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1880 in poetry

Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died 1951), illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son wrote down her poems for her

Ahmednagar College

Ahmednagar College was founded in 1947 by the late Dr. B.P.Hivale with the support and co-operation of the American Marathi Mission, Bombay, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Minnepolis, Minnesota, the late Mr. William H. Danforth of St. Louis, Missouri and a number of other individual friends and groups.

Amit Trivedi

As a part of his two-year contract, Trivedi composed some tracks for Abhijeet Sawant's Junoon and one song in Prashant Tamang's debut album.He arranged for many musician including Amartya Rahut for a marathi movie Uttarayan in 2004.

Bharla Malwat Rakhtaana

Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan got upset with the Marathi remake of his 1988 classic and sent a Legal Notice to director Anup Jagdale.

Centre For Learning Resources

In order to improve Standards of English in government schools, CLR has set up English Resource Centres ERC in marathi medium schools across the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) which aims at improving English speaking, listening and writing skills of students and English - communication and teaching skills of teachers in these schools.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Durgabai Kamat

Durgabai Kamat (1899 - May 17, 1997), was a Marathi actress, who was the first female actress of Indian cinema.

En Manaivi

He sought out Marathi film director Sundar Rao Nadkarni who had recently entered the Tamil film industry with Shantha Sakkubai.

Gagangiri Maharaj

Shri Gagangiri Maharaj (Marathi: गगनगिरी महाराज) was born as Shripad Patankar at Manadure Village in Patan district of South Maharashtra.

Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar

He was the elder brother of Marathi writer of poetry and novels Vyankatesh Madgulkar.

Girija Oak

Her first Marathi television show as lead actress was Zee Marathi's Lajja along with Piyush Ranade, Tejaswini Pandit and Mukta Barve.

Hindustani etymology

In Marathi the अ remained, and the cognate of hai is aahe (आहे).

Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination

IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese or Gujarati, are more prominent.

Irawati Karve

Her youngest daughter Gauri Deshpande was a well known Marathi writer of short stories and poems.

James Thomas Molesworth

In the year 1818, while Molesworth was stationed in Solapur along with his fellow interpreter Thomas Candy, the two started compiling a glossary of Marathi words.

Kaadsiddheshwar

His constant teaching was "Ghabru Nakos" ("Do not fear" in Marathi) and "Soham" ("That Itself is Me").

Kashinath Trimbak Telang

While devoted to the sacred classics of the Hindus, Telang did not neglect his own vernacular, Marathi literature being enriched by his translation of Lessing's Nathan the Wise, and an essay on Social Compromise.

Kedar Pandit

Kedar Pandit was born in a Marathi family to Prabhakar Pandit and Anuradha Pandit, both acclaimed violinists.

Keshav Rao Koratkar

In 1907, he was instrumental in starting a school with Marathi as the language of instruction for the large local Marathi speaking community at Residency Bazar.

Khandeshi languages

Borrowing and bending the words from Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, Ahirani has created its own words not found in any of these languages.

Kishor Kadam

He is a veteran Marathi poet, writing with his pseudonym Saumitra (Marathi: सौमित्र) & well known for his poems in the album Garawa with Milind Ingle, all songs revolved on the topic of rain.

Leela Roy Ghosh

Leela Roy Ghosh (Hindi: लीला रॉय घोष Līlā Rŏya Ghōṣa, Bengali: লীলা রায় ঘোষ Līlā Rāẏa Ghōṣa, February 3, 1948 – May 11, 2012) was an Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist who spoke Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi and Urdu.

M.V. Rajadhyaksha

He was the husband of the well-known Marathi writer Vijaya Rajadhyaksha.

Madhukar Vasudev Dhond

He wrote in Marathi on Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram, Ramdas, Vitthal, Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Ram Ganesh Gadkari, Bal Sitaram Mardhekar, Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Ranjit Desai's novel Swami, Vijay Tendulkar's play Sakharam Binder, and many other topics.

Man Udhan Varyache

This serial is also having popular marathi film star Varsha Usgaonkar.

Manik Varma

Her daughters include, Rani Varma who is also a well-known singer in her own right, Aruna Jaiprakash, Bharati Achrekar, an actor and Vandana Gupte, a Marathi stage, film and television actor.

Matsyaganda Express

The Matsyagandha Express (Kannada/Tulu: ಮತ್ಸ್ಯಗಂಧ ಎಕ್ಷ್ಪ್ರೆಸ್ಸ; Marathi/Konkani: मत्स्यगंधा एक्सप्रेस) is a daily superfast train running between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai) and Mangalore Central.

Naalu Pennungal

Noted Marathi filmmaker Sachin Kundalkar said that his third film Gandha (Smell), an ensemble of three stories interconnected by the theme of 'smell', was inspired by Naalu Pennungal.

Neela Satyanarayanan

Neela Satyanarayanan has penned 150 songs and composed music for several Marathi movies and two Bollywood movies.

Pakhi Hegde

Pakhi Hegde is a Maharashtrian film actress from Mumbai who is active mainly in Hindi serials, Bhojpuri and Marathi films.

Pandharinath Sawant

Pandharinath Sawant (Marathi: पंढरीनाथ सावंत ) is a journalist from the state of Maharashtra in India who worked closely with Prabodhankar Thackeray and Bal Thackeray.

Powada

In a recent Marathi movie, Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy (2009), The powada, Afzal Khanacha Vadh was played.

Priya Bapat

She played the role of the daughter of the main protagonist, Dinkar Bhosale, played by veteran Marathi actor, Sachin Khedekar.

Ram Ram Gangaram

Ram Ram Gangaram is a Marathi film made in 1977.

Round Table India

Round Table India released Braille Dictionaries in Tamil and Marathi languages and distributed the same to several blind institutions.

Ryan International Group of Institutions

Agnelo High School, St. Lawrence High School,ryan International School CBSE ( Kandivali), Holy Family High School, (Marathi Medium), St. Thomas High School, St. Louis High School, St. Mary’s High School, Ryan International malad ts.St.Lawrence High School (Borivali) ST.Xavier`s High School MIRA ROAD.

Sadhukadi

Sadhukaḍi Bhasa, or Sant Bhasa (Saints' Language) is a vernacular written genre, popular in medieval North India, based on a mixture of Hindustani (Khariboli), Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Marathi, Rajasthani, etc.

Sangeet Natak

With British Raj then existing in India, Sangeet Natakas were compared with the Operas and thus local Marathi Indians found synonymous recreation.

Sharvani Pillai

She played the role of the daughter in law of the main protagonist, played by veteran Marathi actor, Mohan Joshi.

Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho

After Astitva with 9 years long gap Mahesh Manjrekar directed Marathi film.This film was later remade in Tamil & Telugu as Dhoni and in Bengali as "Cholo Paltaai" starring Prosenjit Chatterjee.

Shishupala Vadha

The Marathi writer Bhaskarabhatta Borikar, of the early 14th century, wrote a Shishupala Vadha in Marathi (1308).

Shripad

Shripad Mahadev Mate (1886–1957), (or Shri Maa MaaTe), a Marathi writer

Swami Anand

He was acquainted with the classical and folk traditions of the Gujarati, Marathi and Sanskrit languages and was influenced by the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Max Muller, Walt Whitman, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda.

Tukaram

Dilip Purushottam Chitre, a well known Marathi Scholar, identifies Tukaram as the first modern poet of Marathi.

Vasant Shankar Kanetkar

In 1970, Kanetkar received a Filmfare Award for Best Story for the Hindi movie Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool, the story having been an adaptation of his Marathi play Ashrunchi Jhali Phule.

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur, is a Marathi school located in the southern city of Maharashtra - Kolhapur.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Marathi and Hindi musician and a Savarkar follower Sudhir Phadke and Ved Rahi made the biopic film Veer Savarkar, which was released in 2001 after many years in production.

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (Marathi : विश्वकर्मा अभियांत्रिकी महाविद्यालय, पुणे ) is an Autonomous Institute of engineering in Pune, India.

Zatra

Zatra is the Konkani language term for the pilgrimage festivals celebrated at Hindu temples in Goa; the Hindi and Marathi language equivalents are Yatra and Jatra.


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