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13 unusual facts about Anand


Abhijeet Bhattacharya

His songs include work from the film Baaghi, composed by Anand-Milind: "Ek chanchal shokh hasina," "Chandni raat hai" and "Har kasam se badi hai."

Akshar Patel

Akshar Rajeshbhai Patel (born 20 January 1994 in Anand, Gujarat, India) is a cricketer who plays as an all-rounder for the Gujarat cricket team.

Anand, Gujarat

This city hosts the Head Office of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (AMUL), National Dairy Development Board of India and Anand Agricultural University.

Angel School

In early 1980 there was no good English Medium School in and around Anand area and parents were compelled to put their children to Mt. Abu, Ooty or other places.

Animal husbandry in India

The National Dairy Development Board was established in 1965 under the auspices of Operation Flood at Anand, in Gujarat, to promote, plan, and organize dairy development through cooperatives; to provide consultations; and to set up dairy plants, which were then turned over to the cooperatives.

Anjaan

The song "Gourki Patarki Re" became a rage and set the stage for many more films with a resurgent Chitragupta and laying the foundation for the personal - and later - professional liaison between their respective sons Sameer and Anand-Milind.

Dr. Jivraj Mehta Institute of Technology, Anand

Jivraj Mehta Institute of Technology Mogar Anand, also known as DJMIT is an engineering institute.

Karamchand

Famous music director duo Anand-Milind composed the theme music and title track for the series.

Premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri

He promoted the White Revolution – a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk – by supporting the Amul milk co-operative of Anand, Gujarat and creating the National Dairy Development Board.

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak

The film soundtrack contains 5 songs composed by duo Anand-Milind, and won them the Filmfare Best Music Director Award while Udit Narayan won best male playback singer.

Sushma Shrestha

These include Baal Geet (children's songs), Bhavgeet etc.Music director duo Anand-Milind were very fond of her voice in early 90s and gave her many chances to sing their songs.

Umreth

It is located 22 KM towards North from District head quarters Anand.

Yeshwant

This line was expanded into a musical number with background music and chorus, under the music direction of Anand and Milind Shrivastav.


Amritraj

Stephen Amritraj (born 1984), American tennis player of Indian origin; son of Anand Amritraj.

Anand Aur Anand

Anand aur Anand is an Indian film from 1984 which is most famous for being the debut movie of both Dev Anand's son, Suneil Anand as well as of Natasha Sinha.

Anand Bhawan School

Anand Bhawan is a minority (catholic) educational institution situated in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India, founded in 1949 by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucknow and run by the Institute of the Maids of the Poor, a religious and charitable society.

Anand Jeeva

Anand Jeeva did his graduation in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai.

Anand Krishna

With such personages as Hariaudh ji, Babu Shyam Sunder Das, Acharya Shukla, Keshav Prasad Misra, art historians like Dr. Moti Chandra and Dr. Birbal Sahni, historian Dr. Altekar, artistes like Ustad Ram Prasad, Omkarnath Thakur or Heerabai Badodekar present in the house on any given day, Anand's interest and involvement with art-forms intensified.

Anand Mahindra

Anand Mahindra has recently become a regular user of the social media tool Twitter.

Anand Panyarachun

Anand made visits to China in September 1991 and Japan in December 1991, and went on to meetings with President George H. W. Bush in the United States.

Anand Sahib

The word Anand means complete happiness and it is said that the person who recites this Bani in the morning with dedication, attention, and comprehension will achieve happiness and peace of mind.

Anita Anand

Anand has also written articles for India Today and The Asian Age newspaper, and used to write a regular column in The Guardian.

Appuchi Gramam

Appuchi Graamam is a Tamil Sci-Fi film directed by Vi Anand an associate of AR Murgadoss.

Bhagalpur – Anand Vihar Terminal Garib Rath Express

The Bhagalpur – Anand Vihar Terminal Garib Rath Express is a superfast train of Indian Railways which connects Bhagalpur, an important town of Bihar and Delhi, the capital of India.

Cabir Maira

Cabir Maira is an Indian Television actor, currently playing the role of Anand Swami, the Head of SIU (RAW) in Life OK and Sphere Origins' Fiction, Suspense Thriller television series 2613.

Capability approach

Subsequently, and in collaboration particularly with political philosopher Martha Nussbaum, development economist Sudhir Anand and economic theorist James Foster, Sen has helped to make the capabilities approach predominant as a paradigm for policy debate in human development where it inspired the creation of the UN's Human Development Index (a popular measure of human development, capturing capabilities in health, education, and income).

Chhota Bheem

It was created by Rajiv Chilaka the CEO of Green Gold Animation, written by (Seasons 1,2,3,4 and 5; Period 2008-2013) Raj Viswanadha, Arun Shendurnikar, Nidhi Anand, Sonam Shekhawat and is broadcast on Pogo TV.

Chikhodra

Chikhodra is also an important milk producer and contributor to the Amul Dairy in Anand.

Communalism Combat

In a 1999 interview, Javed Anand said that before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections Communalism Combat requested and received funds from the Congress Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India and ten individuals to run advertisements attacking the Sangh Parivar and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering

SAE-DSCE: The SAE club in DSCE, founded by Shri Anand Bhate, is one of the largest student clubs by membership in India.

Human Development Index

To produce the Human Development Reports, Mahbub ul Haq brought together a group of well-known development economists including: Paul Streeten, Frances Stewart, Gustav Ranis, Keith Griffin, Sudhir Anand and Meghnad Desai.

K. V. Anand

Anand applied for a full-time position as a photo journalist for India Today, a leading publication group in India, but failed to get the job offer.

Kalpana Mohan

She appeared with Shammi Kapoor in the 1962 film Professor, with Shashi Kapoor and Kishore Kumar in Pyar Kiye Jaa (1966), with Dev Anand in Teen Devian, with Pradeep Kumar in Saheli and with Feroz Khan in Tasveer and Teesra Kaun.

Kudiyirundha Koyil

Babu's girlfriend Asha (Rajashree) later finds out that Anand is impersonating Babu, but he surrenders to her and explains about Babu's medical condition, subsequently revealing himself as Babu's brother.

Manav Hatya

Manav Hatya is a Hindi Feature Film released in 1996 starring Akshay Anand, Madhuri Dixit, Shekhar Suman, Gulshan Grover, Sharat Saxena, Dr.Sriram Lagoo, Sunil Thapa, Arvind Deshpande among others.

Narayan Shridhar Bendre

After Independence when firebrand freedom fighter and social worker from Indore Guru Radha Kishan took the initiative to bring the first Janta Library in Delhi, which was inaugurated by Balraj Sahni along with Amrita Pritam, Santosh Anand and Aruna Asaf Ali, he along with another legendary painter BR Gurjar participated and contributed accordingly.

National Dairy Development Board

Dr. Amrita Patel is the chairman of the National Dairy Development Board, Anand.

Paying Guest

Paying Guest was the second hit film of the team of Mukherjee, Hussain, Dev Anand and S. D. Burman, who had combined two years earlier to make the successful Munimji.

Pushtiie Shakti

She played the youngest daughter of Anand Mathur (played by Ashok Saraf), "Chotti" among the five daughters.

Ramesh Deo

In his long career, he has provided able support to stars like Amitabh Bachchan (Anand), Rajesh Khanna (Aap Ki Kasam), Shatrughan Sinha (Mere Apne) and many more.

Ruchi Anand

Anand studied at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women in New Delhi and obtained a B.A. (Honors) in political science.

Sankara Eye Foundation

SEF initiates and drives community eye care activities in India by working with Sankara Eye Care Institutions (SECI), India, which runs the "Gift of Vision" rural outreach program through Sankara Eye Hospitals in Coimbatore, Krishnankovil, Bangalore, Shimoga, Guntur, Anand, Pammal and Silvassa.

Shilpa Anand

Shilpa Anand was born in South Africa and is the younger sister of Sakshi Shivanand, a south film actress.

Sunni Bohra

Sunni Vohras/Bohras have large communities in the major cities of Gujarat such as Ahmedabad and Surat as well as in smaller towns such as Patan, Himmatnagar, Visnagar, Bhavnagar, Mahesana, Kadi, Kalol, Anand, Mahemdavad, Umreth, Petlad, Vadodara, Borsad etc. and in Saurashtra, in Una, Veraval, Junagadh, Jetpur, Porbandar, Mangrol and Diu.

Swaraj Bhavan

Some sources claim that the name Anand Bhawan was coined by the poet Akbar Allahabadi translation of Sir Syed's house 'Ishrat Manzil' (Luxurious Abode?)

Takht Singh

The son of Sagram Singh, a Maharaja of Idar, who himself was the son of Anand Singh, the first Maharaja of Idar and a younger son of Maharaja Ajit Singh, Raja of Jodhpur), however, he had to cede Ahmednagar back to the state of Idar to be recognized in Jodhpur by the British.

Vikramshila Express

Later on, when Mr. Nitish Kumar became the railway minister of India, he gave Vikramshila its own existence and since then Vikramshila Express uses to run from Bhagalpur to Anand Vihar on its own name.

Zakhm

Anand (Akshay Anand) happens to be a youth leader and Ajay's brother.