58 Notable alumni of
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
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The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is 1017th in the world, 213th in Asia, and 22nd in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 58 notable alumni from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dadasaheb Phalke
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producerfilm editor
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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke, was an Indian producer, director and screenwriter, widely regarded as "the Father of Indian cinema".
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Vinoba Bhave
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- politicianwriterphilosopherhuman rights defender
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Vinayak Narahar Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave, was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (Teacher in Sanskrit), he is best known for the Bhoodan land reform movement. He is considered as National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. He translated the Bhagavad Gita into the Marathi language with the title Geetai (meaning 'Mother Gīta' in Marathi).
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Shrenu Parikh
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- actortelevision actormodel
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Shrenu Parikh Mhatre is an Indian actress. Parikh gained notable roles for her portrayal as Aastha Agnihotri in the StarPlus romantic drama series Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir (2013–2015) and Gauri Trivedi Singh Oberoi in the drama series Ishqbaaaz (2017–2018).
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Sam Pitroda
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- computer scientistbusinessperson
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Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, popularly known as Sam Pitroda, is an Indian official, telecommunications engineer, innovator, and entrepreneur. He was born in Titlagarh, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, into a Gujarati family. He served as an advisor to Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh during their respective tenures as the Prime Minister of India, as well as to the United Nations. He is the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress. He is often credited as the “Father of India’s Telecom Revolution” for his role in modernizing the country’s communications infrastructure and shaping India’s technology landscape during the 1980s.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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- biophysicistbiologistmolecular biologistchemistbiochemist
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.
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Vishal Sikka
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- chief executive officer
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Vishal Sikka is an Indian-American entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Vianai and was CTO of SAP AG and CEO of Infosys. He also serves on Oracle's board of directors, the supervisory board of the BMW Group and as an advisor to the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI.
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Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
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- politicianlawyerfreedom fighterjournalistauthor
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Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, popularly known by his pen name Ghanshyam Vyas, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to author and politician. He is a well-known name in Gujarati literature. He founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational trust, in 1938.
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S. L. Bhyrappa
- Enrolled in the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- writer
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Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa was an Indian novelist, philosopher and screenwriter who wrote in Kannada. His works are popular in the state of Karnataka and he is widely regarded as one of modern India's popular novelists. His novels are unique in terms of theme, structure, and characterization. He has been among the top-selling authors in the Kannada language and his books have been translated into Hindi and Marathi which have also been bestsellers.
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Vijay P. Bhatkar
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- computer scientist
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Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India's National Initiative in Supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He is a Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Maharashtra Bhushan recipient. Indian computer magazine Dataquest placed him among the pioneers of India's IT industry. He was the founder and executive director of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and is currently working on developing exascale supercomputing for India.
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Ajay Bhatt
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- computer scientistengineerinventor
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Ajay V. Bhatt is an Indian-American computer architect who produced several widely used technologies, including USB, Platform Power Management architecture, and various other chipsets.
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Ankur Vikal
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India - Occupations
- actor
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Ankur Vikal is an Indian theatre and film actor.
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Kirtidan Gadhvi
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- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- singer
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Kirtidan Gadhvi is an Indian singer from Gujarat.
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Narayan Gopal
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- singercomposersinger-songwriter
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Narayan Gopal Gurubacharya, known professionally as Narayan Gopal and N. Gopal was a popular singer and composer of Nepali music. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons in Nepal, he is referred to as "Swar Samrat" (Nepali: स्वर सम्राट, meaning: Emperor of Voice) in Nepal. He also sang in Nepal Bhasa.
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Asha Puthli
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- singersinger-songwritercomposeractorjazz musician
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Asha Puthli is an Indian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress.
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Pan Nalin
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- India
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectorfilm producer
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Nalin Kumar Pandya, popularly known as Pan Nalin, is an Indian filmmaker, best known for directing award-winning movies like Samsara, Valley of Flowers (2006), Angry Indian Goddesses (2015) and the semi-autobiographical Chhello Show (translation: Last Film Show) (2021). His debut feature Samsara (Miramax) was worldwide critical and commercial triumph and went on to win awards like Best First Feature Film at Durban International Film Festival, "Grand Jury Prize – Special Mention" at AFI Fest, Special Jury Award at Santa Barbara International Film Festival and "Most Popular Feature Film" at Melbourne International Film Festival in 2002. Since then Nalin has been actively making fiction and non-fiction movies which have been coproduced with countries like India, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USA. Nalin's movies have been distributed worldwide.
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Bharati Mukherjee
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- novelistshort story writerwriter
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Bharati Mukherjee was an American and Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in India, she was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction that often focused on the experience of Indian immigrants to America.
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I. G. Patel
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- bankereconomistcivil servant
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Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel, popularly known as I. G. Patel, was an Indian economist and civil servant who is best known as the fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and the ninth director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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Fateh Singh Rao Gaekwad, Crown Prince of Baroda
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- politiciancricketer
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Fatehsinghrao Prataprao Gaekwad II was an Indian politician, cricketer, and titular Maharaja of Baroda from 1951 until 1988. In the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India promulgated in 1971, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).
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Piyush Ranade
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- actortelevision actor
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Piyush Ranade is a Marathi film & television actor. He appeared in Zee Marathi TV series Ekach Hya Janmi Janu, Lajja and Asmita, also in Star Plus's Burey Bhi Hum Bhale Bhi Hum as Kaivalya.
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Elisha Kriis
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- actorfilm director
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Elisha Kriis aka Elisha Patel is an Indian and American film actress and television personality. She has appeared in American, Hindi and Telugu films. In the United States she has starred in, 2018 human trafficking drama BorderCross, alongside Lorenzo Lamas and Danny Trejo, was the main protagonist in the 2018 crime thriller Body of Sin, played a cyborg in the 2018 SciFi action Ink and Rain,. She has appeared in supporting roles in films like The Recall starring Wesley Snipes and in the trading card comedy feature titled Tournament 2019 starring Ricardo Chavira. In India she has appeared in political drama Wake Up India. action thriller Zanjeer starring Priyanka Chopra, remake of Zanjeer in Telugu Toofan and NDTV Goodtimes adventure travel documentary titled Kingfisher Blue Mile.
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Tanvi Vyas
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- actorbeauty pageant contestant
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Tanvi Vyas is an Indian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who made her acting debut in the "Tamil" film Eppadi Manasukkul Vanthai in 2012. Prior to that, she was a graphic designer and later was crowned Femina Miss India Earth 2008 in Mumbai.
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Vivan Sundaram
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- video artistpainterartist
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Vivan Sundaram was an Indian contemporary artist. He worked in many different media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature. His work constantly referred to social problems, popular culture, problems of perception, memory, identification and history. He was married to art historian and critic Geeta Kapur.
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Gunvant Shah
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- journalistauthor
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Gunvant Shah is an essayist, educationist, columnist and philosophy writer and critic from Gujarat, India. He taught at various universities and participated in various education oriented events and organisations. His large number of essays, including philosophical essays, are published as books. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1997 and Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015. In 2019, he was awarded a D.Lit. by Gujarat University.
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Amarsinh Chaudhary
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- politician
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Amarsinh Bhilabhai Chaudhary was an Indian politician. He became the first adivasi to serve as the Chief Minister of Gujarat when he took office in 1985.
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Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh
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- poetpainter
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Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh is a painter, poet and art critic from Gujarat, India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1983 and Padmabhushan in 2014 for his contribution in field of art.
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Pankaj Advani
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- screenwriterfilm directorphotographertheatrical director
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Pankaj Advani was an Indian film director, editor, screenwriter, photographer, theatre director, and painter, known for his works in Bollywood, and cross over cinema. Pankaj made his Hindi film screenwriting debut with Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1993) which went on to win the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie.
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Hasmukh Patel
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- architect
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Hasmukh Chandulal Patel was an architect credited with making significant contributions to contemporary architecture in India in a career spanning over four decades in the latter half of 20th century. His works are held in high-regard alongside those of prominent Indian architects in the post-independence era like Achyut Kanvinde, Charles Correa, Anant Raje, B.V. Doshi and others.
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Sujan R. Chinoy
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- diplomat
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Sujan R. Chinoy is a former Indian diplomat and the Director General of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), India's foremost think tank in New Delhi, in the field of defense, security, and international relations. He retired from the Indian Foreign Service on 30 September 2018 after a professional diplomatic career spanning more than 37 years with experience in China, East Asia, the Asia-Pacific region, the Gulf, the OIC, the United Nations, National Security, and the US and Latin American region. He held the highest rank of Grade I Ambassador (equivalent to Vice Minister/Secretary to the Government of India) and was a member of the prestigious Padma Award selection committee 2023.
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Thota Vaikuntam
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- 1942-.. (age 84)
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- painter
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Thota Vaikuntam is an Indian painter. His paintings capture simple lifestyle of villagers like the paddy fields, toddy pots on shoulders of men, the household chores, temple rituals etc. His drawings range from stark charcoal on paper, transparent washes and pencil drawings.
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Mitali Mukherjee
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Bangladesh - Occupations
- singer
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Mitali Mukherjee is a Bangladeshi classical and playback singer, she hails from Mymensingh, Bangladesh. She received the National Film Award of Bangladesh in 1982 for the song Ei Dunia Ekhon To Ar for the film Dui Poishar Alta.
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Pujya Mota
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- 1898-1976 (aged 78)
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- philosopher
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Pujya Shree Mota, or Chunilal Asharam Bhavsar, was a spiritual leader who established ashrams in Nadiad and Surat in Gujarat, India. He founded the Hari Om Ashram, also known as the Maun Mandir, near Nadiad & Surat.
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Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Adam Hafejee Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn was a British businessman and Labour member of the House of Lords.
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Hanif Kureshi
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- graffiti artistpainter
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Hanif Kureshi, also known by the graffiti name Daku, was an Indian artist, designer, and advertising professional. Kureshi was a pioneering figure in India's street art movement, helping to transform urban spaces into public canvases and bringing art out of the museums to the wider public in India.
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Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia
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- 1947-.. (age 79)
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- businesspersoneconomist
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Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia is the former Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (2002–2007). Prior to that, he was the Dean at Ahmedabad (1998–2001) and a professor in Economics He was also the Director General of International Management Institute, New Delhi. Prior to joining IMI New Delhi, he was the Director of Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management and Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhuj.
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Kavitha Balakrishnan
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- curatorartistart critic
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Kavitha Balakrishnan is an art critic, poet, contemporary art researcher, painter and art curator. She started her teaching career as a lecturer of Art History at College of Fine Arts Trivandrum from 1998 to 1999. She later lectured at the R.L.V. College of Music and Fine Arts in Thrippunithura and as a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Mumbai. Balakrishnan is currently a lecturer in Art history and Aesthetics at the Govt. College of Fine Arts in Thrissur, Kerala State, India.
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K. Chidananda Gowda
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- 1942-.. (age 84)
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- engineer
- Biography
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K. Chidananda Gowda is an Indian academic who served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Kuvempu University, which is located in the state of Karnataka, India. He is also the son-in-law of the Kannada Poet, Kuvempu, after whom the Kuvempu University is named. He has published many papers, mainly in the field of pattern recognition.
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Shishir Bhattacharjee
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- 1960-.. (age 66)
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- paintercartoonist
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Shishir Bhattacharjee is a Bangladeshi artist. His paintings, critical of the political establishment but always in a satirical fashion, were first seen in the 1980s. His political cartoons appear regularly in daily newspapers in Bangladesh. During the past couple of years, he has produced paintings that appropriate images from Bengali film posters, altered to serve his social and political messages.
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Manubhai Mehta
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- 1868-1946 (aged 78)
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Sir Manubhai Nandshankar Mehta CSI was an Indian politician. He was the dewan of Baroda state from 9 May 1916 to 1927. From 1927 to 1934, he was the prime minister of Bikaner state.
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Bharat Gupt
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- 1946-.. (age 80)
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- translatorauthormusicologistclassical scholar
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Bharat Gupt is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst and newspaper columnist. He is also a retired Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi.
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Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati
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- 1894-1970 (aged 76)
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Justice Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati was a judge at the Supreme Court of India from 1952 to 1959 and the Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1960 till 1966. Earlier, he had served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bombay during 1949-51. He is also father to the economist Jagdish Bhagwati as well as P. N. Bhagwati, the 17th Chief Justice of India and Sanat Natwarlal Bhagwati, former president of the Neurological Society of India.
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Suman Shah
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- novelistliterary criticeditorshort story writer
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Suman Shah is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2008 for his short story collection Fatfatiyun. He has written both in the modern and in the postmodern eras in Gujarati literature. He has authored more than 74 books, including 2 novels, 6 short story collections, 4 collections of creative essays, 6 translations into Gujarati from English and Hindi, 22 books on literary criticism and around 23 edited works of literary theory and modern Gujarati short stories and poems. He was honorary editor of Shabdasrishti from 1983 to 1986 and an editor of Khevna, a literary journal, from 1987 to 2009.
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Karan Jani
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- 1988-.. (age 38)
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- astronomer
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Karan Jani is an Indian astrophysicist working on black holes, gravitational waves, and testing Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. He is currently an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University, and holds the endowed position of Cornelius Vanderbilt Dean's Faculty Fellow. He has worked at the LIGO Livingston Observatory in the US, the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. He is a member of the Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations effort to build a gravitational wave detector LIGO in India.
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Kishore Jadav
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- writerliterary critic
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Kishore Kalidas Jadav was a novelist, critic, and short story writer from India. He wrote in Gujarati and was primarily responsible for the development of surreal and experimental Gujarati fiction.
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Jayant Parikh
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- 1940-.. (age 86)
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- printmakerpainter
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Jayant Parikh is an Indian modern contemporary artist, printmaker, and muralist. He is a student of N. S. Bendre, K. G. Subramanyan and Sankho Chaudhuri. He lives and works in Vadodara, India.
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Manjula Pradeep
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- 1969-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- human rights defender
- Biography
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Manjula Pradeep is an Indian human rights activist and a lawyer. She is the former Executive Director of Navsarjan Trust, one of the largest Dalit rights organizations in India, addressing the issues of caste discrimination and gender based discrimination.
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Milind Gadhavi
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- 1985-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- songwriterlyricist
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Milind Gadhavi is a Gujarati language poet and lyricist from Gujarat, India. He has penned songs for several Gujarati movies. He is a recipient of the 15th Transmedia award for best lyrics for Gujarati film, Premji: Rise of a Warrior.
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Vihang A. Naik
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- poet
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Vihang A. Naik or Vihang Ashokbhai Naik is a modern bilingual poet from Gujarat, India. He has authored many collections of poetry in English and Gujarati, besides translating poems from Gujarati into English. He died in the year 2021.
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Manisha Joshi
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- poetwriterjournalist
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Manisha Joshi is a Gujarati language poet and journalist. She is an author of four poetry collections including Kandara (1996), Kansara Bazar (2001), Kandmool (2013), and Thaak (2020). She currently lives in California.
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Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha
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- administrator
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Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha is an Indian academic, engineer, and higher education administrator. He is the founding Chancellor and President of Ramdeobaba University (RBU), a private university in Nagpur established in 2024. Mantha previously served as Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) (2009–2015) and held senior leadership roles at AICTE. He is an adjunct professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. His other roles include former president of the National Board of Accreditation, deputy vice-chancellor of SNDT Women's University in Mumbai, and chancellor of KL University. He has also led the MahaPreit Start-Up Knowledge Centre (MSKC), chaired the National Technical Committee on Cyber Safety and Security Standards, and worked as an accredited arbitrator with the Indian Institute of Arbitration and Mediation.
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Shirish Panchal
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- criticliterary criticwriter
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Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal is a Gujarati critic, fiction writer, translator and editor. He won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni. He refused the award.
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Anil Relia
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- art collector
- Biography
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Anil Relia is an Indian art collector, known for his portrait collection. He has over 3000 portraits and his personal collection includes many miniature paintings, early photographs along with works of artists like Raja Ravi Varma, M. F. Husain, Hemen Majumdar, Bhupen Khakhar, Jyoti Bhatt, Haku Shah, K. G. Subramanyan, S.H. Raza, Thota Vaikuntam, Manu Parekh and many more.
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Valsan Koorma Kolleri
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- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Valsan Koorma Kolleri is an Indian sculptor.
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Rashid Meer
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- criticpoet
- Biography
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Rashid Meer was a Gujarati ghazal poet, critic, editor, and researcher from India.
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Tarini Desai
- Occupations
- short story writer
- Biography
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Tarini Desai is Gujarati short story writer from Gujarat, India.
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Avantika Bawa
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- artist
- Biography
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Avantika Bawa is an Indian American artist, curator, and professor of art. Bawa is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in site-specific installation, video, printmaking, and drawing. She is the recipient of the 2018 Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts Golden Spot Residency Award, the Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts, and the Oregon Arts Commission Joan Shipley Award.
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Vibhut Shah
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- writerlibrarian
- Biography
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Vibhut Shah is an Indian contemporary Gujarati novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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Mahesh Champaklal
- Occupations
- theatrical directorplaywrightstage actoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mahesh Champaklal is an Indian dramatist, stage actor and director from Gujarat, India. After working for some years in the commercial Gujarati theatre, he joined and taught dramatics at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
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Janak Dave
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- drama teacherplaywrightstage actor
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Janak Harilal Dave is a Gujarati dramatist, theater actor and drama teacher from Gujarat, India.
