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  • Mr. Griffith, the Principal, and Mr. Tarry, the Vice-Principal, present their annual report on the institution. Later, while discussing their future prospects after graduation with his friends, Phalke discloses his in
    196 KB (33,860 words) - 23:45, 10 May 2006
  • ...p of an old cine-projector and he shot a comic film around 1918. After his death, his brother Baburao Painter produced his first film “Sairandhiri” unde ...exhibiting sound films in India. They released a two reeler sound film in their talkies cinema, Elphinstone Picture Palace, Calcutta, in
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  • ...elief that the medium has not only an obligation but a mission, to convert their viewers to believe that this popular art and culture is as significant as a ...n feature film was salvaged from right under his bed, many years after the death of the father of Indian cinema. And how the man who brought cinema to India
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  • ...ey then proceeded to Germany for a honeymoon combined with business, where their film was being processed and distributed by UFA. Following her husband Himansu Rai's death in 1940, the Board of Directors of Bombay Talkies Ltd., appointed her as Co
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  • ...to the founders, who were the men of undying faith determined to carry out their mission at all cost. Even the British officers admired the progress made by ...o write impartially about the way in which officials of Government perform their duty. Thus, the Kesari undertakes to keep a vigilant eye on the administrat
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  • ...that you hold as principles today? Is it not likely that the men who shape their conduct on the authority of your word, spoken or written, may be misled?' My father married four times in succession, having lost his wife each time to death. He had two daughters by his first and second marriages. His last wife, Put
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  • ...The Sanskrit Commission appointed by the Government of India, in terms of their Resolution No. F. 34-1/56-A-1, dated the 1st October, 1956 [http://www.educ ...The Sanskrit Commission appointed by the Government of India, in terms of their Resolution No. F. 34-1/56-A-1, dated the 1st October, 1956 [http://www.educ
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  • ...e workers started pressing him for their salary. He was fed up. Annoyed by their attitude, he placed the keys before them and said, "Take this com¬pany and ...ed all the goods and effects to Hindusthan Film Company. Workers received their arrears of salary from the Company. Dadasaheb too became a partner of the C
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  • ...his field. Some say that they prayed to Ganesh first and while he detested their lowly plan, he was bound to oblige the hard working devotees, the ritualist ...he evil eye, all secured with a holy amulet tied to a black thread, around their stomachs.
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  • ...other, Rukmani and Hardy Hemmings), hard times post the white man's sudden death, renewal via another white man who married the mother (Robert William Yowar
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  • ...wife Sita and brother Laxman settled down in Nashik for the major time of their "[[Vanwasa]]". According to the mythology, Laxman cut the nose ("Nasika" in ...ums to finance military campaigns of feudal Sardars & in their later times their Pedhi's gradually began to finance the flourishing trade in metalware & fab
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  • ...estors it was a noble and significant struggle. Happily we need not revive their craziness here. The question of “war guilt” was never settled. It cease ...s to be won by it disappeared. But the politicians and diplomatists played their time-honoured game against each other with a sort of terrified inevitabilit
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  • ...burden. The goal of existence is liberation from the cycle of rebirth and death and entrance into the indescribable state of moksha (liberation). ...deities, the most popular are the cults of Vishnu, Shiva, and Shakti, and their various incarnations. Also important is Brahma, the creator god. Hindus als
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  • A social film which advocates that women should be devoted to their husbands. Leelavati (Cooper) is the protagonist in this movie. The censors ...er husband, the woodcutter Satyavan, when he is marked by Yama, the god of Death. When Yama fulfills his prophecy and takes away Satyavan's life, Savitri pl
    127 KB (20,817 words) - 08:24, 8 July 2006
  • ...worth, whose works simply chanced to be associated with Kaalidaasa's name their own names having long before ceased to be remembered. Only seven are genera ...omising to send for her later. But when Shakuntalaa comes to the court for their reunion, pregnant with his child, Dushhyanta fails to acknowledge her as hi
    22 KB (3,635 words) - 16:02, 22 May 2006
  • ...ilm critics and reviewers pay attention to the use of sound and silence in their film critiques and reviews. Mainstream Indian cinema too, takes the sound d ...in 193 1, three films in Bengali, one in Tamil, one in Telugu, appeared in their respective language areas. 1932 saw eight films in Marathi, two in Gujarati
    61 KB (10,242 words) - 16:34, 22 May 2006
  • ...t for the majority of the picture shows fail to use sufficient judgment in their work. It seems to me as if the prevailing style of musical accompaniment to ...ng the conference. Yet several should be mentioned, if only to acknowledge their absence and to stimulate further study. As Corey Creekmur, Gary Keller, and
    855 KB (137,726 words) - 17:02, 22 May 2006
  • Wandering desolate after [[their death]], a paranoid Dada meets Nicephore Niepce, one of the Lumiere Brothers’ 4
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  • ...hen the gratitude of India and the admiration of the world would accompany their name in the future. .... [[Maratha]] troops often used the dharna method to extract back pay from their chiefs. Elphinstone revised the Bombay judicial system in 1827, using Zila
    133 KB (21,627 words) - 19:09, 24 May 2006
  • ...West on non-Western cultures, none is so intriguing and yet unexplored as their responses to European naturalist art. Initially, European artists had access to an enormous range of styles from their own past which made possible the rise of ‘historicism’; later the net w
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