Chitra may refer to:
Art
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Chitra (art)
Chitra, also spelled as Citra, is an Indian genre of art that includes painting, sketch and any art form of delineation. The earliest mention of the term ''Chitra'' in the context of painting or picture is found in some of the ancient Sanskrit tex ...
, a historic art that includes paintings, sketching with or without multiple colors
People
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Chithra
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963), always credited as K. S. Chithra or Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning over four decades, she has recorded over 25,000 songs in various I ...
, Indian playback singer
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Chitra (actress), Indian film actress
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V. J. Chitra, Indian television actress
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Chitra Bahadur K.C., Nepalese politician
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ''Arrang ...
(born 1956), Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English
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Chitra Bharucha (born 1945), former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust
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Chitra Dewi
Rara Patma Dewi Tjitrohadiseikusumo (26 January 1930 – 28 October 2008), best known under her stage name Chitra Dewi, was an Indonesian film actress and director. She was noted for her roles in Usmar Ismail's films of the 1950s, appearing i ...
(1934–2008), Indonesian actress
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Chitra Ganesh
Chitra Ganesh (born 1975) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Ganesh's work across media includes: charcoal drawings, digital collages, films, web projects, photographs, and wall murals. Ganesh draws from mythology, literature, and pop ...
(born 1975), artist based in Brooklyn, New York
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Chitra Lekha Yadav, Nepalese politician
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Chitra Mudgal
Chitra Mudgal (born 10 December 1943) is an Indian Writer and one of the leading literary figures of modern Hindi literature.
She is the first Indian woman to receive the coveted Vyas Samman for her novel ''Avaan''.
In 2019 she was awarded ...
(born 1944), literary figure in modern Hindi literature
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Chitra Sarwara (born 1975), Indian politician from Haryana
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Chitra Singh
Chitra Singh () is an Indian ghazal singer. She, alongside her husband, Jagjit Singh, popularized the ghazal genre. Respectfully known as the "king and queen of the Ghazal world," the husband and wife duo created some of the most successful Indi ...
(born 1945), female ghazal singer
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Chitra Soman
Chitra Kulathummuriyil Soman (born 10 July 1983) was born in Kottayam, Kerala. Her father is from Kottayam and her mother is from kanjirappally, Kerala. She is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. Soman finished seventh in 4 x ...
(born 1983), Indian sprinter
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Chitra Subramaniam
Chitra Subramaniam Duella is an Indian journalist. She is recognized in India for her investigation of the Bofors-India Howitzer deal (Bofors Scandal) which is widely believed to have contributed to the electoral defeat of former prime Minister ...
(born 1958), Indian journalist
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Chitra Visweswaran
Chitra Visweswaran is an Indian Bharata Natyam dancer who runs a dance school, the Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts, in Chennai.
She was awarded the Padma Shri, one of the top civilian honours given by the Government of India, in 1992 ...
, classical dancer
Zoology
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''Chitra'' (genus), a turtle genus from Asia
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Sandfly
Sandfly (or sand fly) is a colloquial name for any species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking dipteran (fly) encountered in sandy areas. In the United States, ''sandfly'' may refer to certain horse flies that are also known as "greenhea ...
, a biting fly found in sandy areas
Institutions
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, Thiruvananthapuram, India
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Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Other uses
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''Chitra'' (1946 film), a 1946 Tamil-language film
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''Chitra'' (2001 film), a 2001 Kannada-language film
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''Chitra'' (play), a 1914 play by Rabindranath Tagore
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''Chitra'' nakshatra, in Hindu astrology, a nakshatra (lunar mansion) corresponding to the constellation
Spica
Spica is the brightest object in the constellation of Virgo and one of the 20 brightest stars in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation α Virginis, which is Latinised to Alpha Virginis and abbreviated Alpha Vir or α Vir. Analys ...
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Chitra River
The Chitra River is located in southwestern Bangladesh. It is one of the large coastal rivers of the Ganges-Padma system. It joins with the Nabaganga, and then flows into the Bhairab River
Bhairab River ( bn, ভৈরব নদী) is a riv ...
, a river in the Narail District of southwestern Bangladesh
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Chitrakar
Chitrakar (Devanagari: चित्रकार) is a caste within the Newar community of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The Newar caste system is divided according to profession. Accordingly, Chitrakars were painters and mask makers. In Nepal B ...
, painters and mask makers
* ''Chitra'', a 1960 ballet by
Niyazi
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Chitra, Deoghar, a village in Jharkhand, India
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