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Sahana may refer to: * Sahana (raga), a rāga in Carnatic music * Sahana (TV series) * Sahana, Hooghly, a village in West Bengal, India * Sahana Software Foundation, an organization promoting free and open-source software (FOSS) for disaster and emergency management * People named Sahana: ** Sahana Bajpaie ** Sahana Bajracharya ** Sahana Devi ** Sahana Kumari ** Sahana Pradhan Sahana Pradhan (Nepali: साहाना प्रधान) (17 June 1927 – 22 September 2014) was a Nepalese politician from a Newar family in Kathmandu. She resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal on April 16, 2008. She also served ...

Sahana (raga)
Sahana (pronounced sahānā) is a popular ragam (musical scale) in Carnatic music. It is a janya rāgam (derived scale) associated with the 28th Melakarta rāgam Harikambhoji. The Hindustani music ragam ''Sahana'' is an upper-tetrachord-dominant Kanada-anga raga, from the Kafi thaat, also allied with Bageshree and Bhimpalasi. The shuddha Dhaivat is an important rest note (nyaas swara). Structure and Lakshana It is a ''Ubhaya Vakra sampoorna ragam''. ''Vakra'' means crooked. ''Ubhaya Vakra'' means that the notes in both ascent and descent follow a zig zag pattern. The notes in ascending and descending scale do not follow a strict progression. Hence the note phrases contain such ''vakra'' phrases, lending a unique beauty to this rāgam. Though it is a ''sampoorna rāgam'' (contains all 7 notes), the ''vakra'' scale means it is not considered a ''melakarta'', as melakarta rāgams must have strictly ascending and descending scales. It is also classified as a ''rakti raga'' (raga w ...
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Sahana (TV Series)
''Sahana'' is an Indian Tamil-language TV series produced by K. Balachander. It is a sequel to the 1985 film ''Sindhu Bhairavi'' which Balachander directed. The first episode was aired on Jaya TV on 24 February 2003. Cast * Y. G. Mahendran as JKB aka JK.Balaganapathy * Anuradha Krishnamurthi as Sindhu * Sulakshana as Bhairavi * Kavya Shekar as Sahana * Prakash Raj * Bombay Gnanam * Krishna as Surya * Kavithalaya Krishnan * Renuka * AR.Srinivasan * Madhan Bob * Delhi Ganesh * Janakaraj * Achamillai Gopi * TV.Varadharajan * Oorvambu Lakshmi * Revathi Shankar * Suganthi Perumal * Shailaja * Sri Ranjini * Sureshwar * Vishnu * Rajkamal * Mohan.V.Ram * Master Sriram * Hemamalini * Preetha Raghav * Sri Vidya * Sonia Bose * Giridharan Production Development Though K. Balachander had been toying with the idea of making a sequel to his 1985 film ''Sindhu Bhairavi'' for over 10 years since the early 1990s, he eventually abandoned the idea as he believed people would compa ...
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