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Paalum Pazhamum
''Palum Pazhamum'' ( ) is a 1961 Indian Tamil-language film directed by A. Bhimsingh. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan and B. Saroja Devi. It was released on 9 September 1961. The film was remade in Kannada as ''Beratha Jeeva'', and in Hindi as '' Saathi,'' the latter was remade in Turkish as ' (1970). Plot Ravi is a doctor searching for a cancer cure. Shanthi is Ravi's nurse who assists him in his research. Ravi offers to marry her after her father's death. After putting in enormous efforts, Ravi emerges successful in formulating a new drug but Shanthi is diagnosed with tuberculosis. Ravi begins to neglect his duties as a doctor, focusing on Shanthi's health. Shanthi flees on a train as she does not wish to divert him from his research. The train crashes and Shanthi is believed to be dead. Ravi is heartbroken but vows to complete his research. Ravi's family forces him to marry Nalini, but they do not have a happy home life, as he is more oriented towards his research than hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sivaji Ganesan
Villupuram. Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001), better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian actor and film producer. He was mainly active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ganesan is acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian actors of all time and among the most imitated one by other actors. He was known for his versatility and the variety of roles he depicted on screen, which also gave him the Tamil nickname ''Nadigar Thilagam'' (). In a career that spanned close to five decades, he had acted in 288 films in Tamil language, Tamil, Telugu language, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi language, Hindi. Sivaji Ganesan is the only actor in Tamil cinema to have played the lead role in over 250 films. Ganesan was the first Indian actor to win the "Best Actor" award at the first Afro-Asian Film Festival held in Cairo, Egypt in 1960. Many leading South Indian actors have stated that their acting was infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalki (magazine)
''Kalki'' is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India. The magazine was established by Kalki Krishnamurthy, a popular Tamil novelist and Indian freedom fighter, in 1941. T Sadasivam was the magazine's co-founder. The magazine is known for its publication of historic novels such as '' Ponniyin Selvan'' and '' Sivagamiyin Sabadham''. Singer Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, guru of M S Subbulakshmi, and music critic S V Seshadri were also involved with the magazine in its coverage of music. Kalki Krishnamurthy also edited the magazine, which is published on a weekly basis. During his term the magazine was much more respected due to its quality. The magazine ceased publication in 1977, but resumed in June 1978. ''Mullum Malarum'' (authored by Umachandran), which won this magazine's first prize in the silver jubilee novel competition was first published in this magazine as a serial, and later made into a hit Tamil film of the same name. Website ''Kalki Onli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinamani
''Dinamani'' is a Tamil daily newspaper. The newspaper was established in 1933 and is owned by The New Indian Express Group. The first edition was published on 11 September. The printed circulation was 12,44,568 as on Aug 2022 and 11,52,546 online subscribers. It is printed and published from Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Madurai, New Delhi, Tirunelveli, Tiruchirappalli, Vellore and Villupuram. Dinamani Kathir ''Dinamani Kathir'' is a magazine owned by ''Dinamani''. See also *A N Sivaraman, past editor *RmT Sambandham RmT Sambandham or Irama. Thirugnanasambandham, was an editor of '' Dinamani'', a Tamil daily newspaper published in India. He was born in Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu and died on 14 August 2007 at his residence in Chennai. He sympathised wi ..., past editor *K Vaidhiyanathan, Editor References External linksDinamani website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumudam
''Kumudam'' is a Tamil weekly magazine published in Chennai, India. It was founded in 1948 by S.A.P. Annamalai, and his close friend and confidant P.V. Parthasarathy. Now the magazine is published under the Kumudam Group, which also publishes other Tamil magazines including ''Kumudam Reporter'', ''Kumudam Snehidi'', ''Kumudam Bhakti'', ''Kumudam Jothidam'', ''Kumudam Theeranadhi''. The Kumudam Group started a Telugu spiritual magazine called ''Kumudam Bhakthi Special''. It had a circulation of 620,000 copies in 1986. The web site ''kumudam.com'' attracted over 66,000 visitors in 2008 according to a Compete.com survey. Criticism In September 2015, ''Kumudam'' came under criticism when an article published in ''Kumudam Reporter'' had criticised women wearing leggings Leggings are several types of leg attire that have varied through the years. Modern usage from the 1960s onwards has come to refer to elastic close-fitting High-rise (fashion), high-rise garments worn over the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google News Archive
Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to 18th century. There is a timeline view available, to select news from various years. History The archive went live on June 6, 2006, after Google acquired PaperofRecord.com, originally created by Robert J. Huggins and his team at Cold North Wind, Inc. The acquisition was not publicly announced by Cold North Wind until 2008. While the service initially provided a simple index of other web pages, on September 8, 2008, Google News began to offer indexed content from scanned newspapers. The depth of chronological coverage varies. Newspapers were thought to have escaped copyright obligations of news articles because of Google's method of publishing the archives as searchable image files of the actual newspaper pages, rather than as pure text of articles. In 2011, Goo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight years after Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name '' The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''The'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his Tamil Nadu press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of '' The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakshman Sruthi
''Lakshman Sruthi'' is a musical consortium founded by V. Raman and V. Lakshmanan in 2003 in Kanchipuram, India. It was preceded by a musical collaboration between the founders that led to an orchestra and the founding of a musical instrument store, a music school and an Indian classical music festival. Lakshman Sruthi Orchestra The ''Lakshman Sruthi Orchestra'' is an orchestra founded by V. Lakshmanan in the name of ''Sruthi Innisai Mazhai'' in 1987 with 10 students; since then, it has performed thousands of times in several Indian languages and across the world. This orchestra maintains completely manual orchestration: it does not use synthesizers or any other electronic equipment. The orchestra gained prominence with a record setting 36-hour non-stop light music performance on 17–18 December 1994 at ''Kamarajar Arangam'' in Chennai, India. Lakshman Sruthi Musicals After the great success of the light music orchestra, Lakshman Sruthi started their own musical instrument sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natabhairavi
Naṭabhairavi is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 20th ''melakarta'' rāgam in the 72 ''melakarta'' rāgam system. It corresponds to the Natural minor scale (alias Aeolian mode) of western music system. Natabhairavi corresponds to the ''Asavari thaat'' of Hindustani music.''Ragas in Carnatic music'' by Dr. S. Bhagyalekshmy, Pub. 1990, CBH Publications''Raganidhi'' by P. Subba Rao, Pub. 1964, The Music Academy of Madras In the Muthuswami Dikshitar school this melakarta is instead known as Nārīrītigowla.''Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar Keertanaigal'' by Vidwan A Sundaram Iyer, Pub. 1989, Music Book Publishers, Mylapore, Chennai ''Natabhairavi'' is known to be a rāgam that incites feelings of grandeur and devotion in the listeners. Structure and Lakshana It is the 2nd rāgam in the 4th ''chakra Veda''. The mnemonic name is ''Veda-Sri''. The mnemonic phrase is ''sa ri gi ma pa dha ni''. Its ' structure is as follows (see ''swara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapi (raga)
Kāpi is a popular rāga in Carnatic music, the classical music of South India. ''Kāpi'' is a janya rāgam of '' Kharaharapriya'' with a meandering vakra scale. Typically performed at slow and medium speeds, it is capable of inducing moods of devotion, pathos and sadness in the listeners. ''Kāpi'' is different from the Hindustani raag and thaat '' Kafi.'' The equivalent raag in Hindustani is Pilu. Structure and Lakshana Kāpi is an audava-vakra sampoorna rāgam with an ascending pentatonic scale and a descending scale with seven notes, but not in a descending order. Use of Kakali Nishadam and Anthara Gandharam make it a Bhashanga Raagam. * : * : The presence of different ''nishāda'' swarās (N2 and N3) lends a distinctive quality to Kāpi, along with the fact that it uses a set of vakra swarās (N2 D2 N2). There is also a mild presence of shuddha daivatham (D1) that renders an invaluable feeling of devotion to the raagam. This, and the presence of Anthara Gan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shubhapantuvarali
Shubhapantuvarali (pronounced , meaning ''the auspicious moon'') is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 45th '' melakarta'' rāgam in the 72 ''melakarta'' rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.''Ragas in Carnatic music'' by Dr. S. Bhagyalekshmy, Pub. 1990, CBH Publications''Raganidhi'' by P. Subba Rao, Pub. 1964, The Music Academy of Madras Todi (thaat) is the equivalent in Hindustani music. Being sad in tone, it is usually used for sad songs by musicians. Structure and Lakshana It is the 3rd rāgam in the 8th ''chakra Vasu''. The mnemonic name is ''Vasu-Go''. The mnemonic phrase is ''sa ra gi mi pa dha nu''. Its ' structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see ''swaras'' in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms): * : * : This scale uses the notes ''shuddha rishabham, sadharana gandharam, prati madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatham'' and ''ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. Except for a period of around two years, when Siddharth Varadarajan, S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, senior editorial positions of the paper have always been held by members of the original Iyengar family or by those appointed by them under their direction. In June 2023, the former chairperson of the group, Malini Parthasarathy, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhu Bhairavi (raga)
Sindhu Bhairavi is a raga in Hindustani and Carnatic classical music, belonging to the Asavari thaat. In Carnatic music it is a Janya raga of the 8th melakartha raga Hanumatodi. The raga brings Viraham (separation), Shokam (sorrow), Karunam (compassion) and Bhakthi (devotion) rasas. In Carnatic music it is a ''Bhashangaraga'', in which all the 12 notes are applicable. Sindhu Bhairavi is not to be confused with other similarly named ragas such as Sindhi Bhairavi, Sindh, Sindhura and Sindhura Bhairavi. Theory Arohana: Avarohana: Vadi: Samavadi: Popular compositions Popular carnatic compositions in the raga are: * ''Mosa Jese( Javali)'' by Chinnaiah of the Tanjore Quartet is originally in Hanumatodi, sung today in Sindhubhairavi * ''Vinnum Mannum'' by Subramania Bharati * ''Venkatachala Nilayam, Tamboori meetidava, Vrindavanave Mandira, Tirupati Venkataramana, Harihara ninnanu, Elliruvano Ranga'', ''Kai Meeri Hoda Matige'' By Purandara Dasa * ''Narasimhane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
