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unusual facts about Padma



Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath

Aishwarya, today, has the honour of being the disciple of musical stalwarts - Sangita Kalaacharya Smt Seethalakshmi Venkatesan, Padma Bhushan Sri P. S. Narayanaswamy and Sangeetha Kalasagaram Smt Vegavahini Vijayaraghavan, thus being an upholder of the Semmangudi bhani and the Veena Dhanammal bhani.

Claude Alvares

He lives at Parra, Goa with his wife Padma Shree and environmental lawyer Norma Alvares and three children, Rahul, Samir and Milind.

Click Asia Summit

The keynote speaker at Click Asia Summit 2011 was Gurbaksh Chahal, with veteran Padma Shri Award-winning Indian actor Anupam Kher coming in as the evening guest speaker on the first day.

Dohar Upazila

One of the largest rivers of Bangladesh, the Padma, is situated in the southern and south-western part of Dohar.

Express Towers

The walls of the main lobby on ground floor feature murals in ceramic by Nelly Sethna (1932-1992), also a Padma Shri awardee, well known for her role in revival of Kalamkari by infusing a new set of aesthetics and designs to keep a rich and ancient tradition thriving.

Infant Jesus School Kollam

Sunny Varkey- recipient `Padma Shree`, the world`s largest provider of private education.

Kalingi

Notable Kalingi include Boddepalli RajaGopala Rao Boddepalli Rajagopala Rao, Killi Krupa Rani,H J Dora ( Andhra Pradesh Police Chief & CVC member), Padma Shri Kutikuppala Surya Rao and Dr G Shanta Rao.

Keshava Namas

#Padmanabha - One who has the lotus (Padma) in his navel (Nabha) which is the birthplace of Brahma the creator deity of 14 worlds within the universe, one whose navel is as beautiful as lotus flower

Kumbhoj

Padma Vibhushan Dr. Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, a renowned social worker and philanthropist was born at Kumbhoj.

Naga Kingdom

Vasuki, Takshaka, and the Naga called Airavata, Krishna and Lohita (see Lauhitya), Padma, Chitra, Kamvala, Aswatara, Dhritarashtra, Valahaka, Matimat, Kundadhara, Karkotaka, Dhananjaya, Panimat, Kundaka, Prahlada, Mushikada and Janamejaya wait upon Varuna.

Namrata Rai

She completed her bachelor’s degree from Bhatkhande Music Institute, Lucknow and Master’s degree from Indira Kala Sangeet University, Khairagarh, Madhya Pradesh in the form of Lucknow Gharana, of which the Doyen is Padma Vibhushan Pt.

Nawabganj District

But, recently, the geography has changed due to the corrosion and erosion by the river Padma(Ganges).

Padma Oil Company

The Padma Oil Company Limited, formerly Burmah Eastern Limited, is a Bangladeshi-state owned petroleum company with its head office in Strand Road, Chittagong.

Padma River

The Jalangi River is thrown off at the point where the mighty Padma touches the district at its most northernly corner, and flows along the northern border in a direction slightly south-east, until it leaves the district some miles to the east of Kushtia.

Padma Shri

On its obverse, the words "Padma", meaning lotus in Sanskrit and "Shri", in Devanagari, appear above and below a lotus flower.

Padma Subrahmanyam

Padma Subrahmanyam (born 4 February 1943, in Madras), is an Indian classical Bharata Natyam dancer.

Padma Sundar Malla

In 1916, Padma Sundar and his elder brother Jagat Sundar went to Kolkata, India and secretly sailed for Japan as the government would not have given them permission to do so.

Panchkula

Sardar Anjum, Indian Poet and Philosopher, Padma Bhushan and Padam Shri

Pemako

The Tshangla dialect of Pemako (Tibetan: པདྨ་བཀོད་ཚངས་ལ་སྐད་, Wylie: Padma-kod Tsangla skad, also Padma kod skad) is the predominant language in the Pemako region of Tibet and an adjoining contiguous area south of McMahon line in Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Purnia division

The Pundra land appears to have been bounded on the east by the river Kasataya, on the west by the modern Mahananda, which separates it from Anga, on the south by the modern Padma, and on the north by the hills, which were inhabited by aboriginal hill tribes, such as the Kiratas.

Rashtriya Indian Military College

The Colonel Sawai Maharaj Sahib Shri Deshpal Singh Ju Deo of Ajaigarh cousin of H.H. Sawai Maharaja Punya Pratap Singh Sahib Bahadur of Ajaigarh is passed out from the same and was classmate of Padma Bhushan, General GG Bewoor, General Nayazi (Pakistan), General Bahadur.

Sahasrara

In the Puranas: Parama, Sahasradala, Sahasraparna Padma, Sahasrapatra, Sahasrara, Sahasrara Kamala (Parikaja or Padma), Shantyatita, Shantyatita Pada

In Tantra: Adhomukha Mahapadma, Amlana Padma, Dashashatadala Padma, Pankaja, Sahasrabja, Sahasrachchada Panikaja, Sahasradala, Sahasradala Adhomukha Padma, Sahasradala Padma, Sahasrapatra, Sahasrara, Sahasrara Ambuja, Sahasrara Mahapadma, Sahasrara Padma, Sahasrara Saroruha, Shiras Padma, Shuddha Padma, Wyoma, Wyomambhoja

In the Vedas and late Upanishads: Akasha Chakra, Kapalasamputa, Sahasradala, Sahasrara, Sahasrara Kamala (Pankaja or Padma), Sthana, Wyoma, Wyomambuja

Sapphire

The name is derived from the Sanskrit "padma raga" (padma = lotus; raga = color), a color akin to the lotus flower (Nelumbo nucifera ‘Speciosa’).

Shripad Hegde

He started his initial training in Hindustani music in his teen under Pandit Ganapati Bhat a student of Padma Vibhushan Pandit Basavraj Rajguru.

St. Vincent's High School

Thomas Kailath, a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, the first Indian student to obtain a doctorate at MIT and a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor and the Padma Bhushan, is an old boy of St. Vincents.

Sunita Dulal

She then achieved her Bachelor Degree in Humanities from Padma Kanya Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Surma-Meghna River System

When the Padma joins with the Jamuna River, the largest distributary of the Brahmaputra, and they join with the Meghna in Chandpur District, the result is the Lower Meghna.

After Chandpur, with the combined flow of the Padma and Jamuna, it moves down to the Bay of Bengal in an almost straight line.

Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar

Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar was leader and Associate Professor of the Sitar master class at Padma Kanya Multiple College under Tribhuvan University, Nepal, from 1974 until his retirement in 2006.

Thendral

Thulasi-Tamizharasu help her other friend – Kalyani (Kavyavarshini) and Thulasi’s half-brother Mohan (Ayyappan) to get married as they had fallen in love against Thulasi’s step mother’s Padma (Sadhana) wishes.

Vageesh Saraswat

His latest Book on Padma Shri Sharad Joshi which is also considered as an academic book on satire has been launched on 14 March 2013 by Well known female satire writer Surybala in the presence of Actor Shailesh Lodha.


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