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Kona Prabhakara Rao
Kona Prabhakara Rao (10 July 1916 – 20 October 1990) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Indian National Congress party and was elected four times as Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Bapatla Assembly constituency. Early life and education Kona Prabhakar Rao was born in Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, into a wealthy Telugu Niyogi Brahmin family in Bapatla. He did most of his schooling in Bapatla. At the age of 16, Rao conducted a boycott of schools when late Motilal Nehru died. He was a social and political worker and took active part in the Salt Satyagraha movement and Quit India Movement of 1942. In Bapatla he organised a youth league and promoted the use of khadi. A keen sportsman, Rao was tennis champion of the Bombay University in 1938. He organised the Shivaji Vyayam Mandali at Bapatla and some other places. He was a wrestler and badminton champion during his college days at Pune. He graduated from the Loyola College, Madras and completed his law de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Overuse Flags
Don't, Dont, or DONT may refer to: Films * Don't (1925 film), ''Don't'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent comedy film * Don't (1974 film), ''Don't'' (1974 film), a 1974 film about the monarch butterfly * ''Don't'', a fake trailer from the film ''Grindhouse (film), Grindhouse'' (2007) Songs * Don't (Billy Currington song), "Don't" (Billy Currington song) * Don't (Bryson Tiller song), "Don't" (Bryson Tiller song) *"Don't", by Dinosaur Jr. from their album ''Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album), Bug'', 1988 * Don't (Ed Sheeran song), "Don't" (Ed Sheeran song) * Don't (Elvis Presley song), "Don't" (Elvis Presley song) * "Don't!", a song by Shania Twain * "Don't", by M2M from their album ''The Big Room'' * "Honey Don't, Carl Perkins song Surname Dont or Dohnt is a German language surname *Jakob Dont (1815–1888), Austrian composer *Jay Dohnt (born 1989), Australian Paralympics athlete Other uses * Don't (game show), ''Don't'' (game show), a 2020 American game show with Adam Scott and Ryan Reynolds * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bapatla Assembly Constituency
Bapatla Assembly constituency is a constituency in Bapatla district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Bapatla Lok Sabha constituency. Vegesana Narendra Varma Raju is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from YSR Congress Party. As of 25 March 2019, there are a total of 183,917 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1951, as per ''Delimination Orders (1951)''. Mandals Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 1952 1955 1962 1967 1972 1978 1983 1985 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019 2024 See also * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy (16 August 1920 – 27 September 2001) served as the 9th chief minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1983 and then from 1992 to 1994. Reddy was a member of the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Lok Sabha six times. Reddy also served as a Union cabinet Minister, along with serving on several parliamentary committees. He lost the 1999 elections and subsequently retired from active politics. Botanical Garden in Hyderabad is named after him. Early life Reddy was born in the remote village of Laddagiri in the Kurnool district to the family of a landlord. He began his involvement in politics at Nandyal gram panchayat and eventually became involved in the national level. He studied for his B.A., at Besant Theosophical College, Madanapalle and his LL.B. at Madras Law College, in Madras, Tamil Nadu in 1947. While Reddy graduated law school, he rarely practiced law due to his political workload. Personal life Reddy was marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy
Bhavanam Venkatrami Reddy (18 July 1931 – 7 April 2002) was the chief minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh from February–September 1982. He was a member of the Congress party and served as cabinet minister in various AP governments. Early life Reddy was born in Muppalla village in Guntur District Madras Presidency then British India. Reddy married to Bhavanam Jayaparadha and has one son and three daughters. One of his daughters, Rajyasree, is married to cardiac surgeon and the founder of KIMS Hospitals, Bhaskar Rao Bollineni. Career His political career started in the 1970s as a Youth Congress activist. From there he reached the position of Member of Legislative Assembly and later became education minister in Chenna Reddy's cabinet in 1978. He served in the cabinet of Tanguturi Anjaiah before becoming chief minister on 24 February 1982. He served as the chief minister until 19 September 1982, representing Congress A congress is a formal meeting of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drohi (1948 Film)
Drohi () is a 1948 Telugu-language drama film directed by L. V. Prasad. This was the debut film for Pendyala Nageswara Rao as music director. The plot Saroja (Varalakshmi), daughter of Zamindar Gangadhar Rao (Rallabandi), is an arrogant woman. She loves Raja Rao (Kona Prabhakar Rao), who assists her father in instituting wrong things. He accidentally kills an old man while driving her car. Dr. Prakash (Prakash Rao) provides shelter to his granddaughter Seetha (Lakshmirajyam). Seetha helps Dr. Prakash in his social service activities. Dr. Prakash marries Saroja. Since then she hates Seetha, harasses her, and drives her from the hospital. Prakash continues his social service in the village with the help of Seetha. Knowing this, Gangadhar Rao, with the help of Raja Rao, sets village huts on fire. The angry villagers try to attack them. Seetha, with her kindness, convinces and stops them, but during her attempt, succumbs to bullet wounds. Saroja changes her mind and gets her father an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nirdoshi (1951 Film)
''Nirdoshi'' or ''Niraparadhi'' () is a 1951 Telugu/Tamil film produced and directed by H. M. Reddy. Mukkamala Krishna Murthy played the role of the hero whereas Anjali Devi played a double role. The Rai Brothers (P. L. Rai and Viswanatha Rai) worked as Cinematographers behind the camera and Ghantasala as the Music director. The film was edited by M.S. Parthasarathy Cast Production As Mukkamala Krishna Murthy could not speak Tamil, Director H. M. Reddy appointed Sivaji Ganesan as a dubbing artiste. Ganesan was a stage actor and not much known at that time. The film was edited by M.S. Parthasarathy. Songs Telugu Tamil Music was composed by Ghantasala and Padmanabha Sastri while the lyrics were penned by M. S. Subramaniam. Reception Film historian Randor Guy Madabhushi Rangadorai (; 8 November 1937 – 23 April 2023), better known by his pen name Randor Guy (), was an Indian lawyer, columnist and film and legal historian associated with the English la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niraparaadhi (1951 Film)
''Niraparaadhi'' () is a 1984 Indian Tamil-language crime film, directed by K. Vijayan and produced by K. Balaji. The film stars Mohan and Madhavi in the lead roles. It is a remake of the Hindi film ''Be Abroo'', and was released on 15 August 1984. Plot Aruna elopes with Jayaprakash. They come to Jayaprakash's house where his father, Durai Raj accepts them wholeheartedly. Later, Durai Raj attempts to rape Aruna and reveals to her that Jayaprakash is not his son but a pimp who sold her to him. She tries to escape but is unsuccessful. Jayaprakash also tells her that he married many other girls and sold them. Feeling devastated, Aruna kills herself. Radha reaches madras to begin her job as a chief reporter. She tries to contact her friend Ratna, who is supposed to pick her up at the bus station. She meets a man there who offers her tea. After drinking it, she falls unconscious. The man is a pimp who wanted to abduct her and sell her to four men on the same night. When the pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telugu Film
Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Based in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telugu cinema is the second largest film industry in India by box-office revenue as of 2023, following Bollywood. Telugu films sold 23.3 crore (233 million) tickets in 2022, the highest among all Indian film industries. As of 2023, Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of movie screens in India. Since 1909, filmmaker Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu was involved in producing short films and exhibiting them in different regions of South Asia. He established the first Indian-owned cinema halls in South India. In 1921, he produced the silent film, '' Bhishma Pratigna'', generally considered to be the first Telugu feature film. As the first Telugu film producer and exhibitor, Naidu is regarded as the 'Father of Telugu cinema'. The first Telugu talkie fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ILS Law College
ILS Law College, or in its full name Indian Law Society's Law College, is a government-aided law school in Pune, India. It was established in 1924 and offers courses that include three-year and five-year degrees. ILS is located on Law College Road, Pune. The college was aided by the Ford Foundation. History The Indian Law Society was established on 4 March 1923 as a Public Charitable Trust registered under the Societies Registration Act. The society established the eponymous Law College with the objective of providing facilities for the study of law on a scientific basis with proper training. The college was affiliated with the University of Bombay, but with the founding of the Savitribai Phule Pune University in 1948, the college became affiliated to it. Campus The ILS campus is located at the centre of Law College Road between the FTII ( Film and Television Institute) and the Bhandarkar Research Institute. The Sarswati Building houses the library, the reading room, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyola College, Madras
Loyola College is a government aided private Catholic higher education institution run by the Society of Jesus in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1925 by the French Jesuit priest, Francis Bertram, along with other European Jesuits. It is an autonomous Jesuit college affiliated with the University of Madras. Loyola commerce association celebrated its 75th year in 2019. Loyola College has more than 10,000 students studying as of 2023. History The name Loyola comes from the ancestral castle where Íñigo López de Loyola was born in 1491, the last of a large Basque family. He along with St. Francis Xavier and five other companions founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), a worldwide organization of religious men numbering about 19,000. Nearly 4,000 are working in the 18 provinces of India. In Tamil Nadu, there are 480 Jesuits working in schools, colleges, youth services, social work centres, parishes, mission outreach programmes, and in other forms of servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay University
University of Mumbai is a public state university in Mumbai. It is one of the largest university systems in the world with over 549,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. It was established in 1857 following a dispatch from Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control, to Governor-General Lord Dalhousie. There are courses available covering science, commerce and the arts. History Wood's despatch, drafted by Sir Wood in 1854, advocated a range of educational reforms in India, including the establishment of universities in major Indian cities. As such, the University of Bombay was established in 1857 after the presentation of a petition from the Bombay Association to the imperial Government of India. The University of Mumbai was modelled on similar universities in the United Kingdom, specifically the University of London. The first departments established were the Faculty of Arts at Elphinstone College in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khadi
Khadi (, ), derived from khaddar, is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi as Swadeshi movement, ''swadeshi (of homeland)'' for the freedom struggle of India and the term is used throughout the Indian subcontinent."Freedom@70: How Khadi is getting a new spin" ''The Economic Times'', 13 August 2017. The first piece of the hand-woven cloth was made in the Sabarmati Ashram, Sabarmati Ashram of Gandhi during 1917–18. The coarseness of the cloth led Gandhi to call it ''khadi''. The cloth is made from cotton, but it may also include silk or wool, which are all spun into yarn on a ''Spinning wheel#Charkha, charkha''. It is a versatile fabric that remains cool in summer and war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
