography of a Sex-worker'' (2005) and ''Romantic Encount ...
(born 1955), Indian writer
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Nalini Jaywant
Nalini Jaywant (18 February 1926 – 22 December 2010) was an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi films in the 1940s and 1950s.
Background and personal life
Jaywant was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1926. She was first cousin of actre ...
(1926–2010), Indian actress
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Nalini Joshi
Nalini Joshi is an Australian mathematician. She is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, the first woman in the School to hold this position, and is a past-president of the Australian Mathematica ...
(born 1959), Australian mathematician
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Nalini Krishan
Nalini Krishan (born August 30, 1977) is a Fiji-born Australian actress best known for role as Barriss Offee in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones''.
Early life
Nalini Krishan is an Indo-Fijian who was raised in Australia.
Early ...
(born 1977), Fijian actress
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Nalini Malani
Nalini Malani (born 19 February 1946) is a contemporary Indian artist widely acknowledged to be among the country's first generation of video artists. She works with several mediums which include theater, videos, installations along with mixed ...
(born 1946), Indian artist
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Nalini Nadkarni
Nalini Nadkarni is an American ecologist who pioneered the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies. Using mountain climbing equipment to make her ascent, Nadkarni first took an inventory of the canopy in 1981, followed by two more inventories i ...
(born 1954), American ecologist
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Nalini Selvaraj (1944–2014), Indian writer
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Nalini Priyadarshni (born 1974) Indian poet
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Nalini Selvan (1882–1953), Indian business
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Nalini Selvarasa
Nalini (Devanagari: नलिनी) is a female gender Indian given name, which means "lotus", "goddess Gayatri","mother of Vedas", "sweet nectar", "Amrit", Feminine "lily" in Sanskrit.''Baby Names''"Nalini" Retrieved on 9 January 2016. The name ...
(born 1984), Indian scholar, was princess spencer of all nation
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Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh (born September 01, 1945) is an Indian journalist.
She has been the anchor for several current affairs programs on Doordarshan, and is most known for her program, 'Aankhon Dekhi', on investigative journalism.
She had made another ...
(born 1945), Indian journalist
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Nalini Singh (author)
Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of Indo-Fijian descent. She has authored numerous paranormal romance novels.
Early life
Of Indian descent, Nalini Singh was born in 1977 in Rotuma, and moved to New Zealand as a child. She attended Moun ...
(born 1977), New Zealand writer
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Nalini Singh (human rights activist) Nalini Singh is a human rights activist from Fiji. In 2017 she was appointed director of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement.
Life
Singh is a graduate of the University of the South Pacific and the Australian National University.
She has worked ...
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Nalini Negi
Nalini Negi (born 14 August 1992) is an Indian television actress and model best known for her role as Trisha Swaika in Laut Aao Trisha.
Early life and education
She was born in Delhi, but her native place is Himachal Pradesh. She obtained a ...
(born 1990), Indian actress and model
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