Tapas or Tapasya is an Indian given name. It may refer to:
Etymology
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Tapas'' (
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 ...
: तपस्) is a concept in Indian religions that refers to a variety of ascetic practices including austerities and penance.
People in performing arts
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Tapasya Nayak Srivastava
Tapasya Nayak is an Indian television actress. She is known for appearing in the television serial '' Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat'' as Ahankara's mother Queen Nihaarika. She has worked in many other serials of Sony SAB such as ''Taarak Mehta ...
, television actress
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Tapas Paul (1958-2020), actor and politician
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Tapas Relia
Tapas Relia ( gu, તપસ રેલિયા; born 11 August 1978) is an Indian music composer and producer, known for his famous advertising campaigns for brands like Close-Up (toothpaste), Domino's Pizza, Amaron Batteries, IPL and Mahabhar ...
, music composer and producer
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Tapas Sargharia
Tapas Sargharia is an India film director, actor and screenwriter, who works mainly in Ollywood.
Career
Tapas has started his career as an actor in film '' Pagal Premi'' in 2007. Then worked as an assistant director in ''Suna Chadhei Mo Rupa Ch ...
, Ollywood film director
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Tapas Sen
Tapas Sen ( 11 September, 1924 – 28 June, 2006) was a noted India, Indian Stage lighting, stage lighting designer, who was an important figure in 20th-century Indian theatre. He started working with Bengali theatre movement in Kolkata in the l ...
(1924-2006), stage lighting designer
Other people
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Tapas Kumar Kundu (born 1962), molecular biologist
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Tapas Posman (born 1973), Papua New Guinean footballer
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Tapasyananda (1904-1991), senior monk of the Ramakrishna Mission
See also
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Tapa (disambiguation)
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Indian given names