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Rukmani (name)
Rukmini is a Sanskrit feminine given name and a surname that may refer to the following notable people: ;Given name * Rukmani Bai, Indian politician * Rukmani Devi (1923–1978), Sri Lankan film actress and singer * Rukmani Gounder, New Zealand economist ;Surname * Kumari Rukmani (1929–2007), Indian actress and dancer *T. S. Rukmani Trichur Subramaniam Rukmani, often known as T. S. Rukmani, is a Sanskritist who served many years on the faculty of Concordia University (1996-2012) and retired in 2012. She translated many Sanskrit texts into English. Biography Rukmani was born ..., Indian Sanskrit scholar See also * Rukmini (given name) {{given name, type=both Indian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominalization, nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural diffusion, diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age#South Asia, Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a lingua franca, link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies. Sanskrit generally connotes several Indo-Aryan lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukmani Bai
Rukmani Bai (1907-1962) was an Indian politician. She was a Member of Parliament, representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress. References {{Reflist 1907 births 1962 deaths Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh Indian National Congress politicians from Madhya Pradesh Women in Madhya Pradesh politics Women members of the Rajya Sabha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukmani Devi
Daisy Rasammah Daniels, known popularly as Rukmani Devi (15 January 1923 – 28 October 1978: si, රුක්මණී දේවී) was a Sri Lankan film actress and singer, who was often acclaimed as "The Nightingale of Sri Lanka". She made it to the silver screen via the stage and had acted in close to 100 films, at the time of her death. Having an equal passion for singing as well as a melodious voice, she was Sri Lanka's foremost female singer in the gramophone era. After her death, she was awarded the Sarasaviya 'Rana Thisara'- Life Time Achievement Award at the 1979 Sarasaviya Awards Festival. Personal life Rukmani Devi, was born as Daisy Rasammah Daniels to a Tamil Colombo Chetty Christian family on 15 January 1923 at Ramboda in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. Second, in a family of five, her father, John Daniel worked on a plantation and her mother, Helen Rose was a teacher. She grew up in Colombo and had her early education at St. Matthew's School and then moved on to St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukmani Gounder
Rukmani Gounder is a New Zealand economics academic. She is currently a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 1994 PhD titled '' 'An economic analysis of overseas aid motivations : theory and empirical results for Australia' '' at the University of Queensland, Gounder moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor. Selected works * Bartleet, Matthew, and Rukmani Gounder. "Energy consumption and economic growth in New Zealand: Results of trivariate and multivariate models." Energy Policy 38, no. 7 (2010): 3508–3517. * Gounder, R. (2001). Aid-growth nexus: empirical evidence from Fiji. Applied Economics, 33(8), 1009–1019. * Gounder, Rukmani. "Empirical results of aid motivations: Australia's bilateral aid program." World Development 22, no. 1 (1994): 99–113. * Saha, Shrabani, Rukmani Gounder, and Jen-Je Su. "The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption: A panel cross-country analysis." Economics Letters 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumari Rukmani
Kumari Rukmani (19 April 1929 – 4 September 2007), also known as Kumari Rukmini, was an Indian actress and dancer. She has acted in about 100 films in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages. Childhood She is the daughter of Nungambakkam Janaki, also an actress. She hails from Melattur in Thanjavur district. During the shooting of '' Harishchandra'' (1932) in Bombay (now Mumbai) the producers were looking for a young actor to feature as ''Lohidasan''. Kumari Rukmani, as a child, was staying with her parents in the next room where T. P. Rajalakshmi who was the female lead in the film, was staying. Rajalakshmi recommended Kumari Rukmani to the producers. The producers talked to the parents and made Kumari Rukmani to feature as ''Lohidasan'' in the film. Thus began her film career.English translation Film career She featured in many films together with T. P. Rajalakshmi. Her first film as heroine was Sri Valli in which she acted as Valli paired with T. R. Mahalingam. In 1946 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukmini (given Name)
Rukmini is a Hindic feminine given name that may refer to the following notable people: *Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Indian linguist, poet, writer and critic * Rukmini Callimachi (born 1973), Romanian-American journalist * Rukmini Chaudhary, Nepalese politician *Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986), Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer *Rukmini Lakshmipathi (1892–1951), Indian independence activist * Rukmini Maitra, Indian model and actress *Rukmini Sukarno (born c.1943), a daughter of the Indonesian President Sukarno * Rukmini Timmaraju (born 1973), American reproductive rights advocate *Rukmini Varma (born 1940), Indian artist * Rukmini Vijayakumar, Indian choreographer, dancer and film actress See also *Rukmani (name) Rukmini is a Sanskrit feminine given name and a surname that may refer to the following notable people: ;Given name *Rukmani Bai, Indian politician * Rukmani Devi (1923–1978), Sri Lankan film actress and singer *Rukmani Gounder, New Zealand econo ... {{given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Feminine Given Names
Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India * Anglo-Indians, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent * East Indians, a Christian community in India Europe * British Indians, British people of Indian origin The Americas * Indo-Canadians, Canadian people of Indian origin * Indian Americans, American people of Indian origin * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants ** Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America ** Native Americans in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
