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Radhika (given Name)
Radhika is an Indian female given name from the alternative name of Radha, Hindu goddess and eternal consort of Krishna. People Film and television * Radhika Sarathkumar, Indian actress, producer and entrepreneur * Radhika Pandit, Indian film actress * Radhika Chaudhari, Indian actress and director * Radhika Rao, Indian film director * Radhika Kumaraswamy, widely credited as Kutty Radhika, Indian film actress * Radhika Apte (b. 1985), Indian film actress * Radhika Madan (b. 1995), actress in Hindi films and television * Radhika Narayan, actress in Kannada films and theatre * Radhika (Malayalam actress), Indian film actress * Radhika Sadanah better known by her stage name Roshini, actress in South Indian films * Radhika Thilak (1969-2015), singer in Malayalam films * Radhika (choreographer), choreographer in South Indian films * Kalamandalam Radhika, Indian dancer and choreographer, and actor in Malayalam films and television Politics * V. Radhika Selvi (b. 1976), former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radha
Radha (, ), also called Radhika, is a Hindu goddess and the chief consort of the god Krishna. She is the goddess of love, tenderness, compassion, and devotion. In scriptures, Radha is mentioned as the avatar of Lakshmi and also as the Prakṛti, Mūlaprakriti, the Supreme goddess, who is the feminine counterpart and internal potency (''hladini shakti'') of Krishna. Radha accompanies Krishna in all his incarnations. Radha's birthday is celebrated every year on the occasion of Radhashtami. In relation with Krishna, Radha has dual representation—the lover consort as well as his married consort. Traditions like Nimbarka Sampradaya worship Radha as the eternal consort and wedded wife of Krishna. In contrast, traditions like Gaudiya Vaishnavism revere her as Krishna's lover and the divine consort. In Radha Vallabha Sampradaya and Haridasi Sampradaya, only Radha is worshipped as the Brahman, Supreme being. Elsewhere, she is venerated with Krishna as his principal consort in Nim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Balakrishnan
Radhika Balakrishnan (born in Ootacamund, India) is the faculty director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Board of the United States Human Rights Network and Chair on the Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Commissioner for the Commission for Gender Equity for the City of New York, and President of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) for 2020-2021. Biography Radhika Balakrishnan grew up in Tamil Nadu, India and moved to Chicago, Illinois at the age of 13. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign initially to study engineering, but switched majors and graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. It was at the University of Illinois that she first became involved in the women's movement, which inspired her to study economics. In 1985 she received her Master of Arts in Economics, and in 1990 she received her Ph.D. in Economics, both from Rut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Tulpule
Radhika Tulpule (born 9 February 1982) is an Indian former professional tennis player. Tulpule has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 473, achieved on 17 September 2001. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 438, attained on 14 April 2003. In her career, Tulpule won six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players. History It serves as a developmenta .... Playing for India Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 1–0. ITF finals Singles (6–0) Doubles (6–5) Fed Cup participation Doubles References External links * * * 1982 births Living people Indian female tennis players Sportspeople from Pune {{India-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Aggarwal
Radhika Ghai Aggarwal is an Internet entrepreneur and India's first woman to enter the Unicorn Club. She is the co-founder of online marketplace ShopClues established in 2011 in silicon valley. Currently, she serves as the chief business officer of the company. Early life Aggarwal was born to an Army family. Her father was in the Indian Army while her mother was a dietician. Her entrepreneurial venture started when her father decided to start his own health club in 1992, followed by the establishment of her own advertising agency in Chandigarh in 1997. Education Aggarwal has an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and holds a post-graduation degree in advertising and public relations. She was also part of an executive program at Stanford University. Career Aggarwal worked in marketing for companies like Nordstrom in Seattle and strategic planning at Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Piramal
Radhika Piramal is the Vice Chairperson of VIP Industries since 2010. Previously, she has served as Executive Director and as Managing director of the company. She is a graduate from Oxford University has an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is one of the few openly homosexual Indian corporate leaders. Radhika was married in London to Amanda. She has spoken about her experiences with bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder (BD), previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of Depression (mood), depression and periods of abnormally elevated Mood (psychology), mood that each last from days to weeks, and in .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Indian businesswomen 21st-century Indian businesspeople Alumni of the University of Oxford Harvard Business School alumni Lesbian businesswomen Indian lesbians Indian LGBTQ businesspeople People with bipolar disorder {{India-business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Roy
Radhika Roy (''née'' Das; born 7 May 1949) is an Indian journalist who is the founder and former executive co-chairperson of NDTV. She was the managing director of the company between 1998 and 2011. The company started as a news production house and became the first independent news broadcaster in India. Roy began her career in journalism at ''The Indian Express'' and worked for a period of time at the ''India Today'' magazine before becoming the founder of NDTV. Biography 1949–1984: Early life and career Radhika was born in Calcutta, West Bengal on 7 May 1949, at 5/1B Belvedre Road to Sooraj Lal Dass, who had migrated to the city during the partition of India. In the 1960s, Radhika was sent to study at Welham Girls' boarding school in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh. Radhika met Prannoy Roy during her teenage years. Prannoy was also from Calcutta, and attending The Doon School, a boys' boarding school in Dehradun. Radhika and Prannoy moved to London, United Kingdom for higher ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Jha
Radhika Jha (born 1970) is an Indian novelist who won the French Prix Guerlain award in 2002 for her first novel, ''Smell''. Early life Jha was born in New Delhi in 1970 and grew up in Mumbai. She lived in Tokyo for 6 years and thoroughly immersed herself in all aspects of Japanese culture. She then moved to Beijing and is now based in Athens with her ambassador husband and two children. Career and education Jha studied anthropology at Amherst College, Massachusetts, did her master's degree in political science at the University of Chicago and lived in Paris as an exchange student. Jha is also a trained Odissi dancer. Jha started her career as a journalist and worked for Hindustan Times and Business World writing on culture, the environment and the economy. She also worked for the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, where she started up the Interact project for the education of the children of the victims of terrorism in different parts of India. ''Smell'' was her debut novel publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Gajjala
Radhika Gajjala (born December 22, 1960, in Bombay) is a communications and a cultural studies professor, who has been named a Fulbright scholar twice. Early life Radhika Gajjala was born December 22, 1960, in Bombay (Mumbai), India. She then moved around with her family before attending college in Hyderabad, India, eventually settling down in Bowling Green, Ohio, in 1997. Career Gajjala is a well known communications scholar, co-editor of ''Ada'' a journal focusing on gender, new media, and technology, and professor of both media and communication, and culture studies at Bowling Green State University. She has authored and co-authored several scholarly articles and books, with her most recent book being ''Cyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real''. Education In 1982, she attended Nizam's College, Osmania in Hyderabad, India, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English literature, political science and economics. She then received her Master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Iyengar
Radhika Iyengar is an Indian journalist, writer, and recipient of the 2018 Red Ink Awards in the category of human rights. She held the Prabha Dutt Fellowship in 2016, the Bianca Pancoat Patton Fellowship in 2019, and the Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship in 2020. She has written for several news magazines including ''Al Jazeera'', ''Christian Science Monitor'', ''Vogue India'', and '' Conde Nast Traveller India''. After seven to eight years of research on the Dom community of Varanasi, she produced '' Fire on the Ganges: Life among the Dead in Banaras'', published in 2023 by HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmi .... References 21st-century Indian journalists Date of birth missing (living people) Indian women academics Indian women journalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Sanghani
Radhika Sanghani is a writer and journalist who has contributed to publications including ''The Daily Telegraph.'' She is also the author of books such as ''Virgin: A Novel'' and ''Not That Easy''. Education Sanghani attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, an independent school in Elstree, England, and later pursued a degree in English at University College London. She then completed a Master of Arts in Newspaper Journalism at City University. Career Sanghani's motivation to pursue a career in journalism was sparked by the example set by Sue Lloyd-Roberts, particularly her investigative work that shed light on the constraints faced by women worldwide. In 2012, she embarked on a role as a graduate trainee at ''The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Menon
Radhika Menon is an Indian publisher. She is the founder of Tulika books which was started by her publishing business in 1996. Early days She mentioned that as a child she liked reading writers such as Enid Blyton, Charles Hamilton and W.E. Johns. Career In 1978, with an interest in children's education, Menon worked at the J. Krishnamurti school. After J Krishnamurthi school in Chennai, she moved to Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Delhi. Menon and her sister in law, Indu Chandrasekhar ran a pre-press service called Tulika to "earn enough money" to publish their own books. Subsequently, Chandrasekhar founded Tulika Books Tulika Books is an Indian publisher of scholarly and academic books in the humanities and social sciences, with a "broadly left perspective." The Chennai-based Tulika Publishers is a sister company of Tulika Books. History Tulika Books was f ... in New Delhi in 1995, and Menon founded Tulika Publishers in Chennai. Tulika Books Tulika's books for children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Jones
Radhika Jones (born January 23, 1973) is an American magazine editor who served as the fifth editor-in-chief of ''Vanity Fair'' magazine from 2017 until 2025. She succeeded Graydon Carter, who retired in 2017 after 25 years in the role. Jones formerly served as the editorial director for the books department at ''The New York Times'', deputy managing editor of ''Time'' and the managing editor of ''The Paris Review''. Early life and education Jones was born in New York to an American father, Robert L. Jones, a folk musician, and an Indian mother, Marguerite Jones (who had come to Europe to study languages), who met in Paris, France, in 1970. She grew up in Cincinnati and Ridgefield, Connecticut. She has a brother and a sister named Nalini, who is an author. Jones has a BA degree from Harvard University and a PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia where she has also taught courses in writing and literature. Career Jones began her career in Moscow, Russia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
