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Indo-Aryan peoples (1,597 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian

Aamir Khan (15,909 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan (pronounced [ˈaːmɪr xaːn]; born 14 March 1965) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and television personality who works in Hindi

Mother Teresa (12,316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother

Raj Kapoor (4,858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raj Kapoor (pronounced [raːdʒ kəˈpuːɾ]; birth name Shrishti Nath Kapoor; 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988; also known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor) was an Indian

List of Indians by net worth (203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The list of richest Indians by net worth based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine. As of April 2023

Pooja Bhatt (1,868 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pooja Bhatt (born 24 February 1972) is an Indian actress, director, and filmmaker. She established herself as one of the leading actresses of Hindi cinema

Dravidian peoples (7,601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reflected in the post-Harappan mixture of IVC and Ancient Ancestral South Indian people. Yet, according to Krishnamurti, Dravidian languages may have reached

Salman Khan (11,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (pronounced [səlˈmɑːn xɑːn]; born 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who predominantly

S. Shankar (2,449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shankar Shanmugam (born 17 August 1963), credited as S. Shankar or his mononym Shankar, is an Indian film director, film producer, and screenwriter who

Kader Khan (2,111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kader Khan (22 October 1937 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and film producer. As an actor, he appeared in over 300 Bollywood films

Tom Alter (2,220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Beach Alter (22 June 1950 – 29 September 2017) was an Indian actor. He was best known for his works in Hindi cinema, and Indian theatre. In 2008

Feroz Khan (actor) (1,487 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Feroz Khan (25 September 1939 – 27 April 2009), born Zulfiqar Ali Shah Khan, was an Indian actor, film editor, producer, and director best known for his

Kasturba Gandhi (1,803 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi (listen, born Kasturba Gokuldas Kapadia; 11 April 1869 – 22 February 1944) was an Indian political activist who was involved in

Tiger Shroff (4,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jai Hemant Shroff (born 2 March 1990), known professionally as Tiger Shroff, is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. Born to actors Jackie Shroff

Priyadarshan (3,526 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Priyadarshan (born 30 January 1957) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. In a career spanning almost three decades, Priyadarshan has directed over

Krishna (Telugu actor) (2,282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna Murthy (31 May 1943 – 15 November 2022), known mononymously as Krishna, was an Indian actor, film director and film producer

Hema Malini (4,321 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the

Ram Gopal Varma (3,858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma (born 7 April 1962), often referred to by his initials RGV, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, known for his

S. A. Chandrasekhar (906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

S. A. Chandrasekar (born 2 July 1945) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor who primarily works within Kollywood. He made

Nathuram Godse (2,598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) (pronunciation) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a Hindu nationalist from Maharashtra

Nassar (actor) (1,041 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

M. Nassar (born Muhammad Hanif; 5 March 1958) is an Indian actor, director, producer, dubbing artist, singer and politician who mainly works in the Tamil

Arjun Sarja (3,499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Srinivasa Sarja (born 15 August 1962), better known by his stage name Arjun Sarja or simply Arjun, is an Indian actor, producer, and director who works

Sohail Khan (1,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sohail Salim Abdul Rashid Khan (born 20 December 1970) is an Indian actor, writer, film director and producer who works mainly in Hindi cinema. He is the

Balachandra Menon (763 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Balachandra Menon (Malayalam: ബാലചന്ദ്ര മേനോൻ; born 11 January 1954) is an Indian actor, director and script writer. He made a number of films in the 1980s

Atiśa (1,524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Atīśa (c. 982–1054) was a Buddhist religious leader and master. He is generally associated with his work carried out at the Vikramashila monastery in Bihar

Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2,949 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Gujarati: [ˈsəndʒeː ˈlilɑː ˈbʱəɳsɑliː]; born 24 February 1963) is an Indian filmmaker and music composer, who works in Hindi cinema

Central India (774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Central India is a loosely defined geographical region of India. There is no clear official definition and various ones may be used. One common definition

Kamal Haasan (10,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Parthasarathy Srinivasan (born 7 November 1954), known professionally as Kamal Haasan, is an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter,

Suhasini Maniratnam (1,059 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Suhasini Maniratnam (née Charuhasan; born 15 August 1961) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Tamil and Telugu films. She has worked as an actress

Ashutosh Gowariker (2,140 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ashutosh Gowariker (born 15 February 1964) is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for directing

Dileep (2,620 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan , better known by his stage name Dileep, is an Indian actor, producer, and businessman who predominantly works in the Malayalam

David Dhawan (978 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David Dhawan (born Rajinder Dhawan; 16 August 1951) is an Indian director of Hindi films. A member of the Dhawan family, he has directed over 42 films

West Indian (321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

defines it simply as a citizen of any West Indies nation. Some West Indian people reserve this term for citizens or natives of the British West Indies

MS Dhoni (10,982 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (/məˈheɪndrə ˈsɪŋ dhæˈnɪ/ ; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian professional cricketer who plays as a right-handed batter and a wicket-keeper

Mani Ratnam (6,775 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gopalaratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who predominantly

Rakesh Roshan (2,329 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rakesh Roshan (born 6 September 1949) is an Indian film producer, director, screenwriter and actor who works in Hindi films. He had appeared in 84 films

Adil Hussain (2,032 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Khandkar Mohammad Adil Hussain (pronounced [ʕaːdɪl ħuˈseːn]; born 5 October 1963) is an Indian actor who is known for his work in several Indian independent

Subhash Ghai (1,197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Subhash Ghai (born 24 January 1945) is an Indian film director, producer, actor, lyricist, music director and screenwriter, known for his works predominantly

Santosh Sivan (874 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi

Aditya Chopra (4,789 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aditya Chopra (born 21 May 1971) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and studio executive. He is the Chairman of India's multi-national

Mrinal Sen (1,496 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mrinal Sen (14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu

Satish Kaushik (1,063 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Satish Chandra Kaushik (13 April 1956 – 9 March 2023) was an Indian actor, director, producer, comedian, editor and screenwriter. He found his fame in

K. Bhagyaraj (1,890 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Krishnaswamy Bhagyaraj (born 7 January 1953) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, composer, film producer and politician active mainly in Tamil

Fardeen Khan (1,721 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Fardeen Khan (/ˈfɑːrðiːn/; born 8 March 1974) is an Indian actor who mainly works in Hindi films. Born to actor and film producer Feroz Khan, he is part

Anurag Kashyap (9,339 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian film director and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of four Filmfare

Revathi (1,418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Asha Kelunni (born 8 July 1966), better known by her stage name Revathi, is an Indian actress and director, known for her works predominantly in Tamil

Sundar C (2,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vinayagar Sundar Vel (born 21 January 1968), known professionally as Sundar C, is an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, playback singer and film

Bharathiraja (2,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bharathiraja (/bɑːrʌðɪrɑːdʒɑː/ born 17 July 1941) is an Indian film director and actor who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Making his debut in

Aparna Sen (1,721 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta, Ôporna Shen) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has received

Rishi Kapoor (3,581 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rishi Kapoor (4 September 1952 – 30 April 2020) was an Indian actor, film director, and producer who worked in Hindi films. Kapoor was the recipient of

Sachin Pilgaonkar (1,896 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sachin Pilgaonkar, often known mononymously by his screen name Sachin, is an Indian actor, director, producer, writer and singer of Marathi and Hindi films

Rohit Shetty (2,276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rohit Shetty (born 14 March 1974) is an Indian film director, stuntman, writer, producer and television host who works in Hindi cinema. His movies often

Savitri (actress) (1,726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Nissankara Savitri (also known as Savitri Ganesan; 6 December 1934 – 26 December 1981) was an Indian actress and filmmaker who predominantly worked in

Ashfaqulla Khan (1,092 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ashfaqulla Khan (22 October 1900 – 19 December 1927) was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement against British rule and the co-founder

K. Balachander (3,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kailasam Balachandar (9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian playwright, film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor who worked mainly

Sathyan Anthikad (397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sathyan Anthikad is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. In a career spanning five decades

Jackie Shroff (2,875 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff (born 1 February 1957), known by his screen name Jackie Shroff, is an Indian actor and former model from Mumbai, Maharashtra

Mira Nair (3,392 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her production company, Mirabai Films, specializes in films for

Amala Akkineni (1,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amala Akkineni (née Mukherjee) (born 12 September 1967) is an Indian actress, Bharatanatyam dancer, and activist. She has predominantly worked in Tamil

R. Parthiban (1,903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Radhakrishnan Parthiban (born 15 November 1957) is an Indian actor and film director who works mainly in Tamil cinema. He has directed 16 films, produced

Muzaffar Ali (438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Muzaffar Ali (born 21 October 1944) is an Indian filmmaker, fashion designer, poet, artist, cultural revivalist, and social worker. Raja Muzaffar was born

K. Raghavendra Rao (731 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (born 23 May 1942) is an Indian filmmaker known primarily for his work in Telugu cinema, besides a few Hindi films. Over a career

Meiyang Chang (306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meiyang Chang (born 6 October 1982) is an Indian actor, television host, singer and a dentist. He came to prominence as a contestant on the third season

Srinu Vaitla (272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Srinu Vaitla (born 24 September 1972) is an Indian film director who works in Telugu cinema. Known for the best film works in the action comedy genre,

Dawood Ibrahim (3,163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dawood Ibrahim (/ɪbrəˈhiːm/ ; born 26 December 1955) is an Indian mob boss, drug lord, and terrorist from Dongri, Mumbai, who is wanted by the Indian government

Lal (actor) (934 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

M. P. Michael (born 2 December 1958), better known by his stage name Lal, is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, producer and distributor who predominantly

Radhika Sarathkumar (1,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Radhika Sarathkumar (/rɑːðɪkɑː/) is an Indian actress, film producer, film director and politician who works predominantly in Tamil and Telugu cinema,

Venkat Prabhu (1,577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Venkat Kumar Gangai Amaren (born 7 November 1975), better known by his stage name Venkat Prabhu, is an Indian film director, actor and playback singer

J. P. Dutta (373 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jyoti Prakash Dutta (born 3 October 1949) is an Indian film producer, writer and director who works in Hindi cinema. He best known for making patriotic

Prakash Jha (1,714 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prakash Jha (born 27 February 1952) is an Indian film producer, actor, director and screenwriter, mostly known for his political and socio-political films

Ancient Beringian (1,060 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Ancient Beringian (AB) is a human archaeogenetic lineage, based on the genome of an infant found at the Upward Sun River site (dubbed USR1), dated

Ebrahim Alkazi (1,853 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ebrahim Alkazi (18 October 1925 – 4 August 2020) was an Indian theatre director and drama teacher. A rigid disciplinarian, he instilled in his acting students

Naseeruddin Shah (1,975 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor. He was notable in Indian parallel cinema and has starred in various international productions

Kittur Chennamma (1,283 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kittur Chennamma (23 October 1778 – 21 February 1829) was the Indian Queen of Kittur, a former princely state in present-day Karnataka. She led an armed

Nasir Hussain (1,505 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mohammad Nasir Hussain Khan (16 November 1926 – 13 March 2002), better known as Nasir Hussain, was an Indian film producer, film director, and screenwriter

Narahari Tirtha (652 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Narahari Tirtha (c. 1243 - c. 1333) was a Dvaita philosopher, scholar, statesman and one of the disciples of Madhvacharya. He is considered to be the progenitor

Manivannan (1,515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

S. S. Manivannan (31 July 1953 – 15 June 2013) was an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, voice artist, playback singer and social activist who

Bala (director) (1,346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Bala is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, working in Tamil cinema. Bala has been praised for "revolutionizing Tamil cinema" through

Karan Johar (4,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Karan Kumar Johar (born Rahul Kumar Johar; 25 May 1972), often informally referred to as KJo, is an Indian film director, producer and television personality

Raja Ravi Varma (3,376 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic

Zayed Khan (1,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Zayed Abbas Khan (born 5 July 1980) is a former Indian actor and producer who appeared in Hindi films. The son of Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan, he has received

K. S. Ravikumar (2,645 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

K. S. Ravikumar (born 30 May 1958) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor who primarily works in Tamil cinema and few Telugu

Farah Khan (1,854 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Farah Khan Kunder (née Khan; born 9 January 1965) is an Indian film director, writer, film producer, actress, dancer and choreographer who works predominantly

Amal Neerad (701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amal Neerad is an Indian film director, cinematographer and producer who mainly works in Malayalam cinema. He attended the Satyajit Ray Film and Television

Peñon woman (320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peñon woman or Peñon Woman III is the name for the human remains, specifically a skull, of a Paleo-Indian woman found by an ancient lake bed in Pueblo

Prabhu Deva (3,856 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prabhu Deva (born 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer and actor who has worked predominantly in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu

Adnan Sami (4,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, actor and pianist. He performs Indian and Western music in many languages

Northeast India (9,416 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative

AR Murugadoss (1,466 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Murugadas Arunachalam (born 25 September 1974), known professionally as AR Murugadas, (pronunciation) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and film

Jijabai (435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jijabai Shahaji Bhonsale (née Jadhav; 12 January 1598 – 17 June 1674), referred to as Rajmata Jijabai, was the mother of Shivaji, founder of the Maratha

Sanjay Khan (1,906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sanjay Khan (born as Shah Abbas Ali Khan, 3 January 1941) is an Indian actor, producer and director known for his works in Hindi films and television.

Krishna Vamsi (387 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pasupuleti Venkata Bangarraju, known professionally as Krishna Vamsi, is an Indian film director, producer and choreographer known for his work in Telugu

Devi Lal (1,256 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1914 – 6 April 2001), also known as Chaudhary Devi Lal, was an Indian statesman and politician who served as 6th

Fazil (director) (615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Abdul Hameed Muhammed Fazil (born 4 February 1949), known mononymously as Fazil, is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor who

Merle Oberon (3,159 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress who began her film career in British films

Harshad Mehta (2,173 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harshad Shantilal Mehta (29 July 1954 – 31 December 2001) was an Indian stockbroker and a convicted fraudster. Mehta's involvement in the 1992 Indian securities

Gangai Amaran (697 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gangai Amaran (born 8 December 1947) is an Indian composer, playback singer, lyricist,actor, film director and a screenwriter in Tamil films. Gangai Amaran

Shyam Benegal (2,849 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema

Sibi Malayil (488 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sibi Malayil (born 2 May 1956) is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema. Since the mid-1980s he has directed around forty films. He did

I. V. Sasi (1,605 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Irruppam Veedu Sasidaran (28 March 1947 – 24 October 2017) was an Indian film director who made over 110 films predominantly in Malayalam, in addition

Manobala (1,203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Balachandar (8 December 1953 – 3 May 2023), known by his stage name Manobala (/mənoʊbɑːlɑː/), was an Indian actor, film producer, director, comedian, and

Vikramaditya Motwane (726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vikramaditya Motwane (born 6 December 1976) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for films like

Rajat Kapoor (944 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rajat Kapoor is an Indian actor, filmmaker and playwright who works in Hindi cinema. Rajat Kapoor was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Old Delhi. In

Amol Palekar (1,301 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amol Palekar (born 24 November 1944) is an Indian actor, director and producer of Hindi and Marathi cinema. Palekar was born to Kamlakar and Suhasini Palekar

Jahnu Barua (511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jahnu Barua (born 1952) is an Indian film director. He has written and directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films. Some of his notable films are Halodhia

Yusuf Hamied (1,554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yusuf Khwaja Hamied (born 25 July 1936) is an Indian scientist, billionaire businessman and the chairman of Cipla, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded

Anees Bazmee (330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anees Bazmee is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is best known directing for No Entry, (2005) Welcome (2007)

Chiranjeet Chakraborty (961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Deepak Chakraborty (better known in film career as Chiranjeet Chakraborty; born 2 November 1955), is an Indian actor and director in the Bengali film industry

The Buddha (26,412 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

January 2012 Rawlinson, Hugh George (1950), A Concise History of the Indian People, Oxford University Press Ray, Reginald A. (1999), Buddhist Saints in

Puri Jagannadh (1,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Petla "Puri" Jagannadh (born 28 September 1966) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who works primarily in the Telugu film Industry

Dev Anand (9,039 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dev Anand (born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work

Girish Kasaravalli (1,129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Girish Kasaravalli (born 3 December 1950) is an Indian film director, in the Kannada cinema, and one of the pioneers of the Parallel Cinema. Known internationally

Pankaj Kapur (1,253 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pankaj Kapur (born 29 May 1954) is an Indian actor who has worked in Hindi theatre, television and films. Recipient of a Filmfare Award and three National

Zorawar Singh (Dogra general) (2,435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Zorawar Singh (1784–12 December 1841) was a military general of the Dogra Rajput ruler, Gulab Singh, who served as the Raja of Jammu under the Sikh Empire

Narasimha Saraswati (915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shree Narasimha Saraswati Swami or Shree Nrusimha Saraswati Swami (श्रीनृसिंह सरस्वती, 1378−1459) was an Indian guru of Dattatreya tradition(sampradaya)

Tinnu Anand (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tinu Anand (born Virender Raj Anand, 12 October 1945) is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer in Hindi cinema and a few Telugu and Tamil films

Shaji Kailas (1,393 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shaji Kailas (born 8 February 1965) is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his works in Malayalam cinema. Shaji got a breakthrough with

Ritika Singh (885 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ritika Mohan Singh is an Indian actress and martial artist who predominantly features in Tamil films, in addition to Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam films

Rani of Jhansi (4,921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lakshmibai Newalkar, the Rani of Jhansi or Jhansi ki Rani widely known as Rani Lakshmibai (pronunciation; born Manikarnika Tambe; 19 November 1828 — 18

Major Sundarrajan (564 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Srinivasan Sundarrajan (17 March 1935 – 28 February 2003), popularly known as Major Sundarrajan, was an Indian actor and film director who performed predominantly

Suresh Krissna (675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Suresh Krissna (born 25 June 1959) is an Indian film director who has directed Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi Language films. His first independent

Mahavira (8,259 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Popularity Index (HPI), Mahavira is ranked 19th among the most famous Indian people of all time. Mahavira's teachings were influential. According to Rabindranath

Vikram Bhatt (1,330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vikram Bhatt (born 27 January 1969) is an Indian director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing the Raaz film series, an Indian

Minnesota Woman (542 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Minnesota Woman, also known as Pelican Rapids-Minnesota Woman (c. 5955 – c. 5939 BC), is the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old

Shah Jalal (2,226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shāh Jalāl Mujarrad Kunyāʾī (شيخ جلال مجرد كنيائي), popularly known as Shah Jalal (Bengali: শাহ জালাল, romanized: Shah Jalal), was a celebrated conqueror

Bharat Gopy (1,032 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gopynathan Velayudhan Nair (2 November 1937 – 29 January 2008), popularly known by the stage name Bharat Gopy, was an Indian actor, producer, and director

Mahesh Bhatt (2,758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mahesh Bhatt (born 20 September 1948) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Hindi cinema. He has received a number

Shaji N. Karun (1,839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shaji Neelakantan Karun (born 1 January 1952) is an Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi (1988) won the Caméra d'Or – Mention

Asita (1,391 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Religion portal Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India. He was a teacher and

M. S. Sathyu (921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mysore Shrinivas Sathyu (born 6 July 1930) is a film director, stage designer and art director from India. He is best known for his directorial Garm Hava

Koratala Siva (989 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Koratala Siva (born 15 June 1975) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema. Koratala has directed action drama films such

Sooraj Barjatya (1,307 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sooraj R. Barjatya (born 22 February 1965) is an Indian filmmaker who works in Hindi cinema. He has directed and produced some of the most commercially

Bapu (director) (1,548 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sattiraju Lakshminarayana (15 December 1933 – 31 August 2014), known professionally as Bapu, was an Indian film director, painter, illustrator, cartoonist

Sonia Gandhi (4,858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sonia Gandhi (Hindi: [ˈsoːnɪjaː ˈɡaːndʱiː], Italian: [ˈsɔːnja ˈɡandi]; née Maino [ˈmaino]; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving

Samuthirakani (1,193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuthirakani (born 26 April 1973) is an Indian actor and film director who works predominantly in Tamil and Telugu films besides few Malayalam films.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2,434 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer and is regarded as one of the most notable and renowned

Mehmood (actor) (966 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Mehmood Ali (29 September 1932 – 23 July 2004), popularly known simply as Mehmood, was an Indian actor, singer, director and producer, best known for playing

Mahatma Gandhi (24,884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

evidence to a rich history of co-operation and efforts by Gandhi and Indian people with nonwhite South Africans against persecution of Africans and the

Abhishek Bachchan (7,460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abhishek Bachchan (pronounced [əbʰɪʂeːk ˈbətːʃən]; born 5 February 1976) is an Indian actor and film producer known for his work in Hindi films. Part of

Goutam Ghose (937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Goutam Ghose (also spelled Gautam Ghosh; born 24 July 1950) is an Indian film director, actor, music director and cinematographer who works primarily in

Jayaprakash Narayan (2,914 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava (listen; 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979), also known as JP and Lok Nayak (Hindi for "People's leader"), was an Indian

P. Vasu (1,752 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vasudevan Peethambaram, known professionally as P Vasu, is an Indian director, writer and actor who works predominantly in Tamil and Kannada films apart

Captain Nemo (3,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain Nemo (/ˈneɪmoʊ/; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's

Sarabjit Singh (3,653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sarabjit Singh Attwal (also spelled Sarabjeet Singh; 1963 or 1964 – 2 May 2013) (alleged to be Manjit Singh Rattu by Pakistan) was an Indian national convicted

Dasari Narayana Rao (1,904 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dasari Narayana Rao (4 May 1942 – 30 May 2017) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, lyricist, and politician, primarily known for

Tarsem Singh (1,638 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tarsem Singh Dhandwar (born 26 May 1961), known professionally as Tarsem, is an Indian director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials

Vijaya Nirmala (960 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vijaya Nirmala (born Nidudavolu Nirmala; 20 February 1946 – 27 June 2019) was an Indian actress, director, and producer known for her works predominantly

Shashi Kapoor (5,004 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shashi Kapoor (pronounced [ʃəʃi kəpuːɾ]; born Balbir Raj Kapoor; 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017) was an Indian actor and film producer who is best known

Vasanth (961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vasanth is an Indian director well known in Tamil language films for directing films such as Keladi Kanmani (1990), Aasai (1995), Nerrukku Ner (1997),

Sreenivasan (1,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sreenivasan (born 6 April 1956) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, dubbing artist and producer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. Sreenivasan

Raghubar Das (677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raghubar Das (born 3 May 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 26th Governor of Odisha. Das has previously served as the sixth Chief Minister

P. Ravi Shankar (1,197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pudipeddi Ravi Shankar (born 28 November 1966), also known as Sai Ravi, is an Indian actor, dubbing artist, director and a writer. As an actor, he predominantly

Kaundinya (2,600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kaundinya (Sanskrit कौण्डिन्य), also known as Ājñātakauṇḍinya, Pali: Añña Koṇḍañña), was one of the first five Buddhist monks (Pancavaggiya), disciple

Buhl Woman (974 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Buhl Woman was an Paleoindian Indigenous American woman whose remains were found in a quarry near Buhl, Idaho, United States, in January 1989. The

Ibrahim Khan Lodi (744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ibrahim Khan Lodi (Persian: ابراهیم لودی; 1480 – 21 April 1526) was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, who became Sultan in 1517 after the death of

Vijayakrishnan (332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vijayakrishnan is an Indian film critic, film historian and director born in 1952 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala He has received eight State Awards, one

Mohit Suri (623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mohit Suri (born 11 April 1981) is an Indian film director. Born into the Bhatt family, he is well known for directing the films Murder 2 (2011), the musical

Rajkumar Santoshi (2,684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter of Hindi films. A recipient of several accolades including three National Film

Ohlone (10,619 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Ethnohistory. Wíčazo Ša Review. Gould, Corrina. ""Indian People Organizing for Change." Indian People Organizing for Change". Kost, Ryan (November 28,

Abbas–Mustan (286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abbas–Mustan is an Indian filmmaker duo consisting of brothers Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla and Mustan Alibhai Burmawalla, working in Hindi cinema known for

N. T. Rama Rao (5,003 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (28 May 1923 – 18 January 1996), often referred to by his initials NTR, was an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter

Vinod Khanna (3,213 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vinod Khanna (6 October 1946 – 27 April 2017) was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who is best known for his work in Hindi films; while also

J. R. D. Tata (2,379 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, aviator and former chairman of Tata Group

Rajendra Kumar (3,318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rajendra Kumar (born as Rajendra Kumar Tuli; 20 July 1927 – 12 July 1999), was an Indian actor who starred in Bollywood films. Starting his career in 1949

Neerja Bhanot (2,019 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986) was an Indian flight purser. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers onboard Pan

Vero man (1,059 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vero Man refers to a set of fossilized human bones found near Vero (now Vero Beach), Florida, in 1915 and 1916. The human bones were found in association

Abdul Karim Telgi (729 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abdul Karim Telgi (29 July 1961 – 23 October 2017) was an Indian counterfeiter. He earned money by printing counterfeit stamp paper in India, with the

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (2,272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (also known as Mansur Ali Khan or M. A. K. Pataudi; 5 January 1941 – 22 September 2011; nicknamed Tiger Pataudi)

Lal Jose (1,210 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lal Jose is an Indian director, actor, producer and distributor who works in the Malayalam film industry. He started his career as an Assistant director

B. Lenin (809 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

B. Lenin born as Bhimsingh Lenin is an Indian film editor, writer and director who works in Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films. The son of Tamil film maker

Karthik Subbaraj (1,031 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Karthik Subbaraj (born 19 March 1983) is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter working mainly in Tamil cinema. Karthik did his schooling

Yogeshwar Dutt (1,167 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yogeshwar Dutt (born 2 November 1982) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the 60 kg category. He was

Engelbert Humperdinck (singer) (5,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Arnold George Dorsey MBE (born 2 May 1936), known professionally as Engelbert Humperdinck, is a British pop singer. AllMusic states that he "was one of

Tatya Tope (945 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tantia Tope (also spelled Tatya Tope, Marathi pronunciation: [t̪aːt̪ʲa ʈoːpe]; 16 February 1814 — 18 April 1859) was a notable commander in the Indian

Śāriputra (7,495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Śāriputra (Sanskrit: शारिपुत्र; Tibetan: ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་, Pali: Sāriputta, lit. "the son of Śāri", born Upatiṣya, Pali: Upatissa) was one of the top disciples

Rituparno Ghosh (3,578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rituparno Ghosh (31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist. After pursuing a degree in economics, he started

B. R. Chopra (1,115 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baldev Raj Chopra (22 April 1914 – 5 November 2008) was a prolific Indian director and producer noted for pioneering the Hindi film industry and television

Kamal (director) (829 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Kamaluddin Mohammed Majeed, mononymously known as Kamal, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in the Malayalam

Didda (1,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Didda (c. 924 CE – 1003 CE), also known as The Catherine of Kashmir, was the last ruler of Utpala dynasty from 980 CE to 1003 CE. She first acted as regent

Jayaraj (992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jayarajan Rajasekharan Nair, professionally credited as Jayaraj (born 31 May 1960), is an Indian filmmaker, who predominantly works in the Malayalam film

Kodi Ramakrishna (921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kodi Ramakrishna (23 July 1949 – 22 February 2019) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor. One of the most prolific directors of Telugu cinema

Kamal (director) (829 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Kamaluddin Mohammed Majeed, mononymously known as Kamal, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in the Malayalam

Gandhi (film) (4,822 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, a major leader in the Indian independence movement against the British Empire

Khema (2,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Khema (Pali: Khemā; Sanskrit: Kṣemā) was a Buddhist bhikkhuni, or nun, who was one of the top female disciples of the Buddha. She is considered the first

Balu Mahendra (5,148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran (19 May 1939 – 13 February 2014), commonly known as Balu Mahendra, cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor

Aribam Syam Sharma (502 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aribam Syam Sharma is an Indian filmmaker and composer from Manipur. He debuted in the first Manipuri film Matamgi Manipur as an actor. In 1974, he directed

Arlington Springs Man (1,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arlington Springs Man was an ancient Paleoindian, most likely a man, whose remains were found in 1959 on Santa Rosa Island, one of the Channel Islands

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (4,880 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Qadri (14 June 1856 – October 1921), known reverentially as A'la Hazrat, was an Indian Islamic scholar and poet who is considered

Anita Desai (1,480 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar; 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute

Bhola Nath Jha (56 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bhola Nath Jha is the recipient of Padma Vibhushan (1967), the second highest civilian honour of India, for his contribution to the field of civil services

Nawayath (389 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Nawayath (also spelled as Navayath and Nawayat and also called Nait, Naiti, Naithee and Naita) are an Indian community and a subgroup of Konkani Muslims

Pankaj Advani (billiards player) (2,444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and professional snooker player. He is a 27-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation

Asrani (1,751 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Govardhan Asrani (born 1 January 1940), known popularly by mononym Asrani, is an Indian actor and director whose Bollywood career has spanned over five

Soyarabai (731 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rajmatoshree Shrimant Soyarabai Saheb Bhosale (Mohite) died 1681) was second wife of Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of Maratha empire in western India. She

Moreshvar Pingale (58 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nilakanth Moreshvar Pingale was the second Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. He was the son of Moropant Trimbak Pingale and the elder brother of Bahiroji Pingale

Sakvarbai (136 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sakvarbai (née Gaikwad) was the fourth wife of Shivaji I, the founder of the Maratha Empire. She was a daughter of a Maratha aristocrat, Nandaji Rao Gaikwad

Farhan Akhtar (6,635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and singer who works in Hindi films. Born to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani

Mowgli (2,858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mowgli (/ˈmaʊɡli/ MOW-glee) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories

Puttanna Kanagal (1,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shubraveshti Ramaswamiah Seetharama Sharma (1 December 1933 – 5 June 1985), known popularly as S. R. Puttanna Kanagal, was an Indian filmmaker known for

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (6,352 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan (born 15 August 1967) is the head of the Indian social group Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) since 1990 and a convicted rapist and

Sreekumaran Thampi (1,507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sreekumaran Thampi (born 16 March 1940) is an Indian lyricist, music director, director, producer and screenwriter in Malayalam cinema. He also writes

Siddique (director) (547 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Siddique Ismail (25 March 1955 – 8 August 2023) was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor who predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema

Biswabhusan Harichandan (580 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Biswabhusan Harichandan (born 3 August 1934) is an Indian politician served as the 7th Governor of Chhattisgarh. He was former Governor of Andhra Pradesh

Shammi Kapoor (3,779 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shammi Kapoor (born Shamsher Raj Kapoor; (pronounced [ʃʌmːi kʌpuːɾ]; 21 October 1931 – 14 August 2011) was an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi

Deven Verma (527 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Deven Verma (23 October 1937 – 2 December 2014) was an Indian film and television actor, particularly known for his comic roles, with Bollywood directors

Agathiyan (624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Agathiyan (born 18 August 1952; pronunciation) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, and actor. He was the first director in Tamil

Virat Kohli (9,434 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Virat Kohli (Hindi pronunciation: [ʋɪˈɾɑːʈ ˈkoːɦli] ; born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer who plays Test and ODI cricket for the

Kabir Khan (director) (1,863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Kabir Khan is an Indian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer who works in Hindi cinema. He started his career working in documentary films,

V. Vijayendra Prasad (1,301 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Koduri Viswa Vijayendra Prasad (born 27 May 1942) is an Indian screenwriter and film director who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He also worked

Vivien Leigh (7,971 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vivien Leigh (/liː/ LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the

Iraqi Biradari (648 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Iraqi Biradri is a Sunni Muslim caste found chiefly in Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Ballia, Deoria and Gorakhpur districts of the eastern Uttar Pradesh in India

Mumtaz (Indian actress) (1,612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Mumtaz Askari Madhvani (née Askari; born 31 July 1947), known mononymously as Mumtaz is an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films. Regarded as one of

Sudhir Mishra (1,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sudhir Mishra (born 22 January 1959) is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for directing the films Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli

Ranjith (director) (3,815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Ranjith Balakrishnan is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor who works in Malayalam cinema. Ranjith made his directorial debut in

Irrfan Khan (4,530 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Irrfan Khan (Hindustani pronunciation: [ɪrfaːn xaːn]) (born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan; 7 January 1967 – 29 April 2020) was an Indian actor who worked in

Ketan Mehta (859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ketan Mehta (born 21 July 1952) is an Indian film director who has also directed documentaries and television serials since 1975. Born on 21 July 1952

Harishchandra (1,940 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harishchandra (Sanskrit: हरिश्चन्द्र, romanized: Hariścandra) is a legendary king of the Solar dynasty, who appears in several legends in texts such as

Faisal Khan (642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mohammad Faisal Hussain Khan (born 3 August 1966) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. He is famous for his role as Shankar Shane in Mela. Khan

Parambrata Chatterjee (658 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Parambrata Chattopadhyay (born 27 June 1980) is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted

Venkaiah Naidu (1,850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (born 1 July 1949) is an Indian politician who served as the 13th vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He has also served

Boman Irani (1,640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Boman Irani (born 2 December 1959) is an Indian actor, producer, filmmaker, photographer and voice artist who works in Hindi-language films in addition

Kiran Rao (1,050 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kiran Rao (born 7 November 1973) is an Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director who works in Hindi cinema. In 2016, Rao co-founded Paani Foundation

Ramanand Sagar (1,182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ramanand Sagar (born Chandramauli Chopra; 29 December 1917 – 12 December 2005) was an Indian director, producer, and writer. He is best known for making

Putalabai (110 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Putalabai Bhosale was the third queen of the Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji. She was from Palkar Family[citation needed] and married Shivaji in 1653

Yash Chopra (4,691 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yash Raj Chopra (27 September 1932 – 21 October 2012) was an Indian film director and film producer who worked in Hindi cinema. The founding chairman of

List of Indian Grammy Award winners and nominees (295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The following is a list of Grammy Awards winners and nominees from India. List of Indian winners and nominees of the Academy Awards List of Indian winners

Tabu (actress) (7,704 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Tabassum Fatima Hashmi (born 4 November 1971), known professionally as Tabu, is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi films. She is regarded as

Sripriya (1,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sripriya is an Indian former actress, film director and politician from Tamil Nadu. She has acted in over 300 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam

Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (138 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (7 April 1929 Alattukavu, Vallikeezhu, Kollam, (Kerala) – 6 February 2018) was a veteran Kathakali artiste. He was awarded the

Govind Nihalani (686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Govind Nihalani (born 19 December 1940) is an Indian film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema, particularly

Iranis (India) (302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Iranis (Persian: ایرانی; meaning Iranian) are an ethno-religious community in the Indian subcontinent; they descend from the Zoroastrians who emigrated

Ayan Mukerji (1,713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ayan Mukerji (born 15 August 1983) is an Indian filmmaker who works in Hindi films. A member of the Mukherjee-Samarth family, he is known for his collaborations

Sujoy Ghosh (521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sujoy Ghosh is an Indian film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter who works in Hindi films. He has directed Jhankaar Beats (2003), Home Delivery:

Dadasaheb Phalke (5,553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Pronunciation: [d̪ʱuɳɖiɾaːd͡ʒ pʰaːɭke]), popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), was an Indian

Khudiram Bose (3,403 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lamenting the deaths of the two innocent women. He stated "that the Indian people will not win their freedom through these methods." Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Soha Ali Khan (2,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Soha Ali Khan Pataudi (born 4 October 1978) is an Indian actress who has work in Hindi, Bengali and English films. She is the younger daughter of veteran

Arabs in India (1,148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arabs in India are people with Arab origins who have over a long period of time, settled in the Indian subcontinent. There have been extensive trade and

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Hrishikesh Mukherjee (30 September 1922 – 27 August 2006) was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers

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Dia Mirza Rekhi (born Dia Handrich; 9 December 1981) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. She won the title of Miss Asia Pacific International

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Senthamizhan Seeman (born 8 November 1966) is an Indian film director, actor and politician. He is the leader and chief-coordinator of the Naam Tamilar

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Vivian Dsena (born 28 June 1988) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi television. He made his acting debut with Kasamh Se in 2008. Dsena is best known

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Basu Chatterjee (10 January 1927 – 4 June 2020) was an Indian film director and screenwriter in Hindi Cinema.Through the 1970s and 1980s, he became associated

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Satti Venkata Krishna Reddy is an Indian film director, screenwriter, composer, and actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has garnered

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Kabir Bedi (born 16 January 1946) is an Indian actor. His career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among

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Ayushmann Khurrana (born Nishant Khurrana; 14 September 1984) is an Indian actor and singer who works in Hindi films. Known for his portrayals of ordinary

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Renu Devi (born 1 November 1959) is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar from 16 November 2020 to 9 August 2022. She

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S. P. Muthuraman, also referred to as SPM, is an Indian film director who works in the Tamil film industry. He has directed 72 films in Tamil. He was one

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Sandip Ray (born 8 September 1953) is an Indian film director and music director who mainly works in Bengali cinema. He is the only child of the famous

Shakeela (1,281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

C. Shakeela, known mononymously as Shakeela, is an Indian actress and politician who has predominantly acted in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu language films

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The Chaush or Chaus are a community who are of Hadhrami Arab descent. They are found in the Deccan region of India. The Chaush or Chaus were brought from

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Dinesh Vijan is an Indian film producer and founder of entertainment company Maddock Films. He has produced over 20 films under this banner. Vijan gave

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Ram Chandra Bharadwaj, also known as Pandit Ram Chandra was the president of the Ghadar Party between 1914 and 1917. As a member of the Ghadar Party, Ram

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Vikraman is an Indian film director primarily working in Tamil cinema. He worked as an assistant to actor and director R. Parthiban in Puthiya Pathai (1989)

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Sasikumar Mahalingam (born 28 September 1974) is an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and playback singer. He worked as an assistant

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R. Sundarrajan is an Indian film director, actor, comedian and writer for Tamil language films. Active primarily in the 1980s and the 1990s as a filmmaker

Morarji Desai (3,376 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India

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Maharani Tarabai Bhosale (née Mohite) was the regent of the Maratha Empire from 1700 until 1708. She was the queen of Rajaram I, and daughter-in-law of

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Matangini Hazra (19 October 1870 – 29 September 1942) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the Indian independence movement. She was leading

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Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (born 27 June 1964) is an Indian sports administrator and retired track and field athlete. Usha was born in Koothali

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Imtiaz Ali (born 16 June 1971) is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing Jab We Met (2007), Love Aaj Kal (2009)

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Kaikala Satyanarayana (25 July 1935 – 23 December 2022) was an Indian actor, producer, director, and politician who predominantly worked in Telugu cinema

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A. Kodandarami Reddy (born 1 July 1950) is an Indian film director best known for his works in Telugu cinema. His association with Chiranjeevi created

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Sara Ali Khan Pataudi (pronounced [saːɾa əˈli xaːn]; born 12 August 1995) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. Born into the Pataudi family,

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Vignesh Shivan (born 18 September 1985) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor and lyricist who works in Tamil cinema, making films

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Ravindra Kaushik (11 April 1952 – 21 November 2001) was an Indian Research and Analysis Wing agent who spied for India from 1975 until he was captured

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Madhavan Nair, commonly known by his stage name Madhu, is an Indian actor, director, producer, former college lecturer and former film studio owner, who

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Makarand Deshpande (born 6 March 1966) is an Indian actor, writer, and director in Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil cinema, and Indian

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Yasin Malik (born 3 April 1966) is a Kashmiri separatist leader and former militant who advocates the separation of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan

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Aishwarya Rajinikanth (born 1 January 1982) is an Indian film director and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema. She is the elder daughter of actor

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Saibai Bhosale (née Nimbalkar) (29 October 1633 – 5 September 1659) was the first wife and chief consort of Chattrapati Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha

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Tiger Prabhakar (30 March 1948 – 25 March 2001) was an Indian actor who predominantly worked in Kannada and Telugu cinema. He has also acted in a few Malayalam

Karisma Kapoor (7,649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Karisma Kapoor (born 25 June 1974) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. A part of the Kapoor family, she is the daughter of actors

Thambi Ramaiah (613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thambi Ramaiah is an Indian actor, director and comedian who works in the Tamil film industry. He has also worked occasionally as a lyricist. He directed

Meher Baba (8,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February [O.S. 17 February] 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar

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Copperhead is the name of several supervillains appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, mostly as enemies of the superhero Batman. Female variations

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Rohini Molleti, known professionally as Rohini, is an Indian actress, screenwriter, dubbing artist and lyricist. She has mainly acted in Malayalam, Tamil

Mansoor Khan (354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mansoor Hussain Khan (born 30 May 1958) is an Indian film director and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the son of film-maker Nasir

Salim Khan (3,294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Salim Abdul Rashid Khan (born 24 November 1935) is an Indian actor, film producer and screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays, stories and scripts for numerous

Arundathi Nag (735 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arundhati Nag (née Rao; born 1955/1956) is an Indian actress. She has been involved with multilingual Theatre in India, for over 25 years, first in Mumbai

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Tanikella Bharani (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, poet, playwright and director who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has

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P. C. Sreeram (born 26 January 1956) is an Indian cinematographer and film director who works in Indian films. He is also the president of Qube Cinemas

Nitesh Tiwari (652 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nitesh Tiwari (born 22 May 1973) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist known for his works in Bollywood. He debuted as a co-director in

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Kaushik Ganguly (born 4 August 1968) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor in Bengali cinema. Multiple National Film Awards winner Actor-Director

Randhir Kapoor (1,549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Randhir Raj Kapoor (born 15 February 1947) is a retired Indian actor, film producer and director who worked in Hindi cinema. Part of the Kapoor family

Puneet Issar (1,425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Puneet Issar (born 6 November 1959) is an Indian actor, writer, director, producer and dialect coach best known for his works in Hindi films, Bengali films

Sunil Dutt (4,701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sunil Dutt (born Balraj Dutt; 6 June 1929 – 25 May 2005) was an Indian actor, film producer, director and politician. Dutt was honoured with Padma Shri

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Sahaya Sheelan Shadrach (born 24 March 1966) known by his screen name Sadhu Kokila, is an Indian comedian, musician, actor, film director and producer

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Asha Parekh (born 2 October 1942) is an Indian actress, film director, and producer who worked in Hindi films. Regarded as one of Hindi cinema's finest

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Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala (born 23 January 1937) is an Indian statesman who was the 12th Governor of Karnataka from 1 September 2014 to 6 July 2021. He is

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Soundarya Rajinikanth (born Shaku Bai Rao Gaikwad; 20 September 1984) is an Indian graphic designer, film producer and film director who primarily works

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Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006), also known as Gukesh D, is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is the third-youngest grandmaster in history, the third-youngest

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Dhan Singh Gurjar, also known as Dhunna Singh, was the Indian Kotwal (police chief) of Meerut, who participated in the 1857 rebellion and led initial actions

H. D. Deve Gowda (2,252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (pronunciation; born 18 May 1933) is an Indian politician who was Prime Minister of India from 1 June 1996 to 21 April

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Balaram Sivaraman was an Indian civil servant, writer and the tenth Cabinet Secretary of India. He assumed office on 1 January 1969 and held the position

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Shyama Charan Pati (1940 – 29 October 2020) was an Indian dancer, known as one of the leading exponents of the Seraikala tradition of Chhau, a martial

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Sudharani Raghupathy is an Indian classical dancer. She received Padma Shri in 1988 and Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1984. She is the author

Mahesh Manjrekar (3,061 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mahesh Vaman Manjrekar (Marathi pronunciation: [məɦeːʃ maːɲd͡zɾekəɾ]; born 16 August 1958) is an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer

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Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (born 21 September 1931) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, composer, and actor. He is widely regarded as one

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Natesaganabadigal Ramaswami Ayyar (1896–1976) was an Indian educationist, social reformer and lawyer from Tiruchirapalli, in the south Indian state of

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hold the English people responsible for the murder of 80 millions of Indian people in the last fifty years, and they are also responsible for taking away

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Ustad Bismillah Khan (born Qamaruddin Khan, 21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006), often referred to by the title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with

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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical

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Sanjay Kapoor is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Deepak Verma from 9 February 1993 to 24 September 1998. Sanjay is

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Sir Narayanan Raghavan Pillai, of Elenkath, KCIE, CBE (24 July 1898 – 31 March 1992), popularly known as "Rag", was an Indian civil servant. He served

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Sadhu Meher (1939/1940 – 2 February 2024) was an Indian actor, director and producer. Meher performed in both Odia and Hindi films. He began his career

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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. As of 2 September 2024, Praggnanandhaa is ranked 12th in the world by the

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Anubhav Sinha is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi films. He is notable for movies like Ra.One (2011), Tum Bin (2001)

Zoya Akhtar (2,803 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. Born to Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, she completed

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K. Narayanan is an Indian film director, editor, and art director who has worked predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Since his debut in 1953, he has edited

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (/ˌsʌtʃɪn tɛnˈduːlkər/ ; pronounced [sətɕin teːɳɖulkəɾ]; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who captained

Visu (1,992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan (1 July 1945 – 22 March 2020), best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian screenwriter, film director, stage

Sheela (2,276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sheela Celine (born 22 March 1945) is an Indian actress and director who appears predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Paired with Prem Nazir, they hold the

Nellie Sengupta (694 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nellie Sengupta (née Edith Ellen Gray; 12 January 1886 – 23 October 1973) was an English-Indian politician and social worker who fought for Indian Independence

Silambarasan (6,272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Silambarasan Thesingu Rajendar (born 3 February 1983), popularly known as Simbu or by his initials as STR, is an Indian actor and playback singer who primarily

Visu (1,992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan (1 July 1945 – 22 March 2020), best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian screenwriter, film director, stage

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Nellie Sengupta (née Edith Ellen Gray; 12 January 1886 – 23 October 1973) was an English-Indian politician and social worker who fought for Indian Independence

L. V. Prasad (1,864 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Akkineni Laxmi Vara Prasada Rao (17 January 1907 – 22 June 1994), known professionally as L. V. Prasad, was an Indian film director, producer, actor, and

Hansal Mehta (2,423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hansal Mehta (born 29 April 1968) is an Indian filmmaker. He started his career with television show Khana Khazana (1993–2000) and later moved on to directing

Manmohan Desai (503 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Manmohan Desai (26 February 1937 – 1 March 1994) was an Indian film producer and director. He was one of the most successful filmmakers of the 70s and

Hemu (3,124 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(1974). "AKBAR". In R.C. Majumdar (ed.). The History and Culture of the Indian People: The Mughal empire. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. p. 106. Bairam Khan begged

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Maria Nirmala Joshi (23 July 1934 – 23 June 2015) was an Indian religious sister who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries

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Yasmeen Joseph, professionally credited as Mandakini, is an Indian former actress. She is best remembered for her lead role in the 1985 popular film Ram

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Rishabhanatha (Devanagari: ऋषभनाथ), also Rishabhadeva (Devanagari: ऋषभदेव, Ṛṣabhadeva), Rishabha (Devanagari: ऋषभ, Ṛṣabha) or Ikshvaku (Devanagari: इक्ष्वाकु

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Aruna Asaf Ali (née Ganguly; 16 July 1909 – 29 July 1996) was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher. An active participant in the Indian

Vineeth Sreenivasan (1,474 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vineeth Sreenivasan (born 1 October 1984) is an Indian playback singer, actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, creative director and dubbing

Adoor Bhasi (1,299 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

K. Bhaskaran Nair (1 March 1929 – 29 March 1990), professionally credited by his stage name Adoor Bhasi, was an Indian actor and film director. He was

Pratap Pothen (1,136 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pratap Pothen (13 August 1952 – 15 July 2022) was an Indian actor and filmmaker who acted in about 100 films and directed 12 films. He appeared in Malayalam

Byomkesh Bakshi (1,105 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian-Bengali fictional detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Referring to himself as a "truth-seeker" or Satyanweshi in

Lokesh Kanagaraj (1,733 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lokesh Kanagaraj (/loʊkeɪʃ kənəɡərɑːdʒ/; born 14 March 1986) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who works in Tamil cinema. He started

Manoj Kumar (3,519 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Manoj Kumar (born Harikrishan Goswami; 24 July 1937) is an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, lyricist and editor who worked in Hindi cinema. He

Kariya Munda (903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kariya Munda (born 20 April 1936) is an Indian politician who served as Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha. He has been a minister in the Government

Santhana Bharathi (374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Santhana Bharathi (born March 1954) is an Indian film director and actor who has primarily worked in Tamil cinema. He directed Gunaa (1991), which won

Dara Shikoh (4,898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dara Shikoh, also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan

Mir Jafar (1,958 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur (c. 1691 – 5 February 1765), more commonly known as just Mir Jafar, was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned

Nandita Das (2,826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nandita Das is an Indian actress and director. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das appeared in the films Fire (1996)

Sriram Raghavan (1,259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sriram Raghavan (born 22 June 1963) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. He is primarily considered an auteur of neo-noir

N. N. Pisharody (464 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

N. N. Pisharody (or Pisharady) (1926 – 30 August 2008) was a director in the Malayalam Film industry. He was born into a feudal family, known as "Kallil"

Mehboob Khan (1,366 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mehboob Khan (born Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan; 9 September 1907 – 28 May 1964) was a pioneer producer-director of Indian cinema, best known for directing

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (2,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (23 October 1925 – 15 May 2010) was an Indian politician who served as the 11th vice president of India. He served in that position

M. K. Stalin (7,372 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin (/stɑːlɪn, -lin/, Tamil pronunciation: ['mut̪ːuʋeːl kaɾuˈɳaːniði sʈaːˈlin] , born 1 March 1953) is an Indian politician serving

Master Mitrasen (535 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mitrasen Thapa Magar (29 December 1895 – 7 April 1946), popularly known as Master Mitrasen, was a singer and songwriter of Nepali folk music from Dharamshala

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Nileema Mishra is a social worker from the Indian state of Maharashtra. She received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2011. Nileema

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Maisnam Amubi Singh was an exponent of the Indian classical dance form of Manipuri, and the founding supervisor of the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipuri Dance

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Rajkumar "Raju" Hirani (born 20 November 1962) is an Indian filmmaker known for his works in Hindi films. He is the recipient of several accolades, including

Guru Har Krishan (1,632 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Guru Har Krishan (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨ, pronunciation: [ɡʊruː həɾ kɾɪʃən]; 7 July 1656 – 30 March 1664) also known as Bal Guru (Child Guru), or Hari

Gunasekhar (650 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gunasekar (born 2 June 1964) is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his works in Telugu cinema. He has directed films in action, romance

Maguni Charan Das (249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maguni Charan Das was an Indian traditional dancer of Gotipua, a traditional dance form of Odisha.[citation needed] He was the founder of Dasabhuja Gotipua

Million Dollar Arm (2,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Million Dollar Arm is a 2014 American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay

Emilie Schenkl (1,589 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Emilie Schenkl (26 December 1910 – 13 March 1996) was an Austrian stenographer, secretary and trunk exchange operator. She was the wife or the companion

Gambhir Singh Mura (225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gambhir Singh Mura (1930 – 9 November 2002) was an Indian tribal dancer known for his contributions to the tribal martial dance of Chhau. He was an exponent

Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil (423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil (5 December 1745 – 22 April 1794), French magistrate and politician, was born in India at Pondicherry, his father being

L. K. Advani (4,681 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lal Krishna Advani (born 8 November 1927) is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of

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Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu (Bengali: জটায়ু) is a fictional character in the Feluda stories written by Satyajit Ray. He writes pulp crime thrillers

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Guru Tegh Bahadur (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਤੇਗ਼ ਬਹਾਦਰ (Gurmukhi); Punjabi pronunciation: [gʊɾuː t̯eːɣ bəɦaːd̯ʊɾᵊ]; 1 April 1621 – 11 November 1675) was the ninth

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Sussanne Khan (born 26 October 1975) is an Indian interior and fashion designer. Sussanne Khan was born to Sanjay Khan and Zarine Katrak Khan on 26 October

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Rajesh "Raj" Ramayan Koothrappali, Ph.D. is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by British actor Kunal Nayyar

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Aparshakti Khurana (born 18 November 1987) is an Indian actor, radio jockey, comedian, playback singer, composer and television host. He is the younger

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Talakadu Srinivasaiah Nagabharana (born 23 January 1953), commonly known as T. S. Nagabharana, is an Indian film director, in the Kannada film industry

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Shyamaprasad (born 7 November 1960) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor from Kerala. Shyamaprasad was born on 7 November 1960 at Palakkad, as

Madhupal (1,049 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Madhupal Kannambathu is an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter who works in Malayalam cinema. Madhupal made his acting debut with Kashmeeram in 1994

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Gita Kapoor is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Shobu Kapoor, from 18 February 1993 to 24 September 1998. Gita has a

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Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath (19 August 1942 – 16 April 2024), known by his stage name Dwarakish (/ˈdwɑːrkɪʃ/ DWAR-kish), was an Indian actor, comedian

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Sundaram Balachander (18 January 1927 – 13 April 1990) was an Indian veena player and filmmaker. He directed, produced, and also composed music for a few

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Talakadu Srinivasaiah Nagabharana (born 23 January 1953), commonly known as T. S. Nagabharana, is an Indian film director, in the Kannada film industry

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Gulabo Sapera (a.k.a. Gulabo or Dhanvantri; born 1973) is an Indian dancer from Rajasthan, India. Gulabo was born in 1973 in the nomadic Kalbaliya community

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2000, p. 59. Hugh George Rawlinson (1950), A Concise History of the Indian People. Oxford University Press, p. 46. F. Max Muller (2001): The Dhammapada

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Nirmal Jiban Ghosh (5 January 1916 – 26 October 1934) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers. He was hanged on 26 October 1934

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Dr. Jabbar Patel (born 23 June 1942) is a former paediatrician and a Marathi-language theatre and film director of India. His production of Vijay Tendulkar's

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Suresh Hariram Advani (born August 1, 1947) is an oncologist who pioneered hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in India. Struck by poliomyelitis at

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Posani Krishna Murali (born 22 January 1958) is an Indian screenwriter, actor, director and producer who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He worked as

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Hashmat Ullah Khan, also spelled Hashmatullah Khan, (born in 1954 in Nawab Bazaar, Srinagar City, India) is a Kashmiri Kani shawl promoter and entrepreneur

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Aparshakti Khurana (born 18 November 1987) is an Indian actor, radio jockey, comedian, playback singer, composer and television host. He is the younger

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Michael Postel is a French pharmacologist, Buddhist and art collector, known for his contribution of the art collections to Musée Asiatica, a Biarritz-based

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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian politician and was the Union Minister of Minority Affairs. He had served as a Member of Parliament

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Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh BR (pronunciation), better known as Nanaji Deshmukh (11 October 1916 – 27 February 2010), was a social reformer and politician

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Aziz Mirza (born 15 August 1947) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Bollywood and Indian television. Mirza was

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Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath (19 August 1942 – 16 April 2024), known by his stage name Dwarakish (/ˈdwɑːrkɪʃ/ DWAR-kish), was an Indian actor, comedian

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Malik Ibrahim Bayu (also spelled Baya) was a Sufi saint of Suhrawardiyya order and a warrior who arrived in South Bihar, India, in the 14th century and

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Madeleine Slade (22 November 1892 – 20 July 1982), also known as Mirabehn or Meera Behn, was a British supporter of the Indian Independence Movement who

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Bhagat Singh Koshyari (born 17 June 1942) is an Indian politician who served as the 22nd governor of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2023. An RSS veteran, Koshyari

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Vinod Mehra (13 February 1945 – 30 October 1990) was an Indian actor in Hindi films. He started out as a child actor in the mid 1950s before starting his

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Kiriti Roy is a fictional detective of Bengali literature created by Dr. Nihar Ranjan Gupta. The first story introduces him as follows: "Kiriti Roy is

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Dr. Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry (born 14 April 1951) is a Chandigarh-based theatre artist who has worked around the world. She was awarded the 2003 Sangeet

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Pattadakal Venkanna Raghavendra Rao was an Indian civil servant, writer and the sixth defence secretary of India. He assumed office on 21 November 1962

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Babita Shivdasani Kapoor (born 20 April 1947), also known simply as Babita, is an Indian retired actress who appeared in Hindi-language films. She is the

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Sachindra Nath Sanyal pronunciation (3 April 1890 — 7 February 1942) was an Indian revolutionary and co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association

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Govardhan Kumari (popularly known as Rajmata sa, July 23, 1938 — January 9, 2013), is the only lady from the Royal Family known for her efforts to revive

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Bharti Singh (born 3 July 1984) is an Indian comedian and television personality. Singh has created numerous comedy shows as well as hosted various award

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Kanaka Srinivasan is an Indian classical dancer and one of the leading exponents of the classical dance form of Bharat Natyam. She is a disciple of Vazhuvoor

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Irwin Allan Sealy (born 1951) is an Indian writer. His novel The Everest Hotel: A Calendar was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker prize. Allan was born in

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M.S. Banesh is an Indian poet and novelist writing in Malayalam. He is also a documentary filmmaker and journalist. M. S. Banesh was born at Kodungallur

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Harikrishnan is an Indian film director and screenwriter best known for his action and masala films in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with

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Muthulakshmi Reddy (also spelled Reddi in some British Indian sources; 30 July 1886 – 22 July 1968) was an Indian medical practitioner, social reformer

Rahul Gandhi (9,886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rahul Rajiv Gandhi (Hindi pronunciation: [ˈraːɦʊl raːdʒiːʋ ˈɡaːndʱiː] ; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress

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Manjamma Jogathii (born Manjunatha Shetty; 20 May 1957), is an Indian theatre actress, singer and dancer of Jogathi Nritya, a folk dance form of North

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Suresh Dutta is an Indian puppet artist, theatre personality and the founder of Calcutta Puppet Theatre, a Kolkata-based theatre group dedicated to puppetry

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Veluthedathu Muhammed Haneefa (22 April 1951 – 2 February 2010), better known by his stage name Cochin Haneefa, was an Indian actor, film director, and

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Sajid Kamran Khan (born 23 November 1970) is an Indian film director, television presenter, comedian and an actor who works in the Hindi film industry

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Venugopal Pillai (born 26 January 1957), popularly known as Venu, is an Indian cinematographer and film director who works mainly in Malayalam cinema.

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Mansoor Hasan Khan, is an Indian cardiologist, known for his contributions towards the setting up of Lari Cardiology Centre at King George's Medical University

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Chand Kaur (1802 – 11 June 1842) was the regent of the Sikh Empire, proclaimed as Malika Muqaddisa (lit. Queen Immaculate) on 2 December 1840. She was

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Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked

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Vijay Anand (22 January 1934 – 23 February 2004), also known as Goldie Anand, was an Indian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, editor and actor, who is

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Anjan Dutt (born 19 January 1953) is an Indian film director, actor, and singer-songwriter known for his work in the Bengali alternative music genre anyodharar

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Shah Rukh Khan (pronounced [ˈʃɑːɦɾʊx xɑːn] ; born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in

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T. G. Vinayakumar, professionally credited as Vinayan, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, and lyricist, who works predominantly in Malayalam

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Upendra Rao (born 18 September 1968) is an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, playback singer, lyricist and politician who worked

T. K. Rajeev Kumar (258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thazhathupurakkal Karunakara Panicker Rajeev Kumar (born 20 September 1961) is a National Award-winning Indian director of Malayalam films, from Trivandrum

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Guru Dutt (born Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone; 9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964) was an Indian film actor, director, producer, choreographer, and writer

Rama Narayanan (695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rama Narayanan (3 April 1949 – 22 June 2014) was an Indian film director and film producer. In the 1980s, he was known as a director who specialized in

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Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar is an Indian director, actor, screenwriter and a lyricist who predominantly works in Kannada Cinema. He made his film debut

Jeethu Joseph (1,022 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jeethu Joseph (born 10 November 1972) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. He has also worked

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Kareena Kapoor Khan (pronounced [kəˈriːna kəˈpuːr xɑːn]; née Kapoor; born 21 September 1980) is an Indian actress. A prolific leading lady of Hindi cinema

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Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit

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Srijit Mukherji (born 23 September 1977) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Bengali cinema. His regular collaboration

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Harish Chandra Sarin (1914–1997) was an Indian civil servant, writer and the defence secretary of India. He assumed office on 3 November 1968 and held

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Vijay Anand (22 January 1934 – 23 February 2004), also known as Goldie Anand, was an Indian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, editor and actor, who is

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Venugopal Pillai (born 26 January 1957), popularly known as Venu, is an Indian cinematographer and film director who works mainly in Malayalam cinema.

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Pritilata Waddedar (5 May 1911 – 24 September 1932) was a Bengali revolutionary nationalist who was influential in the Indian independence movement. After

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Nagulapati Srinivasa Chakravarthy, known professionally as J. D. Chakravarthy, is an Indian actor, filmmaker, screenwriter and musician known for his work

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Mithali Dorai Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who captained the India women's national cricket team from 2004 to 2022. She is

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Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics

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Swapnasundari is an Indian dancer, an exponent of Kuchipudi and Bharata Natyam, a choreographer and a vocalist. She is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan

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Ahilyabai Holkar (Marathi pronunciation: [əɦɪljɑbaɪ]; 31 May 1725 – 13 August 1795), also spelled Ahalya Bai, was the Rajamata and later the ruling queen

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Andrea is an Indian playback singer and actress who works predominantly in Tamil films apart from a few Telugu and Malayalam language films. She made her

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Naresh Chander Lal is an Indian film director and producer. He was awarded Padma Shri for his contribution in films and theater in 2016. He is the second

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Gul Bardhan (1928 – 29 November 2010) was a choreographer and theatre personality based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. She was associated with the Indian

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Manoranjan Bhattacharya (21 July 1909 – 22 August 1932) was an Indian independence activist and Bengali revolutionary. Bhattacharya was born at Erikati

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Genelia Deshmukh (née D'Souza; born 5 August 1987) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil language films. Described

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Charu Mazumdar (Bengali: চারু মজুমদার; 15 May 1918 – 28 July 1972), popularly known as CM, was an Indian Communist leader, and founder and General Secretary

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Supriya Devi (Supriya Choudhury; 8 January 1933 – 26 January 2018) was an Indian actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema for more than 50 years

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André Beteille (born 30 September 1934), is an Indian sociologist, writer, and academician. He is known for his studies of the caste system in South India

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Edward Kutchat was an Indian tribal leader and the Chief of the Tribal Council of Car Nicobar island. He was featured in the media for cooperating with

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Banda Singh Bahadur (born Lachman Dev) (27 October 1670 – 9 June 1716), was a Sikh warrior and a general of the Khalsa Army. At age 15, he left home to

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Cheran (born 12 December 1970) is an Indian film director, producer, actor and lyricist known for his works in Tamil cinema. He is a four time National

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Jamuna (30 August 1938 – 27 January 2023; née Nippani) was an Indian actress, director, and politician who appeared mainly in Telugu cinema. She made her

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P. Parameswaran (3 October 1927 – 9 February 2020), often referred to as Parameswarji, was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak from Kerala, India

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Bangaru Laxman (17 March 1939 – 1 March 2014) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak

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Abhishek Kapoor (born 6 August 1971) is an Indian film director, former actor, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for his work

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Yogaraj Bhat (born 8 October 1972) is an Indian film-maker, director, screenwriter, lyricist and producer who primarily works in Kannada cinema. He is

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Guru Jayarama Rao (born 4 November, 1951) is a Guru and a performer of the Kuchipudi style, a classical dance of Andhra Pradesh, India. He was the most

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Stuart Terence Roger Binny (born 3 June 1984) is an Indian former international cricketer, who had played One Day Internationals, Twenty20 Internationals

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Vishnuvardhan is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in the Tamil cinema. A long-time associate of Santosh Sivan

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Som Nath Sadhu (1935–1982) was an Indian theatre personality known for his contributions to Kashmiri theatre as an actor, playwright and director. He was

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Shahul Mohammed (born 15 August 1958), known professionally as Raj Kapoor, is an Indian film director and actor, who has worked predominantly in Tamil

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Plamthottathil Gangadharan Viswambharan (1947 – 16 June 2010) was an Indian film director who worked in Malayalam cinema. Viswambharan directed 63 Malayalam

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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly

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Bhagaban Sahu (1914-2002) was an Indian folk dancer, teacher and choreographer, known for codifying the folk dance forms of Odisha. He was born on 21 September

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Ameer Sultan (born 5 December 1967) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor, working in the Tamil film industry. Ameer Sultan

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Utpal Dutt (listen; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre

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Thingbaijam Babu Singh was an Indian classical dancer, academic and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Manipuri. He was the Pradhan Guru

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Madhur Bhandarkar (born 26 August 1968) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. In 2016, Bhandarkar was honoured with the Padma Shri,

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Bhabendra Nath Saikia (20 February 1932 – 13 August 2003) was a novelist, short-story writer, editor and film director from Assam, India. Saikia received

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Tatineni Rama Rao (1938 – 20 April 2022) was an Indian filmmaker. He directed 75 Hindi and Telugu feature films between 1966 and 2000. Rao started his

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Pooja Bedi (born 11 May 1970) is an Indian actress, television talk show host and newspaper columnist. She is the daughter of Indian actors Kabir Bedi

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Madhur Bhandarkar (born 26 August 1968) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. In 2016, Bhandarkar was honoured with the Padma Shri,

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Sangeeth Sivan (1959 – 8 May 2024) was an Indian film director and screenwriter who worked in Malayalam and Hindi film industries. He is best known for

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Sachin Bhowmick (17 July 1930 – 12 April 2011) was an Indian Hindi film writer and director. Writing was his main work and he wrote stories or screenplays

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oral history goes back 10,000 years. We know how time began and how Indian people were created. They can say whatever they want, the scientists. They

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Ram Sarup Lugani (known as R.S.Lugani) (25 January 1927 – 22 May 2021) was an educationist who pioneered the Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram. Lugani has

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Ayub Khan (born 23 February 1968) is an Indian film and television actor. He is the nephew of actor Dilip Kumar. Khan was born to former 1950s actress

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Panchanathan Arunachalam (22 March 1941 – 9 August 2016) was an Indian writer, director, producer and lyricist who worked in the Tamil cinema. He was mentored

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The French community in India consists mainly of Indian citizens of French ancestry who are descended from former French settlers and colonists who settled

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Prakash Chand Surana was an Indian jeweler, business person, philanthropist and a music connoisseur, known for his efforts to promote Hindustani music

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Tigmanshu Dhulia (born 3 July 1967) is an Indian film dialogue writer, director, actor, screenwriter, producer and casting director known for his works

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Bhai Bhagwan Singh Gyanee (July 24, 1884 - September 8, 1962) was an Indian Nationalist and a leading luminary of the Ghadar Party. Elected the party president

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Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, PHS (born 4 November 1944) is a decorated former flight surgeon in the Indian Air Force. She was the first

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Akkamma Cherian was an Indian independence activist from Travancore (Kerala), India. She was popularly known as the Jhansi Rani of Travancore. In February

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Rajan P. Dev (20 May 1951 – 29 July 2009) was an Indian film and stage actor. He was born in Cherthala in the Alappuzha district of the former state Thiru-Kochi

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Ravichandran (30 March 1942 – 25 July 2011) was a Malaysian-born Indian actor who played lead hero roles in Tamil films from 1964 to 1979. He has also

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Premlila Vithaldas, (1894–1977) known as Lady Thackersey, was an Indian educationist and Gandhian. She was the wife of educationist and philanthropist

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Savita Bhabhi is an Indian fictional adult cartoon character, created by Kirtu Comics. The protagonist was promoted mainly through comics. It has since

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Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K. M. Beenamol (born 15 August 1975), from Kombidinjal, Idukki district, Kerala is an international

List of Scheduled Tribes (3,732 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This is a list of Scheduled Tribes in India. The term "Scheduled Tribes" refers to specific tribes whose status is acknowledged to some formal degree by

Bimal Roy (1,643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bimal Roy (12 July 1909 – 7 January 1966) was an Indian film director. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films such as Do Bigha

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Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India. He fought the British East India Company and

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Brahmdev Sharma, popularly known as bhaiji, is an Indian educationist and the of Vidya Bhararti Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Sansthan, the largest non governmental

Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (436 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (born 13 June 1952) is an Assamese writer. He was formerly deputy commissioner. His first literary creation is a poem named Junbai'

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Sulabha Panandikar (born 9 April 1904, date of death unknown) was an Indian educator. She was given the Padma Shri award. She served as Director of Education

P. R. Thilagam (374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

P. R. Thilagam (born 1926), popularly known as Thiruvarur Thilagam, is an Indian composer, vocalist and exponent of Kuravanji, a traditional form of dance

Prashanth Neel (1,101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prashanth Neelakantapuram (born 4 June 1980), popularly known as Prashanth Neel, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Kannada and Telugu

Lester Holt (2,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lester Don Holt Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News, NBC Nightly News Kids Edition, and Dateline

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Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar (1928–2009) was an exponent of Koodiyattam, a traditional form of Sanskrit theatre from Kerala, which has been recognised

Nazir Hussain (660 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nazir Hussain (15 May 1922 – 16 October 1987) was an Indian actor, director and screenwriter. He was famous as a character actor in Hindi cinema and was

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Shakti Samanta (13 January 1926 – 9 April 2009) was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films

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Mumtaz Mahal (Hindustani pronunciation: [mʊmˈtaːz ˈmɛɦ(ɛ)l]; lit. 'The Exalted One of the Palace'; born Arjumand Banu Begum; 27 April 1593 – 17 June 1631)

Ramkumar Ramanathan (1,985 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 111 in singles by the ATP,

V. M. Girija (975 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

V. M. Girija (born 27 July 1961) is an Indian poet and essayist, writing in Malayalam language. She has published a number of books, which include Prem

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (1,413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (born 7 July 1963) is an Indian film director, occasional actor and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the

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Bijayananda Patnaik (5 March 1916 – 17 April 1997) was an Indian politician and aviator. He served as the 3rd Chief Minister of the State of Odisha from

M. D. Valsamma (453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Manathoor Devasia Valsamma (born 21 October 1960) is a retired Indian athlete. She was the second Indian woman to win an individual gold medal at the Asian

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Annapurna Choudhury (Maharana 3 November 1917 – 31 December 2012) was an India pro-independence activist active in the Indian independence movement. She

Professor Shonku (2,219 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku (Bengali: প্রফেসর শঙ্কু) is a fictional scientist and inventor created by Satyajit Ray in a series of Bengali science fiction

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Indian cinematographers work in a number of regional film centres: Mumbai for films in Marathi and Hindi, Hyderabad for Telugu films, Chennai for Tamil

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Thalikkottai Rajuthevar Baalu, better known as T. R. Baalu (called Baalu), is an Indian politician. He is currently the MP of Lok Sabha of the Sriperumbudur

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Kedar Nath Sahoo was an Indian classical dancer, known as one of the leading exponents of the Seraikella tradition of Chhau dance. He served as the founder