Because of her strong influences from the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharanas, Dr. Bhide-Deshpande, has created her own musical style that respects the vocal culture and presentation aesthetics of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
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Since then, Dr. Bhide-Deshpande has been under the tutelage of her mother Smt. Manik Bhide, who has been instilling in her the intricacies and traditions of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
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Dr. Bhide-Deshpande also received guidance from one of the stalwarts of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana, Pt. Ratnakar Pai until his death in 2009.
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Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (born on October 7, 1960) is a Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
Gururaj Deshpande, an Indian American businessman and co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks and chairman of A123 Systems
Kane has performed alongside Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Utd. Ali Akbar Khan, Smt. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Smt. N. Rajam, and Smt. Kishori Amonkar, Asha Khadilkar among others.
Makarand Deshpande | Gururaj Deshpande | Deshpande | Sulabha Deshpande | Gauri Deshpande | Bapuji Mudgal Deshpande |
He is also known for his significant contribution along with Madhav Deshpande & Madhav Mehere as senior party co-founders in the early 70's of Shiv Sena with Bal Thackeray.
Later Muse Khan made complaint to Adilshaha about this incident as a response Sultan sent small army headed by the Ghorpades (who used to hate Bhonsale family) but Bapuji Mudgal Deshpande, Dadoji Konddeo, 18 year old Shivaji Maharaj convinced Ghorpade about their action, Ghorpades believed to punish Dadoji Konddeo by cutting his one hand as he sided the Bhonsale’s wing in spite of servant of Adilshah.
The surnames of these North Kanataka based, Kannada speaking Deshastha Brahmins, can be identical to those of Maharashtrian Deshastha Brahmins, for example, they have last names like Kulkarni, Deshpande and Joshi.
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The names Kulkarni, Deshpande, and Joshi are very common amongst Deshastha Brahmins, and denote their professions.
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.
A 'new little magazine movement' gained momentum and poets like (Shridhar Tilve) Manya Joshi, Hemant Divate, Sachin Ketkar, Mangesh Narayanrao Kale, Saleel Wagh, Mohan Borse, Nitin Kulkarni, Nitin Arun Kulkarni, Varjesh Solanki, Sandeep Deshpande, Prafull Shiledar, Nitin Wagh and Dnyanda emerged.
My Friend Pinto is a 2011 Bollywood film shot directed by Raaghav Dar and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring Prateik Babbar, Kalki Koechlin, Arjun Mathur, Shruti Seth, Makrand Deshpande, Raj Zutshi and Divya Dutta.
Raja Huli is a 2013 Indian Kannada-language comedy-drama film directed by Guru Deshpande and written by S. R. Prabhakaran.
As a child, Azad performed with the theatre group Jana Natya Manch in their stage productions where she worked with Hashmi, Habib Tanvir, MK Raina, GP Deshpande and NK Sharma.
Deshpande started her career as a teacher at Chhabildas Boy's High School in Dadar, Mumbai, while working here she asked noted playwright, Vijay Tendulkar to write a few plays for her students, this started her association with theatre, and in time made one of the pioneers in experimental theatre movement of the 1960s, as she joined the group Rangayan, which was founded by Vijaya Mehta, Tendulkar, Arvind Deshpande and Shriram Lagoo.
In early 1964, Deshpande called for on the Indian and Pakistani governments to initiate a population exchange, transporting the Hindu minority of Pakistan to India and expelling the Muslims of West Bengal and Assam to Pakistan.