Sharad/Sarath/Sharath ( sa, शरद्)is the autumn season or ritu in the

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. It roughly corresponds to the western months of mid-September to mid-November. Sharad is preceded by Varsha and followed by Hemant. The Hindu calendar contains six seasons ( Vasant, Grishma, Varsha, Sharad, Hemant, Shishir) with two months each. Sharad is characterized by clear skies, after three months of rains. Sharad

Navratri Navaratri is an annual Hindu festival observed in the honour of the goddess Durga. It spans over nine nights (and ten days), first in the month of Chaitra (March/April of the Gregorian calendar), and again in the month of Sharada. It is ...

, are the first nine auspicious days of the season, Sharad Purnima, the full moon day in the month of Ashwin, is celebrated as the day of divine Rasalila by Shri Krishna. That is the brightest full moon night of the year. Sharad is also a Hindu name given to the grandchildren of Seva or the child of gods and it is also a month of Hindu calendar

Famous people from the name Sharad

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Sharad Pawar Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: �əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Mini ...

– President of the

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Sharad Singh Bhandari Sharad Singh Bhandari is a Nepalese Revolutionary politician, belonging to the Communist Party Nepal(Maoist Centre). In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was elected from the Achham Achham ( ne, :ne:अछाम जिल्ला, � ...

– Nepalese politician *

Sharad Bansode Sharad Bansode (b 14 April 1967 Chapalgaon, Solapur district, Maharashtra) is an Indian politician from the Solapur district in Maharashtra state of India. He contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections on the BJP ticket from Solapur. He won the ...

– Indian politician *

Sharad Anantrao Joshi Sharad Anantrao Joshi (3 September 1935 – 12 December 2015) was an Indian politician who founded the Swatantra Bharat Paksh party and ''Shetkari Sanghatana'' (farmers' Organisation), He was also a Member of the Parliament of India representin ...

– Member of the

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representing Maharashtra in the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, wikisource:Constitution of India/Part V#Article 80, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legisl ...

Sharad Yadav Sharad Yadav (born 1 July 1947) is a politician from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party. He has been elected to Lok Sabha seven times and to Rajya Sabha thrice from JD(U). He was the first national president of Janata Dal (United) since its form ...

– Politician * Sharad Kumar Awasthi – former MLA from Ram Nagar * Sharad Tripathi – Member of the

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(9 January 1972 – 30 June 2021) * Sharad Ranpise – Member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

. * Sharad Dighe – former member of the Indian National Congress from the Bombay North Central (1924–2002) Film and Television * Sharad Kapoor – Indian actor * Sharad Talwalkar – Indian

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film and television actor * Sharad Vyas – Television actor * Sharad Ponkshe – Indian actor and writer * Sharad Sharma – Indian

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Sharad Kelkar Sharad Kelkar (born 7 October 1976) is an Indian film actor and voice artist from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He works primarly in Hindi films, Marathi films. Kelkar has appeared as lead in television serials for brief period of time, now he do web ...

– Indian actor *

Sharad Gogate Sharad Gogate, born Sharadchandra Prabhakar Gogate ( mr, शरद्चन्द्र प्रभाकर गोगटे) on 27 June 1936, is a Marathi publisher and writer from Maharashtra, India. Biography Sharad Gogate is the son of P ...

– Marathi publisher and writer * Sharad Haskar – Photographer * Sharad Malhotra – Indian film and television actor *

Sharad Joshi Sharad Joshi was an Indian poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. Biography Early life and education Sharad Joshi was born on 21 May 1931 in Ujjain, Madhya ...

– Indian poet, writer, satirist and a

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and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television (1931–1991) Law and order * Sharad Arvind Bobde – 47 Chief Justice of India * Sharad Kumar – former

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administ ...

(IPS) officer Medicine * Sharad Panday – Indian heart surgeon * Sharad Vaidya – Indian surgeon *

Sharad Kumar Dixit Sharad Kumar Dixit was an Indian born Americans, American plastic surgeon and the founder of The India Project, a social initiative for free treatment of plastic surgery for the financially compromised people. A multiple nominee for Nobel Peace pr ...

– Indian born American

plastic surgeon Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes cranio ...

Sports * Sharad Diwadkar – Indian

Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er * Sharad Rao – Indian Cricketer * Sharad Hazare – Indian Cricketer (1945–2022) * Sharad Kumar – Indian

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high jumper * Sharad Vesawkar – Nepalese Cricketer Entrepreneur * Sharad Devarajan – CEO of Gotham Comics * Sharad Sagar – Indian

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and the Founder and CEO of Dexterity Global

References

*Selby, Martha Ann (translator). ''The Circle of Six Seasons'', 2003, * Raghavan, V. ''Ṛtu in Sanskrit literature'', Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri from Nepal, 1972. Hindu calendar Autumn {{Hinduism-stub