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Gopalan (other)
Gopalan may refer to: *A. K. Gopalan (1904–1977), Indian Communist leader *K. P. Gopalan (1908–1977), Indian Communist leader *K. P. R. Gopalan (died 1997), Indian Communist leader *M. J. Gopalan (1909–2003), Indian cricket and hockey player **M. J. Gopalan Trophy, a cricket tournament between Ceylon and Madras *Prahladan Gopalan, Indian politician *Prema Gopalan, Indian social activist *P.V. Gopalan (1911-1998), Indian freedom fighter and civil servant *Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), Indian-American cancer researcher and civil rights activist *Susheela Gopalan (1929–2001), MP and Indian Communist leader *Gopalan, central character of the 2008 Indian film ''Crazy Gopalan'' *7754 Gopalan, an asteroid *S. Gopalan or Gopulu (1924–2015), Indian illustrator See also *Gopal (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prahladan Gopalan
Puthiyapurayil Gopalan popularly known as Prahladan Gopalan was an Indian National Congress politician from Kerala, India. He represented Madayi Assembly constituency in the second Kerala Legislative Assembly. Biography Puthiyapurayil Gopalan was born on 1922, as one of the five children of R. Kunhiraman Master and P. Madhavi Amma, a Malabar District School Teacher. His father was a man who was widely criticized for the Dalit upliftment put forward by Mahatma Gandhi and had to accept humiliation even from his own community. Gopalan became an untrained teacher in 1938 at the age of 16. At that time he participated in a teachers' strike against a meeting called ''Gurujan Sabha'', which is compulsory every Saturday, conducted in RKUP school where his father was the manager. His father was in favor of the meeting. People started calling Gopalan along with the name of Prahlada in Hindu mythology after he succeeded in his struggle against his own father over the issue. He died on May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prema Gopalan
Prema Gopalan (1955/1956 – 29 March, 2022) was an Indian social activist. She co-founded the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC) in 1984. She then founded and has been executive director of Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) for over 20 years, supporting poor rural women in entrepreneurial schemes. She is also well known for disaster relief work in Bihar, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Gopalan has received awards from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Development Programme. She died on 29 March 2022 after a short illness at the age of 66. Early life Prema Gopalan was born in Pune, India. She held an MA in social work and completed a M.Phil. in sociology and research methodology. Career Prema Gopalan was a co-founder with Sheela Patel of SPARC in 1984. She started SSP in 1993, aiming to put rural poor women at the center of decentralized and democratic methods of self-management. SSP function ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shyamala Gopalan
Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Kamala Harris (former vice president of the United States who also served as attorney general of California and senator,) and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator. Early life and education Shyamala was born on December 7, 1938, in Madras, Madras Province, British India (present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) to Tamil Brahmin Iyer parents, P. V. Gopalan, a civil servant, and Rajam, her mother. Her parents were from two villages near the town of Mannargudi in Madras Province. Gopalan had begun his professional life as a stenographer, and, as he rose through the ranks of the Imperial Secretariat Service and later Central Secretariat Service, he moved the family every few years between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susheela Gopalan
Susheela Gopalan (29 December 1929, at Muhamma, in Alappuzha, Kerala – 19 December 2001, at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) was an Indian Communist leader and one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Life She was elected Member of Parliament thrice, from Ambalappuzha (1967), Alappuzha (1980) and Chirayinkil (1991), and was a Minister in the Government of Kerala for a number of years. Born to the famous kalari A kalari is a gymnasium or training space primarily associated with the martial art of Kalaripayattu. The word ''kalari'' comes from Tamil. In the past, village schools in Tamilnadu, typically run by the traditional astrologer families, were k ... family, Cheerappanchira in Muhamma, she was educated in Alappuzha and Trivandrum and joined the Communist Party. She married A. K. Gopalan in 1952, one of the veterans of the party, whom she had met during his years in hiding. She was 25 years younger than him. She was one of the few wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Gopalan
''Crazy Gopalan'' is a 2008 Indian Malayalam-language heist action comedy film directed by Deepu Karunakaran. The film stars Dileep in the title role with Salim Kumar, Jagathy Sreekumar, Manoj K. Jayan, Radha Varma and Biju Menon in pivotal roles. The film was produced and distributed by Ullattil Visual Media. Story, screenplay and dialogues are handled by Deepu Karunakaran. The story revolves around two thieves Gopalan (Dileep) and Lakshmanan (Salim Kumar) and challenges faced by Gopalan after the death of Lakshmanan. Plot Kattila Gopalan is a notorious name in the village Oonjaalaadi. Though nobody has seen Gopalan, people hold him in dread as he is a thief who always manages to steal whatever he wants, without ever getting caught or even being seen by anyone. His identity remains a mystery. Then one day Harichandran, a carpenter happens to see Gopalan for the first time. Gopalan is thus forced to flee the little village and seeks refuge in the city. There he meets Lakshma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopulu
S. Gopalan, pen-name Gopulu (18 June 1924 – 29 April 2015), was a Tamil illustrator and cartoonist, known for his work for the Tamil humour magazine ''Ananda Vikatan''. Born in Tanjore in 1924, Gopulu spent his early years in the city. He studied at the Kumbakonam School of Art. In 1941, he came to Chennai looking for a job in ''Ananda Vikatan''. There, he met "Mali", a cartoonist who commissioned a number of paintings for the magazine's Deepavali special. It was not till December 1944, however, that Mali offered Gopulu a job at the magazine. Mali was also the one who gave Gopulu his pen-name. In the course of the next twenty or so years, till 1968, Gopulu did political cartoons, cover designs and illustrated columns for the magazine. As an illustrator, Gopulu worked on popular serials such as ''Thillana Mohanambal'' and ''Washingtonil Thirumanam''. He is known for his work with the writer Devan for whom he illustrated the serial Thuppariyum Sambu in comics form. Devan's bumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |