Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:
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Shankar (name)
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitar, sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Hin ...
, Indian sitarist and composer
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Shankar (actor)
Shanker Panicker, better known as Shankar, is an Indian film and television actor, film director and producer, known for his work in Malayalam and Tamil language, Tamil films. He has acted in nearly 200 films and was a leading actor in Malayala ...
, Indian actor
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Shankar (Tamil militant), Tamil rebel
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Shankar (cartoonist), Indian cartoonist
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Shankar (writer), Indian writer
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Shankar–Ganesh
Shankar–Ganesh is an Indian music director duo who has worked on Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu movies for around 50 years. They also directed one movie '' Jagathalaprathapan'' in 1990
Personal life
Shankar was the younger brother of ...
, an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
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Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
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K. Shankar or Shankar, Indian film director, screenwriter and editor
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S. Shankar or Shankar, Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter
**Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film ''
Gunda'' portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty
Places
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Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
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Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
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Shankar Vihar, neighborhood of Delhi, India
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Shankar Vihar metro station
See also
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Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
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Shankar's Weekly
''Shankar's Weekly'' was an Indian satirical magazine published between 1948 and 1975. It was founded and run by Keshav Shankar Pillai, a pioneering political cartoonist. The magazine has been compared to the UK's '' Punch''.
The weekly print ...
'', a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai
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Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
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Shankar Guru (disambiguation)
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Sankar (disambiguation)
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Shankara (disambiguation)
Shankara (also written as Sankara or Samkara, IAST ) can refer to:
*Shiva, the Hindu god
*Adi Shankara, 8th-century Indian philosopher
*K. N. Shankara, Indian space scientist
*Shankaracharya (Shankara acharya), a commonly used title of heads of ma� ...
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Shanker, a surname
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Sankara (disambiguation)
Sankara can refer to:
People
* Danladi Abdullahi Sankara (born 1954), Nigerian politician and senator
* Mariam Sankara (born 1953), First Lady of Burkina Faso, widow of Thomas Sankara
* Thomas Sankara (1949–1987), Marxist revolutionary leader ...
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Shenkar (disambiguation)
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Shankari (disambiguation)
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