Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956 in a Bengali Hindu family, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army, and was educated at The Doon School; St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University, India; the Delhi School of Economics and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was awarded a D. Phil. in social anthropology under the supervision of Peter Lienhardt.
Chori Chori is a 1956 Hindi film directed by Anant Thakur, with music by Shankar Jaikishan and lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra.
The background score and soundtrack is composed by Ravi while the lyrics are penned by Majrooh, Shailendra and S. H. Bihari.
Chagan behan.All song were recorded by O.P.VYAS with singers...mahendra kapoor, shailendra sing, vani jayram...HMV had released the audio of this movie.But some reason this movie has not completed.
The music of the film is composed by Anu Malik and lyrics are penned by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shaily Shailendra.
Samartha is also a co-translator (along with Shailendra Shail) of Soumitra Mohan's long Hindi poem, Luqman Ali into English.
Shailendra started his career as a theatre actor in Delhi with eminent theatre director Arvind Gaur.
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In Living Theatre, Shailendra acted in many stage plays directed by Ebrahim Alkazi.