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Chitra (other)
Chitra may refer to: Art * Chitra (art), a historic art that includes paintings, sketching with or without multiple colors People * Chithra, Indian playback singer * Chitra (actress), Indian film actress (1965-2021) * V. J. Chitra, Indian television actress (1992-2020) * Chitra Bahadur K.C., Nepalese politician * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English * Chitra Bharucha (born 1945), former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust * Chitra Dewi (1934–2008), Indonesian actress * Chitra Ganesh (born 1975), artist based in Brooklyn, New York * Chitra Jeremiah (born 1971), Nauruan diplomat * Chitra Lekha Yadav, Nepalese politician * Chitra Mudgal (born 1944), literary figure in modern Hindi literature * Chitra Sarwara (born 1975), Indian politician from Haryana * Chitra Singh (born 1945), female ghazal singer * Chitra Soman (born 1983), Indian sprinter * Chitra Subramaniam (born 1958), Indian journalist * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra (art)
Chitra or citra is an Indian genre of art that includes painting, sketch and any art form of delineation. The earliest mention of the term ''Chitra'' in the context of painting or picture is found in some of the ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism and Pali texts of Buddhism. Nomenclature ''Chitra'' (IAST: ''Citra'', चित्र) is a Sanskrit word that appears in the Vedic texts such as hymns 1.71.1 and 6.65.2 of the ''Rigveda''. There, and other texts such as ''Vajasaneyi Samhita'', ''Taittiriya Samhita'', ''Satapatha Brahmana'' and ''Tandya Brahmana'', ''Chitra'' means "excellent, clear, bright, colored, anything brightly colored that strikes the eye, brilliantly ornamented, extraordinary that evokes wonder". In the ''Mahabharata'' and the ''Harivamsa'', it means "picture, sketch, dilineation", and is presented as a genre of ''kala'' (arts). Many texts generally dated to the post-4th-century BCE period, use the term ''Chitra'' in the sense of painting, and ''Chitrakara'' as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra (turtle)
''Chitra'' is a genus of turtles in the family (biology), family Trionychidae. Species *''Chitra chitra'' – Asian narrow-headed softshell turtle **''C. c. chitra'' – Siamese narrow-headed softshell turtle **''C. c. javanensis'' – Javanese narrow-headed softshell turtle *''Chitra indica'' – Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle *''Chitra vandijki'' – Burmese narrow-headed softshell turtle ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Chitra''. References ;Bibliography *John Edward Gray, Gray JE (1844). ''Catalogue of the Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Amphisbænians, in the Collection of the British Museum''. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). viii + 80 pp. (''Chitra'', new genus, p. 49). * Chitra (genus), Turtle genera Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{Turtle-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chithira (other)
Chithira may refer to: *Chaitra, traditionally the first month of the Hindu calendar *Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma (1912–1991), Indian monarch * Rajesh Chithira, Indian poet *'' Atham Chithira Chothy'', 1986 Indian film directed by A. T. Abu See also * Chitra (other) * Chithiram Pesuthadi (other) *Chithiram TV, Indian television channel *'' Chithram'', 1988 Indian Malayalam-language film by Priyadarshan *''Chithramela'', 1967 Indian film *''Chithirai Pookkal ''Chithirai Pookkal'' () is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language romance film directed by Kanmani Subbu. The film stars newcomers Jayanthkumar and Vinodhini, with R. Sarathkumar, Radha Ravi, Charle, S. S. Chandran and Vinu Chakravarthy playing support ...'', 1991 Indian film *'' Chithirayil Nilachoru'', 2013 Indian film *'' Chithirai Sevvaanam'', 2021 Indian film * Chithirai Thiruvizha, Hindu festival in Madurai, India * Chithramia, genus of fungi {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra, Deoghar
Chitra is a village in Sarath CD block in the Madhupur subdivision of the Deoghar district in the Indian state of Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north .... Geography Location Chitra is located at . Overview The map shows a large area, which is a plateau with low hills, except in the eastern portion where the Rajmahal hills intrude into this area and the Ramgarh hills are there. The south-western portion is just a rolling upland. The entire area is overwhelmingly rural with only small pockets of urbanisation. Note: The full screen map is interesting. All places marked on the map are linked in the full screen map and one can easily move on to another page of his/her choice. Enlarge the full screen map to see what else is there – one gets railway connecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niyazi
Niyazi Zulfugar oghlu Taghizade Hajibeyov (; 20 August 1912 – 2 August 1984) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani conductor and composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1959) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982). Early life Niyazi was born on August 20, 1912, in Tbilisi in a family of prominent Shusha musicians. His father was the composer Zulfugar Hajibeyov. He is the nephew of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, the founder of the Azeri classical music. He played the violin in "Qırmızı Kadet" Turkish military orchestra in 1921. He studied at the Gnessin Music School in Moscow in 1925-1926. In 1929-30 he studied at the Central Musical Technical School in Leningrad, but dropped out due to health problems. He returned to Baku in 1931. Right after that, he was sent to Dagestan where he met his future wife Həchər khanum. Hecher Khanum's family would not approve of the marriage. So she and Niyazi decided to run away and secretly got married. They lived a very difficult yet fulfilling life. The great love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitrakar
Chitrakar (Devanagari: चित्रकार) is a caste within the Newar community of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The Newar caste system is divided according to profession. Accordingly, Chitrakars were painters and mask makers. In Nepal Bhasa (the language of the Newar community), this caste is called "pun" (पुं) or "puna". The literal translation of the word ''"chitrakar"'' from Sanskrit is 'image maker', where ''"chitrá"'' in Sanskrit means 'an image', and ''"kara"'' 'the maker'. Traditional occupation The Pun or Chitrakar paint paubhas used in prayer rooms and murals in temples, make masks used for ritual dances, paintings on ceramics and woodblock prints used during festivals. The craft is handed down from father to son according to the division of labour laid down from ancient times. Women generally play a secondary role in the artistic ventures. Ethnically, Chitrakars like other Newar communities are of diverse origin including various Indo-Aryan and Tib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spica
Spica is the brightest object in the constellation of Virgo and one of the 20 brightest stars in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation α Virginis, which is Latinised to Alpha Virginis and abbreviated Alpha Vir or α Vir. Analysis of its parallax shows that it is located 250 light-years from the Sun. It is a spectroscopic binary star and rotating ellipsoidal variable; a system whose two stars are so close together they are egg-shaped rather than spherical, and can only be separated by their spectra. The primary is a blue giant and a variable star of the Beta Cephei type. Spica, along with Arcturus and Denebola—or Regulus, depending on the source—forms the Spring Triangle asterism, and, by extension, is also part of the Great Diamond together with the star Cor Caroli. Nomenclature In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra (nakshatra)
Chitra may refer to: Art * Chitra (art), a historic art that includes paintings, sketching with or without multiple colors People * Chithra, Indian playback singer * Chitra (actress), Indian film actress (1965-2021) * V. J. Chitra, Indian television actress (1992-2020) * Chitra Bahadur K.C., Nepalese politician * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English * Chitra Bharucha (born 1945), former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust * Chitra Dewi (1934–2008), Indonesian actress * Chitra Ganesh (born 1975), artist based in Brooklyn, New York * Chitra Jeremiah (born 1971), Nauruan diplomat * Chitra Lekha Yadav, Nepalese politician * Chitra Mudgal (born 1944), literary figure in modern Hindi literature * Chitra Sarwara (born 1975), Indian politician from Haryana * Chitra Singh (born 1945), female ghazal singer * Chitra Soman (born 1983), Indian sprinter * Chitra Subramaniam (born 1958), Indian journalist * Chithira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra (play)
''Chitra'' is a one-act play written by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in English in 1913 by the India Society of London. The play adapts part of the story from the ''Mahabharata'' and centers upon the character of Chitrangada, a female warrior who tries to attract the attention of Arjuna. ''Chitra'' has been performed worldwide and has been adapted into several different formats, such as dance. Synopsis The play adapts the story of Chitrāngadā and Arjuna from the Mahabharata and begins with Chitra beginning a conversation with Madana, the god of love, and Vasanta, the god of springtime and eternal youth. They ask Chitra who she is and what is bothering her, to which she replies that she is the daughter of the king of Manipur and has been raised like a boy as her father had no male heir. She is a great warrior and hero despite being born as a woman, but has never had the chance to truly live as a woman or learn how to use "feminine wiles". Chitra explains that she had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra (2001 Film)
''Chitra'' () is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by Dinesh Babu and produced by Ramoji Rao. A remake of the Telugu film '' Chitram'' (2000), directed by Teja, the film stars Prasad and newcomer Rekha Vedavyas with Ananth Nag in a supporting role. The film had musical score by Gurukiran, which was well received. The film, upon release, was well received and declared a silver jubilee at the box office. Cast Production This is Prabhu Deva's brother Prasad's first Kannada film. Model Rekha Vedavyas plays an NRI student in the film. She received the role after one of the producers, Jayashri Devi, saw her photographs. Soundtrack The music of the film was composed by Gurukiran. The soundtrack was well received upon release and Gurukiran won the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for the year 2001. The lyric "Jinke Mari" from "Pori Tapori" earned Rekha Vedavyas the name Jinke Mari Rekha. Reception A critic from ''Chitraloka.com ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra (1946 Film)
''Chitra'' is a 1946 Tamil-language film produced by T. R. Sundaram of Modern Theatres. Directed by Wahab Kashmiri, it features K. L. V. Vasantha, T. S. Balaiah, T. S. Durairaj, K. K. Perumal, M. E. Madhavan and V. S. Susheela. The film was released on 30 March 1946 and failed commercially. Plot A widowed police commissioner's daughter (Vasantha) falls in love with another police officer (Balaiah). Vasantha's father realises that a man has been committing treason by secretly sending radio messages to enemies, so he hires Balaiah to discover who it is. Balaiah, aided by two incompetent helpers (Durairaj and Madhavan), sets out to find the culprit, but the culprit imprisons them in an isolated bungalow. Unable to find Balaiah, Vasantha is devastated. She and her father make several efforts to locate Balaiah and his aids but fail. At the bungalow, one of Balaiah's aids finds a tie-pin, which is a gift from Vasantha to Balaiah. Balaiah throws it out through a keyhole. Vasantha fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
