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unusual facts about Pandit


Jai Jagdish Hare

Om Jai Jagdish Hare is a Hindu bhajan (devotional song), composed in or near the 1870s by Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri in Punjab, India.


Amit Arya

Amit Arya is the Director, Co-Founder and Instructor along with Pandita Tripti Mukherjee of the Pandit Jasraj Institute of Music - Toronto, the first Indian Classical School with Pandit Jasraj's name in the Greater Toronto Area.

Anindo Chatterjee

In addition to solo performances and recordings, Chatterjee worked with sitar players Nikhil Banerjee, Imrat Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee, and Rais Khan,Pt.Ravisankar,Ustad Sahid Parvej Pt.Manilal Nag, sarod players Buddhadev Das Gupta and Ali Akbar Khan,Ustad Amjad Ali Khan,Tejendra Narayan Majumder, flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia; santoor player Pandit Shivkumar Sharma; and vocalists Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur and Gangubai Hangal.

Arun Luthra

Luthra has also performed and/or studied with such notable Hindustani and Carnatic music masters as Pandit Trichy Sankaran, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Krishnan Lalgudi & Vijayalakshmi Lalgudi, Pandit Karaikudi Subramaniam, Steve Gorn, Kiran Ahluwalia, Sufi singer Zila Khan, and the iconic 1970s Indian cross-over star Asha Puthli.

Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan

This demonstration proves incorrect, the assumption by Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, who has criticized the concept of existence of srutis itself in his book Bhartiya Sangita Paddhati Vol 2 (written in the late 18th or early 19th century).

Bhimrao Panchale

Bhimrao did his schooling form Amravati, Maharashtra, during schooling he has taken training classes for singing from Pandit.

Cassius Khan

Khan has also collaborated with the inventor of the Mohan Veena, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Ustad Aashish Khan the great Sarode player of the Maihar Gharana, Satvik Veena exponent Pandit Salil Bhatt, Kathak Danceuse/Harmonium soloist Amika Kushwaha, amongst other greats of Indian classical music and Ghazal singers.

Chandra Nath Shastri

Often referred to by the title Pandit (from a very young age), he is an All India Radio (AIR) staff artist, Indian National Television Channel (Doordarshan) artist and also a stage performing artist.

Chitresh Das

In 2009, Pandit Das was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor bestowed on a traditional artist by the U.S. Government.

Pandit Das has also received numerous grants including from the Olympic Arts Festival, National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, California Arts Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Irvine Fellowships in Dance, among others.

Dharmamangal

The other narratives included in these texts are the narrative about Shiva, the hagiographies of Minanatha and Gorakshanatha, the narrative of Ganga, the narrative of Sada Dom and Ramai Pandit, the description of the atrocities of Dharma in Jajpur and the narrative of king Harishcahndra.

Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao

He has translated the Brihaddeshi of Matanga Muni, Chaturdandi Prakasika of Pandit Venkatamakhi and Dattilam of Dattila Muni into Telugu language and published it.

Esraj

Possibly the most famous exponent of the esraj has been Pandit Ranadhir Ray, who died in 1988.Kalipada Ghoshal(1906-1995).

Faiyaz Khan

Other well-known admirers include maestros such as Ahmad Jaan Thirakwa, Ustad Amir Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Vilayat Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar.

G. M. Durrani

Thereafter he sang for, among others, noted music directors like Khurshid Anwar, Naushad, Shankar Rao Vyas and A. R. Qureshi (Better known as Alla Rakha, Pandit Ravi Shanker's famous tabla accompanist) for films like Mirza Ghalib, Humlog, Magroor, Shama, Namaste, Sabak and scores of others.

Gharana

Anindo Chatterjee, Pandit Abhijit Banerjee,Ustad Sabir Khan, Pandit Nayan Ghosh, Ustad Amir Hussain Khan, Pt Pandharinath Nageshkar, Pandit Bickram Ghosh

Godabarish Mishra

Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Gopabandhu Das, he joined the Congress party and was a member of the Vidhan Sabha (Lower House) of the Orissa Legislative Assembly.

Itty Achudan

Part of the botanical information was scrutinized by three Konkani Brahmanas, Appu Bhat, Vinayaka Pandit and Ranga Bhat, and compared to a Sanskrit textbook which they possessed by name “Manhanighantanam” (i.e., Sanskrit Mahānighaṇṭu, meaning "the great lexicon") followed by a process of thorough verification, discussion with other scholars and general agreement.

Kamarupa of Bhaskar Varman

Sir Edward Gait, relying on Vincent Smith and Pandit Padmanath Vidya Vinod, holds that Bhaskar Varman came into possession of Karnasuvarna after the death of Sri Harsha.

Kedar Pandit

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

Korla Pandit

In 1944, he married Disney artist Beryl June DeBeeson, and the two reinvented his image, eventually replacing "Juan Rolando" with "Korla Pandit" and fabricating a romantic history for him as a baby born in New Delhi, India to a Brahmin priest and a French opera singer, who traveled from India via England, finally arriving in the United States.

Lokkhi Terra

Their albums also feature additional artists including Nazrul Islam on dhol, Pandit Dinesh on tabla, Haider Rahman on bansuri and Finn Peters on flute.

Maharaja College, Jaipur

It was established in 1844 by Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Ram Singh II along with Pandit Shiv Deen, who also became its first principal.

Mohan veena

It derives its name from its inventor, the Grammy Award winning Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt who resides in Jaipur India.

Mookerjee

Syama Prasad Mookerjee (1901–1953), minister in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as a Minister for Industry and Supply

Nathuram Premi

Nāthūrām Premī excelled in the field of literature as a poet, editor, writer and publisher earning respect and affection of his contemporaries like Munshi Premchand, Mahaviraprasad Dwivedi, Rahul Sankrityayan, Pandit Sukhlalji, Muni Jinavijayaji, Ganeshprasadji Varni, Pandit Becharadasji Doshi, Pandit Agarchand Nahata and Dr Dalsukh Malvania.

Orient, the Festival of Eastern Music

The festival has featured Oriental musicians such as Indian flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, sitarists Pandit Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar, the Japanese giant drum ensemble "Kodô", the Tuvinian guttural singers "Huun-Huur-Tu", Tibetan Buddhists monks of Gyuto and Gyume monasteries, the Turkish percussionist Burhan Öçal, the Armenian dudukist Jivan Gasparyan, and the Azeri muqam singer Alim Qasimov.

Pandit Jia Lal Saraf

Pandit Jia Lal Dhar Saraf was a prominent personality of Reshipeer mohalla in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Pandit Sunderlal Committee Report

The committee led by Pandit Sunderlal investigated the situation and compiled the facts but the findings of the report was not disclosed until 2013 when they were made available at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi.

Rakesh Pandit

Rakesh Pandit debuted in 1994 when he rendered the high-pitched alaaps and the sargam for Tu cheez badi hai mast mast from Mohra.

Ram Kishor Ji Maharaj

At the age of 9, he was initiated into Sannyasa by the Ramsnehi saint Pandit Ji Sant Shri KaarajRamji at Gangapur, Rajasthan.

Rana Prasad Sharma

Pandit Rana Prasad Sharma (25 February 1908 – 27 October 1987 in Patna, Bihar, India) is known for his book Pauranik Kosh, a dictionary of classical and mythological references.

Samachar Darpan

John Clark Marshman, was the official editor and the editorial staff included some of the most distinguished Bengali Hindu pundits of the time.

Santali

Ol Chiki alphabet, also known as Santali, invented in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu to write the language by the same name

Sharma Bandhu

The four brothers were born in Muzaffarnagar town in state of western Uttar Pradesh, India, to Pandit Ramanand, son of Pandit Munshiram, in the family of Hindi-Urdu poet and Sanskrit translator Pandit Jyoti Prasad.

Pandit Ramanand along with his younger brother Pandit Shiv Kumar sang Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, Vinaya Patrika etc. and originated, and were also the exponents of their own style called Shri Ram Darbar Shaily (style) for 60 years.

Sri Visalakshi Kalasala Higher Secondary School

The New School Building was opened on 15 April 1959 by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Surya Deo Sharma

Pandit Surya Deo Sharma was from Kathaout Village Tehsil mohamdabad of Gazipur district in Uttar Pradesh.

Tulsi Chakraborty

He also had a small role that of a village pandit in Pather Panchali.

Umanath Bali

Rai Rajeswar Bali,along with Rai Umanath Bali and Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, founded an institution for Indian music in Lucknow now known as Bhatkhande Music Institute University.

Vasanta Habba

Performances in this edition of Vasanta Habba included a concert on the Mohan Veena by Grammy Award winner, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, fusion music by Taufiq Querishi and qawwali by the Ateeq Hussain Khan Warsi brothers.

Vikram Pandit

In 2005, after more than two decades with Morgan Stanley, Vikram Pandit decided to leave the firm along with John Havens after being passed over by Philip J. Purcell.

In March 2006, Pandit and John Havens, along with Guru Ramakrishnan (former global head of trading, technology and new products in the equities group at Morgan Stanley), started the hedge fund Old Lane LLC.

On 11 December 2007, Pandit was named the new CEO of Citigroup, replacing interim-CEO Sir Winfried Bischoff.

Willemina Ogterop

The "Nehru Window" - honoring India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - and delivered to him in 1946 by his sister, Mrs. Pandit, has never been located.


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