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Ashok Banker
Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and mythological retellings. The author of several well-received novels including a trilogy billed as "India's first crime novels in English", he became widely known for his retellings of Indian mythological epics, starting with the internationally acclaimed and best-selling eight-volume ''Ramayana'' Series. His books have sold over 2 million copies and have been published in 16 languages in 58 countries. His Epic India Library is an attempt at retelling all the myths, legends and itihasa of the Indian sub-continent in one story cycle comprising over 70 volumes. Early life Childhood Banker was raised by his grandmother, May Agnes Smith. She married Mr. D'Souza, an Indian Christian from Goa, and the couple settled in Byculla in Mumbai. His grandmother financed the publication of his first book, a collection of poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Infobox writer may be used to summarize information about a person who is a writer/author (includes screenwriters). If the writer-specific fields here are not needed, consider using the more general ; other infoboxes there can be found in :People and person infobox templates. This template may also be used as a module (or sub-template) of ; see WikiProject Infoboxes/embed for guidance on such usage. Syntax The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article. All fields are optional. Any unused parameter names can be left blank or omitted. Parameters Please remove any parameters from an article's infobox that are unlikely to be used. All parameters are optional. Unless otherwise specified, if a parameter has multiple values, they should be comma-separated using the template: : which produces: : , language= If any of the individual values contain commas already, add to use semi-colons as separators: : which produces: : , ps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Literature
Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Republic of India has 22 officially recognised languages. The earliest works of Indian literature were orally transmitted. Sanskrit literature begins with the oral literature of the Rig Veda, a collection of literature dating to the period 1500–1200 BCE. The Sanskrit epics ''Ramayana'' and ''Mahabharata'' were subsequently codified and appeared towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. Classical Sanskrit literature developed rapidly during the first few centuries of the first millennium BCE, as did the Pāli Canon and Tamil Sangam literature. In the medieval period, literature in Kannada and Telugu appeared in the 9th and 10th centuries respectively. Later, literature in Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, and Maithili appeared. Thereafter literature in various dialects of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vortal Shockwave
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information (a portlet); often, the user can configure which ones to display. Variants of portals include mashups and intranet "dashboards" for executives and managers. The extent to which content is displayed in a "uniform way" may depend on the intended user and the intended purpose, as well as the diversity of the content. Very often design emphasis is on a certain "metaphor" for configuring and customizing the presentation of the content (e.g., a dashboard or map) and the chosen implementation framework or code libraries. In addition, the role of the user in an organization may determine which content can be added to the portal or deleted from the portal configuration. A portal may use a search engine's application programming inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (born 7 July 1963) is an Indian film director, occasional actor and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing '' Rang De Basanti'' (2006) and '' Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'' (2013). He is the writer and director of the films ''Aks'' (2001) and '' Delhi-6'' (2009). Early life He was born on 7 July 1963 in Delhi. His father worked for the '' Claridges'' hotel in New Delhi. He was a part of the selection camp as a swimmer in the 1982 Asian Games held at New Delhi but was not selected in the final round. He studied at Air Force Bal Bharati School in Delhi. Personal life and thoughts In 1992, Mehra married film editor, P. S. Bharathi. The couple have a daughter, Bhairavi, and a son named Vedant. Mehra criticised the vote-bank politics behind the introduction of the Mandal Commission by VP Singh, and said it inspired him to pen the script of ''Rang De Basanti''. Mehra has criticised India's education system as being too marks-driven, without any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhishek Kapoor
Abhishek Kapoor (born 6 August 1971) is an Indian film director and producer who works in Hindi cinema. Career He started his career as an actor in 1996 with movies ''Aashique Mastane'', opposite '' Monica Bedi'', directed by ''Ajay Kashyap'' and ''Uff! Yeh Mohabbat'', opposite Twinkle Khanna, directed by Vipin Handa. He made his directorial début with '' Aryan'' in 2006 which was a critical and commercial failure. In 2008, he wrote and directed '' Rock On!!'' an Indian Rock musical film starring Farhan Akhtar and Arjun Rampal that won the "National Award for Best Hindi Film" for outstanding artistic contribution towards cinema. The film went on to become a major success, bringing not just accolades but also a Filmfare Award in 2009. In 2013, " Kai Po Che" (2013) based on Chetan Bhagat's novel, 'The 3 Mistakes of my Life' had its world premiere at the 63rd Berlin Film Festival's World Panorama segment and won the Filmfare Award in 2014 for Best Screenplay. In 2016, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siddhartha Roy Kapur
Siddhartha or Siddharth is the birth name of the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Buddha. Siddhartha may also refer to: Books * ''Siddhartha'' (novel), about a fictional contemporary of the Buddha, by Hermann Hesse Film and TV * ''Siddhartha'' (1972 film), a 1972 American film * ''Sidhartha'' (1998 film), a 1998 Indian Malayalam film * ''Siddharth'' (2013 film), a 2013 Indian-Canadian film * ''Siddhartha'' (2015 film), a 2015 Indian Kannada film Music * Siddharta (band), a Slovenian rock band * Siddhartha (band), an American rock band * ''Siddhartha'' (opera), opera by Per Nørgård * ''Siddhartha'' (1976), orchestral suite by Claude Vivier (1948-1983) * ''Siddhartha'' (musical), a 2007 original production by Chu Un Temple and BLIA Cebu * "Siddhartha", a song by Jerry Cantrell on the album '' Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2'' * "Siddhartha", a song by Art Farmer from ''Crawl Space'' Organisations * Siddhartha University, the first and the only Buddhist university in Nepal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney India
The Walt Disney Company India Private Limited, known simply as Disney India, is the Indian subsidiary of the Indo Pacific region of the American media and entertainment conglomerate The Walt Disney Company and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. In March 2019, after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, which included Indian TV giant Star India, Disney India became India's biggest television broadcaster. History Joint venture Walt Disney India was formed in August 1993 with a licensing agreement as a joint venture partnership between The Walt Disney Company and Modi Enterprises. Disney filed in October 2001 with the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to create a wholly owned subsidiary company to launch the Disney Channel in India. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion granted Disney an initial approval for the subsidiary but with Modi protesting because of similarities to their joint venture. When the 10 year licensing agreement ended, Modi and Disney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Book List
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s to enable time-sharing of computers. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s to enable resource sharing. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is often a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. The most common genres that overlap with the thriller genre include crime, horror and detective fiction. Characteristics Writer Vladimir Nabokov, in his lectures at Cornell University, said: In an Anglo-Saxon thriller, the villain is generally punished, and the strong silent man ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tata Literature Live! 2012, Panel Discussion On Women In Detective Fiction
Tata or TATA may refer to: Places * Jamshedpur, a city in Jharkhand, India also known as Tatanagar or Tata * Tata, Hungary, a town in Hungary * Tata Islands, a pair of small islands off the coast of New Zealand * Tata, Morocco, a city in Tata Province * Tata Province, Morocco * Țâța River, a tributary of the Ialomiţa River in Romania Companies * Tata Sons, India's largest conglomerate and owner of Tata Group * Tata Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate company ** List of entities associated with Tata Group People Surname * Tata family, an influential family of India owning the Tata Group ** Jamsetji Tata (1839–1904), known as the father of Indian industry ** Dorabji Tata (1859–1932), Indian industrialist and philanthropist ** Ratanji Tata (1871–1918), financier and philanthropist, son of Jamsetji Tata ** J. R. D. Tata (1904–1993), Indian pioneer aviator and founder of Tata Airlines ** Naval H. Tata (1904–1989), industrialist, recipient of Pad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dom Moraes
Dominic Francis Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who published nearly 30 books in English. He is widely seen as a foundational figure in Indian English literature. His poems are a meaningful and substantial contribution to Indian and World literature. Early life Dom Moraes was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Beryl and Frank Moraes, former editor of ''The Times of India'' and later ''The Indian Express''. He had a tormented relationship with his mother Beryl, who had been confined to a mental asylum since his childhood. His aunt was the historian Teresa Albuquerque. He attended the city's St. Mary's School, and then left for England to enrol at Jesus College, Oxford. Moraes spent eight years in Britain (in London and Oxford), New York City, Hong Kong, Delhi and Bombay (now Mumbai). Career David Archer published Moraes' first collection of poems, ''A Beginning'', in 1957. When he was 19, still an undergraduate, he became the first Indian to wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
