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Dehradun Literature Festival
The Dehradun Literature Festival is an annual literary festival held annually in Dehradun, India founded by samraant Virmani who is also a well known social worker. History It was founded in 2016 by Samraant Virmani, He took this initiative to bring exposure to the Doon valley which happens to be his hometown. Author Ruskin Bond is the brand ambassador of Dehradun Literature Festival. 2017 Edition The 2017 edition of the two-day Dehradun Literature Festival commenced at the ONGC Officers Club, Dehradun. The 2017 inaugural curtain raiser of Dehradun Literature Festival Shobhaa De, who launched Karan Johar's book ''The Unsuitable Boy''. Participants The following authors and literary personalities participated in the 2017 Dehradun Literary Festival. * Shobhaa De * Laxmi Narayan Tripathi * Suchitra Krishnamoorthi * Piyush Mishra * Kiran Manral * Rakhshanda Jalil * Dr. Bijaylaxmi Nanda * Divya Prakash Dubey * Ashok Chakradhar * Hridayesh Joshi * Laxmi Pant * Sushil B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Ujala
''Amar Ujala'' is a Hindi-language daily newspaper published in India which was founded in 1948. It has 21 editions in six states and two union territories covering 180 districts. It has a circulation of around two million copies. The 2017 Indian Readership Survey reported that with 46.094 million it had the 4th-largest daily readership amongst newspapers in India. It has a circulation of 26 lakh copies daily as per the latest ABC Survey. ''Amar Ujala'' was founded in Agra in 1948. In 1994, ''Amar Ujala'', along with another Hindi daily, shared nearly 70 per cent of the Hindi newspaper readership in the state of Uttar Pradesh. ''Amar Ujala'' sold 4.5 lakh copies through its five editions. ''Amar Ujala'' publishes a daily 16- to 18-page issue, as well as supplements focusing on matters such as careers, lifestyle, entertainment and women. Editions ''Amar Ujala'' has 21 editions, in six states ( Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi NCR and Uttar Pradesh) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shatrughan Sinha
Shatrughan Prasad Sinha (born 9 December 1945) is an Indian actor and politician. He is a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Asansol constituency as a member of All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). Earlier he was elected as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2009–2014, 2014–2019) from Patna Sahib. He was also a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha during 1996–2002 and 2002–2008. He was a Union Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He was a member of standing committee on transport, tourism and culture and member of consultative committee in ministry of external affairs and overseas Indian affairs from 2014 to 2019. In 2016, his biography, ''Anything but Khamosh'', was released. Early life Sinha was born in Patna, Bihar, to Bhubaneswari Prasad Sinha and Shyama Devi Sinha on 9 December 1945. He is the youngest of four brothers – Ram, Lakshman, Bharat and himself. He graduated from Patna Science College with a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and " Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian cinema, which also includes South Cinema and other smaller film industries. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364 have been from Hindi. , Hindi cinema represented 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue; Tamil and Telugu cinema represented 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema constituted 21 percent. Hindi cinema has overtaken the U.S. film industry to become the largest centre for film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Hindi films) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold. Earlier Hindi fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savi Sharma
Savi Sharma is an Indian novelist. She is the author of the best-selling novel '' Everyone Has a Story – An Inspirational Story of Dreams'', Friendship, Hope, Love & Life. She is also the co-founder of the motivational media blog "Life & People" where she writes about positivity, meditation, the law of attraction, and spirituality. After school, Sharma enrolled for a Bachelor of Commerce A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, ''baccalaureates commercii'') is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, ... degree at a university in Surat and began studying Chartered Accountancy. She decided to quit her studies after being convinced about her book ''Everyone Has a Story''. She self-published it, which went on to become a bestseller, making Sharma India's first successful female self-published author. Books *'' Everyone Has a Story'' (2015) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuj Tiwari
Anuj Tiwari (born 22 November 1988) is an Indian author of six novels. His first novel, ''Journey of Two Hearts'', was published by Srishti Publishers in 2012. He is the first Indian author to write a book, ''Give Your Heart a Break,'' on sibling relationships. He has co-authored the book "Cappuccino" with Sneha Pandey Tiwari stands at number seven amongst the top 15 influential Indian authors on social media. He is the recipient of the Newspapers Association of India Achiever Awards 2014, which named him as the "Best Upcoming Novelist". In 2017, he was shortlisted for the 2018 International Young Author Awards in Dubai. Tiwari also represented India in Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it ... in 2019 and hosted a session about Impact of culture on writing. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumrit Shahi
Sumrit Shahi is an Indian novelist and screenwriter. He has written 7 youth based television shows. This includes '' Sadda Haq - My Life, My Choice'' which aired on Channel V India and won the Youth show (fiction) category at Zee Gold Awards in 2014 and at Indian Telly Awards in 2014 and 2015, ''Million Dollar Girl - From Banaras to Paris'' also on Channel V India, ''Boyz'' on Big Magic entertainment, ''Twist Waala Love'', ''Secret Diaries'' on Channel V, ''BIG F'' on MTV, and '' Pyar Tune Kya Kiya'' on Zing. He also has '' Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera'' on Star Plus to his credit. He has written the screenplay for ''Tu Suraj Mein Saanjh Piya Ki'' on Star Plus. He has also written the screenplay for a web series called Black Coffee, and dialogues for another web series called Medically Yourrs for Alt Balaji. He is the author of three novels, ''Just Friends'', ''A lot like love...a li'l like chocolate'' and ''Never Kiss Your Best Friend,'' which has been adapted into a web series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajshekhar
Raj Shekhar is an Indian lyricist, poet, and children’s author. He made his Bollywood debut as a lyricist with the 2011 film ''Tanu Weds Manu''. He went on to write lyrics for other notable films, including ''Tanu Weds Manu Returns'', ''Tumbbad'', '' Hichki,'' ''Veere Di Wedding'', Hichki, '' Uri: The Surgical Strike, Saand Ki Aankh, Netflix series Mismatched, Meenakshi Sundareshwar, Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, Good Luck Jerry and Doctor G.'' Early life and Education Shekhar was born on September 22, 1980, in Madhepura, Bihar, into a family of farmers. He completed his schooling in Bihar. With an atmosphere of literature at home, it pushed Shekhar towards poetry and essay writing. He moved to Delhi in 1999 for higher education and completed his BA in Hindi literature followed by a MA in the same at Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College. During his university days, Shekhar was active in the theater circuit along with his group, ''The Players''. He was acting and mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashok Chakradhar
Born on February 8, 1951 in Ahirpada Mohalla of Khurja (Uttar Pradesh)Ashok Chakradhar is an Indian author, poet and former head of the department of Hindi at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University). After serving for 29 years, he took voluntary retirement to focus on working towards the propagation and development of the Hindi language. In 2007 he became the Hindi coordinator at the Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) at the University of Delhi and in 2009 was appointed as the vice-chairman of Hindi Academy, Government of Delhi and as the vice-chairman of the Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal, Ministry of HRD, Government of India. He is the son-in-law of Kaka Hathrasi Career Chakradhar is a retired professor of the Hindi Department at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. He has been actively associated with radio and television and has scripted a number of dramas, satires and poems for children. He has appeared in some television soaps, like "Chhoti Si Asha" with San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Prakash Dubey
Divya Prakash Dubey (born 8 May 1982) is an Indian Hindi author. He has written six books: a couple of collection of stories in Hindi, ''Terms and Conditions Apply'' and ''Masala Chai'', and four short novels which includes ''Musafir Cafe'' '', October Junction'', Ibnebatuti and Aako Baako. He is also Hindi Dialogue Writer for movie PS-1 & PS-2. Early life Divya Prakash Dubey grew up in Hardoi, Shahjahanpur,Ghaziabad, Lucknow and Varanasi Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. * * * * The city has a syncretic t .... After completing his degree in Computer Science Engineering from College of Engineering Roorkee, he pursued MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. He got placed in a top MNC and started writing stories alongside that got published later. List of works Books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakhshanda Jalil
Rakhshanda Jalil (born 20 July 1963) is an Indian writer, critic and literary historian. She is known for her book on Delhi's lesser-known monuments called ''Invisible City: The hidden Monuments of India'' and a well-received collection of short stories, called ''Release & Other Stories'' (HarperCollins, 2011). Her PhD on the Progressive Writers' Movement as Reflected in Urdu Literature has been published by Oxford University Press as ''Liking Progress, Loving Change'' (2014). Jalil runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture. Career Jalil graduated from Miranda house, Delhi University in 1986. She started her career as a lecturer in Khalsa College. After that she worked at Aligarh Muslim University as lecturer (1987), editorial assistant at Tata McGraw-Hill McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiran Manral
Kiran Manral (born 1971) is an Indian author. Based in Mumbai, she published her first novel ''The Reluctant Detective'' in 2011. ''Karmic Kids'' (2015) her first non-fiction work, is an introduction to parenting based on her own experience of raising a son. Manral is the founder of India Helps, a network of volunteers who assist disaster victims. Biography Born in Mumbai on 22 June 1971, Manral studied at Duruelo Convent High School in Mumbai and graduated in English from Mithibai College in 1991. After working as an advertising copywriter, she joined the news service at Mumbai's DSJ TV and went on to work as a feature writer for ''The Times of India'' and ''Cosmopolitan India''. In 2000, she became a freelance journalist and, from 2005, a blogger creating "Thirtysixandcounting" and "Karmickids". At their height, both were considered to be among the most popular blogs in India, before she closed them down in order to devote more time to motherhood. She then turned to writing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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