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Namokar Mantra

2026-05-19T11:05:40Z

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{{Short description|Jain mantra}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox religious text
| image = Namo.jpg
| alt = Namokar Mantra/Navkar Mantra
| caption = ''Ṇamōkāra mantra'' / ''Navkar Mantra''
| religion = [[Jainism]]
| language = [[Ardhamagadhi Prakrit]]
}}
{{Jainism}}
The '''Ṇamōkāra mantra''' is the most significant [[mantra]] in [[Jainism]], and one of the oldest mantras in continuous practice.{{sfn|Voorst|2015|p=107}}<ref name="STGNM">{{cite book | title=A Scientific Treatise on Great Namokar Mantra | publisher=Arihant International, Keladevi Sumatiprasad Trust | author=Jaina, Ravīndrakumāra and Kusuma Jaina | year=1993 | location=Delhi | isbn=81-7277-029-4}}</ref> This is the first prayer recited by the Jains while [[Jain meditation|meditating]]. The mantra is also variously referred to as the ''Pancha Namaskāra Mantra'', ''Namaskāra Mantra'', ''Navakāra Mantra'', ''Namaskāra Mangala'' or ''Paramesthi Mantra''. It is dedicated to the Panch-Parmeshthi, namely the [[Arihant (Jainism)|arihant]], the [[siddhas]], the [[acharyas]], the [[upadhyaya]] and all the ascetics.

==History==
[[File:Hatigumfa.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Hathigumpha inscription]] by King Khāravela at Udayagiri Hills]]
A short inscription (dated 200 BCE to 100 BCE) found in [[Gandharpale Caves|Pale Caves]] in [[Maharashtra]] mentions {{Transliteration|pra|Namo Arahatanam}} ({{lang|pra|नमो अरहतानं}}) or {{Transliteration|pra|Namo Arahantanam}} ({{lang|pra|नमो अरहंतानं}}), only the first line of Namokara Mantra. In [[Kushan Empire|Kushana]] and [[Shaka]] periods of 1st century CE to the first quarter of 2nd century, only the first line was prevalent.<ref name=Dhaky/> The [[Hathigumpha inscription]] dated between 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE starts with {{Transliteration|pra|Namo Arahantanam}} ({{lang|pra|नमो अरहंतानं}}) and {{Transliteration|pra|Namo Save Sidhanam}} ({{lang|pra|नमो सवे सिधानं}}), the first two lines of Namokar Mantra. The rest of the lines are not there. It was inscribed by the Jain monarch [[Kharavela]] of [[Kalinga (historical region)|Kalinga kingdom]].<ref name=Dhaky>{{Cite book|last=Dhaky|first=M. A.|url=https://jainelibrary.org/book-detail/?srno=249354|title=Nirgranth Aitihasik Lekh-Samucchay|publisher=Shreshthi Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smaraknidhi|year=2002|editor-last=Shah|editor-first=Jitendra B.|volume=1|location=Ahmedabad|pages=7–18|language=gu|script-title=gu: નિર્ગ્રંથ ઐતિહાસિક લેખ-સમુચ્ચય|chapter=ઐતિહાસિક પરિપ્રેક્ષ્યમાં 'નમસ્કાર-મંગલ'|trans-chapter='Namaskara-Mangala' in Historic Perspective|access-date=2021-11-15|url-access=registration|via=Jain eLibrary|series=Shreshthi Kasturbhai Lalbhai Series, Book 4|author-link=Madhusudan Dhaky}}</ref><ref>Rapson, "Catalogue of the Indian coins of the British Museum. Andhras etc...", p XVII.</ref><ref>[http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/HISTORY/PRIMARYDOCS/EPIGRAPHY/HathigumphaInscription.htm Full text of the Hathigumpha Inscription in English] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117151339/http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/HISTORY/PRIMARYDOCS/EPIGRAPHY/HathigumphaInscription.htm |date=17 November 2006 }}</ref> According to historian [[Madhusudan Dhaky|M. A. Dhaky]], these two lines were originally used as ''mangala'' (auspicious opening lines) in written works and rituals then.<ref name=Dhaky/>

The Namaskara Mantra with all [[Pañca-Parameṣṭhi]] (five supreme souls) was first mentioned in the auspicious opening lines in the condensed edition of ''[[Vyākhyāprajñapti]]''. This version also replaces [[Ardhamagadhi Prakrit|Ardhamagadhi]] {{lang|pra|नं}} with [[Prakrit|Maharashtrian Prakrit]] {{lang|pra|णं}}.<ref name="Dhaky" />
In condensed edition of ''Avashyakasutra'' (dated circa last quarter of 5th century), the {{lang|pra|नं}} is also replaced with {{lang|pra|णं}} as well as {{lang|pra|अरहंत}} (Arahant) with {{lang|pra|अरिहंत}} (Arihant). Shatkandagam (circa 475–525 CE) and later ''Visheshavashyakbhashyavritti'' (circa 725 CE) and ''Anuyogadwarasuchi'' shows {{lang|pra|नमो}} (Namo) replaced with more Prakit {{lang|pra|णमो}} (Namo). However, most [[Śvetāmbara]]s still use {{lang|pra|नमो}} (Namo) as the [[Jain literature|Śvetāmbara canon]] states that [[Tirthankara|Tirthankaras']] sermons are in [[Ardhamagadhi Prakrit]], so they prefer the version with {{lang|pra|नमो}} (Namo) as they consider it to be the original form of the ''mantra''. Digambaras, on the other hand, believe that [[Tirthankara]]s do not speak after attaining [[Kevala jnana]] and that there is no specific language in their sermons. Most Digambaras, therefore, prefer reciting the newer version of the ''mantra'' written in [[Maharashtri Prakrit]] with {{lang|pra|णमो}} (Namo).

Composed around the beginning of the [[Common Era]], ''Chattarimangalam Stotra'' mentions only Arhat, Siddha, Sadhu and Kevalipragnapti Dharma (''[[Dharma]]'' as prescribed by Omniscients) as four chief auspicious. So the three lines regarding Acharya, Upadhyaya and Sadhu must have been added later. The last four lines about ''phala-prashashti'' (benefits of chanting) are not older than 6th century CE and are not found in any older works, according to Dhaky.<ref name="Dhaky" /> The importance of it as a [[mantra]] in texts, traditions, rituals and meditation arose thereafter.<ref name="Dhaky" />

==The Ṇamōkāra Mantra==
{| class="wikitable"
! ''Prakrit'' !! Transliteration !! Meaning
|-
| णमो अरिहंताणं
|{{IAST|Ṇamō Arihantāṇaṁ}}
| I bow to the [[Arihant (Jainism)|Arihants]]
|-
| णमो सिद्धाणं
|{{IAST|Ṇamō Siddhāṇaṁ}}
| I bow to the [[Siddha]]s.
|-
|णमो आयरियाणं
|{{IAST|Ṇamō Ayariyāṇaṁ}}
|I bow to the [[Acharya]]s.
|-
|णमो उवज्झायाणं
|{{IAST|Ṇamō Uvajjhāyāṇaṁ}}
|I bow to the [[Upadhyay]]as.
|-
|णमो लोए सव्व साहूणं
|{{IAST|Ṇamō Lōē Savva Sāhūṇaṁ}}
|I bow to all of the Sages of the world.
|-
|एसो पंच णमोक्कारो, सव्व पावप्पणासणो
|{{IAST|Ēsō pan̄ca ṇamōkkārō, savva pāvappaṇāsaṇō}}
|This five-fold salutation completely destroys all the sins.
|-
|मंगला णं च सव्वेसिं, पढमं हवई मंगलं
|{{IAST| Maṅgalā ṇaṁ ca savvēsiṁ, paḍhamaṁ havaī maṅgalaṁ}}
|And, of all auspicious mantras, (it) is indeed the foremost auspicious one.
|-
|}

===Abbreviations===
{{Further|Om#Jainism|Jain symbols#Om}}
The Namokar Mantra may abbreviated to ''{{IAST|Oṃ Namaḥ Siddhanam}}'' (6 syllables), ''Om Nhi'' (2 syllables), or just ''Om'' (1 syllable) in Jain literature.{{sfn|von Glasenapp|1999|pp=410-411}}

== Meaning ==
Below is the meaning of the Namokar Mantra line by line, wherein the devotee first bows to the five supreme souls or [[Pañca-Parameṣṭhi]]:
*''[[Arihant (Jainism)|Arihant]]'' — Those who have destroyed the four inimical ''[[Karma in Jainism|karmas]]''
*''[[Siddha]]'' — The persons who have achieved "Siddhi"
*''[[Acharya (Jainism)|Acharya]]s'' — The teachers who teach how to behave / live one's life
*''[[Upadhyaya]]'' — Preceptor of less advanced ascetics{{sfn|Jain|1917|p=61}}
*''[[Sādhu]]'' — The [[Jain monasticism|monks]] or sages in the world practicing Samyak Charitra (right conduct)
*The practitioner also says that by bowing to all these five supreme souls
*All of his or her karmas can get destroyed and
*Wishes for well-being of each and every living entity
*The practitioner finally says that this mantra is the most auspicious one

[[File:Folio from the Saṁgrahaṇīratna by Śrīcandra in Prakrit with interlinear Gujarati commentary. The miniature depicts the Pancaparameṣṭhins on Siddhaśilā, 17th century (British Library Or 2116C).png|thumb|The miniature depicts the Pancaparameṣṭhi on [[Siddhashila|Siddhaśilā]]. Folio from the Saṁgrahaṇīratna by [[Śvetāmbara]] ascetic Śrīcandra in Prakrit with interlinear Gujarati commentary, 17th century ([[British Library]] Or 2116C)|250px]]

There is no mention of any particular names of the gods or any specific person. The prayer is done towards the [[guṇa]] (the good qualities) of the gods, teachers and the saints. [[Jainism|Jains]] do not ask for any favors or material benefits from the [[tirthankara]]s or monastics. This mantra simply serves as a gesture of deep respect towards beings whom they believe are spiritually evolved, as well as to remind the people of their ultimate goal i.e. ''[[Moksha (Jainism)|moksha]]'' (liberation).<ref>{{cite book |author=Shah, Natubhai |title=Jainism: The World of Conquerors |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |year=1998 |isbn=1-898723-31-1}}</ref>

== Meditation ==
[[File:Pañca-Parameṣṭhi.JPG|thumb|Obeisance to [[Pañca-Parameṣṭhi]] (five supreme beings)]]
According to ''[[Dravyasamgraha|Dravyasaṃgraha]]'', a major [[Jain text]]:{{blockquote|Meditate on, recite or chant the sacred mantras, consisting of thirty-five, sixteen, six, five, four, two and one letter(s), pronouncing the virtues of the five supreme beings (''Pañca-Parameṣṭhi''). Besides, meditate on and chant other mantras as per the teachings of the Preceptor (guru).{{sfn|Jain|2013|p=173}}}}

==See also==
* [[Siddhachakra]]
* [[God in Jainism]]
* [[Bhaktamara Stotra]]
* [[Jain meditation]]
* [[Mul Mantar]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== Sources ==
* {{citation |last=Voorst |first=Robert E. Van |author-link=Robert E. Van Voorst |title=RELG: World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mD8aCgAAQBAJ |publisher=Cengage Learning |date=2015 |edition=Second |isbn=978-1-285-43468-1 }}
* {{Cite book |last=von Glasenapp |first=Helmuth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzEzXDk0v6sC |title=Der Jainismus: Eine Indische Erlosungsreligion |date=1999 |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |others=Shridhar B. Shrotri (trans.) |isbn=81-208-1376-6 |location=[[Delhi]] |language=de |trans-title=Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation |author-link=Helmuth von Glasenapp}}
*{{Citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9CJ3jZpcqYC|title=Ācārya Nemichandra's Dravyasaṃgraha|isbn=9788190363952|last=Jain|first=Vijay K.|year=2013|quote=Non-copyright|publisher=Vikalp Printers}}
* {{citation | url=https://archive.org/details/TheRatnaKarandaSravakachara | title=The Ratna Karanda Sravakachara | publisher=The Central Jaina Publishing House | date=1917 | last=Jain |first= Champat Rai|author-link=Champat Rai Jain}}

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Sivapuram, Thiruvallur

2026-05-06T22:01:25Z

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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2023}}
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'''Sivapuram''', also called Sivapuram Colony) is a small village/hamlet in [[Minjur block]] in [[Tiruvallur district]] of Tamil Nadu, India. It comes under Aladu Panchayath. It is located 45 kilometers west of the district headquarters Tiruvallur, 1 km from Minjur and 34 kilometers from the state capital [[Chennai]]. [[Postal Index Number|PIN]] for Sivapuram is 601204 and postal head office is [[Ponneri]].<ref>[https://geoiq.io/places/Sivapuram/agk0kB4J1V Sivapuram, Thiruvallur]</ref>

Sivapuram comes under [[Ponneri Assembly constituency|Ponneri state constituency]] and [[Tiruvallur Lok Sabha constituency|Tiruvallur parliament constituency]].

== Nearby cities ==
Ponneri, [[Ambattur]], Chennai and Tiruvallur are the nearby cities to Sivapuram.

== Access ==
Sivapuram lies on the road from Thiruvallur to [[Thakkolam]]. The nearest railway station is Ponneri.

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Villages in Tiruvallur district]]

New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Superfast Express

2026-04-30T03:41:39Z

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{{Short description|Train in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox rail service
| name = New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Superfast Express
| type = [[Express trains in India|Superfast]]
| status = Operating
| locale = [[Assam]], [[Nagaland]], [[West Bengal]], [[Bihar]], [[Jharkhand]], [[Odisha]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Karnataka]]
| operator = [[Northeast Frontier Railway zone|Northeast Frontier Railway]]
| start = {{stnlnk|New Tinsukia Junction}} ('''NTSK''')
| stops = 39
| end = {{stnlnk|Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal, Bengaluru}} ('''SMVB''')
| first = 4 January 2010
| distance = {{Convert|3542|km|abbr=on}}
| journeytime = 63 hours
| frequency = Weekly
| class = AC 2 Tier (2A), AC 3 Tier (3A), Sleeper (SL)
| catering = Available
| seating = Available
| stock = [[LHB coach]]
| Number Of Coaches =
| baggage = Available
| gauge = [[Broad gauge]]
| trainnumber = 22501/22502
| speed = 54 km/h
| map = [[File:(New Tinsukia - Bengaluru) Express route map.png|thumb|300px|New Tinsukia–Bengaluru Express route map]]
}}
The 22501/02 '''New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Superfast Express''' is a weekly [[Superfast Express trains in India|Superfast]] train which connects [[Tinsukia]], the easternmost town of Assam with the South Indian Metropolis of [[Bengaluru]] via [[Rampurhat Junction railway station|Rampurhat]], [[Malda Town railway station|Malda Town]], [[New Jalpaiguri Junction railway station|New Jalpaiguri]]. The train consists of AC 1st class, 2-tier, 3-tier and sleeper-class coaches. It is '''[[Longest train services of Indian Railways|6th longest train service of Indian Railways]]''', as of 2023, which travels a total distance of {{Convert|3542|km}}.

== Time-table ==
*Train no. 22502 from New Tinsukia to Bengaluru.
*Train no. 22501 from Bengaluru to New Tinsukia.
The train leaves from {{stnlnk|New Tinsukia}} (NTSK) on every Friday at 6:30 P.M. and arrives [[Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal|SMVT Bengaluru]] (SMVB) every Monday at 11:50 A.M. traversing a distance of {{Convert|3542|km}} in 63 hours<ref>{{Cite web |title=12504 Train Route and Schedule |url=https://www.confirmtkt.com/train-schedule/12504 |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=www.confirmtkt.com}}</ref> for an average speed of {{Convert|56|kph|abbr=on}}.

==Major halts==
'''KARNATAKA'''
# '''[[Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal]]''' (Starts)
# {{stnlnk|Krishnarajapuram}}
# {{stnlnk|Bangarapet Junction}}

'''TAMIL NADU'''
# {{stnlnk|Jolarpettai Junction}}
# {{stnlnk|Katpadi Junction}}
# '''[[Perambur railway station|Perambur (Chennai)]]'''

'''ANDHRA PRADESH '''
# {{stnlnk|Nellore}}
# {{stnlnk|Ongole}}
# '''{{stnlnk|Vijayawada Junction}}'''
# {{stnlnk|Rajahmundry}}
# '''{{stnlnk|Visakhapatnam Junction}}'''
# {{stnlnk|Vizianagaram Junction}}

'''ODISHA'''
# {{stnlnk|Brahmapur}}
# [[Balugaon]]
# {{stnlnk|Khurda Road Junction}}
# '''{{stnlnk|Bhubaneswar}}'''
# {{stnlnk|Cuttack Junction}}
# {{stnlnk|Balasore}}

'''WEST BENGAL'''
# '''{{stnlnk|Kharagpur Junction}}'''
# '''[[Dankuni railway station|Dankuni (Kolkata)]]'''
# {{stnlnk|Bolpur Shantiniketan}}
# '''{{stnlnk|Rampurhat Junction}}'''
# '''{{stnlnk|Malda Town}}'''
# '''[[New Jalpaiguri Junction railway station|New Jalpaiguri (Siliguri)]]'''
# {{stnlnk|Jalpaiguri Road}}
# {{stnlnk|New Cooch Behar}}
# {{stnlnk|New Alipurduar}}

'''BIHAR'''
# {{stnlnk|Kishanganj}}

'''NAGALAND'''
#{{rws|Dimapur}}

'''ASSAM'''
# {{stnlnk|New Bongaigaon Junction}}
# [[Goalpara|Goalpara Town]]
# '''{{rws|Guwahati}}'''
#[[Moranhat]]
#{{rws|Sibsagar Town}}
#{{rws|Simaluguri Junction}}
#{{rws|Mariani Junction}}
#{{rws|Furkating Junction}}
#{{rws|Diphu}}
#{{rws|Lumding Junction}}
#'''{{rws|Dibrugarh}}'''
#'''{{rws|New Tinsukia}}''' (Ends)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.indiarailinfo.com/train/bangalore-dibrugarh-weekly-express-15901-sbc-to-dbrg/7870/136/7288|title=15901 Bang to NTSK |publisher=India Rail Info |date= |accessdate=2015-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.indiarailinfo.com/train/7855|title=15902 NTSK to Bang |publisher=India Rail Info |date= |accessdate=2015-02-03}}</ref>
Note: Bold letters indicates Major Railway Stations/Major Cities.

==Locomotive==
The train is hauled by [[WAP-7]] Locomotive of [[Electric Loco Shed, Howrah]] from {{rws|New Tinsukia}} to upto {{rws|Visakhapatnam}}. Lastly from {{rws|Visakhapatnam}} to [[Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal]] it is hauled by [[WAP-4]] locomotive of [[Electric Loco Shed, Erode]].

==E-Catering==
As of September 2022, The E-Catering facility for 22501 SMVT Bengaluru New Tinsukia Weekly Express is available in following stations:
*{{rws|Katpadi Junction}}
*{{rws|Vijayawada}}
*{{rws|Rajahmundry}}
*{{rws|Visakhapatnam}}
*{{rws|Vizianagaram}}
*{{rws|Kharagpur}}
*{{rws|Bolpur Shantiniketan}}
*{{rws|Rampurhat}}
*{{rws|Malda Town}}
*{{rws|New Jalpaiguri}}
*{{rws|Mariani Junction}}
*{{rws|New Tinsukia}}.

Similarly the E-Catering facility for 22502 New Tinsukia SMVT Bengaluru Weekly Express is available in following stations:
*{{rws|New Tinsukia}}
*{{rws|Mariani Junction}}
*{{rws|New Alipurduar}}
*{{rws|New Jalpaiguri}}
*{{rws|Kishanganj}}
*{{rws|Malda Town}}
*{{rws|Rampurhat}}
*{{rws|Bolpur Shantiniketan}}
*{{rws|Bhubaneswar}}
*{{rws|Khurda Road}}
*{{rws|Brahmapur}}
*{{rws|Vizianagaram}}
*{{rws|Visakhapatnam}}
*{{rws|Rajahmundry}}
*{{rws|Vijayawada}} and
*[[Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal]]

==See also==
*[[Longest train services of Indian Railways]]
*[[Dibrugarh–Tambaram Express]]
*[[Chennai–New Jalpaiguri Superfast Express]]
*[[Guwahati–Bengaluru Cantt. Superfast Express]]
*[[Thiruvananthapuram–Silchar Superfast Express]]
*[[Bangalore Cantonment–Agartala Humsafar Express]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Rail transport in Bihar]]
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Narayanan Komerath

2026-04-27T17:54:52Z

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'''Narayanan Menon Komerath''' is an Indian-born professor of Aerospace Engineering at the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] in the United States. He has written numerous articles and books.<ref name=DGuggenheim/>
He is known for his views on ways to build structures in space from asteroid debris, which could be used for a [[space-based economy]], and for his research into microwave power transmission in space.<ref name=NewScientist20021011/><ref name=Flournoy2011/>

Komerath continues to take an active interest in Indian affairs.
He has defended the US-based [[India Development and Relief Fund|Indian Development and Relief Fund]], a charity, from accusations that its funds were being used to foster communal violence in India.<ref name=FactualResponse/>
He has proposed a break-up of Pakistan to remove its ability to export global terror.<ref name=GivePeace/>

==Career==
Narayanan Menon Komerath was born in [[Peringavu]], [[Thrissur]], [[Kerala]], [[India]].{{When|date=March 2012}}<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/12/stories/2004121211450400.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050122072049/http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/12/stories/2004121211450400.htm
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=22 January 2005
|journal=[[The Hindu]]
|title=Building structures in space using force fields
|author=K. Santhosh |date=12 December 2004
|access-date=23 March 2012}}</ref>
He studied at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]], obtaining a B.Tech. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1978.
He then went to the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] where he obtained a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (Turbulent Combustion) in 1982.
Positions since then have included Fellow of the [[NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts]], [[Sam Nunn]] Senior Security Fellow in the [[School of International Affairs]] (2004–2006) and Hesburgh Teaching Fellow at the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] (2005).
From 2008 to 2009 he was Chair of the Aerospace Division of the [[American Society for Engineering Education]].<ref name=DGuggenheim/>
For 2009/2010 he was Secretary/Treasurer of this division.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/Orgs/ECCD/officers.htm
|title = Energy Conservation & Conversion Division Officers 2009–2010
|publisher = American Society for Engineering Education
|access-date = 22 March 2012
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081123083318/http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/Orgs/ECCD/officers.htm
|archive-date = 23 November 2008
|df = dmy-all
}}</ref>
He is Chairman of Scv Inc. in [[Alpharetta, Georgia]], a manufacturer of analytical instruments founded in 1994.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://ga.chamberocommerce.com/member/10696963/Scv_Inc_5390_BANNERGATE_DR_Alpharetta_GA_30022
|title=Scv Inc
|work=chamberocommercerce
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://start.cortera.com/company/research/k5l7rsq6l/scv-inc/
|publisher=Cortera
|title=SCV INC
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>

==Scientific concepts==
In May 2003 ''[[Popular Mechanics]]'' reported that Komerath thinks he found a way to crush the rocks in the asteroid belts using electromagnetic waves and assemble them into radiation shields and structures where humans could live, among other purposes.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20
|journal=Popular Mechanics
|page=20 |title=Building with Force Fields
|date=May 2003 |volume=180 |issue=5 |issn=0032-4558
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>
The idea came to Komerath by analogy with the technique of "acoustic shaping", where sound waves can accurately position small objects such as beads into larger solid objects within a weightless environment. In space, radio waves would take the place of sound waves. Although huge amounts of energy would be needed, solar power could be used and the approach would avoid the requirement to transport material from Earth.<ref name=NewScientist20021011/>
Komerath said "You don't go to investors and say 'I want to build a giant spinning cylinder in space that would house 10,000 people'. You go and say 'I want to build a space-based economy'. It's a business model that will work only if there are a lot of people who will go broke at the same time if it fails."<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=seECAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102 |page=102
|title=Space Researchers
|journal=Atlanta Magazine |date=February 2003 |volume= 42 |issue=11 |issn=0004-6701
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>

Since 2006 Komerath has been considering the problem of a global space power grid.<ref name=Flournoy2011/>
Researchers at Georgia Tech working under the direction of Professor Narayanan Komerath are exploring microwave power beaming in space for military and commercial applications.
It is thought that frequencies of around 220 GHz can achieve greater effective distances than the lower frequencies commonly used today.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://triplehelixblog.com/2011/05/effects-of-wireless-power-beaming-in-the-space-industry-modern-applications-and-future-possibilities/
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509051306/http://triplehelixblog.com/2011/05/effects-of-wireless-power-beaming-in-the-space-industry-modern-applications-and-future-possibilities/
|url-status=usurped
|archive-date=9 May 2011
|title=Effects of Wireless Power Beaming in the Space Industry: Modern Applications and Future Possibilities
|author=NICHOLAS PICON |date=3 May 2011
|work=The Triple Helix
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>
As a rational first step to building a space-based grid Komerath proposes a demonstration project to build a space-based power exchange connecting the United States to India.<ref name=Flournoy2011/>

==Societal Interventions==

Komerath has been actively and publicly interested in events in the Indian subcontinent since May 1999.
With the help of the [[India Development and Relief Fund]] (IDRF) he launched the Martyrs for National Integration Fund, which helps the families of people hurt in the war against terrorism.<ref name=FactualResponse/>
In 2002 leftist activists groups<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/20varsha.htm Fundie Alert] Rediff – 20 July 2000</ref> [[Sabrang Communications]] and South Asia Citizens Web published ''The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva'', which investigated how funding raised by the IDRF in the USA was being distributed in India.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTk6_HXg5E8C&pg=PA289 |page=289
|title=ASEAN, India, Australia: towards closer engagement in a new Asia
|first1=William T. |last1=Tow |first2=Kin Wah |last2=Chin
|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |year=2009 |isbn=978-981-230-963-1}}</ref>
Komerath was one of the authors of a counter-report that denied the implied accusation that tribal activists, who had played a major role in the [[2002 Gujarat violence]], were linked to US funding sources.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpwoZl-3PVMC&pg=PA110 |page=110
|title=Religion and conflict in South and Southeast Asia: disrupting violence
|first1=Linell Elizabeth |last1=Cady |first2=Sheldon W. |last2=Simon
|publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-415-39734-6}}</ref>

Komerath praised the efforts of grassroots volunteers funded by the IDRF after the December [[2004 tsunami]]. He reported claims that Sri Lankan army personnel had hijacked aid trucks that were trying to assist Tamils. He said some US-based Indians were attempting to hinder aid by warning that donations could be misused.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_050117.htm
|author=Narayanan Komerath
|date=17 January 2005
|publisher =iVarta
|title=Of Winners, Wave Rats and Whinos
|access-date=23 March 2012}}</ref>
Komerath welcomed the July 2005 [[US–India Civil Nuclear Agreement]], but said the refusal of the US to support Pakistan's claim to a permanent seat on the [[United Nations Security Council]] was a victory for India.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume14/komerath.html
|title = The Nuclear Truth Triumphs
|author = Narayanan Komerath
|work = Bharat Rakshak Security Research Review
|date = August 2005
|access-date = 23 March 2012
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090109055823/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume14/komerath.html
|archive-date = 9 January 2009
|df = dmy-all
}}</ref>

In 2008 Komerath published an opinion paper that called for a break-up of Pakistan into five independent states that would be distracted by protecting themselves, and which would be destroyed if they veered towards religious fanaticism or terrorism. In the prelude of the paper he states "This article argues that the State of Pakistan should quite properly be the victim of its own terrorism. It must die, for the scourge of global terrorism to end." He furthermore states that "...all terrorism connections lead to Pakistan
" and in the section labeled "What is the cost of not going to war?" contemplates the implications of an all-out war between Pakistan and India, arguing that it may be preferable to the current situation. He concludes the paper with this statement: "To put it bluntly, and succinctly: ''Give Peace A Chance. Destroy Pakistan.'' The life you save may be your own or that of someone you love."<ref name="GivePeace" /> This had made many of his Pakistani students uncomfortable.

==Notable quotes==
{{Blockquote
|text="My plans for retirement? I'm going to buy two TVs so that I can watch lots of cricket and my wife can watch mushy movies, but seriously, the most important thing I learned at the AE School is that a friendly smile can get you a very long way -- especially in working with the best minds in the world. And of course, I will miss the laughter of my students."<ref name="Retirement" />}}

==Selected bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book |title=Measurement of pressure-velocity correlations in turbulent reacting flows
|author=Narayanan Menon Komerath |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology |year=1983 |pages=330}}
* {{cite book |title=Implementation and validation of a wake model for vortex-surface interactions in low speed forward flight
|author=Narayanan Menon Komerath |publisher=School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |year=1986}}
* {{cite book |title=Definition of the unsteady vortex flow over a wing/body configuration
|author1=Narayanan Menon Komerath |author2=S. G. Liou |publisher=School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |year=1991}}
* {{cite book |title=Quasi-periodicity in vortex flows
|author=Narayanan Menon Komerath |publisher=School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |year=1992}}
* {{cite book |title=Measurement of fountain effect flows using Spatial correlation velosimetry
|author=Narayanan Menon Komerath |publisher=School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |year=1997 |pages=126}}
* Komerath, N.M., Smith, M.J., "Rotorcraft Wake Modeling: Past, Present and Future”. Proceedings of the European Rotorcraft Forum, Hamburg, Germany, September 2009.
* Komerath, N., “A Campus-Wide Course on Micro Renewable Energy Systems”. Proceedings of the ASEE National Conference, College Park, TX June 2009.
* Komerath, N., Venkat, V., Fernandez, J., “Near-Millimeter Wave Issues for a Space Power Grid”. Paper 2009–081, Proceedings of the SPESIF Conference, American Physical Society, Huntsville, AL, February 2009.
* Komerath, N.M., Nally, J., Tang, E.Z., “Policy Model for Space Economy Infrastructure” Acta Astronautica, Vol. 61(2007)11–12, p. 1066–1075
* Gregory, J., Sullivan J., Wanis, S., Komerath, N., “Pressure-sensitive paint as a distributed optical microphone array,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(1), 251–261, 2006
{{refend}}

==References==
<references>

<ref name=DGuggenheim>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ae.gatech.edu/community/staff/bio/komerath-n
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221020058/https://ae.gatech.edu/people/narayanan-m-komerath
|archive-date=2018-12-21
|url-status=dead
|work=Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
|title=Faculty Profile: Narayanan M. Komerath
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>

<ref name=Retirement>{{cite web
|url=https://ae.gatech.edu/news/2019/10/prof-narayanan-komerath-retire-years-end
|work=Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
|title=Prof. Narayanan Komerath to Retire at Year's End
|access-date=26 February 2020}}</ref>
<ref name=FactualResponse>{{cite book
|url=http://www.letindiadevelop.org/thereport/contributors.shtml
|chapter=ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
|title=A Factual Response to the Hate Attack on the India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF)
|publisher=Friends of India and Authors of the Report
|author=[[Ramesh N. Rao]], Narayanan Komerath, Chitra Raman, Beloo Mehra and Sugrutha Ramaswamy
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=Flournoy2011>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N9HLoBLDbF8C&pg=PA40
|title=Solar Power Satellites
|author=Don M. Flournoy |publisher=Springer |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4614-1999-0}}</ref>
<ref name=GivePeace>{{cite web
|url=http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/brmsrr/2008/SRRP03010804.pdf
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190216213850/http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/brmsrr/2008/SRRP03010804.pdf
|archive-date=16 February 2019
|work=Security Research Review |volume=3 |issue=1 |year=2008
|title=GIVE PEACE A CHANCE…
|author=Narayanan Komerath
|access-date=23 March 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=NewScientist20021011>{{cite web
|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2901-radio-waves-could-construct-buildings-in-space.html
|title=Radio waves could construct buildings in space
|work=New Scientist
|date=11 October 2002
|author=Bennett Daviss
|access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>

</references>

==External links==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/annual/oct04/912Komerath.pdf
|title=TAILORED FORCE FIELDS FOR SPACE-BASED CONSTRUCTION: PHASE 2
|author1=Narayanan Komerath |author2=John Magill |access-date=22 March 2012}}
*{{cite web |url=http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/moontomars/docs/032404SlidesKomerath.pdf
|title=Towards a Space Based Economy
|author=Narayanan Komerath
|date=24 March 2004
|publisher=President's Commission on Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy
|access-date=22 March 2012}}
{{refend}}

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Greatest Bengali of All Time

2026-04-27T05:53:37Z

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{{Short description|2004 BBC poll and list}}
{{italic title}}
[[File:Official Portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.jpg|alt=Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|thumb|294x294px|[[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]: Voted as the ''Greatest Bengali of all time'' in the 2004 [[BBC Bangla|BBC]] opinion poll]]
Soon after the completion of ''[[100 Greatest Britons]]'' poll in 2002, the [[BBC Bangla|BBC]] organized a similar opinion poll to find out the greatest [[Bengalis|Bengali]] personalities throughout the history of [[Bengalis|Bengali]] people.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://dailyasianage.com/news/7256/listeners-name-greatest-bengali |title=Listeners name 'greatest Bengali' |work=The Asian Age |date=2016-01-10 |access-date=2018-01-26 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=567921&date=2016-04-13 |title=News Details |work=BSS |date=2016-04-13 |language=en |access-date=2018-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127004631/http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=567921&date=2016-04-13 |archive-date=2018-01-27 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bcuCgAAQBAJ&q=Greatest+Bengali+Of+All+Time&pg=PA145 |title=Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and Its Diaspora |last1=Heath |first1=Deana |last2=Mathur |first2=Chandana |date=2010-12-22 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781136867873 |pages=145 |language=en}}</ref> In 2004, the [[BBC]]'s [[BBC Bangla|Bengali Service]] conducted the opinion poll from 11 February to 22 March, with the title '''''Greatest Bengali of All Time''''' ({{Langx|bn|সর্বকালের সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ বাঙালি|translit=Śôrbôkālēr Śôrbôśrēṣṭhô Bāṅāli}}). Bengalis around the world, specifically from [[Bangladesh]], [[India]] (states of [[West Bengal]], [[Tripura]], [[Odisha]] and [[Assam]]) and overseas Bengali communities participated in the poll.

A total of 140 nominations were produced from the opinion poll. The [[BBC Bangla]] started to announce the top 20 names from 26 March declaring one name each day starting from 20th position. On 14 April, the final day, which was also the [[Pohela Boishakh]] (Bengali New Year's day), the BBC announced [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], the founding father of Bangladesh, as the ''Greatest Bengali of All Time'' voted by Bengalis worldwide.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2004-04-14 |title=Listeners name 'greatest Bengali' |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3623345.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526223911/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3623345.stm |access-date=2017-12-14 |url-status=live |archive-date=2024-05-26}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Habib |first=Haroon |date=2004-04-17 |title=Mujib, Tagore, Bose among 'greatest Bengalis of all time' |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |url=http://www.thehindu.com/2004/04/17/stories/2004041703001700.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=2017-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225011708/https://www.thehindu.com/2004/04/17/stories/2004041703001700.htm |archive-date=2018-12-25}}</ref>

==Methodology==
Describing the process of voting, [[BBC]]'s [[BBC Bangla|Bengali Service]] stated that to avoid any flaw or controversy, they followed the most modern method of [[opinion poll]]ing. Participants were asked to nominate their five choices of greatest Bengali personality on the order of preference instead of one. The top nominee of each voter was given five points, second nominee four points, thus eventually the fifth nominee got one point. On the basis of total points, the final list of the greatest Bengali poll was generated.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2004-04-16 |title=BBC Listeners' Poll |newspaper=The Daily Star |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/04/16/d4041601066.htm |access-date=2017-12-14 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225011711/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/04/16/d4041601066.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Observations==
[[BBC]] informed that [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] bagged almost double points than the second place holder [[Rabindranath Tagore]], while Tagore himself secured double points than [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]] and Nazrul got double than [[A. K. Fazlul Huq]]. The other 17 personalities however had narrow differences of points with each other.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Along with highest six politicians, the list also contains several authors and social reformers. Also two religious preachers, one scientist and one economist got place in the final list. [[Begum Rokeya]] was the only woman and [[Amartya Sen]] only living personality to be voted in top 20. No individual from the [[Bengal Sultanate]] and [[Mughal Bengal]] was nominated in the poll.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-03-07 |title=The speech that changed the course of history |newspaper=The Independent |location=Dhaka |url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/printversion/details/36313 |access-date=2018-01-26}}</ref>

== Top 20 list ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Rank
!Name
!Title
!Image
!Introduction
!Notability
|-
|1
|[[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] (1920{{nbh}}1975)
|Bangabandhu
''(Friend of Bengal)''
| [[File:Official Portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.jpg|110px]]
|'''Politician'''
Leader of Independence
 President
 Prime Minister
|Founding Father of Bangladesh. Firebrand politician who shook the foundation of Pakistan by breaking away its eastern wing ([[East Bengal]] or [[East Pakistan]]) as the sovereign state of [[Bangladesh]]. Led Bengalis' decade-long struggle for independence against the then autocratic regime, finally resulting in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] and the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.

Served twice as President and once as Prime Minister of Bangladesh after independence. Assassinated along with almost his entire family in a military coup in 1975.
|-
|2
|[[Rabindranath Tagore]] (1861{{nbh}}1941)
|Bishwakobi / Gurudev
''(Poet of the World / Divine Mentor)''
| [[File:Tagore3 140x190.jpg|139x139px]]
|'''Author'''
Nobel Prize Winner
|Bengali polymath. Referred by many as the ''Bengali Shakespeare''. Most successful and influential writer in Bengali literature. First [[Nobel Prize]] winner from Asia. Composer of national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
|-
|3
|[[Kazi Nazrul Islam]] (1899{{nbh}}1976)
|Bidrohi Kobi
''(Rebel Poet)''
| [[File:Kazi Nazrul Islam, circa 1940.jpg|133x133px]]
|'''Author'''
National Poet
|Renown for lifelong struggle and fiery writings against [[British Empire|British colonial rule]]. Equally popular for romantic and religious (both Islamic and Hindu) poems and songs. Made ''National Poet'' of Bangladesh in 1972.
|-
|4
|[[A. K. Fazlul Huq]] (1873{{nbh}}1962)
|Sher-e-Bangla
''(Tiger of Bengal)''
| [[File:A k fazlul hoque.jpg|132x132px]]
|'''Politician'''
Prime Minister
 Chief Minister
 Governor
|First Prime Minister of undivided [[Bengal]] during British rule. First ever democratically elected leader of Bengali nation. Renowned for unshakeable stance on principles and for pro-poor policies. After partition, served as Chief Minister and Governor of East Pakistan.
|-
|5
|[[Subhas Chandra Bose]] (1897{{nbh}}1945)
|Netaji
''(Honorable Leader)''
| [[File:Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.jpg|136x136px]]
|'''Politician'''
Nationalist Activist
|One of the principal figures of [[Indian independence movement]]. Built own army to fight against British colonial rule. Visited around the globe to seek support and assistance for India's independence.
|-
|6
|[[Begum Rokeya]] (1880{{nbh}}1932)
|
| [[File:Begum Rokeya 140x190.jpg|135x135px]]
|'''Social Reformer'''
|Pioneer of Bengali Muslim women uprising. Within the conservative socio-system of her time, managed to educate herself and later became a popular writer and educationist. Inspired millions of girls and women to educate themselves and obtain self-reliance.
|-
|7
|[[Jagadish Chandra Bose]] (1858{{nbh}}1937)
|Acharya
''(Influential Mentor)''
| [[File:Jagadish Chandra Bose 1926.jpg|131x131px]]
|'''Scientist'''
|Major pioneer in researching radio and microwave optics. Made groundbreaking contributions to plant science. Laid the foundation of experimental science in Indian subcontinent.
|-
|8
|[[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]] (1820{{nbh}}1891)
|Vidyasagar
''(Ocean of Knowledge)''
| [[File:Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.jpg|129x129px]]
|'''Social Reformer'''
|Modified Bengali alphabet and typography. Introduced social reforms including ''widow marriage'' in the region.
|-
|9
|[[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]] (1880{{nbh}}1976)
|Mazlum Jananeta

''(Leader of the Oppressed)''
| [[File:Maulana Bhasani in Havana, Cuba.jpg|99x99px]]
|'''Politician'''
|Influential political figure served during British India, Pakistan and Bangladesh period. Gained mass popularity for lifelong solidarity with the oppressed.
|-
|10
|[[Ram Mohan Roy]] (1772{{nbh}}1833)
|Raja

''(Lord)''
|[[File:Raja Rammohan Roy.jpg|frameless|125x125px]]
|'''Social Reformer'''
|Advocated for social reforms like demolition of ''[[Sati (practice)|Sati]]'' ritual, child marriage and giving property inheritance rights for women.
|-
|11
|[[Titumir|Syed Mir Nisar Ali Titumir]] (1782{{nbh}}1831)
|
|[[File:Syed Mir Nisar Ali (Titumir).jpg|frameless|113x113px]]
|'''Rebel Activist'''
|Renowned for confrontations with landlords and British colonial rulers. Became legend after building iconic ''bamboo fort'' and fought against British soldiers from there.
|-
|12
|[[Lalon|Lalon Shah]] (?{{nbh}}1890)
|Baul Samrat

''(Emperor of Bauls)''
|[[File:Fakir Lalon Shah.jpg|frameless|98x98px]]
|'''Mystic Song Composer'''

Philosopher
|Cultural icon of Bengal and most celebrated Baul saint in history. Often compared with [[Confucius]] of China. Inspired prominent figures from Tagore, Nazrul to Allen Ginsberg.
|-
|13
|[[Satyajit Ray]] (1921{{nbh}}1992)
|
| [[File:Satyajit Ray in New York.jpg|149x149px]]
|'''Filmmaker'''
Academy Award Winner
|Second Oscar winner from India. One of the most successful writers in modern age Bengali literature. Showed great talent in music and drawing.
|-
|14
|[[Amartya Sen]] (1933{{nbh}})
|
| [[File:Amartya Sen NIH.jpg|158x158px]]
|'''Economist'''
Nobel Prize Winner
|Prominent economist. Won Nobel Prize in economics.
|-
|15
|[[Bengali language movement|Language Movement Martyrs]] (1952)
|Bhasha Shaheed
''(Language Martyrs)''
| [[File:1952 Bengali Language movement.jpg|99x99px]]
|'''University Students'''
|Shot dead on 21 February 1952 while carrying mass procession against then Pakistan government's decision to not proclaim Bengali as country's official language. The day is now observed worldwide as ''[[International Mother Language Day]]'' after UNESCO's declaration in 1999.
|-
|16
|[[Muhammad Shahidullah]] (1885{{nbh}}1969)
|
| [[File:Mohammod Sohidullah.jpg|143x143px]]
|'''Educationist'''
|Prominent educationist, linguist and researcher on Bengali language.
|-
|17
|[[Swami Vivekananda]] (1863{{nbh}}1902)
|
| [[File:Swami Vivekananda Chicago, September 1893 (Harrison).png|127x127px]]
|'''Religious Preacher'''
|One of principal representatives of [[Hinduism]] to western world. Prominent promoter of Yoga.
|-
|18
|[[Atiśa|Atisa Dipamkara]] (c. 982{{nbh}}1054)
|Srigyan
''(Divine knowledge)''
| [[File:Atisha.jpg|136x136px]]
|'''Religious Preacher'''
|Bengali Buddhist spiritual leader. Brought [[Buddhism]] to Bengal and helped to spread from Sumatra to Tibet.
|-
|19
|[[Ziaur Rahman]] (1936{{nbh}}1981)
|
| [[File:Ziaur Rahman 1979.jpg|132x132px]]
|'''Military Personnel'''
Freedom Fighter
 President

|One of the war heroes of Bangladesh Liberation War. Announced ''Declaration of Independence'' on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Former president and former army chief of Bangladesh. Founder of [[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation|SAARC]].
|-
|20
|[[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] (1892{{nbh}}1963)
|
| [[File:Suhrawardy of Bengal.jpg|149x149px]]
|'''Politician'''

Prime Minister
|Influential Bengali politician served as Prime Minister of undivided Bengal during British rule and later Prime Minister of Pakistan.
|}

== See also ==
*[[100 Greatest Britons]]
*[[The Greatest Indian]]
*[[Greatest Britons spin-offs]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |last=Jones |first=Reece |date=June 2008 |title=Searching for the greatest Bengali: The BBC and shifting identity categories in South Asia |url=https://www2.hawaii.edu/~reecej/Jones%202008%20National%20Identities.pdf |journal=[[National Identities]] |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=149–165 |doi=10.1080/14608940801997218 |bibcode=2008NatId..10..149J |s2cid=145390085}}

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Rasheed Ummer

2026-04-27T01:34:28Z

ResearcherFacts: made new info basic info

{{Short description|Indian actor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2018}}
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| other names = KP Rasheed
| birth_place = [[Kozhikode]], [[India]]
| occupation = [[Actor]] [[Voice Actor|Dubbing Artiste]]
| years active = 1985–2003
| parents = [[K. P. Ummer]]
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| spouse = Shaila
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'''Rasheed Ummer''' is an Indian [[actor]], who primarily works in [[Malayalam]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] films.

==Career==
He made his début as a hero in ''Kannaram Pothi Pothi'' and later was a part of the much acclaimed ''[[Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malayalachalachithram.com/movieslist.php?a=3789 |title=Rasheed Ummer-List of Malayalam Films|publisher=malayalachalachithram|accessdate=2015-11-14}}</ref> He is the son of famous [[Malayalam Cinema|Malayalam cinema]] actor [[K. P. Ummer]].

He is also a professional dubbing artiste. Now he dubs for 'Prajapathi Dhaksha' from the serial ''Kailasanathan'' which airs in [[Asianet (TV channel)|Asianet]] channel. Apart from films and serials, Rasheed Ummer also concentrates in Herbal Oil business based at Chennai.

==Filmography==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Film
! Role
! Language
!class=unsortable| Notes
|-
| 1985 || ''Kannaram Pothi Pothi'' || Suresh|| [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
| 1989 || ''[[Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha]]'' ||Kannappanunni || [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
| 1993 || ''[[Sainyam]]'' || || [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
| 1994 || ''Bheeshmacharya'' || || [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
| 1995 || ''[[Street (film)|Street]]'' || || [[Malayalam]] ||
|-
| 1999 || ''[[Sethu (film)|Sethu]]'' || Abitha's brother-in-law || [[Tamil language|Tamil]]||
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Ilaiyavan]]'' || Ganesh || [[Tamil language|Tamil]]||
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Nee Enthan Vaanam]]'' || Ashok || [[Tamil language|Tamil]]||
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Nila Kaalam]]'' || Raja || [[Tamil language|Tamil]]||
|-
| 2003 || ''[[Sena (film)|Sena]]'' || Inspector Pasupathy || [[Tamil language|Tamil]]||
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|5580045}}

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[[Category:Male actors from Kozhikode]]
[[Category:Male actors in Malayalam cinema]]
[[Category:Indian male film actors]]
[[Category:Male actors in Tamil cinema]]
[[Category:Indian male voice actors]]
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MOHAN Foundation

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'''MOHAN Foundation''' is a not-for-profit, registered [[Non-governmental organization|non-government]] charity organisation in India<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ngo.india.gov.in/view_ngo_details.php?ngo_id=mohanfoundation&ngo_black=0&t_state=0&t_dist_new3=0&sector_key=0&ngo_name=MOHAN%20Foundation&uniqueid= |title=NGO Partnership System |publisher=Ngo.india.gov.in |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> that works in the field of deceased [[organ donation]] and transplantation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/programme/Partners/articleshow/21311037.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104628/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-24/programme/40772512_1_organ-donation-mohan-foundation-transplant-coordinators |url-status=live |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title=Partners |date=2009-10-19 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> MOHAN is an acronym for Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network.

It has offices in [[Chennai]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Bengaluru]], [[Delhi]], [[Mumbai]], [[Chandigarh]], [[Nagpur]], [[Jaipur]] and information centers at [[Kerala]] and [[Imphal]].

==History==
MOHAN Foundation was first conceived in 1996 and was started in 1997 in [[Chennai]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tata.com/article.aspx?artid=siSC7BIQQOY |title=Life after death – Our commitment – Tata group |publisher=Tata.com |date=2012-12-31 |access-date=2013-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106032050/http://www.tata.com/article.aspx?artid=siSC7BIQQOY |archive-date=2013-11-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Organ-donation-by-two-changes-8-lives/Article1-916793.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104638/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Organ-donation-by-two-changes-8-lives/Article1-916793.aspx |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title=Organ donation by two changes 8 lives |work=Hindustan Times|access-date=2013-11-04 }}</ref> It was founded by [[urologist]] and [[Organ transplantation|transplant surgeon]] [[Sunil Shroff]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hindu.com/2001/01/14/stories/0414401y.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105124648/http://hindu.com/2001/01/14/stories/0414401y.htm |archive-date=2013-11-05 |title=Mixing compassion and technology |date=2001-01-14 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://doctor.ndtv.com/expertinterview/ndtv/expertintid/11/Dr_Sunil_Shroff.html |title=Expert Talk – Dr Sunil Shroff » DoctorNDTV for the better health of Indians |publisher=Doctor.ndtv.com |access-date=2013-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408145106/http://doctor.ndtv.com/expertinterview/ndtv/expertintid/11/Dr_Sunil_Shroff.html |archive-date=2014-04-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/money/slide-show/slide-show-1-dr-sunil-shroff-and-the-inspiring-tale-of-a-social-entrepreneur/20110215.htm |title=From grief to joy! The inspiring story of a social entrepreneur – Rediff.com Business |work=Rediff.com |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref>

It has its headquarters in [[Chennai]], Tamil Nadu, India.

==Promoting organ donation==
[[File:Sand Sculpture.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Sand Sculpture made as a part of Rally organised by MOHAN Foundation at Marina Beach]]
In 1994, the [[Indian Parliament|Indian parliament]] passed the Transplantation of Human Organ Act that accepted [[brain death]] for [[organ donation]] and made organ commerce a punishable offense. For the first time in India it was possible for the deceased to donate their [[Organ (anatomy)|organs]] and [[Tissue (biology)|tissues]] provided the family consented to organ donation.<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=22728294|year=2012|last1=Agarwal|first1=SK|last2=Srivastava|first2=RK|last3=Gupta|first3=S|last4=Tripathi|first4=S|title=Evolution of the Transplantation of Human Organ Act and law in India|volume=94|issue=2|pages=110–3|doi=10.1097/TP.0b013e31825ace15|journal=Transplantation |s2cid=45335749|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="health">{{cite web |url=http://health.bih.nic.in/Docs/THOA-1994.pdf |title=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs: The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 |publisher=Health.bih.nic.in |access-date=2013-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105043652/http://health.bih.nic.in/Docs/THOA-1994.pdf |archive-date=2013-11-05 }}</ref> India follows [[informed consent]], unlike Spain and some of the other European countries that follow [[presumed consent]]. There are 23 organs in the human body and one can donate [[kidney]], [[heart]], [[liver]], [[lungs]], [[pancreas]] and the [[small bowel]] as well as tissues like [[cornea]], [[skin]], [[bone]], [[tendons]], [[cartilage]] and [[heart valve]]s.<ref name="health" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://health.bih.nic.in/ |title=Health Dept |publisher=Health.bih.nic.in |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref name=shroff>{{cite journal|pmid=19881131|year=2009|last1=Shroff|first1=S|title=Legal and ethical aspects of organ donation and transplantation|volume=25|issue=3|pages=348–55|doi=10.4103/0970-1591.56203|pmc=2779960|journal= Indian Journal of Urology |doi-access=free }}</ref>
However, due to the lack of awareness level among the public and medical professionals, this concept of organ donation in India needed a shift in attitudes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indmedica.com/journals.php?journalid=6&issueid=25&articleid=237&action=article |title=Journal of the Academy of Hospital Administration |publisher=Indmedica |date=1995-02-04 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author=Amalraj R Edwin, D Raja |url=http://www.indianjurol.com/article.asp?issn=0970-1591;year=2000;volume=16;issue=2;spage=98;epage=105;aulast=Edwin |title=Attitudes of health care professionals towards organ donation Edwin AR, Raja D |journal=Indian Journal of Urology |volume=16 |issue=2 |page=98 |date= January 2000|access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref>

The foundation organises awareness talks among public through meetings, holds rallies, organises programmes in colleges and offices with organ donation as a theme, sensitises police and hospital staff on issues related to donation and from time to time honours organ donor families. [[Donor card]]s and brochures related to organ donation and brain death are distributed at such events.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/sharing-organs-saving-lives/article2825957.ece#im-image-3 |title=Sharing organs, saving lives |date=2012-01-23 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/rally-to-promote-organ-donation/article2822054.ece |title=Rally to promote organ donation |date=2012-01-22 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/making-organ-donation-a-movement/article568285.ece#im-image-0 |title=Making organ donation a movement |date=2010-08-13 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/organ-donation-camp-held/article1894363.ece |title=Organ donation camp held |date=2007-08-18 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/organ-donation-cards-distributed-to-150-students/article3377702.ece |title=Organ donation cards distributed to 150 students |date=2012-05-03 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/creating-awareness-of-organ-donation/article2407938.ece |title=Creating awareness of organ donation |date=2011-08-29 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.4-traders.com/PANACEA-BIOTEC-LIMITED-9059337/news/Panacea-Biotec-Limited--Panacea-Biotec-Observes-Organ-Donation-Day-Mohan-Foundation-Organizes-Awar-17171062/ |title=Panacea Biotec Limited: Panacea Biotec Observes Organ Donation Day, Mohan Foundation Organizes Awareness Camp in the Company Premises |publisher=4-Traders |date=2013-08-06 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coolage.in/photos/vivere-the-fine-arts-competition-pulse-2012-aiims/5309472/ |title=Painting competition sponsored by 'Mohan Foundation' – An NGO who works on the issue of Organ donation – CoolAge |publisher=Coolage.in |date=2013-07-19 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/intercollegiate-film-competition/article646225.ece |title=Inter-collegiate film competition |date=2010-09-15 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Over-350-pledge-their-organs-at-Shivaji-College/articleshow/22352025.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104644/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/delhi/41833016_1_organs-mohan-foundation-transplant |url-status=live |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title=Over 350 pledge their organs at Shivaji College |date=2013-09-06 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> MOHAN Foundation organised an "Organ Donation Rally" at [[Marina Beach]], Chennai. A first-of-its-kind sand sculpture on organ donation was also created on the sands of the Marina beach.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/students-join-hands-for-the-cause-of-organ-donation/article2827563.ece | title=Students join hands for the cause of organ donation| newspaper=The Hindu| date=2012-01-23}}</ref> Rajasthan did its first deceased donor due to efforts of the Foundation in set up the Rajasthan Network for Organ Sharing Registry.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/6-year-old-boy-becomes-first-cadaver-donor-in-state/articleshow/46161367.cms | title=6-year-old boy becomes first cadaver donor in state| website=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> Similar registries were set up for Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

In 2018, the Foundation created a unique art installations of organs made from human ashes to promote the cause of organ donation. The installation titled, 'Life before Ashes', had a simple underlying message that, 'what have become ashes could have been another human's heart or kidney. If only the organs were donated.'<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shelar|first=Jyoti|date=2018-02-10|title=From dust to dust: a creative journey from ashes to art in Mumbai|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/art-for-organs-sake-intrigues-mumbaikars/article22715966.ece|access-date=2020-10-08|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=From dust to dust: a creative journey from ashes to art in Mumbai |url=https://www.nyoooz.com/news/mumbai/1030699/from-dust-to-dust-a-creative-journey-from-ashes-to-art-in-mumbai/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=NYOOOZ|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=26 January 2018|title=human ashes: 'Heart' of human ashes roots for organ donation|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/heart-of-human-ashes-roots-for-organ-donation/articleshow/62658058.cms|access-date=2020-10-08|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=MOHAN Foundation's organ donation awareness campaign titled "Life Before Ashes" sweeps the IAA Olive Crown Awards 2019 with 3 Golds and a Silver|url=https://www.mohanfoundation.org/activities/MOHAN-Foundations-organ-donation-awareness-campaign-titled-Life-Before-Ashes-sweeps-the-IAA-Olive-Crown-Awards-2019-with-3-Golds-and-a-Silver-6473.htm|access-date=2020-10-08|website=mohanfoundation.org|language=en}}</ref>

In March 2019, MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation, one of the oldest NGOs working towards promoting awareness for organ donation in [[India]], held an event in [[Delhi]] where popular Sufi singer duo, Nizami Bandhu thrilled everyone with their songs and music.<ref name="MOHAN Reference1">{{cite news |title=An organ donation awareness event by MOHAN Foundation amidst Sufi music by Nizami Bandhu |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/an-organ-donation-awareness-event-by-mohan-foundation-amidst-sufi-music-by-nizami-bandhu/story-2dBi3SaSvYDSgCEtpz0ZjP.html |access-date=7 March 2021 |work=Hindustan Times|date=7 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Every year, MOHAN Foundation organises a mega organ donation awareness event called ''Samarthan'', which attracts nearly 350-400 individuals and senior doctors and transplant surgeons from leading hospitals across National Capital Region and nearby with the objective for creating awareness and understanding about organ donation and in 2019 Samarthan was held on 2 March at the beautiful Zorba on MG Road, New Delhi.<ref name="MOHAN Reference1" />

== Green color and ribbon for organ donation ==
Green is a color that popularly symbolizes recycling (<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is Recycling and Why Recycle? – Keep Montana Clean and Green…Think Before You Throw|url=https://recyclemontana.org/what-is-recycling-and-why-recycle/|access-date=2020-10-08|language=en-US}}</ref>) . It is used also for environment for preserving the natural environment. Green is also used for organ donation and MOHAN Foundation in 2018 bathed important monuments in India to become green transplantation.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gandhiok|first=Jasjeev|date=19 February 2018|title=Qutub turns green for organ donation|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/qutub-turns-green-for-organ-donation/articleshow/62965024.cms|access-date=2020-10-08|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=National organ donation day: Mumbai CSMT turns green|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/national-organ-donation-day-mumbai-csmt-turns-green|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Free Press Journal|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Whats New – SBI Foundation|url=https://www.sbifoundation.in/whats-new|access-date=2020-10-08|website=sbifoundation.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jaipur Monuments lit with green light to support the cause of organ donation|url=https://www.itnnews.co.in/indian-transplant-newsletter/issue54/Jaipur-Monuments-lit-with-green-light-to-support-the-cause-of-organ-donation-822.htm|access-date=2020-10-08|website=itnnews.co.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jaipur Monuments lit with green light to motivate Jaipurites|url=https://www.mohanfoundation.org/activities/Jaipur-Monuments-lit-with-green-light-to-motivate-Jaipurites-5930.htm|access-date=2020-10-08|website=mohanfoundation.org|language=en}}</ref> Similarly the Green ribbon too symbolizes organ donation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-30|title=Amitabh Bachchan reveals he is a pledged organ donor, wears 'green ribbon of its sanctity'|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/amitabh-bachchan-reveals-he-is-a-pledged-organ-donor-wears-green-ribbon-of-its-sanctity/story-jv80CH48azWeLAurVp6oMJ.html|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-07|title=Riteish Deshmukh, Genelia D'Souza Pledge to Donate Their Organs, Actor Gives Up Non-Veg Food, Black Coffee and Aerated Drink for the Cause {{!}} 🎥 LatestLY|url=https://www.latestly.com/entertainment/bollywood/riteish-deshmukh-genelia-dsouza-pledge-to-donate-their-organs-actor-gives-up-non-veg-food-black-coffee-and-aerated-drink-for-the-cause-2072069.html|access-date=2020-10-08|website=LatestLY|language=en}}</ref>

==Associated celebrities==
[[File:Sheila dixit signing organ donation card.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit signs on the pledge board at the MOHAN Foundation fundraiser event in the capital, before signing it]]

[[Celebrity|Celebrities]] like actors, [[cricket]] players, [[religious leader]]s and [[politician]]s have been used to popularise the concept of organ donation and create public awareness about the cause.


In India, [[Priyanka Chopra]], [[Anil Kumble]], [[Revathi Menon]], [[R. Madhavan|Madhavan]], [[Suniel Shetty]], [[Sivakumar]], [[Kiran Rao]], [[Raveena Tandon]], [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]], [[Gautam Gambhir]], [[Farah Khan]], [[Nandita Das]], [[Aamir Khan]] and [[Anand Gandhi]] are some of the celebrities who have promoted and pledged their organs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2004/sep/93232.htm |title=You are here: Home > News > |publisher=Mid-day.com |date=2004-09-26 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/mohan-foundation-launches-organ-donation-programme-in-coimbatore/article1455348.ece |title=MOHAN Foundation launches organ donation programme in Coimbatore |date=2011-02-14 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Priyanka-pledges-to-donate-her-organs/etarticleshow/16332193.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101100506/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-10/news-interviews/33736488_1_organ-donation-priyanka-chopra-pee-cee |url-status=live |archive-date=2012-11-01 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=Priyanka pledges to donate her organs |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/telugu-actor-navdeep-pledges-to-be-an-organ-donor-at-mohan-foundation/384248-71-216.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412080212/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/telugu-actor-navdeep-pledges-to-be-an-organ-donor-at-mohan-foundation/384248-71-216.html |archive-date=2013-04-12 |title=Telugu actor Navdeep pledges to be an organ donor at Mohan foundation |publisher=Ibnlive.in.com |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/gautam-gambhir-lends-a-hand-to-a-noble-cause/article2617530.ece |title=Gautam Gambhir lends a hand to a noble cause |date=2011-11-11 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref> Actress [[Aishwarya Rai Bachchan]] has promoted eye donation in the past.

In April 2012, [[Sheila Dikshit]], the Chief Minister of Delhi, became the first chief minister in India to pledge her organs when she signed a pledge board on organ donation at an event held in Delhi.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sheila-dikshit-signs-organ-donation-pledge/article3284438.ece |title=Sheila Dikshit signs organ donation pledge |date=2012-04-05 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref>

In 2014, Former Captain of India Kapil Dev Pledges his support for organ donation by signing the Donor Card.

On 7 October 2020, Bollywood megastar [[Amitabh Bachchan]] also pledged to donate his organs.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Amitabh Bachchan reveals he is a pledged organ donor, flaunts the green ribbon|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/amitabh-bachchan-reveals-he-is-a-pledged-organ-donor-flaunts-the-green-ribbon/articleshow/78406972.cms|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref>

==Organ donor card==
[[File:Donor card.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Organ Donation Card]]
Donor cards express one's desire to donate organs after death and have been used by MOHAN Foundation to create awareness and get organ pledges. Over a million such cards in English and regional Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Organ Donor Card|url=https://www.mohanfoundation.org/donorcard.asp|access-date=2020-10-10|website=mohanfoundation.org}}</ref> have been distributed by the foundation in over a decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/one-consent-saves-9-lives/articleshow/21499706.cms |title='One consent saves 9 lives' |work=The Times of India |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19990329/ige29193.html |title=Organ donor card launched in Tamil |publisher=Expressindia.indianexpress.com |date=1999-03-29 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> In a major organ donation drive in March 2012 called DAAN, it partnered with [[HCL Technologies]] along with [[Apollo Hospitals|Apollo Group of Hospitals]], [[Chennai Metropolitan Police|Chennai Police]], [[Indian Medical Association]], [[Cadaver]] Transplant Programme ([[Government of Tamil Nadu]]) and received 12,900+ [[Pledge drive|pledges]] from policemen, doctors and corporate employees. This was the largest organ donation campaigns in the country at that time.<ref>{{cite web|title=HCLites mobilise one of India's largest organ donation campaigns|url=http://www.hcltfoundation.com/events/HCLites-mobilise-one-of-India-s-largest-organ-donation-campaigns-through-Project-Daan-/33|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104065001/http://www.hcltfoundation.com/events/HCLites-mobilise-one-of-India-s-largest-organ-donation-campaigns-through-Project-Daan-/33|archive-date=4 November 2013|access-date=4 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/13000-sign-up-for-organ-donation/articleshow/12433779.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104655/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-28/chennai/31249311_1_organ-donation-donation-drive-mohan-foundation |url-status=live |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title=13,000 sign up for organ donation |date=2012-03-28 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> However this record was superseded by the ''[[The Times of India|Times of India]]'' in July and August 2013. TOI partnered with four NGO's in the field of organ donation – Shatayu, Gift Your organ, Gift a Life and MOHAN Foundation to create awareness and received 50,000 plus pledges for organs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/aboutorgandonation.cms |title=About Organ Donation | I Lead India Youth Brigade – An initiative by The Times of India |work=The Times of India |date= |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/TOI-campaign-on-organ-donation-garners-50000-plus-pledges/articleshow/21665261.cms |title=TOI campaign on organ donation garners 50,000-plus pledges |work=The Times of India |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Organ Donor Card|url=https://www.mohanfoundation.org/donorcard.asp|access-date=2020-10-08|website=mohanfoundation.org}}</ref>

==Training Transplant Coordinators==
A [[transplant coordinator]] is a medical professional – a doctor, an allied healthcare professional or a medical social worker – who coordinates activities related to organ donation. One of their core functions is to counsel the families of a [[brain dead]] individual for organ donation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfcc.edu.in/ |title=MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation – IGNOU Community College |publisher=Mfcc.edu.in |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> These coordinators can act as link between [[hospitals]], citizens, donors and patients requiring organ donation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Doc-donating-new-mindset-on-organ-donation/articleshow/11395442.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104601/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-07/nagpur/30601561_1_ztcc-organ-donation-mohan-foundation |url-status=live |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title=Doc donating new mindset on organ donation|date=2012-01-07 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> The foundation provides training for coordinators including courses of one week, one month, 6 months and one year in length. The one year Post Graduate Diploma in Transplant Coordination and Grief Counselling is a unique blended learning course (E-learning and face-to-face session ) for working health care professionals.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Transplant Coordinators Course – MOHAN Foundation|url=https://courses.mohanfoundation.org/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=courses.mohanfoundation.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Transplant Coordinators Training Programme Testimonials|url=https://www.mohanfoundation.org/testimonials/training-programme-testimonials.asp|access-date=2020-10-08|website=mohanfoundation.org}}</ref>

These training programmes have partly been funded by one of the oldest [[philanthropic]] institutions in India, [[Sir Ratan Tata Trust|Sir Ratan Tata Trust & Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust]]. Coordinators are trained in medical, legal and ethical aspects related to organ donation and are also imparted soft skills for grief counseling. The structured training ensures that they are able to approach and counsel the families of brain dead patients for organ donation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/training-for-nurses/article719821.ece |title=Training for nurses |date=2010-02-28 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/organ-donation/article2669768.ece |title=Organ donation |date=2011-11-29 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Hyderabad/Rural-family-donates-son-s-organs/Article1-609848.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104620/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Hyderabad/Rural-family-donates-son-s-organs/Article1-609848.aspx |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title=Rural family donates son's organs |work=Hindustan Times|date=2010-10-08 |access-date=2013-11-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/AndhraPradesh/Brain-dead-woman-s-organs-donated-on-Mother-s-Day-eve/Article1-541339.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104650/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/AndhraPradesh/Brain-dead-woman-s-organs-donated-on-Mother-s-Day-eve/Article1-541339.aspx |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title='Brain-dead' woman's organs donated on Mother's Day eve |work=Hindustan Times|access-date=2013-11-04 }}</ref> Coordinators facilitate organ donation and transplantation in a positive environment and provide support to the donor family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tata.com/article.aspx?artid=siSC7BIQQOY= |title=Life after death – Our commitment|publisher=Tata.com |date=2012-12-31 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> From December 2009 to September 2018, 1967 candidates were trained as transplant coordinators through 56 training programmes in India and Bangladesh. In India, the organ donation rate has increased from 0.08 per million population in 2008 to 0.8 per million population in 2017 which is a ten-fold increase.<ref name=shroff/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Did an increase in knowledge and awareness about organ donation improve organ donation rate in India over the past two decades?|url=http://www.ijtonline.in/article.asp?issn=2212-0017;year=2019;volume=13;issue=3;spage=173;epage=178;aulast=Alex}}</ref> The presence of trained transplant coordinators is one of the factors that has contributed to this considerable increase.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The foundation partners with The Transplantation Society, Indian Society of Nephrology, the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, [[World Health Organization]], Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) of Spain to conduct national workshops for transplant coordinators.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tts.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1307%3Aa-global-presence-national-workshop-of-transplant-coordinators&catid=113%3Anewsletter-2013-volume-10-issue-1&Itemid=89 |title=A Global Presence – National Workshop of Transplant Coordinators |publisher=Tts.org |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/policy-and-issues/national-workshop-of-transplant-coordinators-provides-guidelines/article4484428.ece |title=National Workshop of transplant coordinators provides guidelines |date=2013-03-07 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/08/21/stories/2010082163330300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828201540/http://www.hindu.com/2010/08/21/stories/2010082163330300.htm |archive-date=2010-08-28 |title=Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News: Workshop held for transplant coordinators |date=2010-08-21 |work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> Training programme of one week are held along with other similar [[Non-governmental organization|NGO's]] like Shatayu and Government organisations like Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee of Maharashtra and Karnataka to train the Transplant coordinators in different cities besides [[Chennai]] like [[Ahmedabad]], [[Mumbai]], [[New Delhi]] and [[Bangalore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Better-coordination-makes-organ-donation-possible/articleshow/10912218.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104104651/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-29/ahmedabad/30453712_1_mohan-foundation-transplant-coordinators-sunil-shroff |url-status=live |archive-date=2013-11-04 |title=Better coordination makes organ donation possible|date=2011-11-29 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref>

==Online organ registry==
Registries for organ allocation ensure fair, equitable and transparent distribution of organs and ensure that harvested organs are not wasted for want of recipients. They help to make sure that no one jumps the waiting list queue.<ref>{{Cite news|author= V|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/states-transplant-registry-comes-alive/article4233797.ece |title=State's transplant registry comes alive |date=2012-12-24 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref> In 2005 the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation initiated an Indian Transplant Registry where expertise was provided by technical staff of the MOHAN Foundation.<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=17445578|year=2007|last1=Shroff|first1=S|title=Indian Transplant Registry-www.transplantindia.com|volume=39|issue=3|pages=711–3|doi=10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.01.051 |journal=Transplantation Proceedings }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |pmc= 2721606 |year= 2007 |last1= Shroff |first1= S |title= Indian transplant registry |volume= 23 |issue= 3 |pages= 272–277 |doi= 10.4103/0970-1591.33724 |journal =Indian Journal of Urology|pmid=19718330 |doi-access= free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transplantindia.com |title=Welcome to Indian Transplant Registry |publisher=Transplantindia.com |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> In 2009 the Cadaver Transplant Programme of the Government of Tamil Nadu used the previous experience of the foundation in creation of a registry for deceased donors and transplantation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tnos.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990420223208/http://tnos.org/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=20 April 1999 |title=Tamil Nadu Organ Sharing Registry – Share Organs Save Lives |publisher=Tnos.org |date=2013-08-31 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> Similar registries was created for the Department of Health, Government of Kerala in 2012<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/keralas-transplant-registry-comes-alive/article4234647.ece |title=Kerala's transplant registry comes alive |date=2012-12-24 |access-date=2013-11-04|newspaper=The Hindu |last1=Maya |first1=C. }}</ref> and the Department of Medical, Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan in 2014.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Raj-promises-to-address-problems-of-liver-transplant-patients/articleshow/45399909.cms | title=Raj promises to address problems of liver transplant patients | newspaper=The Times of India | date=7 December 2014 | access-date=15 July 2019 }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150814184720/http://www.hindustantimes.com/jaipur/online-registry-for-organ-donation-in-state-now-a-reality/article1-1294117.aspx Online registry for organ donation in state now a reality]</ref> The Government of India also has a plan for national organ registry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mohfw.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/Draft%20Transplantaion%20of%20Human%20Organs%20and%20Tissues%20Rules%202013-98530297.pdf |title=Government of India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: 2013 |publisher=Mohfw.nic.in |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref>

== Toll Free Organ Donation Helpline ==
The Foundation runs a 24-hour organ donation toll-free helpline number in eight languages. This initiative is supported by SBI Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Projects – SBI Foundation|url=https://www.sbifoundation.in/projects|access-date=2020-10-10|website=sbifoundation.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=SBI Sustainability Report 2018-19|url=https://sbi.co.in/documents/17826/35696/010819-SBI_SR_1Aug2019.pdf?TSPD_101_R0=08b90ded0cab2000f44d713fc4f24ae6591358e72a196172df0dfab8bcfc5c61626e8f38d769492e083782f25c1448006ef2b307d1ff4d70b814cde92920a27423ea36706f2d289b7d3f2fd27110821e6270c5d4c625049555459ebb83b4fbe94aa63ec2c96678959bb9b0f6b65ad4a465a417a505a06d29}}</ref> On this number the foundation handles not only organ donation enquiries but also coordinates eye donation, body donation and occasionally even organ donation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Experiences and Challenges in an NGO run Organ Donation Helpline|url=https://journals.lww.com/transplantjournal/pages/results.aspx?txtKeywords=Experiences+and+Challenges+in+an+NGO+run+Organ+Donation+Helpline}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Publicity of the Helpline Number by Angels of Change – Day 5|url=https://www.mohanfoundation.org/activities/Publicity-of-the-Helpline-Number-by-Angels-of-Change-Day-5-6153.htm|access-date=2020-10-10|website=mohanfoundation.org|language=en}}</ref>

==Overcoming organ shortage==
The shortage of organs has been an international phenomenon and India has been no exception.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Robinson |first=Simon |url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1709006,00.html |title=India's Black Market Organ Scandal |magazine=Time |date=2008-02-01 |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref> This has led to [[organ trade]] and has often stigmatized the noble concept of [[organ donation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/12/06-039370/en/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220191729/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/12/06-039370/en/ |archive-date=20 December 2007 |title=WHO | The state of the international organ trade: a provisional picture based on integration of available information |publisher=Who.int |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|pmid=18261540|year=2008|last1=Abouna|first1=GM|title=Organ shortage crisis: Problems and possible solutions|volume=40|issue=1|pages=34–8|doi=10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.11.067 |journal=Transplantation Proceedings}}</ref> However the promotion of the [[deceased]] donation programme especially in states like Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh has meant more organs and has had some impact on lessening the organ commerce.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/04/stories/2010110460510200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914201659/http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/04/stories/2010110460510200.htm |archive-date=2011-09-14 |title=Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News: Mohan Foundation gets 100th organ donation |date=2010-11-04 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tts.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1062:improvements-in-deceased-organ-donation-in-india&catid=98:newsletter-2011-volume-8-issue-3&Itemid=669 |title=Improvements in Deceased Organ Donation in India |publisher=Tts.org |access-date=2013-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author=Sandhya Srinivasan |url=http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2155 |title=Has Tamil Nadu turned the tide on the transplant trade? |journal=The BMJ |volume=346 |article-number=f2155 |access-date=2013-11-04|doi=10.1136/bmj.f2155 |pmid=23585066 |year=2013 |s2cid=31085086 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Tamuli|first1=Raktim Pratim|last2=Sarmah|first2=Smritimala|last3=Saikia|first3=Bishwajeet|title=Organ donation – "attitude and awareness among undergraduates and postgraduates of North-East India"|journal=Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care|year=2019|volume=8|issue=1|pages=130–136|doi=10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_206_18|issn=2249-4863|pmc=6396593|pmid=30911493 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

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Sivala, Konaseema district

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'''Sivala''' is a village located in the [[Konaseema district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh, India]].<ref>{{cite web |date=2011 |title=Primary Census Abstract Data Tables – India: Final Population Totals |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42554/download/46180/2011-IndiaStateDistSbDistVill-0000.xlsx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711042331/https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42554/download/46180/2011-IndiaStateDistSbDistVill-0000.xlsx |archive-date=11 July 2022 |access-date=27 April 2025 |website=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India}}</ref>

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Kanwarjit Paintal

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| name = Kanwarjit Paintal
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| birth_name = Kanwarjit Singh Paintal
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'''Kanwarjit Paintal''', better known as '''Paintal''' (born 22 August 1948), is an Indian actor and comedian. He started off as a comic actor and moved on to teaching the art of acting. He has extensively worked not only in numerous movies but also television.
He was born into a [[Sikh]] family in [[Tarn Taran Sahib|Tarn Taran]] which is near [[Amritsar]], Punjab. He lived his early life with his family members in [[Sadar Bazaar, Delhi|Sadar Bazaar]], [[Delhi]]. Paintal learnt acting at the [[Film and Television Institute of India]] and in 2008 was the Head of the Acting Department of FTII. He came to [[Mumbai|Bombay]] (now Mumbai) in 1969. His brother [[Gufi Paintal]] played the role [[Shakuni]] in [[B.R. Chopra]] hit show '[[Mahabharat (1988 TV series)]]', in which he himself played the roles of [[Shikhandi]] and [[Sudama]]. His son, [[Hiten Paintal]], is also an actor, who worked in movies such as ''[[Dil Maange More]]'' (2004) and ''[[Bachna Ae Haseeno]]'' (2008).<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/special/y2k3/siblings.htm|title=Sibling revelry|access-date=12 November 2006}}</ref>

==Filmography==
Some of Paintal's notable roles included Rattan in ''[[Jawani Diwani]]'' (1972), Salma in ''[[Rafoo Chakkar]]'' (1975), Guruji in ''[[Bawarchi]]'' (1972), Arun in ''[[Piya Ka Ghar]]'' (1972), Panditji (Astrologer) in ''[[Parichay (film)|Parichay]]'' (1972), Totaram in ''[[Jangal Mein Mangal]]'' (1972), Kamal in ''[[Heera Panna]]'' (1973), Headmaster in ''[[Roti (1974 film)|Roti]]'' (1974), Ramu in ''[[Khote Sikkay (1973 film)|Khote Sikkay]]'' (1973), and Budh Anand in ''[[Satte Pe Satta]]'' (1982). One of his most notable roles was as Champak Boomia in ''[[Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar]]'' (1973). The film became very successful for the character 'Champak Bhumia' played by him. From playing comic roles, Paintal has moved on to play serious character roles, most recent of which is in the television drama Pyar Ka Dard Hain Kuch Meetha Meetha.

===Film===
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|1970
|''[[Umang (film)|Umang]]''
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| rowspan="2" |1971
|''[[Lal Patthar]]''
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|''[[Mere Apne]]''
|Bansi
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| rowspan="8" |1972
|''[[Tangewala]]''
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|''[[Shaadi Ke Baad]]''
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|''[[Jawani Diwani]]''
|Rattan
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|''[[Gomti Ke Kinare]]''
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|''[[Bawarchi]]''
|Guruji
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|''[[Piya Ka Ghar]]''
|Arun
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|''[[Parichay (film)|Parichay]]''
|Panditji (Astrologer)
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|''[[Jangal Mein Mangal]]''
|Totaram
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| rowspan="2" |1973
|''[[Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar]]''
|Champak Boomia
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|''[[Khote Sikkay]]''
|Ramu
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| rowspan="11" |1974
|''[[Heera Panna]]''
|Kamal
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|''[[Zehreela Insaan]]''
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|''[[Us-Paar]]''
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|''[[Manoranjan]]''
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|''[[Kora Badan]]''
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|''[[Faslah]]''
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|''[[Dulhan (1975 film)|Dulhan]]''
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|''[[Dil Diwana]]''
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|''[[Call Girl (1974 film)|Call Girl]]''
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|''[[Roti]]''
|Headmaster
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|''[[Gulabi Nain Sharabi]]''
|Raja
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| rowspan="5" |1975
|''[[Rafoo Chakkar]]''
|Salim / Salma
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|''[[Mazaaq]]''
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|''[[Jaggu]]''
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|''[[Apne Rang hazaar]]''
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|''[[Anokha]]''
|Raja
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| rowspan="7" |1976
|''[[Maa (1976 film)|Maa]]''
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|''[[Laila Majnu]]''
|Jafran
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|''Deewangee''
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|''[[Balika Badhu (1976 film)|Balika Badhu]]''
|Shambhu
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|''[[Bairaag]]''
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|''[[Jaaneman (1976 film)|Jaaneman]]''
|Mithoo
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|''Udhar Ka Sindur''
|
|
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| rowspan="9" |1977
|''Shirdi Ke Sai Baba''
|
|
|
|-
|''Saheb Bahadur''
|
|
|
|-
|''Saal Solvan Chadya''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Jay Vejay]]''
|Damak
|
|
|-
|''Jagriti''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Chandi Sona]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Chala Murari Hero Banne]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Alibaba Marjinaa]]''
|Khairu
|
|
|-
|''Abhi To Jee Lein''
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="11" |1978
|''Tumhari Kasam''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Swarg Narak]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan''
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|
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|-
|''[[Naya Daur (1978 film)|Naya Daur]]''
|Mangu
|
|
|-
|''Muqaddar''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Des Pardes (1978 film)|Des Pardes]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''College Girl''
|
|
|
|-
|''Ankh Ka Tara''
|
|
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|-
|''Aakhri Daku''
|
|
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|-
|''Aahuti''
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|
|
|-
|''[[Adventures of Aladdin]]''
|
|
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|-
| rowspan="5" |1979
|''Magroor''
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|
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|-
|''[[Jaani Dushman]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''Jaan-E-Bahaar''
|
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|-
|''Gopal Krishna''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Duniya Meri Jeb Mein]]''
|Bhaskar
|
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |1980
|''Khoon Kharaba''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[The Burning Train]]''
|Ticketless Traveler
|
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|-
|''Sitara''
|
|
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|-
|''Oh Bewafa''
|
|
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|-
|[[Dostana (1980 film)|''Dostana'']]
|
|
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| rowspan="5" |1981
|''Waqt Ki Deewar''
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|-
|''Saajan Ki Saheli''
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|-
|''Ghamandee''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Kranti]]''
|Bharat's Kranti Group Member
|
|
|-
|''Daasi''
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="6" |1982
|''[[Kachche Heere]]''
|Ramu
|
|
|-
|''[[Baghavat]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Pyar Ke Rahi]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pyar Ke Rahi (1982) Complete Cast & Crew - BollywoodMDB |url=https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movies/cast-crew/pyar-ke-rahi/3150 |access-date=2025-09-06 |website=www.bollywoodmdb.com}}</ref>
|Srikanth Bedhadak
|
|
|-
|''[[Satte Pe Satta]]''
|Budh Anand
|
|
|-
|''[[Teri Kasam]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Teri Maang Sitaron Se Bhar Doon]]''
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |1983
|''[[Shubh Kaamna]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Ganga Meri Maa]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Sadma]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Daulat Ke Dushman]]''
|
|(Special Appearance)
|
|-
|''[[Kalaakaar]]''
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="7" |1984
|''[[Waqt Ki Pukar]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Sardaar (1984 film)|Sardaar]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sardaar Movie Trailer, Star Cast, Release Date, Box Office, Movie Review {{!}} Sardaar Movie budget and Collection {{!}} Sardaar |url=https://www.indianfilmhistory.com/movie/sardaar |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=www.indianfilmhistory.com |language=en}}</ref>
|Pyare
|
|
|-
|''[[Shapath]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Maan Maryada]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Kanoon Meri Mutthi Mein]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Jaag Utha Insan (1984 film)|Jaag Utha Insaan]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Hum Do Hamare Do (1984 film)|Hum Do Hamare Do]]''
|Photographer
|
|
|-
| rowspan="10" |1985
|''[[Ram Tere Kitne Nam]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Paisa Yeh Paisa]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Kali Basti]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Aandhi-Toofan]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Mehak]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Wafadaar]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Bepanaah]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Sur Sangam]]''
|
|
|
|-
|[[Babu (1985 film)|''Babu'']]
|
|
|
|-
|''Mujhe Kasam Hai''
|Gopi
|
|
|-
| rowspan="7" |1986
|''[[Mohabbat Ki Kasam]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''Kirayadar''
|
|
|
|-
|[[Adhikar (1986 film)|''Adhikar'']]
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Dilwala]]''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Zindagani]]''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Teesra Kinara]]''
|
|
|
|-
|[[Anubhav (1986 film)|''Anubhav'']]
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |1987
|''[[Sheela (1987 film)|Sheela]]'' || || || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iprmentlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ordjud-2021-04-22T075459.007.pdf|title=IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION IN ITS COMMERCIAL DIVISION INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO 4402 OF 2021 IN COMM (I.P.) SUIT NO. 4398 OF 2021|work=[[Bombay High Court|High Court of Judicature at Bombay]]|date=21 April 2021|access-date=19 April 2026}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Insaniyat Ke Dushman]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Maashuka]]''
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |1988
|''[[Paap Ki Duniya]]''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Jeete Hain Shaan Se]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Akhri Muqabla]]''
|
|
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|-
| rowspan="5" |1989
| ''[[Mitti Aur Sona]]''
|
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|-
|''Jaaydaad''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni]]''
|
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|-
|''[[Shehzaade]]''
|
|uncredited
|
|-
|''[[Anokha Aspatal]]''
|Ram Dhani
|
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |1990
|''[[Pyasi Nigahen]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Aag Ka Gola]]''
|
|uncredited
|
|-
|''[[Pyaar Ke Naam Qurban]]''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Thanedaar]]''
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| rowspan="3" |1991
|''[[Qurbani Rang Layegi]]''
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|''[[First Love Letter]]''
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|-
|[[Saugandh (1991 film)|''Saugandh'']]
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| rowspan="3" |1992
|''[[Prem Deewane]]''
|
|
|
|-
|[[Ghar Jamai (1992 film)|''Ghar Jamai'']]
|Lakhpathiya
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ghar Jamai |url=https://www.cinemaazi.com/film/ghar-jamai |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=Cinemaazi |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Mehboob Mere Mehboob]]''
|
|
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|1993
|[[Pehchaan (1993 film)|''Pehchaan'']]
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|-
| rowspan="4" |1994
|''[[Anokha Premyudh]]''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Prem Yog]]''
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|
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|-
|''[[Amaanat (1994 film)|Amaanat]]''
|
|
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|-
|''[[Ikke Pe Ikka]]''
|Tuli
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ikke Pe Ikka - Movie - - Box Office India |url=https://boxofficeindia.com/cast_crew.php?movieid=3065 |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=boxofficeindia.com}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |1995
|''[[Aazmayish]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Rock Dancer]]''
|Havaldar
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rock Dancer |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/rock-dancer/cast/2030213976/ |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |1996
|''Aisi Bhi Kya Jaldi Hai''
|
|
|
|-
|[[Megha (1996 film)|''Megha'']]
|
|uncredited
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1997
|''[[Mere Sapno Ki Rani (film)|Mere Sapno Ki Rani]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Kaalia (1997 film)|Kaalia]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kaalia (1997) Cast - Actor, Actress, Director, Producer, Music Director |url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/kaalia-8262/cast-crew |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=Cinestaan}}</ref>
|Nandlal Choubey
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1998
|[[Hatyara (1998 film)|''Hatyara'']]
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Zulm-O-Sitam]]''
|
|
|
|-
|2001
|[[Kasam (2001 film)|''Kasam'']]
|
|
|
|-
|2003
|''[[Fun 2shh: Dudes in the 10th Century]]''
|Scientist
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2009
|''[[Paying Guests]]''
|
|
|
|-
|''[[Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]]''
|
|Special Appearance
|
|-
|2010
|''[[Kaalo]]''
|
|
|
|-
|2016
|[[30 Minutes (film)|''30 Minutes'']]
|
|
|
|-
|2022
|''[[Kahani Rubberband Ki]]''
|
|
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|-
|2023
|[[Dono (film)|''Dono'']]
|
|
|
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Show
! Role
!Notes
!Ref.
|-
|1976
|''Ladoo Singh Taxiwala''
|
|
|
|-
|1985
|''[[Vikram Aur Betaal]]''
|Dagdoo
|
|
|-
|1988
|''Daal Mein Kala''
|Various
|
|
|-
|1988–1990
| ''[[Mahabharat (1988 TV series)|Mahabharat]]''
|[[Sudama]] / [[Shikhandi]]
|
|
|-
|1994
|''NatKhat''
|
|
|
|-
|1999
|''Jai Mata Ki''
|[[Narada]]
|
|
|-
|rowspan="2"|2001
|''[[Ssshhhh...Koi Hai]]'' – Bhediya
|Madhav
|Episode 3
|
|-
|''[[Ssshhhh...Koi Hai]]'' – Khoj
|The archeologist
|Episode 15
|
|-
|2003
|''[[Pyar Zindagi Hai]]''
|
|
|
|-
|2006
|''[[CID (Indian TV series)|C.I.D]]''
|Ghanashyam
|Episode 409
|
|-
|2006–2007
|''[[Amber Dhara]]''
|Mahendra Pratap Dixit
|
|
|-
|2012–2014
|''[[Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara]]''
|Jagdish Prasad Gupta
|
|
|-
|2016–2017
|''[[Ek Shringaar-Swabhiman]]''
|Sujan Singh Chauhan
|
|
|-
|2017
|''[[Partners Trouble Ho Gayi Double]]''
|Himself
|Cameo
|
|-
|2017–2018
|''[[Piya Albela]]''
|Kashinath Vyas
|
|
|-
|2020
|''[[Shakti - Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki]]''
|Baksh Singh
|
|
|-
|2022
|''[[Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey]]''
|Charudutt Kulshresta
|
|
|-
|2024
|''Mehndi Wala Ghar''
|Hari Agarwal
|
|
|-
|rowspan="2"|2025
|''Sajan Ji Ghar Aaye Family Kyun Sharmaye''
|Avdesh Lal
|
|
|-
|''[[Anupamaa]]''
|Pandit Manohar Sharma
|
|
|}

==Awards and nominations==
{{awards table}}
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Bawarchi]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiafm.com/celebrities/awards/9956/index.html|title=Paintal: Awards|access-date=12 November 2006}}</ref>
| rowspan="2"|[[Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role]]
| {{won}}
|-
| 1978
| ''[[Chala Murari Hero Banne]]''
| {{won}}
|}

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* {{IMDb name | id=0656865| name = Paintal }}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Odsk9xfOp6oC&dq=shikhandi+role+in+br+chopra+mahabrata&pg=PA19 Shikhandi a pivotal character]
{{FilmfareAwardBestComedian}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paintal}}
[[Category:Indian male comedians]]
[[Category:Filmfare Awards winners]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1948 births]]

Soreong Assembly constituency

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{{Short description|Constituency of the Sikkim legislative assembly in India}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Soreong
| type= SLA
| state = Sikkim
| established = 1979
| abolished = 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lddashboard.legislative.gov.in/sites/default/files/03_representation%20of%20the%20people%20act%2C%201950.pdf|access-date=19 February 2024|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219182705/https://lddashboard.legislative.gov.in/sites/default/files/03_representation%20of%20the%20people%20act%2C%201950.pdf|title=THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1950}}</ref>
| electors = 9,419
| mla = Ram Bahadur Subba
| party = {{Party index link|Sikkim Democratic Front}}
| constituency_no =
| latest_election_year = [[2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|2004]]
| district =
| loksabha_cons =
| reservation =
}}
'''Soreong Assembly constituency '''was an assembly constituency in the [[India|Indian]] [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Sikkim]].
== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Election
! Member
! colspan=2|Party
|-
| [[1979 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1979]] || rowspan=4 | [[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]] || {{Full party name with color|Sikkim Janata Parishad}}
|-
| [[1985 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1985]] || {{Full party name with color|Sikkim Sangram Parishad|rowspan=3}}
|-
| [[1989 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
|-
| [[1994 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1994]]
|-
| [[1999 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1999]] || rowspan=2 | Ram Bahadur Subba || {{Full party name with color|Sikkim Democratic Front|rowspan=2}}
|-
| [[2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|2004]]
|}
== Election results ==
=== Assembly election 2004 ===
{{Election box begin|title= [[2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election]]: Soreong<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2004/StatisticalReports_SK_2004.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006151710/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2004/StatisticalReports_SK_2004.pdf|archive-date=6 October 2010|access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=Ram Bahadur Subba |party=Sikkim Democratic Front |votes=5,553 |percentage=72.65% |change={{increase}}22.84 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Ashok Kumar Subba |party=Indian National Congress |votes=1,871 |percentage=24.48% |change={{increase}}23.14 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Akar Dhoj Limbu |party=Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad |votes=220 |percentage=2.88% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box margin of victory |votes=3,682 |percentage=48.17% |change= {{increase}}47.22 }}
{{Election box turnout |votes=7,644 |percentage=81.16% |change= {{decrease}}0.37 }}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors = 9,419 |ref = |change= {{increase}}10.67 }}
{{Election box hold with party link |winner=Sikkim Democratic Front |loser=Sikkim Democratic Front |swing= {{increase}}22.84 }}
{{Election box end}}
=== Assembly election 1999 ===
{{Election box begin|title= [[1999 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election]]: Soreong<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1999 to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1999/StatisticalReport-SK99.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007144437/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1999/StatisticalReport-SK99.pdf |archive-date=7 October 2010|access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=Ram Bahadur Subba |party=Sikkim Democratic Front |votes=3,456 |percentage=49.81% |change={{increase}}4.35 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=[[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]] |party=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |votes=3,390 |percentage=48.85% |change={{decrease}}2.98 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Iman Singh Limbu |party=Indian National Congress |votes=93 |percentage=1.34% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box margin of victory |votes=66 |percentage=0.95% |change= {{decrease}}5.43 }}
{{Election box turnout |votes=6,939 |percentage=83.15% |change= {{increase}}0.05 }}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors = 8,511 |ref = |change= {{increase}}9.23 }}
{{Election box gain with party link |winner=Sikkim Democratic Front |loser=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |swing= {{decrease}}2.03 }}
{{Election box end}}
=== Assembly election 1994 ===
{{Election box begin|title= [[1994 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election]]: Soreong<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1994 to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1994/StatisticalReport-SK94.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007184813/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1994/StatisticalReport-SK94.pdf|archive-date=7 October 2010|access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=[[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]] |party=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |votes=3,291 |percentage=51.83% |change={{decrease}}39.70 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Man Bahadur Subba |party=Sikkim Democratic Front |votes=2,886 |percentage=45.46% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Ashok Kumar Subba |party=Independent politician |votes=156 |percentage=2.46% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box margin of victory |votes=405 |percentage=6.38% |change= {{decrease}}77.38 }}
{{Election box turnout |votes=6,349 |percentage=83.18% |change= {{increase}}11.49 }}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors = 7,792 |ref = |change= }}
{{Election box hold with party link |winner=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |loser=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |swing= }}
{{Election box end}}
=== Assembly election 1989 ===
{{Election box begin|title= [[1989 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election]]: Soreong<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1989 to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1989/StatREp_SK_89.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006145759/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1989/StatREp_SK_89.pdf|archive-date=6 October 2010|access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=[[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]] |party=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |votes=4,712 |percentage=91.53% |change={{increase}}11.05 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Pahal Man Subba |party=Indian National Congress |votes=400 |percentage=7.77% |change={{decrease}}9.42 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Mandodra Sharma |party=Rising Sun Party |votes=36 |percentage=0.70% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box margin of victory |votes=4,312 |percentage=83.76% |change= {{increase}}20.47 }}
{{Election box turnout |votes=5,148 |percentage=71.52% |change= {{increase}}4.44 }}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors = 7,355 |ref = |change= }}
{{Election box hold with party link |winner=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |loser=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |swing= }}
{{Election box end}}
=== Assembly election 1985 ===
{{Election box begin|title= [[1985 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election]]: Soreong<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1985 to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1985/StatisticalReport%201985%20Sikkim.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006223633/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1985/StatisticalReport%201985%20Sikkim.pdf|archive-date=6 October 2010|access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=[[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]] |party=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |votes=2,964 |percentage=80.48% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Durga Lama Pradhan |party=Indian National Congress |votes=633 |percentage=17.19% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Maina Lall Rai |party=Independent politician |votes=39 |percentage=1.06% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Jit Bahadur Tamang |party=Independent politician |votes=35 |percentage=0.95% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box margin of victory |votes=2,331 |percentage=63.29% |change= {{increase}}7.41 }}
{{Election box turnout |votes=3,683 |percentage=66.70% |change= {{increase}}6.09 }}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors = 5,618 |ref = |change= {{increase}}28.06 }}
{{Election box gain with party link |winner=Sikkim Sangram Parishad |loser=Sikkim Janata Parishad |swing= {{increase}}10.22 }}
{{Election box end}}
=== Assembly election 1979 ===
{{Election box begin|title= [[1979 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election]]: Soreong<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1979 to the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1979/Statistical%20Report%201979%20Sikkim.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006104054/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1979/Statistical%20Report%201979%20Sikkim.pdf|archive-date=6 October 2010|access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=[[Nar Bahadur Bhandari]] |party=Sikkim Janata Parishad |votes=1,833 |percentage=70.26% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Kuldip Gurung |party=Sikkim Congress (Revolutionary) |votes=375 |percentage=14.37% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Ful Maya Limbuni |party=Independent politician |votes=140 |percentage=5.37% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Bharta Singh |party=Sikkim Prajatantra Congress |votes=94 |percentage=3.60% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Pensum Targain |party=Janata Party |votes=92 |percentage=3.53% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Chndra Bahadur Tamang |party=Independent politician |votes=57 |percentage=2.18% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link| |candidate=Tara Limbu |party=Independent politician |votes=18 |percentage=0.69% |change= ''New''}}
{{Election box margin of victory |votes=1,458 |percentage=55.88% |change= }}
{{Election box turnout |votes=2,609 |percentage=62.00% |change= }}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors = 4,387 |ref = |change= }}
{{Election box new seat win |winner=Sikkim Janata Parishad |loser= |swing= }}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Assembly constituencies of Sikkim}}

[[Category:Former assembly constituencies of Sikkim]]
[[Category:Politics of Sikkim]]
[[Category:Constituencies established in 1979]]
[[Category:1979 establishments in Sikkim]]
[[Category:Constituencies disestablished in 2008]]
[[Category:2008 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1979]]

Mundawar Assembly constituency

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{{short description|Legislative Assembly constituency in Rajasthan State, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Mundawar
| map_image = Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan-61-Mundawar.svg
| mla = [[Lalit Yadav (politician)|Lalit Yadav]]
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| latest_election_year = [[2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election|2023]]
| state = [[Rajasthan]]
| district = [[Alwar district|Alwar]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Alwar Lok Sabha constituency|Alwar]]
| established = 1951
| reservation = None
| electors = {{formatnum:241615}}<ref name=election2023/>{{update after|2029|1}}
| type = SLA
| constituency_no = 61
}}
'''Mundawar Assembly constituency''' is one of the 200 [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]] constituencies of [[Rajasthan]] state in [[India]].<ref name=delimitation2008>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3931-delimitation-of-parliamentary-assembly-constituencies-order-2008/ |title=Delimitation of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies Order - 2008 |website=Election Commission of India |date=26 November 2008 |accessdate= 12 February 2021}}</ref><ref name=ceomap>{{cite web |url=https://ceorajasthan.nic.in/map/RAJASTHAN_ACS_MAP/RAJASTHAN_ACS_MAP.pdf |title=New Assembly Constituencies |website=ceorajasthan.nic.in |date=25 January 2006| access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>

It is part of [[Alwar district|Alwar]] district.

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Member
!colspan="2"|Party
|-
|1951
|[[Ghasi Ram Yadav]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=4}}
|-
|1962<ref name=election1962>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3380-rajasthan-1962/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1962 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=8 January 2024 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|rowspan=2|Hari Prasad
|-
|1967<ref name=election1967>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3382-rajasthan-1967/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1967 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=14 January 2022 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|-
|1972
|Ram Singh<ref name=election1972>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3383-rajasthan-1972/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1972 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=14 January 2022 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|-
|1977
|Hira Lal
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
|1980
|[[Ghasi Ram Yadav]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|1985
|Mahendra Shastri
|{{Full party name with color|Lokdal}}
|-
|1990<ref name=election1990>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3392-rajasthan-1990/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1990 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=14 January 2022 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|rowspan=2|[[Ghasi Ram Yadav]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|1993<ref name=election1993>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3394-rajasthan-1993/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1993 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=14 January 2022 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|-
|1998
|[[Jaswant Singh Yadav]]<ref name=election1998>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3400-rajasthan-1998/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1998 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=14 January 2022 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|-
|2000★
|rowspan=2|[[Dharam Pal Choudhary]]
|-
|2003<ref name=election2003>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3403-rajasthan-2003/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 2003 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=14 January 2022 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|-
|2008
|Major O. P. Yadav<ref name=election2008>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3407-rajasthan-2008/|title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 2008 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=22 December 2021 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|2013
|[[Dharam Pal Choudhary]]<ref name=election2013>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3411-rajasthan-2013/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 2013 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=30 September 2021 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election|2018]]
| [[Manjeet Dharampal Choudhary]]<ref name=election2018/>
|-
|[[2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election|2023]]
|[[Lalit Yadav (politician)|Lalit Yadav]]<ref name=election2023>{{cite web |url=https://www.eci.gov.in/eci-backend/public/all_files/full-statistical-reports/rajasthan/2023/Detailed_Results.pdf |title=State Election,2023 to the legislative assembly of Rajasthan |website=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date= 12 February 2021 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|}
★By election

== Election results ==
=== 2023 ===
{{Election box begin
|title = [[2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election]]: Mundawar<ref name="election2023"/>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Lalit Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:105735}}
|percentage = 57.83
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Manjeet Dharampal Choudhary
|votes = {{formatnum:70111}}
|percentage = 38.35
|change = -7.13
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)
|candidate = Anjali Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:2986}}
|percentage = 1.63
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:744}}
|percentage = 0.41
|change = +0.16
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:35624}}
|percentage = 19.48
|change = +8.54
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:182838}}
|percentage = 75.67
|change = +1.96
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|loser = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2018 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election2018]]: Mundawar<ref name=election2018>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/9645-statistical-data-of-rajasthan-la-2018/ |title=Statistical Data of Rajasthan LA 2018 |website=Election Commission of India |date= |accessdate= 12 February 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Manjeet Dharampal Choudhary]]
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = {{formatnum:73191}}
|percentage = 45.48
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Lalit Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:55589}}
|percentage = 34.54
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Loktantrik Janta Dal
|candidate = Bharat Yadav
|votes = {{formatnum:21852}}
|percentage = 13.58
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Rohitash
|votes = {{formatnum:1608}}
|percentage = 1.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|votes = {{formatnum:400}}
|percentage = 0.25
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = {{formatnum:17602}}
|percentage = 10.94
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = {{formatnum:160918}}
|percentage = 73.71
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==See also==
* [[List of constituencies of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Alwar district]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan}}
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[[Category:Alwar district]]
[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Politics of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in Rajasthan]]

Krishnadas Shama Goa State Central Library

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'''Krishnadas Shama Goa State Central Library''' is the main library in the State of Goa, India. It is located in Panjim (Panaji) and its website claims that it is the first public library to be set up across India, in the early 1830s.

==Oldest in India==

According to its official site, it is "the oldest Public Library in India," having been inaugurated on 15 September 1832 by the Portuguese [[Viceroy]] of Goa, Dom Manuel de Portugal e Castro. It was known then as the ''Publica Livraria'' of the ''Academia Militar de Goa'' (Military Training Institute). In 1834, the Portuguese government ordered the "suppression" of certain religious orders. The book collections of various convents belonging to these religious orders were transferred to the library, augmenting the repository considerably. In 1836, the name was changed to ''Bibliotheca Pública'' and it was thrown open to the public.

In 1836 itself, the library was shifted to premises where the Municipal proceedings were held. In 1870, it was named as the ''Biblotheca Publica da Nova Goa.''<ref name="Archana">Kakodkar, Dr. Archana A., 'Public Library Movement in Goa' in Public Libraries of the 21st Century. Ed. Carlos Fernandes et al. Goa: Directorate of Arts & Culture, 2010</ref> In February 1897, the library was raised to the status of a National Library and renamed as ''Bibliotheca Nacional de Nova Goa.'' Later it was renamed as the ''Bibliotheca National Vasco da Gama''.<ref name="Archana" />

By a decree dated 18 March 1956, the Privilege of Deposited Legal was made applicable to this library, making it entitled to receive, free of cost, copies of all publications from Portugal and her overseas colonies.<ref name="Archana" /> After functioning as an annex of the institute, it was open for about 35 years. Kakodkar says that from September 1959, the library was put under the direct administrative control of the Services de Instruccao e Saude (Education and Health Services).<ref name="Archana" />

In the past, the library's collection consisted mainly of books in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Latin]], [[English language|English]].<ref name="Archana" /> A catalogue of the library was printed in 1907. Later, a card catalogue of the author, title and [[cross-reference]] were prepared.

==From Portugal, overseas "provinces"==

In March 1925 it became part of the [[Instituto Vasco da Gama]], an academic-cultural institution, and was renamed as the ''Biblioteca Nacional Vasco da Gama''. By Decree Law 38684 of 18 March 1952, the ''Deposito Legal'' (Delivery Act) was made applicable to this library, according to its official website.

Resultantly, the library received all publications from Portugal and her overseas Provinces. From September 1959, the ''Bibliotheca'' was separated from the Institute and placed under the administrative control of ''Servicos de Instruccao e Saude'' (Education and Health Services) and renamed as ''Biblioteca Nacional de Goa''.

On the completion of its 175th year, a first-day postal cover was released by the Government of India's Department of Posts.<ref name="Archana" />

After the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961, the library was renamed as the Central Library, and its activities expanded with lending, reference and special services for children.<ref name="Archana" /> It build up its collection in English, Marathi, Hindi, Konkani and languages like Bengali and [[Urdu]].

Its local history and rare book collection today includes titles from the 16th and 17th centuries, manuscripts and imprints, books on the history and culture of Goa, including Indo-Portuguese history, bound volumes of local journals and newspapers and books received under the [[Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867]].<ref name="Archana" />

Under the Government of India's Registration of Books Act, 1956, the Central Library is the copyright library of Goa and the publisher of every book published in Goa must send three copies of the same to this library. The Central Library compiles and publishes its annual bibliography of Goa-published books in the ''Official Gazette'' of Goa.<ref name="Archana" />

Today, the Central Library is the State apex public library. It has under the control of its Directorate of Arts & Culture some seven taluka (sub-district) libraries, besides 121 government village libraries, panchayat and non-government organisation-run libraries currently functioning in Goa.<ref name="Archana" />

==Collection==

Its pre-1961 (Portuguese Goa) collection consists mainly of books and journals in Portuguese, French, Latin, English and a few books in local languages like Konkani and Marathi. Some 40,000 volumes date back to the pre-1961 era.

Among other valuable texts, the Library holds incomplete collections of nineteenth and early twentieth century newspapers in Marathi, Konkani, English and Portuguese, published from Goa and from Bombay. Many of these are in a state of advanced disrepair.

The library used to be the repository institution for Mozambique, and for other Portuguese colonies in Africa until the 18th century. There are educational reports and other official publications regarding Africa in the library. A professional catalogue for these collections can be accessed from the website of the [[University of Aveiro]], Portugal under the collection Memorias de Africa.

According to the Citizen's Charter<ref name="charter">{{Cite web |url=http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/ArtCultureCharter.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=25 December 2012 |archive-date=5 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605072312/http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/ArtCultureCharter.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> of the [http://www.artandculture.goa.gov.in/ Directorate of Arts and Culture], "The State Central library is one of the oldest library in India is open for all readers irrespective of class, creed or nationality. The collection is available for reference in [the] Rare and Goan History Section and Reference Section ... the Lending Section... the Newspaper and Magazine Section..."

The State Central Library has a more than 180,000 book collection,<ref name="charter" /> in different languages like English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Portuguese, since 1832. About 15,00,000 pages of rare books, official gazettes and newspapers are available in electronic format (microfilm Form). State Central Library acts a depository library under Press and Registration Books Act, 1867 and Delivery of Books Act, 1954 wherein the entire published book in the State should be deposited in the library for national posterity.

Reference sources like general and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, Who's Who directories, biographical dictionaries, gazetteers, atlases, travel guides and various other reference sources are available for users.<ref name="charter" /> Books for competitive examinations and valuable books on different subjects also form the part of this collection. Students and research scholars also utilise the library.

==Location==

[[File:Central Library, Panjim 2011 (Krishnadas Shama Library).JPG|360px|right|thumb|Participants join in a workshop on book publishing at the Central Library, Panjim.]]The library was first housed in the first floor of the Police Building in Panjim (Panaji), Goa's state capital. Since 2011, the library has shifted to its new premises in the Pato locality of Panjim, near the main bus stand. It is housed in a spacious, six-floor building designed by award-winning architect [[Gerard da Cunha]].

News reports in April 2011 quoted officials of the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) as saying that the Rs 32 crore (Rs 320 million) project comprises six floors and covers an area of 13,369 square metres.

==Facilities==

Media reports have projected that the library "will have" over half a million books—over twice the previous number of the smaller library which was located in the heart of town—besides access to 200 magazines and 20 newspapers. Also promised (prior to the launch of the library) were full-automation in lending and receiving books using the [http://libsys.co.in/ LIBSYS software for library automation] (LIBSYS allows for acquisitions or purchase of books; cataloguing and organising documents; serial control for periodicals; circulation including membership records and books issue and return; and article indexing to create a database of articles published in journals).

A special, user-friendly section has also been set up for children (on the second floor), a braille section for visually-challenged readers, an internet section. Officials were quoted saying that plans include "a facility for microfilming and a book preservation laboratory ... (among) the 27 sections that comprise the new centrally air-conditioned state library."

The ex-curator of the central library Carlos Fernandes said that the LIBSYS system is a library-management software that will connect all government libraries in Goa to the central library in Panaji. You can log on to the library website from home and check whether it has a particular book and whether that book is present in the library shelf or out on circulation.

==Timings==

The library is open on all seven days of the week, including weekends, but is closed on public holidays only. It is also kept open during the lunch break, and its working hours are from 9.30 am to 5:30 pm, though it closes a little earlier on the weekends. Saturdays and Sundays the library remains open from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.

==Other roles==

Maria Pia de Menezes Rodrigues<ref name="MariaPia">Menezes Rodrigues, Maria Pia de, 'Public Library Services in Goa: Challenges for the 21st Century' in Public Libraries of the 21st Century. Ed. Carlos Fernandes et al. Goa: Directorate of Arts & Culture, 2010</ref> says the Central Library offers lending, reading and reference facilities, the first being available only to registered members. Students from Goa and the rest of India make "extensive use of the collection", according to Rodrigues. Research facilities are available to scholars from India and abroad, specially those working on topics related to [[Goa]] and [[Indo-Portuguese]] [[history]]. The library has taken part in organising [[World Book Day]], [[Librarian's Day]], [[National Book Week]] and the like. Inter-library loan services have been extended to prisons, government and non-government organisations, she says.<ref name="MariaPia" />

==The Book in Goa==

According to Dr. Archana A. Kakodkar<ref name="Archana" /> the ''Carreira da India'', or round-voyage between Portugal and India, brought books from Lisbon, Africa and Brazil and other Portuguese colonies – in a two-way traffic – in bundles and boxes as cargoes on the ships.

==Membership of the library==

Being a public library, funded by the State, it is open to all, and everyone is allowed to use its facilities. Home-lending however requires membership of the library, which currently costs between Rs 200 to 750 (lifetime deposit, no annual fee). To sign-up as a member, which is a speedy process normally done within half an hour, one requires to produce one or two passport sized photographs, and also a local proof of residence (which contains your name, address and photograph – such as a driving licence, passport, [[Aadhaar]] card, etc.).

The requirements for membership (adult) are as follows:

* One self photograph, in passport-size.
* A photo identity card showing the applicant's residential address. (Aadhaar Card, social security card, passport, driving license, a residence certificate issued by the competent authority, an office identity, a college identity card, a bank passport carrying a photo and address are eligible to be used for this purpose.)

For children (below 10 years) the membership requirement is as follows:

* Two passport-sized photographs.
* A school identity card, or Aadhar Card or passport.

Following are the fees of the library, according to information displayed at the library:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Deposit fees (refundable) !! Category !! Borrowing facility permitted
|-
| Rs 50 || Children (below 10 years) || 1 book + 1 magazine
|-
| Rs 200 || AC-1 || 1 book + 1 magazine
|-
|-
| Rs 450 || AC-2 || 2 books + 2 magazines
|-
|-
| Rs 750 || AC-3 || 3 books + 3 magazines
|}

==Administration today==

The State Central Library Goa is currently under the administrative control of Government of Goa's Directorate of Art & Culture. The Curator is the Head of State Central Library, and its current Curator is Sulaksha Kolmule.

==Layout of the library==

The table below depicts the location of various resources in the library:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Floor !! Facility available
|-
| First || Membership Counter. Newspaper/Periodical Section. Braille Section. Book Issue/Return Counter. Self Check-In/Check-Out Kiosk. Books Drop Box.
|-
| Second || Children's Section. Maps/Globes Section. Kids Audio Visual Hall. Internet Browsing Section. ADMINISTRATIVE WING: Lecture Halls. Gymnasium. Study Room. Delivery of Book Act Section.
|-
| Third || Circulation Section/Book Stack. ADMINISTRATIVE WING: RRRLF Section. Technical Section. Establishment & Accounts Section. Conference Hall. Chamber of the Curator. Research Cubicles.
|-
| Fourth || Rare and Goan History Book Section. Manuscript Section. Old Newspaper/Magazine Section. Microfilm Browsing Section. Data Imaging Centre. Fumigation Section. Conservation Laboratory.
|-
| Fifth || Reference Section. Reading Terrace. Laptop Cubicles.
|-
| Sixth || Portuguese Section.
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery class="center" caption="Krishnadas Shama State Central Library Goa" widths="150px" heights="150px">
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 23.JPG|Visitors to the library.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 22.JPG|Braille section.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 21.JPG|Visiting the library.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 20.JPG|A book lift.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 19.JPG|A tour of the library.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 18.JPG|Attracing guests from near and far.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 17.JPG|Old-time books.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 16.JPG|Portuguese-time newspapers.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 15.JPG|Hand-written version of Krista Purana.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 14.JPG|Newspapers, old and not so old.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 13.JPG|Vol 1 Issue 1 of Goa's oldest newspaper. ''[[O Heraldo]]''. Circa 1900. Kept at the library.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 12.JPG|Rare Portuguese books.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 11.JPG|Four-and-half centuries old book.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 10.JPG|Readers at the library.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 09.JPG|Children at the library.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 08.JPG|Four-and-half centuries book.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 07.JPG|Krista Purana.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 06.JPG|Restoration and preservation.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 05.JPG|Full-page scanning facilities, broadsheets newspapers can be digitised here.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 04.JPG|Architect Gerard da Cunha, whose team designed the library.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 03.JPG|Young readers. Dutch scholar and journalist Nigel Britto.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 02.JPG|New arrivals.
File:State Central Library, Goa Dec 27, 2012 01.JPG|The canteen.
File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 10.JPG|Children's section on the second floor.
File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 08.JPG|Reading gallery, overlooking capital Panjim (Panaji).
File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 09.JPG|The magazine section, which is widely popular.
File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 07.JPG|The library's oldest book, some five centuries old.
File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 11.JPG|Auditorium and lecture-room
File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 04.JPG|Goa, Portugal newspapers.
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File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 02.JPG|Curator Carlos Fernandes (left) shows valuable collections to visitors during [[PubNext]]2012.
File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 05.JPG|Holdings of the library. Seen on one of the six floors.
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File:Central Library, Panjim (Panaji), Goa, India 03.JPG|Visitors take a closer look at some of the earliest European-printed books in India.
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==References==

* ''Public Libraries of the 21st Century''. Panjim/Panaji, Directorate of Arts & Culture, Government of Goa, 2010, p. 59-74

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Nunakkuzhi

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{{short description|Indian crime comedy film}}
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{{Infobox film
| image = Nunakkuzhi.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Jeethu Joseph]]
| writer = K. R. Krishna Kumar
| producer = {{ubl|Siddharth Anand Kumar|Vikram Mehra|Rohandeep Singh}}
| starring = {{ubl|[[Basil Joseph]]|[[Grace Antony]]|[[Nikhila Vimal]]|[[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]]}}
| cinematography = [[Satheesh Kurup]]
| editing = V. S. Vinayak
| music = {{Unbulleted_list| '''Songs:''' | Jay Unnithan| Vishnu Shyam| '''Score:''' | Vishnu Shyam}}
| studio = [[Yoodlee Films]] [[Saregama]]
| distributor = Saregama Vintage Films
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2024|08|15|India|ref1=}}
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Malayalam]]
| gross = {{currency|23|INR}} crore<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-05 |title='Nunakkuzhi' box office collections day 21: Basil Joseph starrer collects more than Rs 23 crore |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/nunakkuzhi-box-office-collections-day-21-basil-joseph-starrer-collects-more-than-rs-23-crore/articleshow/113086488.cms |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=The Times Of India |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908114046/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/nunakkuzhi-box-office-collections-day-21-basil-joseph-starrer-collects-more-than-rs-23-crore/articleshow/113086488.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

'''''Nunakkuzhi''''' (transl. Dimple or pit of lies) is a 2024 Indian [[Malayalam]]-language [[Crime fiction|crime comedy]] film directed by [[Jeethu Joseph]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Nunakuzhi: Not a typical Jeethu Joseph film as humour is the only selling point |url=https://www.ottplay.com/review/nunakuzhi-review-jeethu-joseph-basil-joseph-grace-antony/73fb6e9093271 |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=OTTPlay |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815163913/https://www.ottplay.com/review/nunakuzhi-review-jeethu-joseph-basil-joseph-grace-antony/73fb6e9093271 |url-status=live }}</ref> The film stars [[Basil Joseph]], [[Grace Antony]], and [[Nikhila Vimal]] in the lead roles alongside [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]], [[Manoj K. Jayan]], [[Baiju Santhosh]], [[Binu Pappu]], [[Saiju Kurup]], [[Aju Varghese]] and [[Althaf Salim]] in supporting roles.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Cris |date=2024-08-15 |title=Going overboard with its element of confusion, Jeethu Joseph's Nunakuzhi is still fun |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/going-overboard-with-its-element-of-confusion-jeethu-josephs-nunakuzhi-is-still-fun |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=The News Minute |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815163913/https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/going-overboard-with-its-element-of-confusion-jeethu-josephs-nunakuzhi-is-still-fun |url-status=live }}</ref>

The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences alike and was a commercial success at the box-office.<ref name=":1" />

== Plot ==
A young, rich businessman's life is going well till his company becomes the target of a high-profile IT raid. The raid by government officials exposes a web of tax evasion and illegal activities within his organization.

== Cast ==
{{cast listing|
* [[Basil Joseph]] as Eby Zachariah Poozhikunnel
* [[Grace Antony]] as Rashmitha Ranjith
* [[Nikhila Vimal]] as Rimi, Eby's wife
* [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]] as [[Income tax in India|Income Tax]] Assistant Commissioner Balakrishnan
* [[Manoj K. Jayan]] as Actor Sundar Nath
* [[Baiju Santhosh]] as [[Circle Inspector|CI]] Abraham Tharakan
* [[Binu Pappu]] as Producer Sajan Chamakkala
* [[Aju Varghese]] as Ranjith, Rashmitha's husband
* [[Althaf Salim]] as Naveen, Balakrishnan's nephew
* [[Shyam Mohan]] as Vineeth
* [[Azees Nedumangad]] as [[Civil Police Officer|CPO]] Santhosh
* [[Saiju Kurup]] as Jayadevan
* [[Swasika]] as Maya, Sundar's wife and Jayadevan's girlfriend
* [[Lena (actress)|Lena]] as Nancy, Eby's mother
* Selvaraj as [[Civil Police Officer|CPO]] Sadanandan
* Mathew Varghese as Zachariah Poozhikunnel, Eby's father (photo archive)
* [[Dinesh Prabhakar]] as Gunda Shaji
* [[Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai]] as [[Magistrate]]
* Rajesh Paravoor as Adv. James
* [[Riyas Narmakala]] as Doctor
* Harisree Yousuf as Krishnamoorthy
* Sundarapandiyan as Gunda Anil
* Kalabhavan Jinto as a flat resident
* Soumya as Abraham's wife
* Bhasi Vaikkom as Kuriakose
* Sanaji as Kuriakose's helper
* Eldho as Rashmitha's Advocate
* Elizabeth as Nurse
* Ratheesh as Sanal, Eby's driver}}

==Release==
===Theatrical===
''Nunakkuzhi'' released in theatres on 15 August 2024.<ref name=":0" />

===Home media===
Following its theatrical performance, the film is premiered on [[ZEE5]] on 13 September 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cris |date=2024-08-15 |title=Basil Joseph, Grace Antony-starrer 'Nunakuzhi' gets an OTT release date |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2024/09/08/basil-joseph-nunakuzhi-malayalam-cinema-jeethu-nikhila-vimal-grace-antony.html |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=onmanorama |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908120137/https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2024/09/08/basil-joseph-nunakuzhi-malayalam-cinema-jeethu-nikhila-vimal-grace-antony.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
The film's music was composed by Jay Unnithan and Vishnu Shyam. The lyrics were written by [[Vinayak Sasikumar]].

{{Infobox album
| name = Nunakkuzhi
| type = soundtrack
| artist = Jay Unnithan, Vishnu Shyam
| released = {{Start date|2026|01|08}}
| genre = [[Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = {{Duration|m=42|s=56}}
| label = [[Saregama]]
}}
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| all_writing = [[Vinayak Sasikumar]]
| title1 = Hallelujah
| length1 = 3:42
| music1 = Jay Unnithan
| extra1 = Rajat Prakash, Sanu PS
| title2 = Nunakkuzhi Title Track
| length2 = 2:37
| music2 = Vishnu Shyam
| extra2 = [[Vaishnav Girish]]
| title3 = Nunakkuzhi Trailer Theme
| length3 = 2:24
| music3 = Vishnu Shyam
| extra3 = Vaishnav Girish
}}

== Reception ==
''Nunakuzhi'' received positive reviews from critics on release.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-15 |title=നുണകളാൽ പടുത്തുയർത്തിയ കൊട്ടാരത്തിൽ ചിരിപ്പൂരം, കളറാണ് ജീത്തു ജോസഫിൻ്റെ 'നുണക്കുഴി' {{!}} REVIEW |url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/reviews/jeethu-joseph-basil-movie-nunakkuzhi-review-1.9816547 |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=[[Mathrubhumi News]] |language=ml |archive-date=2024-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816013553/https://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/reviews/jeethu-joseph-basil-movie-nunakkuzhi-review-1.9816547 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-15 |title=പ്രേക്ഷകരെ ചിരിയുടെ കുഴിയിൽ വീഴ്ത്തി ജീത്തു ജോസഫ്; 'നുണക്കുഴി' റിവ്യു |url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/movies/movie-reviews/2024/08/15/nunakkuzhi-malayalam-movie-review.html |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=Manorama Online |language=ml |archive-date=2024-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816022018/https://www.manoramaonline.com/movies/movie-reviews/2024/08/15/nunakkuzhi-malayalam-movie-review.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rohit Panicker of ''[[Times Now]]'' rated the film 3.5/5 and wrote: "A Fun, Entertaining Film That Delivers As Promised"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-15 |title=Nunakkuzhui Review: A Fun, Entertaining Film That Delivers As Promised |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment-news/reviews/malayalam/nunakkuzhui-review-a-fun-entertaining-film-that-delivers-as-promised-review-112543555 |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Times Now |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815081010/https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment-news/reviews/malayalam/nunakkuzhui-review-a-fun-entertaining-film-that-delivers-as-promised-review-112543555 |url-status=live }}</ref> S. R. Praveen wrote, "On the whole, ''Nunakuzhi'' is a briskly-paced fun ride, which proves that Jeethu Joseph is adept at more than just thrillers."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Praveen |first=S. R. |date=2024-08-15 |title='Nunakuzhi' movie review: Jeethu Joseph's comic caper is a briskly paced fun ride |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/nunakuzhi-movie-review-jeethu-josephs-comic-caper-is-a-briskly-paced-fun-ride/article68528719.ece |access-date=2024-08-15 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Anandu Suresh of ''[[The Indian Express]]'' wrote, "For those who prefer only subtle situational comedy, Nunakuzhi may seem loud, over-the-top and even grating. But for those who enjoy comedy that unfolds through a chain reaction of events, eventually spiralling into complete chaos, this Jeethu Joseph film could be just what you need this week."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-15 |title=Nunakuzhi movie review: Jeethu Joseph and Basil Joseph hit a home run with this comedy of errors |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/nunakuzhi-movie-review-jeethu-joseph-and-basil-joseph-hit-a-home-run-with-this-comedy-of-errors-9515039/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=The Indian Express |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815110627/https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/nunakuzhi-movie-review-jeethu-joseph-and-basil-joseph-hit-a-home-run-with-this-comedy-of-errors-9515039/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Princy Alexander of ''[[Onmanorama]]'' wrote:"An eccentric Basil Joseph stars in a fun Jeethu Joseph film"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-15 |title=An eccentric Basil Joseph stars in a fun Jeethu Joseph film {{!}} 'Nunakuzhi' movie review {{!}} Onmanorama |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/2024/08/15/jeethu-joseph-film-nunakuzhi-basil-joseph-nikhila-vimal-grace-antony.html |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=Onmanorama |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816022456/https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/2024/08/15/jeethu-joseph-film-nunakuzhi-basil-joseph-nikhila-vimal-grace-antony.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|29274198|Nunakuzhi}}
*[https://www.zee5.com/movies/details/nunakkuzhi/0-0-1z5619087 Nunakkuzhi]
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Hell

2026-04-03T22:56:51Z

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{{Short description|Abode of the dead, in various cultures}}
{{About|the abode of the dead in various cultures and religious traditions around the world}}
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[[File:Fra Angelico 010.jpg|thumb|''The Last Judgment (detail),'' c.1431, by [[Fra Angelico]] depicting people being tormented in hell]]
In [[religion]] and [[folklore]], '''hell''' is a location or state in the [[afterlife]] in which [[soul]]s are subjected to [[punishment]] after death. Religions with a [[philosophy of history#Cyclical and linear history|linear]] [[divinity|divine]] history sometimes depict hells as [[Eternity|eternal]], such as in some versions of [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]], whereas religions with [[reincarnation]] usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between [[incarnation]]s, as is the case in the [[Indian religions]]. Religions typically locate hell in another [[Astral plane|dimension]] or under [[Earth]]'s surface. Other afterlife destinations include [[heaven]], [[paradise]], [[purgatory]], [[limbo]], and the [[underworld]].

Other religions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe an abode of the dead, the [[grave]], a neutral place that is located under the surface of Earth (for example, see [[Kur]], [[Greek underworld|Hades]], and [[Sheol]]). Such places are sometimes equated with the English word ''hell'', though a more correct translation would be "underworld" or "world of the dead". The ancient [[Ancient Mesopotamian religion|Mesopotamian]], [[Greek mythology|Greek]], [[Roman mythology|Roman]], and [[Finnic mythologies|Finnic]] religions include entrances to the underworld from the land of the living.

==Etymology==
[[File:Hel (1889) by Johannes Gehrts.jpg|thumb|''Hel'' (1889) by [[Johannes Gehrts]], depicts the Old Norse [[Hel (being)|Hel]], a goddess-like figure, in the [[Hel (location)|location of the same name]], which she oversees]]
The modern English word ''hell'' is derived from Old English ''hel'', ''helle'' (first attested around 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the [[Anglo-Saxon paganism|Anglo-Saxon pagan period]].<ref name=BARNHART348>[[Robert Barnhart|Barnhart, Robert K.]] (1995) ''The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology'', page 348. [[HarperCollins]] {{ISBN|0-06-270084-7}}</ref> The word has [[cognate]]s in all branches of the [[Germanic languages]], including Old Norse ''hel'' (which refers to both a [[Hel (location)|location]] and [[Hel (being)|goddess-like being]] in [[Norse mythology]]), [[Old Frisian]] ''helle'', [[Old Saxon]] ''hellia'', [[Old High German]] ''hella'', and [[Gothic language|Gothic]] ''halja''. All forms ultimately derive from the [[Linguistic reconstruction|reconstructed]] [[Proto-Germanic]] feminine noun *''xaljō'' or *''haljō'' ('concealed place, the underworld'). In turn, the Proto-Germanic form derives from the [[Indo-European ablaut|o-grade form]] of the [[Proto-Indo-European root]] *''kel-'', *''kol''-: 'to cover, conceal, save'.<ref name="HEL-NOUN">For discussion and analysis, see Orel (2003:156) and Watkins (2000:38).</ref> Indo-European cognates include Latin ''cēlāre'' ("to hide", related to the English word ''cellar'') and early Irish ''ceilid'' ("hides"). Upon the [[Christianisation of the Germanic peoples]], extensions of the Proto-Germanic *''xaljō'' were reinterpreted to denote the underworld in [[Christian mythology]]<ref name=BARNHART348/><ref>"hell, n. and int." ''OED Online'', Oxford University Press, January 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/85636. Accessed 7 February 2018.</ref> (see [[Gehenna]]).

Related early Germanic terms and concepts include Proto-Germanic *''xalja-rūnō(n)'', a feminine compound noun, and *''xalja-wītjan'', a neutral compound noun. This form is reconstructed from the Latinized Gothic plural noun *''haliurunnae'' (attested by [[Jordanes]]; according to philologist [[Vladimir Orel]], meaning '[[witchcraft|witches]]'), Old English ''helle-rúne'' ('sorceress, [[necromancer]]', according to Orel), and Old High German ''helli-rūna'' 'magic'. The compound is composed of two elements: *''xaljō'' (*''haljō'') and *''rūnō'', the Proto-Germanic precursor to Modern English ''[[runic alphabet|rune]]''.<ref name="HELL-RUNE">See discussion at Orel (2003:155–156 & 310).</ref> The second element in the Gothic ''haliurunnae'' may however instead be an agent noun from the verb ''rinnan'' ("to run, go"), which would make its literal meaning "one who travels to the netherworld".<ref>Scardigli, Piergiuseppe, Die Goten: Sprache und Kultur (1973) pp. 70–71.</ref><ref>Lehmann, Winfred, A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986)</ref>

Proto–Germanic *''xalja-wītjan'' (or *''halja-wītjan'') is reconstructed from Old Norse ''hel-víti'' 'hell', Old English ''helle-wíte'' 'hell-torment, hell', Old Saxon ''helli-wīti'' 'hell', and the Middle High German feminine noun ''helle-wīze''. The compound is a compound of *''xaljō'' (discussed above) and *''wītjan'' (reconstructed from forms such as Old English ''witt'' 'right mind, wits', Old Saxon ''gewit'' 'understanding', and Gothic ''un-witi'' 'foolishness, understanding').<ref name="HELVÍTI">Orel (2003:156 & 464).</ref>

== Origins ==
The idea of retribution for evil thoughts and evil deeds features almost universally in human cultural history. Accordingly, justice may be carried out post-mortem, whereby positing a place of punishment in the afterlife.<ref name=":0">Laut, J. P. (2013). Hells in Central Asian Turkic Buddhism and Early Turkic Islam. ''Tra quattro paradisi'', 19</ref> As early as 1500 BCE, the Egyptians asserted that the dead will be judged and, if found guilty, punished and tortured for their crimes.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Russell, Jeffrey Burton. ''The devil: Perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity''. Cornell University Press, 1987. p. 77, 116-119</ref> One of the oldest detailed descriptions of hell, however, are probably found in the ''[[Kathāvatthu]]'', one of the earliest Buddhist writings written around 250—100 BCE.<ref name=":3">Braavig (2009), p. 254.</ref> It argues that hell is a state as the result of a bad action,<ref>Braavig (2009), p. 260. The author describes that matricide, patricide, killing a perfected saint, wounding the Buddha with evil intent, creating schism in the [[sangha]] all lead to hell.</ref> connecting hell to the concept of the retribution for bad actions and compensation for good actions.<ref>Braavig (2009), p. 261.</ref> Such concept of hell did not require the existence of a [[God]] and does not depend on [[Deity|deities]].

Within the context of [[Zoroastrianism|Persian]] [[Dualism in cosmology|dualism]], which posits the existence of the embodiment of good and evil, hell was considered to be the abode of the principle Devil called [[Ahriman|Angra Manyu]].<ref name=":1" /> According to [[Mazdaism|Mazdaist eschatology]], the dead are not condemned to hell, but freely choose paradise or hell determined by their actions in life, which either corresponds to the values of God or the Devil. In the mythological narrative, hell is believed to be in the middle of the earth, a [[Chinvat Bridge|bridge spans]] over it, and the dead must pass over hell, but those who did evil in life will fall down. In hell, the souls are tormented by the inhabitants of hell; demons, and tortured according to their crimes and sins.<ref name=":1" /> However, their torment is not eternal, as eventually God would triumph over the Devil and his demons, destroy hell, restore cosmic order, and redeem the lost souls.<ref name=":1" />

In the [[New Testament]], part of the [[Christianity|Christian]] sacred scripture, references to hell are sparse. The [[Septuagint]] understanding of Hades is similar to the Hebrew [[Sheol]], a place for the dead to await resurrection.<ref name=":2">Russell, Jeffrey Burton. ''The devil: Perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity''. Cornell University Press, 1987. p. 240-241</ref> [[Gehenna]], on the other hand, is portrayed differently, as containing "unquenchable fire" and "worms that never die" where body and soul can be destroyed.<ref name=":2" /> As evident from [[apocrypha]], such as [[Book of Enoch|Ethiopic Book of Enoch]], the idea of the underworld and hell begin to conflate: In the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, the apostate Jews will suffer in Gehenna and for the Rabbis, it was a temporal punishment for Jews, but eternal for the [[Gentile|Gentiles]].<ref name=":2" /> Closely after the composition of the New Testament, the idea arose that the Devil is also a prisoner to hell.<ref name=":2" />

== Punishment ==
[[File:Fresque église huaro.JPG|thumb|Preserved colonial wall paintings of 1802 depicting Hell,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A6nutjzmxvkC&q=historia+colonial+de+cusco&pg=PA382|page=106|title=The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530–1830|author1=Elena Phipps|author2=Joanna Hecht|author3=Cristina Esteras Martín|year=2004|publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|location=New York|isbn=0-300-10491-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vpi5xwEACAAJ&q=SEBASTI%C3%81N+L%C3%93PEZ,+Santiago.+El+barroco+iberoamericano+1990|title=El bárroco iberoamericano. Mensaje iconográfico|year=1990|location=Madrid|page=241|publisher=Ediciones Encuentro|author=Santiago Sebastián López|isbn=978-84-7490-249-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://mavcor.yale.edu/conversations/collections/painting-beyond-frame-religious-murals-colonial-peru|title=Painting Beyond the Frame: Religious Murals of Colonial Peru|author=Ananda Cohen Suarez|date=May 2016|publisher=MAVCOR of the [[Yale University]]}}</ref> by Tadeo Escalante, inside the Church of San Juan Bautista in [[Huaro District|Huaro]], Peru]]
Punishment in hell typically corresponds to [[sin]]s committed during life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with [[Damnation#Religious|damned]] souls suffering for each sin committed, such as in Plato's [[Myth of Er]] or Dante's ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', but sometimes they are general, with condemned sinners relegated to one or more chambers of hell or to a level of suffering.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In many religious cultures, including Christianity and Islam, hell is often depicted as fiery, painful, and harsh, inflicting suffering on the guilty.<ref>Examples from the [[New Testament]] include [[Mark 9]]:43–48, [[Luke 16]]:19–24, [[Revelation 9]]:11; from the [[Quran]], [[Al-Baqara]] verse 24, and [[Al-Mulk]] verses 5–7.</ref> Despite these common depictions of hell as a place of fire, some other traditions portray hell as cold. Buddhist{{snd}}and particularly Tibetan Buddhist{{snd}}descriptions of hell feature an equal number of hot and cold hells. Among Christian descriptions [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'' portrays the innermost (9th) circle of hell as a frozen lake of blood and guilt.<ref>{{cite book
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|publisher=Penguin
|location=[[New York City|New York]]
|chapter=Cantos XXXI–XXXIV
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But cold also played a part in earlier Christian depictions of hell or purgatory, beginning with the [[Apocalypse of Paul]], originally from the early third century;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=Eileen |title=Visions of heaven and hell before Dante |date=1989 |publisher=Italica Press |isbn=978-0-934977-14-2 |page=43 |oclc=18741120 }}</ref> the "[[Vision of Dryhthelm]]" by the Venerable [[Bede]] from the seventh century;<ref>Gardiner, ''Visions,'' pp. 58 and 61.</ref> "[[St Patrick's Purgatory]]", "The Vision of Tundale" or "[[Visio Tnugdali]]", and the "Vision of the [[Adam of Eynsham|Monk of Eynsham]]", all from the twelfth century;<ref>Gardiner, ''Visions'', pp. 141, 160 and 174, and 206–7.</ref> and the "Vision of Thurkill" from the early thirteenth century.<ref>Gardiner, ''Visions'', pp. 222 and 232.</ref>

==Examples in different religions==

===Ancient Egypt===
[[File:The Weighing of the Heart.svg|thumb|In this ''[[Book of the Dead]]'' scene, a person's heart is weighed on the scale of [[Maat]] against the [[feather of truth]], by the canine-headed [[Anubis]]. [[Thoth]], [[scribe]] of the [[gods]], records the result. If his heart is lighter than the feather, the person is allowed to pass into the [[Aaru|afterlife]]. If not, he is eaten by the crocodile-headed [[Ammit]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.egyptartsite.com/hall1.html |title=Egyptian Book of the Dead |publisher=Egyptartsite.com |access-date=18 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926051942/http://www.egyptartsite.com/hall1.html |archive-date=26 September 2012 }}</ref>]]

With the rise of the cult of [[Osiris]] during the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]], the "democratization of religion" offered to even his humblest followers the prospect of eternal life, with moral fitness becoming the dominant factor in determining a person's suitability.

At death a person faced judgment by a tribunal of forty-two divine judges. If they had led a life in conformance with the precepts of the goddess [[Maat]], who represented truth and right living, the person was welcomed into the heavenly [[Aaru|reed fields]]. If found guilty the person was thrown to [[Ammit]], the "devourer of the dead" and would be condemned to the [[lake of fire]].<ref>''Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt'', Rosalie David, p. 158–159, Penguin, 2002, {{ISBN|0-14-026252-0}}</ref>

The person taken by the devourer is subject first to terrifying punishment and then annihilated. These depictions of punishment may have influenced medieval perceptions of the inferno in hell via early [[Christianity|Christian]] and [[Copt]]ic texts.<ref>''The Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology: The Oxford Guide'', "Hell", p161-162, Jacobus Van Dijk, Berkley Reference, 2003, {{ISBN|0-425-19096-X}}</ref>

Purification for those considered justified appears in the descriptions of "Flame Island", where humans experience the triumph over evil and rebirth. For the damned complete destruction into a state of non-being awaits but there is no suggestion of eternal torture; the weighing of the heart in [[Egyptian mythology]] can lead to annihilation.<ref>''The Divine Verdict'', John Gwyn Griffiths, p233, BRILL, 1991, {{ISBN|90-04-09231-5}}</ref><ref>See also letter by Prof. Griffith to ''The Independent'', 32{{clarify|date=September 2012}} December 1993 {{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-hell-in-the-ancient-world-1470076.html |title=Letter: Hell in the ancient world |website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |date=18 September 2011 |access-date=28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901184319/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-hell-in-the-ancient-world-1470076.html |archive-date=1 September 2012 }}</ref>

The Tale of Khaemwese describes the [[Dives and Lazarus|torment of a rich man]], who lacked charity, when he dies and compares it to the blessed state of a poor man who has also died.<ref>''The Civilization of Ancient Egypt'', Paul Johnson, 1978, p. 170; see also ''Ancient Egyptian Literature'', [[Miriam Lichtheim]], vol 3, p. 126</ref> Divine pardon at judgment always remained a central concern for the ancient Egyptians.<ref>"Egyptian Religion", Jan Assman, ''The Encyclopedia of Christianity'', p77, vol2, Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing, 1999, {{ISBN|90-04-11695-8}}</ref>

Modern understanding of Egyptian notions of hell relies on six ancient texts:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsEGY.html|title=Eileen Gardiner, editor; Hell-On-Line:Egyptian Hell Texts; Book of Two Ways, Book of Amduat, Book of Gates, Book of the Dead, Book of the Earth, Book of Caverns|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105010042/http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsEGY.html|archive-date=5 November 2015}}</ref>

#''The Book of Two Ways'' (''Book of the Ways of Rosetau'')
# ''The Book of Amduat'' (''Book of the Hidden Room'', ''Book of That Which Is in the Underworld'')
# ''The Book of Gates''
# ''The Book of the Dead'' (''Book of Going Forth by Day'')
# ''The Book of the Earth''
# ''The Book of Caverns''

===Ancient Mesopotamia===
{{main|Ancient Mesopotamian underworld}}
[[File:Dumuzi aux enfers.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Ancient Sumerian [[cylinder seal]] impression showing the god [[Dumuzid the Shepherd|Dumuzid]] being tortured in the [[Kur|Underworld]] by ''[[gallu|galla]]'' demons]]

The [[Sumer]]ian afterlife was a dark, dreary cavern located deep below the ground,<ref name=Choksi2014>{{cite web|last=Choksi|first=M.|date=2014|title=Ancient Mesopotamian Beliefs in the Afterlife|url=http://www.worldhistory.org/article/701/|website=World History Encyclopedia|publisher=worldhistory.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820114719/http://www.ancient.eu/article/701/|archive-date=20 August 2017}}</ref> where inhabitants were believed to continue "a shadowy version of life on earth".<ref name=Choksi2014/> This bleak domain was known as [[Kur]],<ref name=Black1992>{{cite book|last1=Black|first1=Jeremy|first2=Anthony|last2=Green|title=Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary|publisher=The British Museum Press|year=1992|isbn= 978-0-7141-1705-8}}</ref>{{rp|114}} and was believed to be ruled by the goddess [[Ereshkigal]].<ref name=Choksi2014/><ref name="Nemet1998">{{citation |last=Nemet-Nejat |first=Karen Rhea |title=Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia |date=1998 |url=https://archive.org/details/dailylifeinancie00neme |publisher=Greenwood |isbn=978-0-313-29497-6 |author-link=}}</ref>{{rp|184}} All souls went to the same afterlife,<ref name=Choksi2014/> and a person's actions during life had no effect on how the person would be treated in the world to come.<ref name=Choksi2014/>

The souls in Kur were believed to eat nothing but dry [[dust]]<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|58}} and family members of the deceased would ritually pour [[libation]]s into the dead person's grave through a clay pipe, thereby allowing the dead to drink.<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|58}} Nonetheless, funerary evidence indicates that some people believed that the goddess [[Inanna]], Ereshkigal's younger sister, had the power to award her devotees with special favors in the afterlife.<ref name=Choksi2014/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barrett |first1=Caitlín |title=Was Dust Their Food and Clay Their Bread? Grave Goods, the Mesopotamian Afterlife, and the Liminal Role of Inana/Ishtar |journal=Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions |date=2007 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=7–65 |doi=10.1163/156921207781375123 |s2cid=55116377 | issn=1569-2116 }}</ref> During the [[Third Dynasty of Ur]], it was believed that a person's treatment in the afterlife depended on how he or she was buried;<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|58}} those that had been given sumptuous burials would be treated well,<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|58}} but those who had been given poor burials would fare poorly.<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|58}}

The entrance to Kur was believed to be located in the [[Zagros Mountains]] in the far east.<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|114}} It had seven gates, through which a soul needed to pass.<ref name=Choksi2014/> The god [[Neti (deity)|Neti]] was the gatekeeper.<ref name=Nemet1998/>{{rp|184}}<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|86}} ''[[Gallu|Galla]]'' were a class of demons that were believed to reside in the underworld;<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|85}} their primary purpose appears to have been to drag unfortunate mortals back to Kur.<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|85}} They are frequently referenced in magical texts,<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|85–86}} and some texts describe them as being seven in number.<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|85–86}} Several extant poems describe the ''galla'' dragging the god [[Dumuzid the Shepherd|Dumuzid]] into the underworld.<ref name=Black1992/>{{rp|86}} The later Mesopotamians knew this underworld by its [[East Semitic]] name: [[Irkalla]]. During the [[Akkadian Empire|Akkadian Period]], Ereshkigal's role as the ruler of the underworld was assigned to [[Nergal]], the god of death.<ref name=Choksi2014/><ref name=Nemet1998/>{{rp|184}} The Akkadians attempted to harmonize this dual rulership of the underworld by making Nergal Ereshkigal's husband.<ref name=Choksi2014/>

===Ancient Greece and Rome===
{{Main|Tartarus}}
In classic [[Greek mythology]], below heaven, Earth, and [[Pontus (mythology)|Pontus]] is [[Tartarus]], or ''Tartaros'' ({{langx|grc|Τάρταρος}}). It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit or abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades (the entire [[Greek underworld|underworld]]) with Tartarus being the hellish component. In the ''[[Gorgias (dialogue)|Gorgias]]'', [[Plato]] (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls of the deceased were judged after they [[Charon|paid for crossing the river of the dead]] and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.<ref name="gorgias-sokrates">Plato, ''Gorgias'', 523a-527e.</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} As a place of punishment, it can be considered a hell. The classic [[Greek underworld|Hades]], on the other hand, is more similar to Old Testament Sheol. The Romans later [[Interpretatio graeca|adopted these views]].

===East Africa===
The hell of [[Swahili people|Swahili]] mythology is called ''kuzimu'', and belief in it developed in the 7th and 8th century under the influence of Muslim merchants at the [[East Africa]]n coast.<ref name="kuzimu">{{cite book|last1=Crisafulli|first1=Chuck|last2=Thompson|first2=Kyra|title=Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld|date=2010|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-0473-3|page=75|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-SHq2vPd-4C&pg=PA75|access-date=5 August 2015}}</ref> It is imagined as very cold.<ref name="kuzimu" />

===West Africa===
[[Serer religion]] rejects the general notion of [[heaven]] and hell.<ref name="Thiaw">{{in lang|fr}} [[Issa Laye Thiaw|Thiaw, Issa Laye]], "La religiosité des [[Serer people|Seereer]], avant et pendant leur islamisation", [in] ''Éthiopiques'', no. 54, volume 7, 2e semestre 1991</ref> In Serer religion, acceptance by the ancestors who have long departed is as close to any heaven as one can get. Rejection and becoming a wandering soul is a sort of hell for one [[Death|passing over]]. The souls of the dead must make their way to ''Jaaniw'' (the sacred dwelling place of the soul). Only those who have lived their lives on earth in accordance with [[Serer religion#Religious law|Serer doctrines]] will be able to make this necessary journey and thus be accepted by the ancestors. Those who cannot make the journey become lost and wandering souls, but they do not burn in "hell fire".<ref name="Thiaw"/><ref>{{in lang|fr}} [[Henry Gravrand|Gravrand, Henry]], "La civilisation sereer, vol. II: ''Pangool'', Nouvelles éditions africaines, [[Dakar]], 1990, pp 91–128, {{ISBN|2-7236-1055-1}} (''Jaaniw'', variation: ''"Jaaniiw"'')</ref>

In [[Yoruba religion]], irredeemably wicked people (guilty of e.g. theft, witchcraft, murder, or cruelty<ref>Asante, M. K.; Mazama, A.: Encyclopedia of African religion, vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. 2009, p. 238, {{ISBN|978-1-4129-3636-1}}.</ref>) are confined to ''[[Ọrun|Ọrun Apaadi]]'' (''heaven'' of clay potsherds), while the good and charitable people continue to live in the ancestral realm, ''[[Ọrun|Orun Baba Eni]]'' (''heaven'' of the fathers of humanity).<ref>Ogunade, R.: African Eschatology and the Future of the cosmos, www.unilorin.edu.ng.</ref>

===Pacific===
The [[Bagobo]] of the [[Philippines]] have the otherworld "Gimokodan", where the Red Region is reserved who those who died in battle, while ordinary people go to the White Region.<ref>pantheon.org/articles/g/gimokodan.html, Gimokodan, [[Encyclopedia Mythica]], 10 August 2004.</ref>

===East Asia===
According to a few sources, hell is below ground, and described as an uninviting wet<ref>{{cite book|author=Carl Etter|title=Ainu Folklore: Traditions and Culture of the Vanishing Aborigines of Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-o8OAQAAIAAJ|year=1949|publisher=Wilcox & Follett Company|page=150}}</ref> or fiery place reserved for sinful people in the [[Ainu people#Religion|Ainu religion]], as stated by missionary [[John Batchelor (missionary)|John Batchelor]].<ref>John Batchelor: [https://archive.org/details/ainutheirfolklor00batcrich/page/570/mode/2up ''The Ainu and Their Folk-Lore''], London 1901, p. 567-569.</ref> However, belief in hell does not appear in [[oral tradition]] of the Ainu.<ref name="yamada">Takako Yamada: ''The Worldview of the Ainu. Nature and Cosmos Reading from Language'', p. 25–37, p. 123.</ref> Instead, there is belief within the Ainu religion that the soul of the deceased (ramat) would become a [[kamuy]] after death.<ref name="yamada" /> There is also belief that the soul of someone who has been wicked during lifetime, committed [[Suicide#Religious views|suicide]], got murdered or died in great agony would become a [[ghost]] (tukap) who would haunt the living,<ref name="yamada" /> to come to fulfillment from which it was excluded during life.<ref name="adami">Norbert Richard Adami: ''Religion und Schaminismus der Ainu auf Sachalin (Karafuto)'', Bonn 1989, p. 45.</ref>

===Judaism===
{{See also|Gehenna|Qlippoth|Sheol}}
[[Judaism]] does not have a specific doctrine about the afterlife, but it does have a mystical/Orthodox tradition of describing [[Gehinnom]]. Gehinnom is originally a grave and in later times a sort of Purgatory where one is judged based on one's life's deeds, or rather, where one becomes fully aware of one's own shortcomings and negative actions during one's life. The [[Kabbalah]] explains it as a "waiting room" (commonly translated as an "entry way") for all souls (not just the wicked). The overwhelming majority of rabbinic thought maintains that people are not in Gehinnom forever; the longest that one can be there is said to be 12 months, however, there has been the occasional noted exception. Some consider it a spiritual forge where the soul is purified for its eventual ascent to [[Jewish eschatology#World to come|Olam Habah]] (''heb.'' עולם הבא; ''lit.'' "The world to come", often viewed as analogous to heaven). This is also mentioned in the Kabbalah, where the soul is described as breaking, like the flame of a candle lighting another: the part of the soul that ascends being pure and the "unfinished" piece being reborn.

According to Jewish teachings, hell is not entirely physical; rather, it can be compared to a very intense feeling of shame. People are ashamed of their misdeeds and this constitutes suffering which makes up for the bad deeds. When one has so deviated from the will of [[God in Judaism|God]], one is said to be in Gehinnom. This is not meant to refer to some point in the future, but to the very present moment. The gates of [[teshuva]] (return) are said to be always open, and so one can align his will with that of God at any moment. Being out of alignment with God's will is itself a punishment according to the [[Torah]].

Many scholars of Jewish mysticism, particularly of the [[Kabbalah]], describe seven "compartments" or "habitations" of hell, just as they describe seven divisions of heaven. These divisions go by many different names, and the most frequently mentioned are as follows:<ref>(edit.) Boustan, Ra'anan S. Reed, Annette Yoshiko. ''Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions''. Cambridge University Press, 2004.</ref>

*'''[[Sheol]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: שְׁאוֹל – "[[underworld]]", "[[Hades]]"; "grave")
*'''[[Abaddon]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: אֲבַדּוֹן – "doom", "perdition")
*'''Be'er Shachat''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: בְּאֵר שַׁחַת, ''Be'er Shachath'' – "pit of corruption")
*'''Tit ha-Yaven''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: טִיט הַיָוֵן – "clinging mud")
*'''Sha'are Mavet''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: שַׁעֲרֵי מָוֶת, ''Sha'arei Maveth'' – "gates of death")
*'''[[Shade (mythology)|Tzalmavet]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: צַלמָוֶת, ''Tsalmaveth'' – "shadow of death")
*'''[[Gehenna|Gehinnom]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: גֵיהִנוֹם, ''Gehinnom'' – "valley of [[Hinnom]]"; "[[Tartarus]]", "[[Purgatory]]")

Besides those mentioned above, there also exist additional terms that have been often used to either refer to hell in general or to some region of the underworld:

*'''[[Azazel]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: עֲזָאזֵל, compd. of ''ez'' עֵז: "goat" + ''azal'' אָזַל: "to go away" – "goat of departure", "scapegoat"; "entire removal", "damnation")
*'''[[Dudael]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: דּוּדָאֵל – lit. "cauldron of God")
*'''[[Tehom]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: תְהוֹם – "[[Abyss (religion)|abyss]]"; "sea", "deep ocean")<ref>Palmer, Abram Smythe. ''Studies on Biblical Studies, No. I.'' "Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs: "Tĕhôm and Tiâmat", "Hades and Satan" – A Comparative Study of Genesis I. 2" London, 1897; pg. 53.</ref>
*'''[[Tophet]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: תֹּפֶת or תוֹפֶת, ''Topheth'' – "fire-place", "place of burning", "place to be spit upon"; "inferno")<ref>Rev. Clarence Larkin. ''The Spirit World''. "Chapter VI: The Underworld". Philadelphia, PA. 1921. Moyer & Lotter</ref><ref>Wright, Charles Henry Hamilton. ''The Fatherhood of God: And Its Relation to the Person and Work of Christ, and the Operations of the Holy Spirit''. Edinburgh, Scotland. 1867. T. and T. Clark; pg. 88.</ref>
*'''[[Tzoah Rotachat]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: צוֹאָה רוֹתֵחַת, ''Tsoah Rothachath'' – "boiling excrement")<ref>Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey. ''What is of Faith as to Everlasting Punishment: In Reply to Dr. Farrar's Challenge in His ʻEternal Hope,' 1879''. James Parker & Co., 1881; pg. 102, spelled "zoa rothachath".</ref>
*'''[[Destroying angel (Bible)|Mashchit]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: מַשְׁחִית, ''Mashchith'' – "destruction", "ruin")
*'''[[Dumah (angel)|Dumah]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: דוּמָה – "silence")
*'''Neshiyyah''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: נְשִׁיָּה – "oblivion", "[[Limbo]]")
*'''Bor Shaon''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: בּוֹר שָׁאוֹן – "cistern of sound")
*'''Eretz Tachtit''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּית, ''Erets Tachtith'' – "lowest earth").<ref>Mew, James. ''Traditional Aspects of Hell: (Ancient and Modern)''. S. Sonnenschein & Company Lim., 1903.</ref><ref>Rev. A. Lowy. ''Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Volume 10'', "Old Jewish Legends of Biblical Topics: Legendary Description of Hell". 1888. pg. 339</ref>
*'''Masak Mavdil''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: מָסָך מַבְדִּ֔יל, ''Masak Mabdil'' – "dividing curtain")
*'''Haguel''' ([[Ge'ez language|Ethiopic]]: ሀጉለ – "(place of) destruction", "loss", "waste")<ref>Charles, Robert Henry. ''The Ascension of Isaiah''. London. A. & C. Black, 1900. pg. 70.; synonymous with Abaddon, Sheol and Gehinnom in the sense of being the final abode of the damned.</ref>
*'''[[Ikisat]]''' ([[Ge'ez language|Ethiopic]]: አክይስት – "serpents", "[[dragon]]s"; "place of future punishment")<ref>Sola, David Aaron. ''Signification of the Proper Names, Etc., Occurring in the Book of Enoch: From the Hebrew and Chaldee Languages'' London, 1852.</ref><ref>Rev. X.Y.Z. ''Merry England, Volume 22'', "The Story of a Conversion" 1894. pg. 151</ref>

[[Maimonides]] declares in [[Jewish principles of faith#Maimonides' 13 principles of faith|his 13 principles of faith]] that the hells of the rabbinic literature were pedagogically motivated inventions to encourage respect of the [[Torah]] commandments by mankind, which had been regarded as immature.<ref name="perek-helek-d">Maimonides' Introduction to Perek Helek, ed. and transl. by [[Maimonides Heritage Center]], p. 3–4.</ref> Instead of being sent to hell, the souls of the wicked would actually get annihilated.<ref name="perek-helek-c">Maimonides' Introduction to Perek Helek, ed. and transl. by [[Maimonides Heritage Center]], p. 22-23.</ref>

===Christianity===
{{Main|Hell in Christianity|Christian views on Hades}}
[[File:Harrowing of hell Christ leads Adam by the hand. On scroll in border, the motto 'Entre tenir Dieu le viuelle' (f. 125) Cropped.jpg|thumb|''[[Harrowing of Hell]]''. Christ leads Adam by the hand, c.1504]]
The Christian doctrine of hell derives from passages in the [[New Testament]]. The English word ''hell'' does not appear in the Greek New Testament; instead one of three words is used: the Greek words ''Tartarus'' or ''Hades'', or the Hebrew word ''Gehinnom''.

In the [[Septuagint]] and New Testament, the authors used the Greek term Hades for the Hebrew Sheol, but often with Jewish rather than Greek concepts in mind. In the Jewish concept of Sheol, such as expressed in Ecclesiastes,<ref>Ecclesiastes 9:10 πάντα ὅσα ἂν εὕρῃ ἡ χείρ σου τοῦ ποιῆσαι ὡς ἡ δύναμίς σου ποίησον ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ποίημα καὶ λογισμὸς καὶ γνῶσις καὶ σοφία ἐν ᾅδῃ ὅπου σὺ πορεύῃ ἐκεῖ</ref> Sheol or Hades is a place where there is no activity. However, since [[Augustine]], some{{which|date=July 2019}} Christians have believed that the souls of those who die either rest peacefully, in the case of Christians, or are afflicted, in the case of the damned, after death until the [[resurrection]].<ref name="Hoekema">{{cite book|last=Hoekema|first=Anthony A|title=The Bible and the Future|year=1994|location=Grand Rapids|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans|page=92}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
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! Hebrew OT
! [[Septuagint]]
! Greek NT
! times in NT
! [[Vulgate]]
! [[KJV]]
! [[NIV]]
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|שְׁאוֹל (''Sheol'')<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7585&t=KJV|title= Lexicon :: H7585 – shĕ'owl|author= |website= Blue Letter Bible|publisher= BLB Institute|access-date= 26 February 2017|quote= 1Mos 37:35, 42:38, 44:29, 44:31|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151105180247/https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7585|archive-date= 5 November 2015|df= dmy-all}}</ref>
|Ἅιδης (''Haïdēs'')<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G86&t=KJV |title= Lexicon :: Strong's G86 – hadēs |author=  |website= Blue Letter Bible |publisher= BLB Institute |access-date= 28 January 2017 |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120415063409/http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G86 |archive-date= 15 April 2012 |df= dmy-all }}</ref>
|ᾌδης (''Ádēs'')<ref>{{LSJ|*(/aidhs|Ἅιδης|longref}}</ref>
|x10<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G86&t=KJV |title= Lexicon :: Strong's G86 – hadēs |author=  |website= Blue Letter Bible |publisher= BLB Institute |access-date= 28 January 2017 |quote= [[Mat.11:23]] 16:18 Luk.10:15. Ap.2:27,31. 1Kor 15:55.Upp.1:18 6:8 20:13,14 |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170130145825/https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G86&t=KJV |archive-date= 30 January 2017 |df= dmy-all }}</ref>
|infernus<ref>{{L&S|infernus|infernus|ref}}</ref>
|Hell
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|גֵיא בֶן־הִנֹּם (''Ge Hinom'')<ref>גֵיא בֶן־הִנֹּם [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2011&t=KJV Hinnom] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606172603/http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2011&t=KJV |date=6 June 2011 }}: Jer.19:6</ref>
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While these three terms are translated in the KJV as "hell", they have three very different meanings.
* Hades has similarities to the Old Testament term, [[Sheol]] as "the place of the dead" or "grave". Thus, it is used in reference to both the righteous and the wicked, since both wind up there eventually.<ref>{{cite book |last=Unger |first=Merrill F.|author-link=Merrill Unger |year=1981 |title='''Unger's Bible Dictionary''' |publisher=Moody Bible Institute, The |location=Chicago|page=467}}</ref>
* [[Gehenna]] refers to the "Valley of Hinnom", which was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem. It was a place that contained a dump where people burned their garbage. Bodies of those deemed to have died in sin without hope of salvation (such as people who committed suicide) were thrown there to be destroyed.<ref>''The New Schaf-Herzog Encyclopedia of religious Knowledge'', p. 415</ref> Gehenna is used in the New Testament as a metaphor for the final place of punishment for the wicked after the resurrection.<ref>The New Schaf-Herzog Encyclopedia of religious Knowledge pgs. 414–415</ref>
* ''Tartaróō'' (the verb "throw to [[Tartarus]]", used of the fall of the Titans in a [[scholia|scholium]] on [[The Iliad|Iliad]] 14.296) occurs only once in the New Testament in II Peter 2:4, where it is parallel to the use of the noun form in [[1 Enoch]] as the place of incarceration of the fallen angels. It mentions nothing about human souls being sent there in the afterlife.

According to the Roman Catholic Church, the [[Council of Trent]] taught, in the 5th canon of its 14th session, that damnation is eternal: "...the loss of eternal blessedness, and the eternal damnation which he has incurred..."<ref>[http://www.thecounciloftrent.com/ch14.htm Council of Trent, Session 14, Canon 5]</ref>

The [[Catholic Church]] defines hell as "a state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed". One finds oneself in hell as the result of dying in [[mortal sin]] without repenting and accepting God's merciful love, becoming eternally separated from him by one's own free choice<ref>''Catechism of the Catholic Church'', Article 1033</ref> immediately after death.<ref>''Catechism of the Catholic Church'', Article 1035</ref> In the Roman Catholic Church, many other Christian churches, such as the [[Methodism|Methodists]], [[Baptists]] and [[Episcopalians]], and some [[Greek Orthodox]] churches,<ref>See Kallistos Ware, "Dare we hope for the salvation of all?" in ''The Inner Kingdom: Volume 1 of the Collected Works''</ref> hell is taught as the final destiny of those who have not been found worthy after the [[general resurrection]] and [[last judgment]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+20:11-15|title=Revelation 20:11–15|website=Bible Gateway|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203142225/http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+20:11-15|archive-date=3 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+6:23|title=Romans 6:23|website=Bible Gateway|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602120139/http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6:23|archive-date=2 June 2008}}</ref><ref>Mt 25:31, 32, 46</ref> where they will permanently separated from God.<ref name="EMCC2017">{{cite book |title=Evangelical Methodist Church Discipline |date=15 July 2017 |publisher=[[Evangelical Methodist Church Conference]] |language=English|page=17}}</ref> The nature of this judgment is inconsistent with many [[Protestant]] churches teaching the saving comes from accepting Jesus Christ as their savior, while the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Churches teach that the judgment hinges on both faith and works. However, many [[Liberal Christian]]s throughout [[Mainline Protestant]] churches believe in [[universal reconciliation]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/699929.stm |publisher=BBC |title=Hell – it's about to get hotter |date=4 April 2000 |access-date=30 April 2012 |first1=Joe |last1=Gooden |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031013436/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/699929.stm |archive-date=31 October 2012 }}</ref> Regarding the belief in hell, the interpretation of [[Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus]] is also relevant.<ref>Heinrich Döring: ''Der universale Anspruch der Kirche und die nichtchristlichen Religionen'', in: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift 41 (1990), p. 78 et sqq.</ref>

Some modern Christian theologians subscribe to the doctrines of [[Christian conditionalism|conditional immortality]]. Conditional immortality is the belief that the soul dies with the body and does not live again until the resurrection. As with other Jewish writings of the [[Second Temple]] period, the New Testament text distinguishes two words, both translated "hell" in older English Bibles: ''Hades'', "the grave", and ''Gehenna'' where God "can destroy both body and soul".<ref>{{cite web|title=4.9 Hell|url=http://www.christadelphians.com/biblebasics/0409hell.html|publisher=The Christadelphians|access-date=6 August 2015}}</ref> Some Christians read this to mean that neither Hades nor Gehenna are eternal but refer to the ultimate destruction of the wicked in the lake of fire after resurrection. However, because of the Greek words used in translating from the Hebrew text, the Hebrew ideas have become confused with Greek myths and ideas. In the Hebrew text when people died they went to [[Sheol]], the grave<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hirsch|first1=Emil G|title=SHEOL|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13563-sheol|publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com|access-date=10 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918204814/http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13563-sheol|archive-date=18 September 2015}}</ref> and the wicked ultimately went to Gehenna and were consumed by fire. The Hebrew words for "the grave" or "death" or "eventual destruction of the wicked", were translated using Greek words and later texts became a mix of mistranslation, pagan influence, and Greek myth.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bedore, Th.D.|first1=W. Edward|title=Hell, Sheol, Hades, Paradise, and the Grave|date=September 2007|url=https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/hell-sheol-hades-paradise-and-the-grave/|publisher=Berean Bible Society|access-date=10 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711233406/https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/hell-sheol-hades-paradise-and-the-grave/|archive-date=11 July 2015}}</ref>

[[Christian mortalism]] is the doctrine that all men and women, including Christians, must die, and do not continue and are not conscious after death. Therefore, [[annihilationism]] includes the doctrine that "the wicked" are also destroyed rather than [[tortured|tormented]] [[eternity|forever]] in hell. Christian mortalism and annihilationism are directly related to the doctrine of conditional immortality, the idea that a human [[soul]] is not immortal unless it is given eternal life at the [[second coming of Christ]] and [[resurrection of the dead]].

Biblical scholars looking at the issue through the Hebrew text have denied the teaching of innate immortality.<ref>{{Citation | quote = Many biblical scholars down throughout history, looking at the issue through Hebrew rather than Greek eyes, have denied the teaching of innate immortality. | last = Knight | title = A brief history of Seventh-Day Adventists | page = 42 | year = 1999}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Pool |year=1998 |title=Against returning to Egypt: Exposing and Resisting Credalism in the Southern Baptist Convention |page=133 |quote='Various concepts of conditional immortality or annihilationism have appeared earlier in Baptist history as well. Several examples illustrate this claim. General as well as particular Baptists developed versions of annihilationism or conditional immortality.'}}</ref> Rejection of the [[immortality of the soul]], and advocacy of Christian mortalism, was a feature of Protestantism since the early days of the [[Reformation]] with [[Martin Luther]] himself rejecting the traditional idea, though his mortalism did not carry into orthodox [[Lutheranism]]. One of the most notable English opponents of the immortality of the soul was [[Thomas Hobbes]] who describes the idea as a Greek "contagion" in Christian doctrine.<ref>Stephen A. State ''Thomas Hobbes and the Debate Over Natural Law and Religion'' 2013 "The natural immortality of the soul is in fact a pagan presumption: "For men being generally possessed before the time of our Saviour, by contagion of the Daemonology of the Greeks, of an opinion, that the Souls of men were substances distinct from their Bodies, and therefore that when the Body was dead"</ref> Modern proponents of conditional immortality include some in the [[Anglican church]] such as [[N. T. Wright]]<ref>N. T. Wright ''For All the Saints?: Remembering the Christian Departed'' 2004 "many readers will get the impression that I believe that every human being comes already equipped with an immortal soul. I don't believe that. Immortality is a gift of God in Christ, not an innate human capacity (see 1 Timothy 6.16)."</ref> and as denominations the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventists]], [[Bible Student movement|Bible Students]], [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], [[Christadelphians]], [[Living Church of God]], [[Church of God International (United States)|Church of God International]], and some other [[Protestant]] [[Christians]]. The Catholic Catechism states "The souls of sinners descend into hell, where they suffer 'eternal fire{{' "}}. However, [[Cardinal Vincent Nichols]], the most senior Catholic in England and Wales, said "there's nowhere in Catholic teaching that actually says any one person is in hell".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43596919|title=Vatican: Pope did not say there is no hell|date=2018-03-30|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-03-30|language=en-GB|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331001451/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43596919|archive-date=31 March 2018}}</ref> The 1993 ''[[Catechism of the Catholic Church]]'' states: "This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called 'hell{{' "}}<ref>1033</ref> and "they suffer the punishments of hell, 'eternal fire{{' "}}.<ref>1035</ref> The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God" (CCC 1035). During an Audience in 1999, [[Pope John Paul II]] commented: "images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted. They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy."<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_28071999.html|title=GENERAL AUDIENCE 28 July 1999|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113172530/http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_28071999.html|archive-date=13 November 2016}}</ref>

====Other denominations====
*The [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]]'s [[28 Fundamental Beliefs|official beliefs]] support [[annihilationism]].<ref>"[http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html Fundamental Beliefs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310104717/http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html |date=10 March 2006 }}" (1980) webpage from the official church website. See "25. Second Coming of Christ", "26. Death and Resurrection", "27. Millennium and the End of Sin", and "28. New Earth". The earlier 1872 and 1931 statements also support conditionalism</ref><ref>Samuele Bacchiocchi, "[http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/books/immortality_resurrection/6.htm Hell: Eternal Torment or Annihilation?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216040008/http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/books/immortality_resurrection/6.htm |date=16 February 2015 }}" chapter 6 in ''Immortality Or Resurrection?''. [[Biblical Perspectives]], 1997; {{ISBN|1-930987-12-9}}, {{ISBN|978-1-930987-12-8}}{{page needed|date=January 2014}}</ref> They deny the Catholic purgatory and teach that the dead lie in the grave until they are [[Last judgment|raised for a last judgment]], both the righteous and wicked await the resurrection at the [[Second Coming]]. Seventh-day Adventists believe that [[death]] is a state of [[Soul sleep|unconscious sleep]] until the resurrection.
*Adventists teach that the resurrection of the righteous will take place shortly after the second coming of [[Jesus]], whereas the resurrection of the wicked will occur after the [[millennialism|millennium]]. Adventists reject the traditional doctrine of hell as a state of everlasting conscious torment, believing instead that the wicked will be permanently destroyed after the millennium by the [[lake of fire]], which is called 'the [[second death]]' in Revelation 20:14.
*[[Jehovah's Witnesses]] hold that the soul ceases to exist when the person dies<ref name="bibleteach">"What Does the Bible Really Teach?", 2005, Published by Jehovah's Witnesses</ref> and therefore that hell (Sheol or Hades) is a state of non-existence.<ref name="bibleteach" /> In their theology, Gehenna differs from Sheol or Hades in that it holds no hope of a resurrection.<ref name="bibleteach" />
*[[Bible Student movement|Bible Students]] and [[Christadelphians]] also believe in annihilationism.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
*[[Christian Universalism|Christian Universalists]] believe in [[universal reconciliation]], the belief that all human souls will be eventually reconciled with God and admitted to heaven.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/chr-univ.html |title=What is Christian Universalism? |access-date=17 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122135418/http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/chr-univ.html |archive-date=22 November 2017 }} What is Christian Universalism by Ken Allen Th.D</ref> This belief is held by some [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian-Universalists]].<ref>''New Bible Dictionary'', "Hell", InterVarsity Press, 1996.</ref><ref>''New Dictionary of Biblical Theology'', "Hell", InterVarsity Press, 2000.</ref><ref>[[Evangelical Alliance]] Commission on Truth and Unity Among Evangelicals, ''The Nature of Hell'', Paternoster, 2000.</ref>
*According to [[Emanuel Swedenborg]]'s [[Second Coming]] [[Christianity|Christian]] revelation, hell exists because evil people want it.<ref>Swedenborg, E. [http://swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/contets/HH.html Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen(Swedenborg Foundation, 1946 #545ff.)]</ref> They, not God, introduced evil to the human race.<ref>Swedenborg, E. [http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/contets/tcrtc.html The True Christian Religion Containing the Universal Theology of The New Church Foretold by the Lord in Daniel 7; 13, 14; and in Revelation 21; 1, 2] (Swedenborg Foundation, 1946, #489ff.).</ref> In [[The New Church (Swedenborgian)|Swedenborgianism]], every soul joins the like-minded group after death in which it feels the most comfortable. Hell is therefore believed to be a place of happiness for the souls which delight in evilness.<ref>offTheLeftEye: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCWOpiTVds&t=2507s The Good Thing About Hell - Swedenborg and Life], YouTube, 14 March 2016.</ref>{{bsn|date=August 2024}}
*Members of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) teach that hell is a state between death and resurrection, in which those spirits who did not repent while on earth must suffer for their own sins (Doctrine and Covenants 19:15–17<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19?lang=eng|title=Doctrine and Covenants 19}}</ref>). After that, only the [[Son of perdition (Mormonism)|Sons of perdition]], who committed the [[Eternal sin]], would be cast into [[Outer darkness]]. However, according to Mormon faith, committing the Eternal sin requires so much knowledge that most persons cannot do this.<ref>[[Spencer W. Kimball]]: The Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 123.</ref>

===Islam===
{{Main|Jahannam}}
[[File:Copenhagen, Davids Samling Inventarnummer 14-2014 fol. 1v Muhammad meeting the tree Zaqqum.jpg|thumb|Islamic miniature of Muhammad visiting [[Zaqqum]], a tree in Hell, whose dwellers are compelled to eat the bitter fruit for eternity.]]
In Islam, ''[[Jahannam]]'' (in [[Arabic Language|Arabic]]: جهنم) (related to the Hebrew word ''gehinnom'') is the counterpart to heaven and likewise divided into seven layers, both co-existing with the temporal world,<ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies">{{cite book |last1=Lange |first1=Christian |chapter=Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies |pages=1–28 |jstor=10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3.7 |doi=10.1163/9789004301368_002 |editor1-last=Lange |editor1-first=Christian |title=Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions |date=2016 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-30121-4 }}</ref> filled with blazing fire, boiling water, and a variety of other torments for those who have been condemned to it in the hereafter. In the Quran, God declares that the fire of Jahannam is prepared for both mankind and [[jinn]].<ref>[[Qur'an 7:179]] [https://en.quranacademy.org/quran/7:179 Qur'an 7:179] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317232420/https://en.quranacademy.org/quran/7:179 |date=17 March 2018 }}</ref><ref>Varza, Bahram. 2016. ''Thought-Provoking Scientific Reflections on Religion''. New York: BOD Publisher</ref> After the Day of Judgment, it is to be occupied by those who do not believe in God, those who have disobeyed [[Sharia|his laws]], or rejected his [[Prophets in Islam#Prophets and messengers in Islam|messengers]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A Description of Hellfire (part 1 of 5): An Introduction|url=http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/344/|website=Religion of Islam|access-date=23 December 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223233105/http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/344/|archive-date=23 December 2014}}</ref> "Enemies of Islam" are sent to hell immediately upon their deaths.<ref name=RFIBA>{{cite web|title=Islamic Beliefs about the Afterlife|url=http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/beliefs/afterlife.htm|website=Religion Facts|access-date=23 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223230705/http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/beliefs/afterlife.htm|archive-date=23 December 2014}}</ref> [[Islamic Modernism|Muslim modernists]] downplay the vivid descriptions of hell common during Classical period, on one hand reaffirming that the afterlife must not be denied, but simultaneously asserting its exact nature remains unknown. Other modern Muslims continue the line of [[Sufism]] as an interiorized hell, combining the eschatological thoughts of [[Ibn Arabi]] and [[Rumi]] with Western philosophy.<ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies"/> Although disputed by some scholars, most scholars consider jahannam to be eternal.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomassen |first1=Einar |title=Islamic Hell |journal=Numen |date=2009 |volume=56 |issue=2/3 |pages=401–416 |doi=10.1163/156852709X405062 |jstor=27793798 }}</ref><ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies"/> There is belief that the fire which represents the own bad deeds can already be seen during the [[Punishment of the Grave]], and that the spiritual pain caused by this can lead to purification of the soul.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eslam.de/begriffe/f/feuer.htm|title = Feuer}}</ref> Not all Muslims and scholars agree whether hell is an eternal destination or whether some or all of the condemned will eventually be forgiven and allowed to enter paradise.<ref name=RFIBA/><ref name="idiot"/><ref name=religion>{{cite web|title=A Description of Hellfire (part 1 of 5): An Introduction|url=http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/344/|website=Religion of Islam|access-date=23 December 2014|quote=No one will come out of Hell except sinful believers who believed in the Oneness of God in this life and believed in the specific prophet sent to them (before the coming of Muhammad).|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223233105/http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/344/|archive-date=23 December 2014}}</ref><ref>''Muslim Scholarly Discussions on Salvation and the Fate of 'Others' '', Mohammad Hassan Khalil, p.223 ''"The Fitnah of Wealth",'' Abû Ammâr Yasir al-Qadhî</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=September 2021}}

Over hell, a narrow bridge called [[As-Sirāt]] is spanned. On [[Judgment Day]] one must pass over it to reach paradise, but those destined for hell will find too narrow and fall into their new abode.<ref name=EWR-421>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of World Religions|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Store|page=421|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbibAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA421|isbn=978-1-59339-491-2|date=2008}}</ref> [[Iblis]], the temporary ruler of hell,<ref>Gordon Newby ''A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam'' Oneworld Publications 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-780-74477-3}}</ref> is thought of residing in the bottom of hell, from where he commands his hosts of infernal demons.<ref>Robert Lebling Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar I.B.Tauris 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-857-73063-3}} page 30</ref><ref>ANTON M. HEINEN ''ISLAMIC COSMOLOGY A STUDY OF AS-SUYUTI'S al-Hay'a as-samya fi l-hay'a as-sunmya with critical edition, translation, and commentary'' ANTON M. HEINEN BEIRUT 1982 p. 143</ref> But contrary to Christian traditions, Iblis and his infernal hosts do not wage war against God,<ref name="idiot">{{cite book|last1=Emerick|first1=Yahiya|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Islam|date=2011|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-101-55881-2|edition=3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6LQJWalzQkC&q=hell+in+islam&pg=PT97}}</ref> his enmity applies against humanity only. Further, his dominion in hell is also his punishment. Executioners of punishment are the 19 [[zabaniyya]], who have been created from the fires of hell.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Surat Al-Alaq Verse 18. |url=https://quran.com/96:18 |website=quran.com |quote="96:18 {سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ} {١٨ } We will call the angels of Hell. CITATION NOTE: (ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ, transliterated to Az-Zabaniya, refers to the keeper angels of Jahannam/Hell.)"}}</ref>

The seven gates of ''jahannam'', mentioned in the Quran, inspired [[Tafsir|Muslim exegetes]] (''tafsir'') to develop a system of seven stages of hell, analogue to the seven doors of paradise. The stages of hell get their names by seven different terms used for hell throughout the Quran. Each is assigned for a different type of sinners. The concept later accepted by Sunni authorities list the levels of hell as follows, although some stages may vary:<ref>Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 Vols.): Volume 1: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition. Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought / Volume 2: Continuity and Change. The Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate World. (2017). Niederlande: Brill. p. 174</ref><ref>A F Klein Religion Of Islam Routledge 2013 ISBN 978-1-136-09954-0 page 92</ref>
#'''[[Jahannam]]''' (جهنم Gehenna)
#'''Laza''' (لظى fierce blaze)
#'''Hutama''' (حُطَمَة crushing fire)
#'''Sa'ir''' (سعير raging fire)
#'''Saqar''' (سقر scorching fire)
#'''Jahim''' (جحيم furnace)
#'''Hawiya''' (هاوية infernal abyss)

The highest level (''jahannam'') is traditionally thought of as a type of [[purgatory]] reserved for Muslims. Polytheism ([[shirk (Islam)|''shirk'']]) is regarded as a particularly grievous sin; therefore entering Paradise is forbidden to a polytheist ''([[Shirk (Islam)|mushrik]])'' because his place is hell;<ref>see [[Quran 5:72]]: [https://quran.com/5:72 5:72] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720070539/http://quran.com/5:72 |date=20 July 2016 }}</ref> and the second lowest level (''jahim'') only after the bottomless pit for the hypocrites (''hawiyah''), who claimed aloud to believe in [[God in Islam|God]] and his messenger but in their [[Qalb|hearts]] did not.<ref name=lazarus-287>{{cite book|last1=Lazarus|first1=William P.|title=Comparative Religion For Dummies|publisher=Wiley|page=287|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTtcFiGbW2kC&pg=PA287|isbn=978-1-118-05227-3|date=2011}}</ref>

Although the earliest reports about [[Muhammad]]'s [[Isra and Mi'raj|journey through the heavens]], do not locate hell in the heavens,<ref name="Colby 2016 Fire in the Upper Heavens">{{cite book |last1=Colby |first1=Frederick |chapter=Fire in the Upper Heavens: Locating Hell in Middle Period Narratives of Muḥammad's Ascension |pages=124–143 |jstor=10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3.12 |doi=10.1163/9789004301368_007 |editor1-last=Lange |editor1-first=Christian |title=Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions |date=2016 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-30121-4 }}</ref> only brief references about visiting hell during the journey appears. But extensive accounts about Muhammad's night journey, in the non-canonical but popular Miraj-Literature, tell about encountering the angels of hell. [[Malik]], the keeper to the gates of hell, namely appears in [[Ibn Abbas|Ibn Abbas']] [[Isra and Mi'raj]].<ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies"/> The doors to hell are either in the third<ref name="Colby 2016 Fire in the Upper Heavens"/> or fifth heaven,<ref>Colby, F. S. (2008). Narrating Muhammad's Night Journey: Tracing the Development of the Ibn 'Abbas Ascension Discourse. US: State University of New York Press. p. 137</ref><ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies"/> or (although only implicitly) in a heaven close [[Throne of God|God's throne]],<ref name="Colby 2016 Fire in the Upper Heavens"/> or directly after entering heaven,<ref>Colby, F. S. (2008). Narrating Muhammad's Night Journey: Tracing the Development of the Ibn 'Abbas Ascension Discourse. US: State University of New York Press. p. 138</ref> whereupon Muhammad requests a glaze at hell. [[Ibn Hisham]] gives extensive details about Muhammad visiting hell and its inhabitants punished wherein, but can only endure watching the punishments of the first layer of hell.<ref>Lange, C. (2016). Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions. Vereinigtes Königreich: Cambridge University Press.</ref> Muhammad meeting Malik, the Dajjal and hell, was used as a proof for Muhammad's Night Journey.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vuckovic |first1=Brooke Olson |title=Heavenly Journeys, Earthly Concerns: The Legacy of the Mi'raj in the Formation of Islam |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-88524-3 }}{{page needed|date=February 2022}}</ref>

Medieval sources often identified hell with the seven earths mentioned in [[Quran 65:12]], inhabited by [[Shaitan|devils]], [[Zabaniyya|harsh angels]], scorpions and serpents, who torment the sinners. They described thorny shrubs, seas filled with blood and fire and darkness only illuminated by the flames of hell.<ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies"/> One popular concept arrange the earths as follows:<ref>Miguel Asin Palacios Islam and the Divine Comedy Routledge 2013 ISBN
978-1-134-53650-4 page 88-89</ref><ref>Patrick Hughes, Thomas Patrick Hughes ''Dictionary of Islam'' Asian Educational Services 1995 {{ISBN|978-81-206-0672-2}} p. 102</ref>

#'''Adim''' or '''Ramaka''' (رمکا) - the surface, on which humans, animals and [[jinn]] live.
#'''Basit''' or '''Khawfa''' (خوفا)
#'''Thaqil''' or ''''Arafa''' (عرفه) - antechamber
#'''Batih''' or '''Hadna''' (حدنه) - a valley with stream of boiling sulphur.
#'''Hayn''' or '''Dama''' (دمَا)
#'''[[Sijjin]]''', (سجىن dungeon or prison) or '''Masika''' (sometimes, Sijjin is at the bottom) - [[Quran 83:7]]
#'''[[Nar as-samum|Nar as-Samum]]''', '''[[Zamhareer]]''' or '''As-Saqar''' / '''Athara''',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tottoli |first1=Roberto |last2=توتولي |first2=روبرتو |title=The Qur'an, Qur'anic Exegesis and Muslim Traditions: The Case of zamharīr (Q. 76:13) Among Hell's Punishments / القرآن والتفاسير والروايات الاسلامية: سورة الانسان آية رقم 13: الزمهرير من ألوان العقوبة في جهنم |journal=Journal of Qur'anic Studies |date=2008 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=142–152 |doi=10.3366/E1465359109000291 |jstor=25728276 }}</ref> or '''Hanina''' (حنينا) - venomous wind of fire and a cold wind of ice.

===Baháʼí Faith===
In the [[Baháʼí Faith]], the conventional descriptions of hell and heaven are considered to be symbolic representations of spiritual conditions. The [[Baháʼí literature|Baháʼí writings]] describe closeness to God to be heaven, and conversely, remoteness from God as hell.<ref name="lafd">{{cite book
| title = Life After Death: A study of the afterlife in world religions
| last = Masumian
| first = Farnaz
| publisher = Oneworld Publications
| location = Oxford
| year = 1995
| isbn = 978-1-85168-074-0}}</ref> The Baháʼí writings state that the soul is immortal and after death it will continue to progress until it finally attains [[God in the Baháʼí Faith|God's presence]].<ref>[[Baháʼu'lláh]], [[Gleanings from the Writings of Baháʼu'lláh]], ed. by US Baháʼí Publishing Trust, 1990, pp. 155-156.</ref>

===Buddhism===
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[[File:Ngaye (Naraka) in Burmese art.jpg|thumb|[[Naraka (Buddhism)|Naraka]] in the Burmese representation]]
In "Devaduta Sutta", the 130th discourse of the [[Majjhima Nikaya]], Buddha teaches about hell in vivid detail. Buddhism teaches that there are five or six realms of [[Reincarnation|rebirth]], which can then be further subdivided into degrees of agony or pleasure.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}) Of these realms, the hell realms, or ''Naraka'', is the lowest realm of rebirth. Of the hell realms, the worst is ''[[Avici|Avīci]]'' ([[Sanskrit]] and [[Pali]] for "without waves"). The Buddha's disciple, [[Devadatta]], who tried to kill the Buddha on three occasions, as well as create a schism in the monastic order, is said to have been reborn in the Avici hell.

Like all realms of rebirth in Buddhism, rebirth in the hell realms is not permanent, though suffering can persist for eons before being reborn again.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} In the [[Lotus Sutra]], the Buddha teaches that eventually even Devadatta will become a [[Pratyekabuddha]] himself, emphasizing the temporary nature of the hell realms. Thus, Buddhism teaches to escape the endless migration of rebirths (both positive and negative) through the attainment of [[Nirvana]].

The [[Bodhisattva]] [[Ksitigarbha]], according to the [[Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva Pūrvapraṇidhāna Sūtra|Ksitigarbha Sutra]], made a great vow as a young girl to not reach Nirvana until all beings were liberated from the hell realms or other unwholesome rebirths. In popular literature, Ksitigarbha travels to the hell realms to teach and relieve beings of their suffering.

===Hinduism===
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[[File:Yama's Court and Hell.jpg|thumb|Yama's Court and Hell. The Blue figure is [[Yamaraja]] (The Hindu god of death) with his consort [[Yami]] and [[Chitragupta]] 17th-century painting from Government Museum, [[Chennai]].]]
Early [[Historical Vedic religion|Vedic religion]] does not have a concept of hell. The ''[[Rigveda]]'' mentions three realms, ''bhūr'' (the [[earth]]), ''svar'' (the [[sky]]) and ''[[Loka|bhuvas]]'' or ''antarikṣa'' (the middle area, i.e. air or [[atmosphere]]). In later Hindu literature, especially the law books and the ''[[Puranas]]'', more realms are mentioned, including a realm similar to hell, called ''[[Naraka]]''. [[Yama]] as the first born human (together with his twin sister [[Yamuna in Hinduism|Yamī]]), by virtue of precedence, becomes ruler of men and a judge on their departure.

In the law-books (the ''[[Smriti]]''s and the [[Dharmaśāstra|''Dharmashashtra''s]]), ''Naraka'' is a place of punishment for misdeeds. It is a lower spiritual plane (called ''naraka-loka'') where the spirit is judged and the partial fruits of [[karma]] affect the next life. In the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', there is a mention of the [[Pandavas]] and the [[Kauravas]] both going to [[Svarga|heaven]]. At first [[Yudhishthira]] goes to heaven, where he sees [[Duryodhana]] enjoying the realm; [[Indra]] tells him that Duryodhana is in heaven as he had adequately performed his [[Kshatriya]] duties. Then he shows Yudhishthira hell, where it appears his brothers are. Later it is revealed that this was a test for Yudhishthira and that his brothers and the Kauravas are all in heaven, and live happily in the divine abode of the [[Deva (Hinduism)|devas]]. Various hells are also described in various ''Puranas'' and other scriptures. The ''[[Garuda Purana]]'' gives a detailed account of each hell and its features; it lists the amount of punishment for most crimes, much like a modern-day penal code.

It is believed that people who commit misdeeds go to hell and have to go through punishments in accordance with the misdeeds they committed. The god [[Yama (Hinduism)|Yama]], who is also the god of death, presides over hell. Detailed accounts of all the misdeeds committed by an individual are kept by [[Chitragupta]], who is the record keeper in Yama's court. Chitragupta reads out the misdeeds committed and Yama orders appropriate punishments to be given to individuals. These punishments include dipping in boiling oil, burning in fire, torture using various weapons, etc. in various hells. Individuals who finish their quota of the punishments are reborn in accordance with their balance of [[karma]]. All created beings are imperfect and thus have at least one misdeed to their record; but if one has generally led a meritorious life, one ascends to [[Svarga]], a temporary realm of enjoyment similar to Paradise, after a brief period of expiation in hell and before the next reincarnation, according to the law of [[karma]].{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} With the exception of Hindu philosopher [[Madhva]], time in hell is not regarded as eternal [[damnation]] within Hinduism.<ref name="glasenapp">[[Helmuth von Glasenapp]]: Der Hinduismus. Religion und Gesellschaft im heutigen Indien, Hildesheim 1978, p. 248.</ref>

According to [[Brahma Kumaris]], the Iron Age (''[[Kali Yuga]]'') is regarded as hell.

===Jainism===
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[[File:Seven Jain Hells.jpg|thumb|right|17th-century cloth painting depicting seven levels of Jain Hell and various tortures suffered in them. Left panel depicts the demi-god and his animal vehicle presiding over each Hell.]]
In [[Jain cosmology]], ''Naraka'' (translated as hell) is the name given to realm of existence having great suffering. However, a Naraka differs from the hells of [[Abrahamic religions]] as souls are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment and punishment. Furthermore, length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually very long and measured in billions of years. A soul is born into a Naraka as a direct result of his or her previous [[Karma in Jainism|karma]] (actions of body, speech and mind), and resides there for a finite length of time until his karma has achieved its full result. After his karma is used up, he may be reborn in one of the higher worlds as the result of an earlier karma that had not yet ripened.

The hells are situated in the seven grounds at the lower part of the universe. The hellish beings are a type of souls which are residing in these various hells. They are born in hells by sudden manifestation.<ref>{{cite book | last =Sanghvi | first =Sukhlal | title =Commentary on Tattvārthasūtra of Vācaka Umāsvāti | publisher =L. D. Institute of Indology | year =1974 | location =Ahmedabad |others=trans. by K. K. Dixit}} pp. 107</ref> The hellish beings possess ''vaikriya'' body (protean body which can transform itself and take various forms). They have a fixed life span (ranging from ten thousand to billions of years) in the respective hells where they reside. According to Jain scripture, [[Tattvarthasutra]], following are the causes for birth in hell:<ref>Sanghvi, Sukhlal (1974) pp.250–52</ref>
# Killing or causing pain with intense passion
# Excessive attachment to things and worldly pleasure with constantly indulging in cruel and violent acts
# Vowless and unrestrained life<ref>refer [[Mahavrata]] for the vows and restraints in Jainism</ref>

===Meivazhi===

According to [[Meivazhi]], the purpose of all religions is to guide people to heaven.<ref>மரணம் நீக்க ஜீவ மருந்து: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxdwio938q0 9. Gods plan], YouTube, 3 August 2018.</ref> However, those who do not approach God and are not blessed by Him are believed to be condemned to hell.<ref>Meivazhi - The True Path, angelfire.com/ms/Salai/TruePath.html.</ref>

===Sikhism===
In Sikh thought, heaven and hell are not places for living hereafter, they are part of spiritual topography of man and do not exist otherwise. They refer to good and evil stages of life respectively and can be lived now and here during our earthly existence.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFm9_Jc1ykcC&pg=PA271 | title=A Complete Guide to Sikhism | publisher=Unistar Books | last=Singh | first=Jagraj | year=2009 | page=271 | isbn=978-8-1714-2754-3 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424012358/https://books.google.com/books?id=rFm9_Jc1ykcC&pg=PA271 | archive-date=24 April 2017 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> For example, [[Guru Arjan]] explains that people who are entangled in emotional attachment and doubt are living in hell on this Earth i.e. their life is hellish.

{{Blockquote|<poem>So many are being drowned in emotional attachment and doubt; they dwell in the most horrible hell.</poem>|Guru Arjan|Guru Granth Sahib 297<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Page&Param=297|title=Sri Granth: Sri Guru Granth Sahib|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903031902/http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Page&Param=297|archive-date=3 September 2017}}</ref>}}

===Taoism===
{{also|Diyu}}
Ancient [[Taoism]] had no concept of hell, as morality was seen to be a man-made distinction and there was no concept of an immaterial soul. In its home country [[China]], where Taoism adopted tenets of other religions, popular belief endows Taoist hell with many deities and spirits who punish sin in a variety of horrible ways.

Buddhist hells became "so much a part of [many Daoist sects] that during [[Funeral|funeral services]][,] the priests hang up scrolls depicting" similar scenes.<ref name=":100">{{Cite book |title=World Religions: Eastern Traditions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |editor=Willard Gurdon Oxtoby |year=2002 |isbn=0-19-541521-3 |edition=2nd |location=Don Mills, Ontario |pages=401–402 |oclc=46661540}}</ref> Typically, Daoist hells are "said to be ten in number" and "are sometimes said to be situated under a high mountain in [[Sichuan]]".<ref name=":100" /> "Each is ruled by a king serving as judge, surrounded by ministers and attendants who carry out his decisions."<ref name=":100" /> Punishment is usually "inflicted with the use of torture instruments", although there are some non-physical and more metaphysical punishments.<ref name=":100" /> However, this type of Daoist hell is usually not final and a soul will make a journey of refining by going through at least several hells and their punishments until it is reincarnated into another body in the human world.<ref name=":100" />

===Chinese traditional and syncretic religion===
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[[File:ROM-ChineseGallery-DemonSculpture.png|upright|thumb|right|A Chinese glazed earthenware sculpture of "Hell's torturer", 16th century, [[Ming Dynasty]]]]
''Diyu'' is the realm of the dead in [[Chinese mythology]]. It is very loosely based upon the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] concept of [[Naraka (Buddhism)|Naraka]] combined with traditional Chinese afterlife beliefs and a variety of popular expansions and re-interpretations of these two traditions. Ruled by [[Yama (East Asia)|Yanluo Wang]], the King of hell, Diyu is a maze of underground levels and chambers where souls are taken to atone for their earthly sins.

Incorporating ideas from [[Taoism]] and [[Buddhism]] as well as traditional Chinese folk religion, Diyu is a kind of purgatory place which serves not only to punish but also to renew spirits ready for their next incarnation. There are many deities associated with the place, whose names and purposes are the subject of much conflicting information.

The exact number of levels in Chinese hell – and their associated deities – differs according to the Buddhist or Taoist perception. Some speak of three to four 'Courts', other as many as ten.<ref name=":100" /> The ten judges are also known as the 10 Kings of [[Yama (Buddhism and Chinese mythology)|Yama]]. Each Court deals with a different aspect of atonement. For example, murder is punished in one Court, adultery in another. According to some Chinese legends, there are eighteen levels in hell. Punishment also varies according to belief, but most legends speak of highly imaginative chambers where wrong-doers are sawn in half, beheaded, thrown into pits of filth or forced to climb trees adorned with sharp blades.

However, most legends agree that once a soul (usually referred to as a 'ghost') has atoned for their deeds and repented, he or she is given the Drink of Forgetfulness by [[Meng Po]] and sent back into the world to be reborn, possibly as an animal or a poor or sick person, for further punishment.

===Zoroastrianism===
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[[Zoroastrianism]] has historically suggested several possible fates for the wicked, including annihilation, purgation in molten metal, and eternal punishment, all of which have standing in Zoroaster's writings. [[Zoroastrian eschatology]] includes the belief that wicked souls will remain in [[Duzakh]] until, following the arrival of three saviors at thousand-year intervals, [[Ahura Mazda]] reconciles the world, destroying evil and resurrecting tormented souls to perfection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ubfellowship.org/archive/readers/601_zoroastrianism.htm |title=An Introduction to Zoroastrianism |author=Meredith Sprunger |access-date=10 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206152658/http://www.ubfellowship.org/archive/readers/601_zoroastrianism.htm |archive-date=6 February 2007 }}</ref>

The sacred [[Gathas]] mention a "House of the Lie″ for those "that are of an evil dominion, of evil deeds, evil words, evil Self, and evil thought, Liars".<ref>[[Yasna]] 49:11, {{cite web | url=http://www.avesta.org/yasna/y47to50b.htm | title=Avesta: Yasna | access-date=11 October 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009200459/http://www.avesta.org/yasna/y47to50b.htm | archive-date=9 October 2008 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> However, the best-known Zoroastrian text to describe hell in detail is the [[Book of Arda Viraf]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hell-on-line.org/AboutZOR.html#The%20Fate%20of%20the%20Soul | title=About Zoroastrian Hell | author=Eileen Gardiner | date=10 February 2006 | access-date=10 October 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015035745/http://www.hell-on-line.org/AboutZOR.html#The%20Fate%20of%20the%20Soul | archive-date=15 October 2008 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> It depicts particular punishments for particular sins—for instance, being trampled by cattle as punishment for neglecting the needs of work animals.<ref>Chapter 75, {{cite web | url=http://www.avesta.org/pahlavi/viraf.html | title=The Book of Arda Viraf | access-date=10 October 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008091012/http://www.avesta.org/pahlavi/viraf.html | archive-date=8 October 2008 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Other descriptions can be found in the ''Book of Scriptures (Hadhokht Nask), Religious Judgments ([[Dadestan-i Denig]])'' and the ''Spirit of Wisdom ([[Menog-i Khrad]])''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsZOR.html#The%20Fate%20of%20the%20Soul | title=Zoroastrian Hell Texts | author=Eileen Gardiner | date=18 January 2009 | access-date=24 August 2010 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917075010/http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsZOR.html#The%20Fate%20of%20the%20Soul | archive-date=17 September 2010 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===Mandaeism===
{{See also|World of Darkness (Mandaeism)|Ur (Mandaeism)}}
The [[Mandaeism|Mandaeans]] believe in purification of souls inside of [[Leviathan]],<ref name="johannesbuch-a">[[Mandaean Book of John|Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer]], ed. and transl. by [[Mark Lidzbarski]], part 2, Gießen 1915, p. 98–99.</ref> whom they also call [[Ur (Mandaeism)|Ur]].<ref name="jonas-gnostic">[[Hans Jonas]]: The Gnostic Religion, 3. ed., Boston 2001, p. 117.</ref> Within detention houses, so called [[Matarta]]s,<ref name="ginza-a">[[Ginza Rba|Ginza]]. Der Schatz oder das große Buch der Mandäer, ed. and transl. by [[Mark Lidzbarski]], Quellen der Religionsgeschichte vol. 13, Göttingen 1925, p. 183.</ref> the detained souls would receive so much punishment that they would wish to die a [[Second death]], which would, however, not (yet) befall their spirit.<ref name="ginza-b">Ginza, ed. and transl. by Lidzbarski, p. 185–186.</ref> At the [[Eschatology|end of days]], the souls of the Mandaeans which could be purified, would be liberated out of Ur's mouth.<ref name="rudolph-theogonie">[[Kurt Rudolph]]: Theogonie. Kosmonogie und Anthropogonie in den mandäischen Schriften. Eine literarkritische und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, Göttingen 1965, p. 241.</ref> After this, Ur would get destroyed along with the souls remaining inside him,<ref name="ginza-c">Ginza, ed. and transl. by Lidzbarski, p. 203.</ref> so they die the second death.<ref name="ginza-e">Ginza, ed. and transl. by Lidzbarski, p. 321.</ref>

===Wicca===
The [[Gardnerian Wicca]] and [[Alexandrian Wicca]] sects of [[Wicca]] include "[[wiccan laws]]" that [[Gerald Gardner]] wrote, which state that wiccan souls are privileged with reincarnation, but that the souls of wiccans who break the wiccan laws, "even under torture", would be cursed by the goddess, never be reborn on earth, and "remain where they belong, in the Hell of the Christians".<ref>Gerald Gardner, The Gardnerian Book of Shadows</ref><ref>Alex Sanders, The Alexandrian Book of Shadows</ref> Other recognized wiccan sects do not include Gerald Gardner's "wiccan laws". The influential wiccan author [[Raymond Buckland]] wrote that the wiccan laws are unimportant. Solitary wiccans, not involved in organized sects, do not include the wiccan laws in their doctrine.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

==In literature==
In his ''[[Divine Comedy|Divina commedia]]'' (''Divine Comedy''), set in the year 1300, [[Dante|Dante Alighieri]] employed the concept of taking [[Virgil]] as his guide through Inferno (and then, in the second canticle, up the mountain of [[Purgatory|Purgatorio]]). Virgil himself is not condemned to hell proper in Dante's poem but is rather, as a virtuous pagan, confined to [[Limbo]] just at the edge of hell. The geography of hell is very elaborately laid out in this work, with nine concentric rings leading deeper into Earth, and deeper into the various punishments of hell, until, at the center of the world, Dante finds [[Satan]] himself trapped in the frozen lake of [[Cocytus]]. A small tunnel leads past Satan and out to the other side of the world, at the base of the Mount of Purgatory.

[[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667) opens with the [[fallen angel]]s, including their leader [[Satan]], waking up in hell after having been defeated in the war in heaven and the action returns there at several points throughout the poem. Milton portrays hell as the abode of the demons, and the passive prison from which they plot their revenge upon heaven through the corruption of the human race. 19th-century French poet [[Arthur Rimbaud]] alluded to the concept as well in the title and themes of one of his major works, ''[[Une Saison en Enfer|A Season in Hell]]'' (1873). Rimbaud's poetry portrays his own suffering in a poetic form as well as other themes.
Many of the great epics of European literature include episodes that occur in hell. In the Roman poet [[Virgil]]'s Latin epic, the ''[[Aeneid]]'', Aeneas descends into [[Hades|Dis]] (the underworld) to visit his father's spirit. The underworld is only vaguely described, with one unexplored path leading to the punishments of Tartarus, while the other leads through [[Erebus]] and the [[Elysium|Elysian Fields]].
[[File:William Bouguereau - Dante and Virgile - Google Art Project 2.jpg|thumb|''[[Dante and Virgil|Dante and Virgil in Hell]]'' by [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]], 1850]]
The idea of hell was highly influential to writers such as [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] who authored the 1944 play ''[[No Exit]]'' about the idea that "Hell is other people". Although not a religious man, Sartre was fascinated by his interpretation of a hellish state of suffering. [[C.S. Lewis]]'s ''[[The Great Divorce]]'' (1945) borrows its title from [[William Blake]]'s ''[[Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1793) and its inspiration from the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' as the narrator is likewise guided through hell and heaven. Hell is portrayed here as an endless, desolate twilight city upon which night is imperceptibly sinking. The night is actually the [[Apocalypse]], and it heralds the arrival of the demons after their judgment. Before the night comes, anyone can escape hell if they leave behind their former selves and accept Heaven's offer, and a journey to heaven reveals that hell is infinitely small; it is nothing more or less than what happens to a soul that turns away from God and into itself.

==See also==
* [[Allegory of the long spoons]]
* {{annotated link|Divine retribution}}
* {{annotated link|Problem of Hell}}
* {{annotated link|The Well to Hell hoax}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|chapter=[[s:Sermons from the Latins/Sermon 13|Fifth Sunday: Hell]] |title=Sermons from the Latins|year=1902|publisher= Benziger Brothers|first=Robert|last=Bellarmine|author-link=Robert Bellarmine}}
* [[Thomas Boston|Boston, Thomas]]. ''Hell''. Diggory Press, {{ISBN|978-1-84685-748-5}}
* [[John Bunyan|Bunyan, John]]. ''A Few Sighs from Hell (Or The Groans of the Damned Soul)''. Diggory Press, {{ISBN|978-1-84685-727-0}}
*{{cite book|chapter=[[s:Think Well On't/Day 13|Day 13: On hell.]]|title=Think Well On't or, Reflections on the great truths of the Christian religion for every day of the month|year=1801|publisher=T. Haydock|first=Richard|last=Challoner|author-link=Richard Challoner}}
* [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Edwards, Jonathan]]. ''The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners''. Diggory Press, {{ISBN|978-1-84685-672-3}}
*{{Cite Catholic Encyclopedia |wstitle=Hell |volume=7 |first=Joseph |last=Hontheim}}
* Gardiner, Eileen. ''Visions of Heaven and Hell before Dante.'' New York: Italica Press, 1989. {{ISBN|0-934977-14-3}}
*{{cite book|chapter=[[s:Sermons for all the Sundays in the year/Sermon 10|Sermon X.—Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany: On the pains of hell]] |title=Sermons for all the Sundays in the year|year=1882|publisher=Dublin|first=Alphonus|last=Liguori|author-link=Alphonsus Liguori}}
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* {{In Our Time|Hell|p0038xb6|Hell}}
* {{SEP|heaven-hell|Heaven and Hell in Christian Thought|Thomas Talbott}}
* {{cite web|url = http://www.hell-on-line.org/|title =Hell-on-line}}
* [http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2016/05/hells-abolitions/ A cultural history of Hell] in [[The Fortnightly Review]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070829155418/http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/hell.htm Atheist Foundation of Australia] – 666 words about hell.
* [http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002521 The Jehovah's Witnesses perspective]
* [http://veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/dying.htm Dying, Yamaraja and Yamadutas + terminal restlessness]
* [http://www.khandro.net/doctrine_Hells.htm example Buddhist Hells]
* [http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/contets/HH.html Swedenborg, E. ''Heaven and its Wonders and Hell. From Things Heard and Seen''] (Swedenborg Foundation, 1946)
* [https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/browse-subject Maps of hell at the "Hell and Heaven" subject, the Persuasive Cartography, The PJ Mode Collection], [[Cornell University Library]]
*[https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/23935 Collection: Heaven, Hell, and Afterlives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812120714/https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/23935 |date=12 August 2022 }} from the [[University of Michigan Museum of Art]]
*[https://archive.org/details/infernal-regions-in-animated-shorts See animated theatrical short films depicting Hell and the Infernal Regions] on the [[Internet Archive]]

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Jupally Rameswar Rao

2026-04-02T17:27:41Z

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'''Jupally''' '''Rameswar Rao''' (born 16 September 1955) is an Indian businessman. He is the founder-chairman of My Home Group, a [[Hyderabad]]-based company with a presence in real estate, cement, and power sectors.<ref name="toi">{{cite news |last1=Sengupta |first1=Sudipta |date=March 5, 2015 |title=From homeopathy to building homes |work=[[The Times of India]] |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/From-homeopathy-to-building-homes/articleshow/46462905.cms}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=January 9, 2014 |title=Furore at GAME park event |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/furore-at-game-park-event/article5554672.ece}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 21, 2014 |title=No irregularities in MyHome Constructions: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao |publisher=[[Deccan Chronicle]] |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/141121/nation-current-affairs/article/no-irregularities-myhome-constructions-cm-k-chandrasekhar-rao}}</ref> One of the brands of his company, Maha Cement, has a reported annual revenue of [[Indian rupee|₹]]3,000 [[crore]].<ref name="toi"/> As per ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine, Rameswar Rao has a net worth of $3.2 billion, as of March 2024.<ref name=":0" />

== Early life ==
Rameswar Rao was not born into generational wealth, and had to struggle during his childhood, often walking miles to attend his school. He wanted to become a homeopathy physician, and studied for this in [[Hyderabad]]. Through connections he made as a student leader, he opened his practice in Dilsukhnagar.

On the advice of a friend, he once invested ₹50000 to develop a plot of land and sold it three years later for ₹150000. Realising the potential of undeveloped land, he quit his homeopathy practice and ventured into real estate. He eventually founded the My Home Group, which today is one of the largest real estate companies in India

== Career ==
In 1981, he established My Home Constructions Private Limited, which had an annual revenue of ₹650 [[crore]] as of November 2016.

Rameswar Rao ventured into the cement business and started Maha Cement (My Home Industries Private Limited), which he later encashed by selling 50% to [[CRH plc]], an Irish company, for ₹1429 crore in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cement firm My Home to consolidate all existing products under 'MAHA Cement' brand|url=http://realty.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/allied-industries/cement-firm-my-home-to-consolidate-all-existing-products-under-maha-cement-brand/55618895|publisher=[[The Economic Times]]|date=November 25, 2016}}</ref><ref name="outlook">{{cite news|title=Where The Rich Are Investing 2016|url=https://www.outlookbusiness.com/specials/where-the-rich-are-investing_2016/rameswar-rao-jupally-3193|publisher=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook Business]]|date=November 11, 2016}}</ref> He bought the 3.2 million tonne cement plant Sree Jayajyothi Cements from [[Shriram Group|Shriram Epc]] for ₹1,400 crore in 2013. Now the company has a 10-million tonne cement capacity, making Maha Cement one of the largest cement producers in [[South India]].

Rameswar Rao had a net worth of [[United States dollar|US$]]2.5 billion as of March 2024, according to ''[[Forbes]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jupally Rameshwar Rao |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/jupally-rameshwar-rao/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>

He made significant contributions to build the Statue of Equality in Shamshabad Hyderabad India, including donating the land on which it was built.

He is also the majority owner of the [[TV9 Telugu|TV9]] news network, and part owner of the [[NTV (India)|NTV]] news network, owning about 12 percent of the channel.

== Recognition ==
In May 2017, Rameswar Rao was given the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] by [[M. Venkaiah Naidu]], the [[Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs|Union Minister of Urban Development]], [[Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation|Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation]] at the HMTV Business Excellence Awards.<ref>{{cite news|title=Biz boost to build wealth|url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Telangana/2017-05-07/Biz-boost-to-build-wealth/298258|publisher=[[The Hans India]]|date=May 7, 2017}}</ref>

Rameswar Rao's company M/s My Home Constructions Pvt. Ltd received the safety awards at the Global Safety Summit International Awards & Conference in [[London]]. He was honored for his contributions to health and safety.<ref>{{cite news|title=My Home Group Chairman Dr Jupally Rameswar Rao conferred with prestigious GSS Global Safety Awards 2023|url=https://www.news9live.com/india/my-home-group-chairman-dr-jupally-rameswar-rao-conferred-with-prestigious-gss-global-safety-awards-2023-2222548|publisher=www.news9live.com|date=July 22, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=10th Global Safety Summit concluded on 23 Dec 2022; nominations open for International Safety award 2023, London|url=https://www.forbesindia.com/article/brand-connect/10th-global-safety-summit-concluded-on-23-dec-2022-nominations-open-for-international-safety-award-2023-london/82275/1|publisher=www.forbesindia.com|date=December 29, 2022}}</ref>

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Bhagvatsinhji

2026-03-31T05:15:47Z

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{{Short description|Maharaja of Gondal from 1869–1944}}
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'''Bhagvatsinhji''' (24 October 1865 – 9 March 1944) was the ruling [[Maharaja]] of the [[Gondal State|princely state of Gondal]] from 1869 until his death in 1944, upon which he was honoured with an 11-gun salute.<ref name=Peters1938>{{cite book |editor1-last=Peters |editor1-first=Thos |title=Who's Who In India Burma Ceylon (1938) |date=1938 |publisher=The Sun Publishing House |location=Poona |pages=59–60 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1492/page/59/mode/2up?|chapter=Gondal}}</ref> He was the only ruler from princely states of [[Kathiawar Agency]], in [[Bombay Presidency]] of [[British India]], to have taken a medical degree, among other qualifications.

==Early life==
Bhagvatsingh was born ''Kumar Sri'' Bhagvatsinghji Sangramsinhji Sahib, [[Yuvaraja]] Sahib of Gondal, on 24 October 1865 at [[Dhoraji]], the third and the youngest but only surviving son of Thakurani Bai Shri Monghiba Sahiba, daughter of Jhala Shri Rartansinhji Sahib of Minapur,<ref name=vam>[https://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1158_lafayette/popup.php?img_id=664 Bhagvatsinghji Sangramsinhji] ''[[Victoria and Albert Museum]]''.</ref> the third wife of Thakore Sagramji II, the Thakore Sahib, or chieftain, of Gondal, a small princely state that was an offshoot of the [[Jadeja]] dynasty.

===Background===
The Gondal branch of the dynasty had split off from the dynasty ruling [[Rajkot]] in the early 17th century. During the reign of Sagramji II, modern schools, courts and police force were established. In 1869, Sagramji II died, and Bhagvatsingh succeeded his father at the age of four.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Education and training==

Bhagvatsingh was educated at The [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot]].<ref name=vam/> Several years after ascending to the throne of Gondal, Bhagvatsinhji delegated the governance of his state to his adept Parsi Diwan, Bezanji Merwanji Damri.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mawani |first1=Sharmina |url= |title=Perspectives of Female Researchers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Gujarati Identities |last2=Mukadam |first2=Anjoom A. |date=2016-05-05 |publisher=Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH |isbn=978-3-8325-4124-8 |pages=68 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |title= |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/211330643.pdf |journal=}}</ref> He then traveled to Scotland to undertake medical studies at the [[University of Edinburgh]] from 1892,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://edin.ac/2HuWwAD|title=Bhagvat Singh (1865 – 1944)|work=The University of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-02-20|language=en}}</ref> where he graduated as a medical doctor in 1895<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Maharaja |first=Bhagvats Singhji |date=1895 |title=History of Aryan medical science |language=en |publisher=University of Edinburgh|hdl=1842/24115 }}</ref> and became a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]], the only princely ruler ever to do so.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} In 1894, he became the President of the Organising Committee of the 8th International Congress of Hygiene and Demography at Budapest. He later rose to become vice-president of the [[Indian Medical Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bhagvat Singh (1865 – 1944)|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/notable-alumni/alumni-in-history/bhagvat-singh|access-date=2021-05-31|website=The University of Edinburgh|date=October 2015 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1900 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[William Turner (anatomist)|Sir William Turner]], [[Douglas Argyll Robertson]], [[Alexander Crum Brown]] and [[Peter Guthrie Tait]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Reign==
Bhagvatsingh delegated most governing responsibilities, including public works, irrigation, and transportation projects. to the Diwan, Bezanji (Bejanji''')''' Merwanji Damri. Bhagvatsingh's primary focus and interest lay in the realm of education policy.<ref name=":0" /> Together they reformed the state administration, developed its resources, erected schools, colleges and hospitals, provided free and compulsory education for both men and women through university, built technical schools for engineers and training facilities for labourers.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} As well, Bhagvatsingh improved the regional livestock through modern animal husbandry, built dams and irrigation networks and introduced sewage, plumbing, rail systems, telegraphs, telephone cables and electricity, becoming also a champion for women's rights.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}<ref>[https://thediplomat.com/2019/04/girls-education-in-india-and-the-maharaja-bhagwat-singh-of-gondal Perspectives of The Maharaja by the current generation ].</ref><ref name="Girls, 1918. Page 11">''Education for Girls'', ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'', Boston, Mass. 11 June 1918. ''Page 11''.</ref> Compulsory education for girls up to fourth grade was enforced; educated mother will raise the next generation for the betterment of the society. Bhagvatsingh also published the first ever dictionary of [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] and a Gujarati encyclopedia, the "[[Bhagavadgomandal]]" in 1928.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Bhagvatsingh's four surviving sons were all educated abroad. The eldest son, Bhojirajsingh, studied at [[Eton School]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he took an engineering degree. His second, Bhupatsingh, was educated at [[Harrow School]] and at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] and became a doctor like his father, going on to the [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]] at the University of London to become a [[Doctor of Tropical Medicine]], [[Member of the Royal College of Physicians]] and [[LRCP]]. After returning to Gondal, Bhupatsingh became its chief medical officer. The youngest two sons, Kiritsingh and Natwarsingh, were both educated at the [[University of Edinburgh]], and became directors of the state railways.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Only four years after his formal accession in 1888, Gondal was raised to the rank of a first-class state with an 11-gun salute; in 1887, Bhagvatsingh became "Sir Bhagvatsingh" after he was knighted that year.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Family==

On 3 June 1881, Bhagvatsingh married Maharani Shri [[Nand Kunverbaiji]] Sahiba, CI (1867-9 March 1936). The couple had six sons and three daughters:

#Yuvraj Sahib [[Bhojirajsinhji]] Bhagvatsinhji (8 January 1883 – 31 July 1952, r. 1944–1952), who succeeded as Maharaja of Gondal
#Maharajkumari Bai Shri Nanba Kunverba Sahiba (1884–?)
#Rajkumar Shri Ajitsinhji Bhagvatsinghji Sahib (January–May 1887)
#Rajkumar Shri Ranjitsinhji Bhagvatsinghji Sahib (16 September 1887 – 1890)
#Maharajkumar Shri Dr. Bhupatsinhji Bhagvatsinghji Sahib, LRCP, MRCS, DTM (25 May 1888 – 1945?)
#Maharajkumari Bai Shri Leilaba Kunverba Sahiba, later the Rani of Jubbal (14 February 1891 – 7 March 1975); had issue.
#Maharajkumar Shri Kiritsinhji Bhagvatsinghji Sahib (13 February 1894–?)
#Maharajkumar Shri Natwarsinhji Bhagvatsinghji Sahib (29 May 1895 – 28 October 1937) (mauled by an Asiatic lion at Junagadh)
#Maharajkumari Bai Shri Taraba Kunverba Sahiba (4 March 1900 – 1958)

(Although Bhagvatsingh married three other wives, they do not seem to have provided him with children.)
{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Later years==
During his reign, Bhagvatsingh abolished all rates, taxes, customs, octroi, and export duties in the state making Gondal the only state to be tax-free.<ref name=qu/> He not just removed the [[purdah]] system for women,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110130050139/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740757,00.html "Purdah Women"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. 24 November 1930.</ref> but 'Zananas' or restricted women's wing were no longer built in subsequent palaces.<ref>[http://www.destinationsindia.com/india-palaces-tour/gujrat-palaces/gondal.html Gondal]</ref>

By 1918, Gondal was the only state in the [[Western India States Agency]] to have compulsory education for girls in all villages<ref name=qu>[http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/g/gondal.html Gondal Gealogy] at ''[[Queensland University]]''.</ref><ref name="Girls, 1918. Page 11"/> In October 1934, on the 50th anniversary of his accession to the throne he gave his weight in gold to charity.<ref>''Gives His Weight in Gold'', [[Chicago Daily Tribune]], 21 October 1934. ''E7 – PART 8''.</ref> Bhagvatsingh died on 9 March 1944 in his eightieth year after a 75-year reign, cementing his reputation as one of the most progressive monarchs in Indian history.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Titles==
[[File:Coat of arms of Gondal State.svg|thumb|180px|Coat of Arms of princely Gondal, 1893.]]
*1865–1869: [[Kumar]] [[Shri]] Bhagvatsingh Sangramsinhji [[Sahib]], [[Yuvaraja]] Sahib of [[Gondal, India|Gondal]]
*1869–1877: [[His Highness]] [[Thakur (Indian title)|Thakore]] Shri Bhagvatsingh Sahib, [[Thakore Sahib]] of Gondal
*1877–1887: His Highness Thakore Shri Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Thakore Sahib of Gondal
*1887–1888: His Highness Thakore Shri [[Sir]] Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Thakore Sahib of Gondal, [[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]]
*1888–1892: His Highness [[Maharaja]] Thakore Shri Sir Bhagvatsingh Sahib, [[Maharaja]] Thakore Sahib of Gondal, KCIE
*1892–1895: His Highness Maharaja Thakore Shri Sir Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Maharaja Thakore Sahib of Gondal, KCIE, [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|MRCPE]]
*1895–1897: His Highness Maharaja Thakore Shri Sir Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Maharaja Thakore Sahib of Gondal, KCIE, [[FRCPE]], [[Royal Asiatic Society|MRAS]], [[Royal Institution|MRI]]
*1897–1909: His Highness Maharaja Thakore Shri Sir Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Maharaja Thakore Sahib of Gondal, [[GCIE]], FRCPE, MRAS, MRI
*1909–1913: His Highness Maharaja Thakore Shri Sir Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Maharaja Thakore Sahib of Gondal, GCIE, [[FRSE]], FRCPE, MRAS, MRI, HPAC
*1913–1937: His Highness Maharaja Thakore Shri Sir Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Maharaja Thakore Sahib of Gondal, GCIE, FRSE, FRCPE, FCP (Bombay), MRAS, MRI, HPAC
*1937–1944: His Highness Maharaja Thakore Shri Sir Bhagvatsingh Sahib, Maharaja Thakore Sahib of Gondal, [[GCSI]], GCIE, FRSE, FRCPE, FCP (Bombay), MRAS, MRI, HPAC
{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Honours==
Bhagvatsingh received numerous honours, both academic and political, through his reign. Here is a full list of his honours and academic degrees:

===Academic degrees===
*[[Bachelor of Medicine]] (Edin.) (MB)-1889
*[[Master of Surgery]] (Edin.) (CM)-1892
*[[Medical Doctor]] (Edin.) (MD)-1895

===Honours===

====Decorations====
* [[Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (GCIE)-1897 (KCIE-1887)<ref>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_326.gif Gondal state] ''[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]]'', 1908. v. 12,
''p. 320''</ref>
* [[Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India]] (GCSI)-1937

====Medals====
* [[Prince of Wales]] Gold Medal-1875
* [[Empress of India Medal|Empress of India Gold Medal]]-1877
* [[Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee Medal]]-1887
* [[Delhi Durbar]] Gold Medal-1903
* [[Delhi Durbar]] Gold Medal-1911
* [[King George V Coronation Medal]]-1911
* [[King George V Silver Jubilee Medal]]-1935
* [[King George VI Coronation Medal]]-1937

====Honorary degrees====
* Fellow of [[Bombay University]]-1885
* Honorary [[Legum Doctor|LLD]] (Edin.)-1887
* Honorary [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]] ([[Oxon.]])-1892
* Honorary [[Legum Doctor|LL.D.]] [[Trinity College Dublin]] – 1900<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular|date=28 February 1900 |page=7 |issue=36077}}</ref>
* Honorary Master of Surgery (SB-Bombay)-1913

====Academic societies====
* [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] (FRCPE)-1895 (MRCPE-1892)
* Member of the [[Royal Asiatic Society]] (MRAS)
* Member of the [[Royal Institution]] of Great Britain and Ireland (MRI)
* Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (FRSE)-1909
* Fellow of the College of Physicians (FCP-Bombay)-1913

{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Works==
* ''A Short history of Aryan Medical Science'', by the Thakur Sahib of Gondal, 1896.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/09/02/102096700.pdf "Medical Work in India"] [[William Osler|Dr. William Osler]], ''The New York Times'', 2 September 1897.</ref><ref>"A Few Things Under the Sun: Vaccination, Anaesthesia, and Antiseptic Surgery Were in Vogue Two Thousand Years Ago". ''[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]'', Chicago, Ill. 20 December 1896, page 25. "Modern science is robbed of the credit of several of its most boasted discoveries by the revelations made in a remarkable book issued this week from the pen of a learned Indian Prince..."</ref>
* ''[[Bhagavadgomandal]]'', 1928.

==External links==
* [https://thediplomat.com/2019/04/girls-education-in-india-and-the-maharaja-bhagwat-singh-of-gondal/ Perspectives of The Maharaja by the current generation]
* [https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/25108 Princes, diwans and merchants by Bhalodia-Dhanani, Aarti — University of Texas — Austin : education and reform in colonial India — Depiction of Gondal as one of the illustrative kingdom]

==References==
<references />
* ''Shree Bhagvat Sinhjee: The Maker of Modern Gondal'', by St. Nihal Singh, Shree Bhagavat Sinhjee Golden Jubilee Committee, Gondal. Published by Golden Jubilee Committee, 1934.
* [http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/g/gondal.html Gondal Gealogy] at ''[[Queensland University]]''.



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Neeraj Kumar (police officer)

2026-03-29T04:25:53Z

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{{Short description|Ex-Commissioner of Police, Delhi}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox police officer
| name = Neeraj Kumar
| image = Neeraj_Kumar.jpeg
| caption = Neeraj Kumar as Commissioner of Police, Delhi
| status = Advisor to [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]'s Anti-Corruption Unit
| department = [[Delhi Police]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1953|07|04}}
| badge_number =
| birth_place = [[Patna]], [[Bihar]], India
| service_years = 1976{{spaced ndash}} July 2013
| rank = 1979: Commissioned as ACP Chanakyapuri 2012: Appointed as [[Commissioner of Police, Delhi]]
| awards = [[President's Police Medal|President’s Police Medal]] for Meritorious Service in 1992,
President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1999
}}

'''Neeraj Kumar''' is a former Commissioner of [[Delhi Police]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kumar|first1=Neeraj|title=Appointment as Delhi Commissioner|url=http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/neeraj-kumar-to-be-new-commissioner-of-delhi-police-490281}}</ref> who retired from the [[Indian Police Service]] (IPS) on 31 July 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tehelka.com/delhi-high-court-orders-two-firs-against-former-delhi-police-commissioner-neeraj-kumar-decks-cleared-after-12-years-of-registration-of-fir-as-justice-finally-prevails/|title=Delhi High Court orders two FIRs against former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar-Decks cleared after 12 years of registration of FIR as justice finally prevails {{!}} Tehelka|last=Ahuja|first=Charanjit|website=tehelka.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-21}}</ref> Neeraj Kumar belonged to 1976 batch and AGMUT (Arunachal-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territories) cadre and has recently completed his tenure as the Chief Advisor to the BCCI for their Anti Corruption & Security Unit (ACSU).<ref>{{Cite web|title = Neeraj Kumar appointed BCCI anti-corruption consultant|url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/864041.html|website = Cricinfo|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/delhi-high-court-upholds-order-against-former-delhi-police-commissioner-neeraj-kumar/articleshow/68503145.cms|title=Delhi High Court upholds order against former Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar|last=MOHANTY|first=MEERA|date=2019-03-20|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2019-03-21}}</ref>

During his distinguished career of 37 years, Kumar served in [[Delhi]], [[Arunachal]], [[Mizoram]] and [[Goa]]. He started his career as The [[Assistant Commissioner of Police (India)|Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)]] in the Chanankya Puri sub-division of New Delhi in 1979. On promotion, he served in [[Arunachal Pradesh Police|Arunachal Pradesh]] as the Superintendent of Police (Bomdila). He was summoned to [[Delhi]] in 1982 to be a part of the police arrangements for the Asian Games, for which he received several commendations. Subsequently, during his tenure as Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) [[Traffic]], he introduced several innovations including PrePaid taxi service at the Airport (operational till date), free eye camps for truck drivers, introduction of micro-processor based traffic signals etc. Subsequently, as [[Superintendent of police (India)|DCP]]/South, he cracked the serial crimes being committed by an erstwhile criminal tribe wherein victims were being bludgeoned to death in their sleep and looted there after.

In 1992, as [[Superintendent of police (India)|DCP]]/Crime he unearthed the massive multi crore racket in state run lotteries. In 1993, Kumar was promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police after which he was on deputation with the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] till 2002. He investigated several cases of terrorism, organized crime, economic crime and corruption. As the Director General (Prisons) he introduced several measures such as "Padho aur Padhao" (First learn yourself and then teach others) and "Sparsh" for the welfare of jail inmates. He retired from office in 2013 from the post of CP, [[Delhi]].

==Early life and education==
Kumar was born on 4 July 1953 to Shri Bishwanath Sahay and Smt. Pushpa Sahay in the city of [[Patna|Patna, Bihar]]. He completed his schooling from [[Sainik School, Tilaiya|Sainik School Tilaiya]]. In 1973, he graduated from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephens College]], Delhi and further went on to pursue his post graduation from the same college of the

[[Delhi University]]. On completion, he joined the [[Indian Police Services]] (IPS)<ref>{{Cite web|title = Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar Retired from His Office|url = http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/delhi-police-commissioner-neeraj-kumar-retired-from-his-office-1375350145-1|website = Jagranjosh.com|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref>

==Indian Police Service Career==
Kumar joined the Indian Police Service in 1976 as part of the AGMUT (Arunachal-Goa-Mizoram and other Union Territories) cadre.

===First Posting in Delhi===
After the completion of his probation, he was first posted as the [[Assistant Commissioner of Police]] at Chanakya Puri, New Delhi. He served there for a year from 1979 to 1980.

===Arunachal Pradesh===
He was then posted as the Superintendent of Police at Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh for next two years (1980-1982).

===Back to Delhi===
He was summoned back to Delhi in 1982 for police arrangements to be made for the Asian Games, for which he received several commendations. He was later closely associated with the security arrangements during the Non Aligned Summit 1983, followed by [[2006 Commonwealth Games|The Commonwealth]] Heads of Govt. (CHOGM) Meet later that year. From 1982 to 1993 he served in the Delhi Police in various important assignments viz. Dy. Commissioner of Police/Traffic, Dy. Commissioner of Police/South and Dy. Commissioner of Police/Crime etc. His role in handling the 1984 riots as the Additional DCP of Central District was praised by various Commissions of Enquiry appointed by the Government to probe the role of the police during the riots. During his tenure in Traffic Police, he introduced several innovations including the Pre Paid Taxi service at the Airport (operational till date), free eye camp for truck drivers, introduction of micro-processor based traffic signals etc. As DCP/South, he is remembered as a people friendly DCP, who cracked the serial crimes being committed by members of an erstwhile criminal tribe in which citizens were being bludgeoned to death in their sleep, and, thereafter, looted. Ever since then the city has remained free of such crimes. His role in containing the rioters during the [[Tehsil|Mandal]] agitation in South Delhi was widely acknowledged and appreciated. As DCP/Crime he cracked the massive multi crore racket in state run lotteries in 1992.

==Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)==

* '''Special Task Force''' (STF)
On promotion to the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police in 1993, he proceeded on deputation to the Central Bureau of Investigation where he served until 2002. In the CBI, he dealt with a wide variety of cases involving terrorism, organized crime, economic offences and corruption. He led the investigations in the serial blasts that rocked Mumbai (then Bombay), which were handed over to the CBI by the Mumbai Police in Dec. 1993. Under his leadership, the Special Task Force (or STF, created in the CBI to investigate the case) arrested seven members of the Memon family and sixteen other absconders. The charge sheets filed, at the time by the CBI led to the conviction of 100 out of the 123 accused in the case. Under his leadership, the STF also cracked the serial train blast cases of 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Neeraj Kumar is new police commissioner|url = http://www.deccanherald.com/content/260507/neeraj-kumar-police-commissioner.html|website = Deccan Herald|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref> which occurred on the first anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition in various prestigious trains, and unearthed a terrorist outfit called [[Ahl al-Hadith|Ahle Hadees]]. The trial of the serial train blasts cas ended in life sentence to all the fifteen arrested accused.

==Important Cases solved==
His tenure in the CBI is also highlighted by the solving of the [[Meenakshi Amman Temple]] blast case, the unearthing of the UTI Scam, the arrest and deportation of [[2002 attack on American cultural centre in Kolkata|American Cultural Centre attack]] mastermind Aftab Ansari from [[Dubai]], the arrest of Abdul Lateef, a notorious underworld don of Gujarat; Romesh Sharma, a [[Dawood Ibrahim]] henchman masquerading as a politician based in Delhi; the cracking of the cricket match fixing scandal in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar Retired from His Office|url = http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/delhi-police-commissioner-neeraj-kumar-retired-from-his-office-1375350145-1|website = Jagranjosh.com|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref> the arrest of Jagtar Singh Tara, the first accused to be nabbed in the assassination of the then Punjab [[Beant Singh (chief minister)|CM Sardar Beant Singh]], which led to the unraveling of the entire conspiracy.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Neeraj Kumar is new police commissioner|url = http://www.deccanherald.com/content/260507/neeraj-kumar-police-commissioner.html|website = Deccan Herald|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref> He has spoken extensively on his work with corruption in cricket<ref>{{cite web |last1=BLS |first1=Amrit |title=In a Tell-All on Corruption in Cricket, Ex-IPS Officer Neeraj Kumar Hurls a Few Bouncers at Vinod Rai |url=https://thewire.in/sport/neeraj-kumar-cricket-bcci-corruption |website=thewire.in |publisher=The Wire |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref> as well as other prominent cases in his career<ref>{{cite web |last1=ET Times |title=Neeraj Kumar |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/neeraj-kumar |website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com |publisher=Times of India |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref> as a featured guest on various podcasts such as Dostcast,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dostcast |title=IPS Neeraj Kumar on Tihar Jail, BCCI Corruption, and Nirbhaya {{!}} Dostcast 183 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegMu6xv7ec |website=YouTube.com |publisher=Youtube |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref> Bridge India’s Voices,<ref>{{cite web |last1=India |first1=Bridge |title=‘Voices’ Podcast |url=https://www.bridgeindia.org.uk/voices-podcast/ |website=bridgeindia.org.uk |publisher=Bridge India |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref> On The Record<ref>{{cite web |last1=On The Record |title=34: On the Record with Neeraj Kumar, former chief of Delhi Police |url=https://www.htsmartcast.com/news-podcasts/on-the-record/34-on-the-record-with-neeraj-kumar-former-chief-of-delhi-police/ |website=htsmartcast.com |publisher=HT Smart Cast |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref> and The Cārvāka Podcast.<ref>{{cite web |last1=The Cārvāka Podcast |title=A Cop in Cricket #matchfixing |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNkEjrB7vqo |website=YouTube.com |publisher=Youtube |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref>

==Fight against Terrorism==
On repatriation to the Delhi Police in February 2002 he was posted as Joint Commissioner of Police / Special Cell, responsible for tackling terrorism. During this tenure, he conducted several counter terror operations, many of which led to the neutralization of notorious Pakistani terrorists in Delhi. These included the encounters at [[Ansal Plaza]],<ref>{{Cite web|title = Ansal Plaza encounter: Delhi doctor goes into hiding|url = http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2002/11/08/stories/2002110804580100.htm|archive-url = https://archive.today/20150412021311/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2002/11/08/stories/2002110804580100.htm|url-status = dead|archive-date = 2015-04-12|website = [[The Hindu]]|date = 2002-11-08|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref> [[Tughlaqabad Fort]],<ref>{{Cite web|title = Two LeT terrorists killed in Delhi encounter|url = http://www.thehindu.com/2002/12/15/stories/2002121504380100.htm|website = [[The Hindu]]|date = 2002-12-15|access-date = 2016-01-25}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Deenpur Village in Najafgarh, [[Millennium Park]] and [[Lotus Temple]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Shootout sign of city police’s newfound spirit - Times of India|url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Shootout-sign-of-city-polices-newfound-spirit/articleshow/18096320.cms|website = The Times of India|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref> Thereafter, he was posted as Inspector General of Police / Mizoram. On promotion he was posted as Director General of Police, Goa, where he launched a sustained campaign against illegal immigrants, drug mafia and the Russian mafia indulging in [[land grabbing]], human trafficking etc. He masterminded the arrest of Tariq Ahmed Batlo, a Pakistan trained Kashmiri terrorist, who was tasked with an assignment to cause Bali like bombings in Goa. Serious terror incidents were prevented in the holiday haven as a result of this arrest. On his return to Delhi Police on transfer, as Special Commissioner of Police, he was responsible for the entire planning and execution of the police and security arrangements for the [[2010 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games 2010]], which have been widely appreciated. As Director General (Prisons) where, besides toning up the jail administration, he introduced several innovative measures like a literacy programme called "Padho aur Padhao", in collaboration with the National Literacy Mission Authority, which brought down illiteracy amongst jail inmates substantially; campus placement for reformed prisoners in which nearly four hundred inmates given jobs. He also started a semi-open jail in Delhi. His initiative "Sparsh", was a scheme for the welfare of nearly 2,500 inmates who did not get any visitors from their homes or friends. On 30 June 2012 he was appointed as the Commissioner of Police, Delhi. During his tenure as the CP, Kumar and his police force exposed the scam of spot fixing in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 6) of cricket.<ref>{{Cite web|title = IPL spot-fixing saga - Timeline - Cricbuzz|url = http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/67028/ipl-spot-fixing-saga-timeline|website = Cricbuzz|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref>

His first book ‘Dial D for Don’ published by Penguin Random House in 2015 is a runaway hit and figures on several bestseller lists. Kumar has recounted in the book the stories of eleven police operations that he conducted in the CBI. The book has received raving reviews from several quarters.

His second book 'Khakhi Files' published by Penguin Random House in 2019 has details of 9 other investigations conducted by him. Season one of '[[Delhi Crime]]' a popular crime series on Netflix is based on chapter 'Night of shame' from the book. Season two of Delhi Crime is based on another chapter 'Moon Gazer' from the same book.

==Awards and Recognitions==
Kumar has undertaken various foreign assignments and training session as part of the [[Delhi Police]]. He went to Tokyo (Japan) for three weeks in 1985 for a training programme on Traffic Police Management and attended a course on Post Blast Investigations organized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation [[FBI]] at Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1997.

He represented India at the UN Convention on Trans-national Organized Crime in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]. He also represented India at Vienna during deliberations of [[United Nations]] Manual on Kidnapping & Extortion, 2014. He was handpicked to be the Conference Secretary when the World Interpol Conference took place in New Delhi in October 2007. He has visited U.S.A., U.K, Germany, Australia, Israel, France, Japan, U.A.E, and various other countries for conferences, investigations and training programmes. In February, 2012 he was invited by the U.K. Government to share his experiences of organizing the security arrangements during [[Commonwealth Games 2010]] for the benefit of the U.K. Police.

He was decorated with the [[President's Police Medal]] in 1992 and President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1999 and has also been felicitated by Luton Cricket Club, [[United Kingdom]] for "making cricket a better arena to play in" in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Neeraj Kumar to be new Commissioner of Delhi Police|url = http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/neeraj-kumar-to-be-new-commissioner-of-delhi-police-490281|website = NDTV.com|access-date = 2016-01-25}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.facebook.com/neerajkumarips/ IPS Neeraj Kumar] [[Facebook]]

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Athidhi

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{{Short description|2007 film by Surender Reddy}}
{{About|the 2007 Indian film|the television series|Athidhi (TV series)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Athidhi
| image = Athidhi poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Surender Reddy]]
| producer = [[Ramesh Babu]] [[Ronnie Screwvala]]
| writer = '''Story''': [[Vakkantham Vamsi]] Surender Reddy '''Screenplay''': Surender Reddy '''Dialogues''': [[Abburi Ravi]]
| narrator = Abburi Ravi
| starring = [[Mahesh Babu]] [[Amrita Rao]]
| music = [[Mani Sharma]]
| cinematography = [[Sameer Reddy]]
| editing = Gautham Raju
| studio = [[UTV Motion Pictures]] [[Krishna Productions Pvt.Ltd]]
| distributor = UTV Motion Pictures
| released = {{film date|df=yes|2007|10|18}}
| runtime = 179 minutes
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget = {{INR}}20 [[crore]]<ref>[http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-economy/article1674075.ece Business Line : Today's Paper / ECONOMY : Telugu film industry enters new era]. Thehindubusinessline.com (6 November 2007). Retrieved on 2012-01-04.</ref>
| gross = {{INR|35 crore}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.india.com/entertainment/happy-birthday-amrita-rao-the-rise-fall-of-the-meri-awaaz-hi-pehchaan-hai-stars-bollywood-career-1263693/|title=Happy Birthday Amrita Rao: The rise & fall of the Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai star's Bollywood career!|website=india.com|last=Shetty|first=Akshata|date=17 June 2016}}</ref>
}}
'''''Athidhi''''' ({{translation|The Guest}}) is a 2007 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[neo-noir]] [[action thriller film]] directed by [[Surender Reddy]] and produced by [[Ramesh Babu|G. Ramesh Babu]] under Krishna Pictures Private Limited. The film stars [[Mahesh Babu]], alongside [[Amrita Rao]] (in her Telugu film debut and her only Telugu film to date), [[Murali Sharma]] and [[Ashish Vidyarthi]].

''Athidhi'' was released on 18 October 2007 to mixed reviews from critics who praised the Mani Sharma's Soundtrack and Performances of Babu, Rao and Sharma but criticized the overdose of violence and illogical scenes. This movie completed 35 days in 400 centres. The film was remade in Bengali language in [[Bangladesh]] as ''Durdhorsho Premik''.

==Plot==
In [[Delhi]], Athidhi is released from prison and goes in search of his long-lost childhood friend Amrita. Athidhi comes across a girl named Amrita, who is chased by stalkers from her college. Amrita and Athidhi meet many times and she soon starts to like Athidhi, but has to leave for [[Hyderabad]] before she can confess her feelings. When Amritha tries to tell him that she is leaving, Athidhi realizes that the goons, whose illegal operations were thwarted by Athidhi, are after him. Athidhi continuously tells Amrita to leave and soon slaps her angry after she doesn't listen. Years Later, Athidhi goes to Amrita to apologize, but meets her friend Madhavi, who tells him that Amrita wanted to tell Athidhi that she is leaving for [[Hyderabad]], where they head towards the cemetery to meet her.

Madhavi explains Amrita's origin to Athidhi, who realizes that Amrita is his friend. Athidhi arrives in Hyderabad and decides to head back Delhi Amrita's family, but he learns about a dreaded gangster Kaiser wants to kill Amrita. Later, Athidhi realizes that Kaiser was the psychopath who framed him for the death of Amrita's parents. It is revealed that Athidhi was a street orphan was adopted by Amrita's parents after he saved them from a dangerous path. While driving Athidhi to a hostel, they were stopped by a teenager, Kaiser, who shot and robbed the parents. Athidhi managed to grab the gun from Kaiser, but the cops misunderstand Athidhi behind the murders and arrested him, leaving Amrita feeling betrayed.

Meanwhile, [[Inspector]] Ajay Shastri is trying to track down Kaiser, but soon dies in an explosion in his house, which was planned by Kaiser. Athidhi soon figures out that Ajay is actually Kaiser. Before Kaiser's house blew up, Kaiser managed to escape and [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] Maccha Srinu realizes that Ajay and Kaiser are the same person and furious dies from a [[heart attack]]. Athidhi stops two attempts by Kaiser to kill Amrita, where he manages to kill Kaiser's men. Kaiser kidnaps Amrita and her younger sister, where he soon kills the sister.

Kaiser leads Amrita to a dungeon and calls Athidhi, where he tells him that he will kill Amrita if Athidhi does not rescue her in 12 hours. Athidhi kidnaps Kaiser's brother and agrees to release him in exchange for Amrita, but Kaiser kills his brother as he should not have any weakness. Kaiser reveals that he already killed Amrita, where Athidhi soon, when kills enraged all Kaiser's henchmen and thrashes Kaiser. However, Kaiser reveals that he lied about killing Amrita and that she is severely cut in the nerves and stuck in a certain air tank. Athidhi rescues Amrita and finishes Kaiser. Athidhi reunites with Amrita, who realizes that his innocence.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Mahesh Babu]] as Athidhi
* [[Amrita Rao]] as Amrita
** [[Baby Annie]] as young Amrita
* [[Murali Sharma]] as Inspector Ajay Sastry / Qaiser
* [[Ashish Vidyarthi]] as Danny Bhai
* [[Kota Srinivasa Rao]] as Maccha Srinu, an MLA who works under Kaiser
* [[Ajay (actor)|Ajay]] as Qaiser's brother
* [[Nassar (actor)|Nassar]] as Amrita's Uncle, the Home Minister
* [[Brahmanandam]] as Shivram
* [[Sunil (actor)|Sunil]] as Amrita's friend
* [[Ravi Prakash (Telugu actor)|Ravi Prakash]] as Ravi, Athidhi's friend
* [[Pragathi (actress)|Pragathi]] as Amrita's sister in law
* [[Subbaraju]] as Ganni Bhai
* [[Maadhavi Latha]] as Madhavi, Amritha's friend
* Ashmitha Karnani as Amrita's mother
* [[Rajendran]] as Henchman
* [[Prabhakar (Telugu actor)|Prabhakar]] as Goon
* Baby Karman Sandhu
* [[Hema (actress)|Hema]]
* [[Shankar Melkote]]
* Indrayudh Mandal (cameo)
* [[Venu Madhav (actor)|Venu Madhav]] (cameo)
* [[Rajiv Kanakala]] as Amrita's father (cameo)
* [[Malaika Arora Khan]] ([[Item number]] in the song "Rathraina")
{{colend}}

==Soundtrack==
The music was composed by [[Mani Sharma]] and released by [[Aditya Music]].

{{Infobox album
| name = Athidhi
| type = [[Soundtrack]]
| artist = [[Mani Sharma]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 27 September 2007
| recorded = 2007
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Soundtrack]]
| length = 27:09
| label = [[Aditya Music]]
| producer = Mani Sharma
| prev_title = [[Chiruta]]
| prev_year = 2007
| next_title = [[Godava]]
| next_year = 2007
}}

{{track listing
| headline = Telugu Track list
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 27:09
| title1 = Khabaddarani
| lyrics1 = [[Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry]]
| extra1 = Naveen Madhav, [[Rahul Nambiar]]
| length1 = 4:27
| title2 = Gona Gona
| lyrics2 = [[Chandrabose (lyricist)|Chandrabose]]
| extra2 = [[Rita (Indian singer)|Rita]], Naveen Madhav
| length2 = 4:28
| title3 = Satyam Emito
| lyrics3 = Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
| extra3 = Deepu, [[Usha (singer)|Usha]]
| length3 = 4:49
| title4 = Khiladi Koona
| lyrics4 = Vishwa Deepak
| extra4 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]], [[Rita (Indian singer)|Rita]]
| length4 = 4:17
| title5 = Rathraina
| lyrics5 = [[Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar]]
| extra5 = [[Anushka Manchanda|Anushka]], [[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]], Naveen Madhav, [[Suchitra]]
| length5 = 4:49
| title6 = Valla Valla
| lyrics6 = Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
| extra6 = [[Rahul Nambiar]], [[Darshana KT|Darshana]]
| length6 = 4:20
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Hindi Track list (''International Khiladi: The Iron Man'')
| all_lyrics = Vimal Kashyap
| total_length = 22:22
| title1 = Woh Deewangi
| length1 = 4:27
| title2 = Gona Gona
| length2 = 4:28
| title3 = Tujhe Sach Kahoon
| length3 = 4:50
| title4 = Kaatil Nigaahon Se
| length4 = 4:17
| title5 = Valla Valla
| length5 = 4:20
}}

== Reception ==
A critic from ''[[Rediff.com]]'' wrote that the film "is built up through a 'racy' screenplay which is gripping to an extent, but stretches to three long hours".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/oct/18ssathidi.htm|title=Mahesh Babu does well in Athidi|last=Rajamani|first=Radhika|date=18 October 2007|work=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref> Jeevi of ''[[Idlebrain.com]]'' praised the film's first half while criticising the last thirty minutes of the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-athidi.html|title=Telugu Movie review - Athidi|work=[[Idlebrain.com]]|date=18 October 2007|last=Jeevi}}</ref>

==Box office==
In 11 days the film grossed {{INRConvert|25|c}} worldwide.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Telugu film beats Saawariya in northern India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Telugu-film-beats-Saawariya-in-northern-India/articleshow_new/2588359.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2 June 2022 |website=[[The Times of India]] | last1=Sinha | first1=Meenakshi }}</ref> The film grossed {{INR|35}} crore by the four-week run at the worldwide Box office.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 June 2016 |title=Happy Birthday Amrita Rao: The rise & fall of the Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai star's Bollywood career! |url=https://www.india.com/entertainment/happy-birthday-amrita-rao-the-rise-fall-of-the-meri-awaaz-hi-pehchaan-hai-stars-bollywood-career-1263693/ |access-date=2 June 2022 |website=India.com}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Nandi Award for Best Villain]] – [[Murali Sharma]] (2007)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ipr.ap.nic.in/New_Links/Film.pdf|title=నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)|trans-title=A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)|publisher=[[Andhra Pradesh (magazine)|Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh]]|access-date=21 August 2020}}(in [[Telugu language|Telugu]])</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{IMDb title|0954914}}

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Economic sanctions

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'''Economic sanctions''' or '''embargoes''' are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Drezner |first=Daniel W. |date=2021 |title=The United States of Sanctions |language=en-US |work=Foreign Affairs |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-08-24/united-states-sanctions |issn=0015-7120}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Citation |last1=Biersteker |first1=Thomas J. |title=The effectiveness of United Nations targeted sanctions |date=2016 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/targeted-sanctions/effectiveness-of-united-nations-targeted-sanctions/553973997BF1A56B75D00FD4893ECD58 |work=Targeted Sanctions: The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action |pages=220–247 |editor-last=Tourinho |editor-first=Marcos |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-13421-8 |last2=Tourinho |first2=Marcos |last3=Eckert |first3=Sue E. |editor2-last=Eckert |editor2-first=Sue E. |editor3-last=Biersteker |editor3-first=Thomas J.}}</ref> Economic sanctions are a form of [[Coercion (international relations)|coercion]] that attempts to get an actor to change its behavior through disruption in economic exchange. Sanctions can be intended to compel (an attempt to change an actor's behavior) or deter (an attempt to stop an actor from certain actions).<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Drezner |first=Daniel W. |date=2003 |title=The Hidden Hand of Economic Coercion |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3594840 |journal=International Organization |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=643–659 |doi=10.1017/S0020818303573052 |jstor=3594840 |s2cid=154827129 |issn=0020-8183|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |last=Pape |first=Robert A. |date=1997 |title=Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2539368 |journal=International Security |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=90–136 |doi=10.2307/2539368 |jstor=2539368 |issn=0162-2889|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="scholar.harvard.edu">Haidar, J.I., 2017."[https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/haidar/files/haidar-sanctionsandexportdeflection-finaldraft.pdf Sanctions and Exports Deflection: Evidence from Iran]," Economic Policy (Oxford University Press), April 2017, Vol. 32(90), pp. 319–355.</ref>

Sanctions can target an entire country or they can be more narrowly targeted at individuals or groups; this latter form of sanctions are sometimes called "smart sanctions".<ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |last=Drezner |first=Daniel W. |date=2011 |title=Sanctions Sometimes Smart: Targeted Sanctions in Theory and Practice |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23016144 |journal=International Studies Review |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=96–108 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2486.2010.01001.x |jstor=23016144 |issn=1521-9488|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Prominent forms of economic sanctions include [[trade barrier]]s, [[Asset freezing|asset freezes]], [[travel ban]]s, [[arms embargo]]es, and restrictions on financial transactions.

The efficacy of sanctions in achieving intended goals is a subject of debate.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" /><ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Drezner |first=Daniel W. |date=2024 |title=Global Economic Sanctions |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-polisci-041322-032240 |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |language=en |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=9–24 |doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-041322-032240 |issn=1094-2939|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Scholars have also considered the policy externalities of sanctions.<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Farrell |first1=Henry |last2=Newman |first2=Abraham L. |date=2019 |title=Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion |journal=International Security |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=42–79 |doi=10.1162/isec_a_00351 |issn=0162-2889 |s2cid=198952367 |doi-access=free}}</ref> The humanitarian consequences of country-wide sanctions have been a subject of controversy.<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last=Drezner |first=Daniel W. |date=2022 |title=How not to sanction |url=https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/98/5/1533/6686647 |journal=International Affairs |language=en |volume=98 |issue=5 |pages=1533–1552 |doi=10.1093/ia/iiac065 |issn=0020-5850 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209133546/https://humanrightscommission.house.gov/sites/humanrightscommission.house.gov/files/documents/How%20not%20to%20sanction%20Daniel%20Drezner.pdf |archive-date=9 December 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref> As a consequence, since the mid-1990s, [[United Nations Security Council]] (UNSC) sanctions have tended to target individuals and entities, in contrast to the country-wide sanctions of earlier decades.<ref name="Giumelli 2015" />

== History of sanctions ==
One of the most comprehensive attempts at an embargo occurred during the [[Napoleonic Wars]] of 1803–1815. Aiming to cripple the United Kingdom economically, Emperor [[Napoleon I of France]] in 1806 promulgated the [[Continental System]] – which forbade European nations from trading with the UK. In practice the French Empire could not completely enforce the embargo, which proved as harmful (if not more so) to the continental nations involved as to the British.<ref>{{cite web |title=Continental System Napoleon British Embargo Napoleon's 1812 |url=http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Continental:policy.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710165750/http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Continental%3Apolicy.htm |archive-date=10 July 2011}}</ref> By the time of the [[Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907]], diplomats and legal scholars regularly discussed using coordinated economic pressure to enforce international law. This idea was also included in reform proposals by Latin American and Chinese international lawyers in the years leading up to [[World War I]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitchell|first=Ryan Martinez|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6KIEAAAQBAJ|title=Recentering the World: China and Transformation of International Law|date=2022|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-49896-8|language=en}}</ref>

=== World War I and the Interwar period ===
Sanctions in the form of blockades were prominent during [[World War I]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mulder|first=Nicholas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kMhQEAAAQBAJ|title=The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War|date=2022|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-26252-0|language=en}}</ref> Debates about implementing sanctions through international organizations, such as the [[League of Nations]], became prominent after the end of World War I.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Potter|first=Pitman B.|date=1922|title=Sanctions and Guaranties in International Organization|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S000305540001950X/type/journal_article|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=16|issue=2|pages=297–303|doi=10.2307/1943965|issn=0003-0554|jstor=1943965|s2cid=143600305 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Leaders saw sanctions as a viable alternative to war.<ref name=":11">{{Cite journal |last1=Morgan |first1=T. Clifton |last2=Syropoulos |first2=Constantinos |last3=Yotov |first3=Yoto V. |date=2023 |title=Economic Sanctions: Evolution, Consequences, and Challenges |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |language=en |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=3–29 |doi=10.1257/jep.37.1.3 |s2cid=256661026 |issn=0895-3309|doi-access=free }}</ref>

The League Covenant permitted the use of sanctions in five cases:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Buell |first=Raymond Leslie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PcBAAAAAIAAJ |title=International Relations |date=1925 |publisher=H. Holt |pages=564–565 |language=en}}</ref>

# When Article 10 of the League Covenant is violated
# In case of war or threat of war (Article 11)
# When a League member does not pay an [[arbitration award]] (Article 12)
# When a League member goes to war without submitting the dispute to the League Council or League Assembly (Articles 12–15)
# When a non-member goes to war against a League member (Article 17)

The [[Abyssinia Crisis]] in 1935 resulted in League sanctions against Mussolini's Italy under Article 16 of the Covenant. Oil supplies, however, were not stopped, nor the [[Suez Canal]] closed to Italy, and the conquest proceeded. The sanctions were lifted in 1936 and Italy left the League in 1937.<ref>Richard Pankhurst, "The Italo-Ethiopian War and League of Nations Sanctions, 1935–1936." ''Genève-Afrique/Geneva-Africa 13.2'' (1974): 5+.</ref><ref>George W. Baer, ''Test Case: Italy, Ethiopia, and the League of Nations'' (Hoover Institution Press, 1976).</ref><ref>Gaines Post, Jr, "The Machinery of British Policy in the Ethiopian Crisis." ''International History Review'' 1#4 (1979): 522–541.</ref><ref>G. Bruce Strang, "'The Worst of all Worlds:' Oil Sanctions and Italy's Invasion of Abyssinia, 1935–1936." ''Diplomacy and Statecraft'' 19.2 (2008): 210–235.</ref>

In the lead-up to the Japanese [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, the United States imposed severe trade restrictions on Japan to discourage further Japanese conquests in East Asia.<ref name=":11" />

=== From World War II onwards ===
After [[World War II]], the League was replaced by the more expansive [[United Nations]] (UN) in 1945. Throughout the Cold War, the use of sanctions increased gradually.<ref name=":11" /> After the end of the [[Cold War]], there was a major increase in economic sanctions.<ref name=":10" />

According to the Global Sanctions Data Base, there have been 1,325 sanctions in the period 1950–2022.<ref name=":11" />

== Politics of sanctions ==
Economic sanctions are used as a tool of [[foreign policy]] by many governments. Economic sanctions are usually imposed by a larger country upon a smaller country for one of two reasons: either the latter is a perceived threat to the security of the former nation or that country treats its citizens unfairly. They can be used as a coercive measure for achieving particular policy goals related to trade or for humanitarian violations. Economic sanctions are used as an alternative weapon instead of going to war to achieve desired outcomes.

The Global Sanctions Data Base categorizes nine objectives of sanctions: "changing policy, destabilizing regimes, resolving territorial conflicts, fighting terrorism, preventing war, ending war, restoring and promoting human rights, restoring and promoting democracy, and other objectives."<ref name=":11" />

=== Unilateral coercive measures ===
In contrast to [[International sanctions]], unilateral coercive measures are defined by the United Nations as "economic measures taken by one State to compel a change in the policy of another State" including "trade sanctions in the form of embargoes and the interruption of financial and investment flows between sender and target countries" and "so-called 'smart' or 'targeted' sanctions such as asset freezing and travel bans."<ref>{{Cite web |title=OHCHR and unilateral coercive measures |url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/unilateral-coercive-measures |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=OHCHR |language=en}}</ref> Unilateral coercive measures have faced increasing criticism from the United Nations, with 4 December 2025 being marked as the first International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nations |first=United |title=International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures |url=https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-against-unilateral-coercive-measures |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=United Nations |language=en}}</ref> Unilateral coercive measures often lead to over-compliance, with economic actors preferring not to trade with sanctioned countries even in ways that are not explicitly penalized by the sanctions. Unilateral coercive measures are typically imposed "under the pretext of criminal responsibility" but without due process, and frequently violate various aspects of international law, such as the immunity of state property, the immunity of state officials and diplomats, and the sovereign equality of states.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Douhan |first=Alena |date=2023-06-20 |title=Unilateral Coercive Measures: Effects and Legality Issues {{!}} Yale Journal of International Law |url=https://yjil.yale.edu/posts/2023-06-20-unilateral-coercive-measures-effects-and-legality-issues |access-date=2025-12-19 |website=yjil.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref>

===Effectiveness of economic sanctions===
Morgan, Syropoulos, and Yotov analyze how economic sanctions have evolved from broad trade embargoes to targeted financial and individual restrictions. They find sanctions increasingly frequent but inconsistently effective. Economic costs fall heavily on civilians, trade patterns shift toward neutral countries, and enforcement complexity rises. The authors conclude sanctions remain politically appealing yet economically blunt instruments whose success depends on coordination, credible goals, and minimizing humanitarian fallout.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Morgan |first1=T. Clifton |last2=Syropoulos |first2=Constantinos |last3=Yotov |first3=Yoto V. |date=2023-02-01 |title=Economic Sanctions: Evolution, Consequences, and Challenges |url=https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/jep.37.1.3 |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |language=en |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=3–29 |doi=10.1257/jep.37.1.3 |issn=0895-3309}}</ref>

Attia finds that sanctions serve more as symbolic or political devices than as costly coercive instruments.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Attia |first=Hana |date=2024 |title=Divert when it does not hurt: The initiation of economic sanctions by US presidents from 1989 to 2015 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/roie.12704 |journal=Review of International Economics |language=en |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=109–131 |doi=10.1111/roie.12704 |issn=1467-9396}}</ref>

According to a study by Neuenkirch and Neumeier, UN economic sanctions had a [[Statistical significance|statistically significant]] impact on targeted states by reducing their GDP growth by an average of 2.3–3.5 percent per year – and more than 5 percent per year in the case of comprehensive UN embargoes – with the negative effects typically persisting for a period of ten years. By contrast, unilateral US sanctions had a considerably smaller impact on GDP growth, restricting it by 0.5–0.9 percent per year, with an average duration of seven years.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Neuenkirch |first1=Matthias |last2=Neumeier |first2=Florian |date=1 December 2015 |title=The impact of UN and US economic sanctions on GDP growth |journal=European Journal of Political Economy |volume=40 |pages=110–125 |doi=10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2015.09.001 |issn=0176-2680 |url=http://www.fiw.ac.at/fileadmin/Documents/Publikationen/Working_Paper/N_138_NeuenkirchNeumeier.pdf}}</ref>

Oryoie, A. R. demonstrates that economic sanctions result in welfare losses across all income groups in Iran, with wealthier groups suffering greater losses compared to poorer groups.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Oryoie |first=Ali Reza |date=6 June 2024 |title=The impact of international sanctions on income mobility: Evidence from Iran |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rode.13123 |journal=Review of Development Economics |language=en |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=1695–1717 |doi=10.1111/rode.13123 |issn=1363-6669|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Imposing sanctions on an opponent also affects the economy of the imposing country to a degree. If import restrictions are promulgated, consumers in the imposing country may have restricted choices of goods. If export restrictions are imposed or if sanctions prohibit companies in the imposing country from trading with the target country, the imposing country may lose markets and investment opportunities to competing countries.<ref>{{cite web |last= Griswold |first= Daniel |url= http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10888 |title= Going Alone on Economic Sanctions Hurts U.S. More than Foes |publisher= Cato.org |date= 27 November 2000 |access-date= 30 March 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110923164257/http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10888 |archive-date= 23 September 2011 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

Hufbauer, Schott, and Elliot (2008) argue that [[regime change]] is the most frequent foreign-policy objective of economic sanctions, accounting for just over 39 percent of cases of their imposition.<ref>
{{cite book |last1 = Hufbauer |first1 = Gary Clyde |last2 = Schott |first2 = Jeffrey J. |last3 = Elliott |first3 = Kimberly Ann |last4 = Oegg |first4 = Barbara |title = Economic Sanctions Reconsidered |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=crSxDQAAQBAJ |edition = 3 |location = Washington, DC |publisher = Columbia University Press |date = 2008 |page = 67 |isbn = 9780881324822 |access-date = 10 May 2018 |quote = By far, regime change is the most frequent foreign policy objective of economic sanctions, accounting for 80 out of the 204 observations.}}</ref> Hufbauer et al. found that 34 percent of the cases studied were successful.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hufbauer |first1=Gary Clyde |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-uzlJDD7DwC |title=Economic Sanctions Reconsidered |last2=Schott |first2=Jeffrey J. |last3=Elliott |first3=Kimberly Ann |last4=Oegg |first4=Barbara |publisher=Peterson Institute |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-88132-536-2 |pages=158 |language=en}}</ref> However, when [[Robert A. Pape]] examined their study, he found that only 5 of their reported 40 successes were actually effective,<ref>
{{cite journal |last1 = Pape |first1 = Robert A. |title = Why Economic Sanctions Still Do Not Work |jstor = 2539263 |journal = International Security |date =Summer 1998 |volume = 23 |issue = 1 |pages = 66–77 |doi = 10.1162/isec.23.1.66 |s2cid = 57565095 |quote = I examined the 40 claimed successes and found that only 5 stand up. Eighteen were actually settled by either direct or indirect use of force; in 8 cases there is no evidence that the target state made the demanded concessions; 6 do not qualify as instances of economic sanctions, and 3 are indeterminate. If I am right, then sanctions have succeeded in only 5 of 115 attempts, and thus there is no sound basis for even qualified optimism about the effects of sanctions.}}</ref> reducing the success rate to 4 percent. In either case, the difficulty and unexpected nuances of measuring the actual success of sanctions in relation to their goals are both increasingly apparent and still under debate. In other words, it is difficult to determine ''why'' a regime or country changes (i.e., whether it was the sanction or inherent instability) and doubly so to measure the full political effect of a given action.<ref>''A Strategic Understanding of UN Economic Sanctions: International Relations, Law, and Development'', Golnoosh Hakimdavar, p. 105.</ref>

Offering an explanation as to why sanctions are still imposed even when they may be marginally effective, British diplomat [[Jeremy Greenstock]] suggests sanctions are popular not because they are known to be effective, but because "there is nothing else [to do] between words and military action if you want to bring pressure upon a government".<ref name="greenstock">{{cite news |last=Marcus |first=Jonathan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10742109 |title=Analysis: Do economic sanctions work? |work=BBC News |date=26 July 2010 |access-date=30 March 2015}}</ref> Critics of sanctions like Belgian jurist [[Marc Bossuyt]] argue that in nondemocratic regimes, the extent to which this affects political outcomes is contested, because by definition such regimes do not respond as strongly to the popular will.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Capdevila |first1=Gustavo |title=United Nations: US Riled by Economic Sanctions Report |url=https://www.iatp.org/news/united-nations-us-riled-by-economic-sanctions-report |publisher=Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |access-date=20 June 2020 |date=18 August 2000}}</ref>

A strong connection has been found between the effectiveness of sanctions and the size of veto players in a government. Veto players represent individual or collective actors whose agreement is required for a change of the status quo, for example, parties in a coalition, or the legislature's check on presidential powers. When sanctions are imposed on a country, it can try to mitigate them by adjusting its economic policy. The size of the veto players determines how many constraints the government will face when trying to change status quo policies, and the larger the size of the veto players, the more difficult it is to find support for new policies, thus making the sanctions more effective.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Peksen |first1=Dursun |last2=Jeong |first2=Jin Mun |date=30 August 2017 |title=Domestic Institutional Constraints, Veto Players, and Sanction Effectiveness |journal=Journal of Conflict Resolution |volume=63 |pages=194–217 |doi=10.1177/0022002717728105 |s2cid=158050636 |via=Sage Journals}}</ref>

Francesco Giumelli writes that the "set of sanctions ... that many observers would be likely to consider the most persuasive (and effective)", namely, UN sanctions against "[[central bank]] assets and [[sovereign wealth fund]]s", are "of all the types of measures applied ... the one least frequently used".<ref name="Giumelli 2015"/> Giumelli also distinguishes between sanctions against international terrorists, in which "the nature of the request is not as important as the constraining aspect", and sanctions imposed in connection with "post-conflict scenarios", which should "include flexible demands and the potential for adaptation if the situation changes".<ref name="Giumelli 2015"/>

Economic sanctions can be used for achieving domestic and international purposes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Whang |first1=Taehee |date=1 September 2011 |title=Playing to the Home Crowd? Symbolic Use of Economic Sanctions in the United States |url=https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/55/3/787/1834344 |journal=International Studies Quarterly |publisher=Ingentaconnect.com |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=787–801 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00668.x |access-date=30 March 2015|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Foreign [[aid]] suspensions are typically considered as a type of economic sanctions. Previously mentioned work by Hufbauer, Schott, Elliot, and Oegg is a prominent example.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hufbauer |last2=Schott |last3=Elliott |last4=Oegg |title=Economic Sanctions Reconsidered |date=2007 |publisher=Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) |isbn=978-0-88132-408-2 |edition=3rd |location=Washington, DC}}</ref> [[Claas Mertens]] finds that "suspending aid is more effective than adopting economic sanctions because (1) aid suspensions are economically beneficial for the adopting state, while sanctions are costly, (2) aid suspensions directly affect the targeted government's budget, (3) market forces undermine sanctions but not aid suspensions, and (4) aid suspensions are less likely to spark adverse behavioral reactions. [...] The findings suggest that economic sanctions are less effective than previously thought and that large donor states have a higher chance of achieving political goals through economic coercion."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mertens |first=Claas |date=28 March 2024 |title=Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions? |journal=International Studies Quarterly |volume=68 |issue=2|article-number=sqae016 |doi=10.1093/isq/sqae016 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

===Criticism===
Sanctions have been criticized on humanitarian grounds, as they negatively impact a nation's economy and can also cause collateral damage on ordinary citizens. Peksen implies that sanctions can degenerate human rights in the target country.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Peksen |first=Dursen |date=2009 |title="Better or Worse?": The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Human Rights |journal=Journal of Peace Research |volume=46 |pages=59–77 |doi=10.1177/0022343308098404 |s2cid=110505923}}</ref> Some [[Policy analysis|policy analysts]] believe that imposing trade restrictions only serves to hurt ordinary people as opposed to government elites,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Habibzadeh |first1=Farrokh |title=Economic sanction: a weapon of mass destruction |journal=The Lancet |date=September 2018 |volume=392 |issue=10150 |pages=816–817 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31944-5 |pmid=30139528 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | url=https://philpapers.org/rec/MUESOM | title=Sanctions of Mass Destruction| journal=Foreign Affairs| year=1999| volume=78| issue=3| pages=43–53| last1=Mueller| first1=John| last2=Mueller| first2=Karl| doi=10.2307/20049279| jstor=20049279| url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://the-libertarian.co.uk/video-economic-sanctions-dont-work/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227102536/http://the-libertarian.co.uk/video-economic-sanctions-dont-work/ |archive-date=27 February 2014 |title=Video: Why Economic Sanctions Don't Work |author=Emile Yusupoff |website=The Libertarian |year=2013}}</ref><ref>[[Hans Köchler]] (ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=7lJbn-Lh1vIC Economic Sanctions and Development]. Vienna: International Progress Organization, 1997. {{ISBN|3-900704-17-1}}.</ref> and others have likened the practice to [[siege]] warfare.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Joy |title=Sanctions as siege warfare |journal=The Nation |date=4 April 1999 |volume=268 |issue=11 |pages=18–22 |issn=0027-8378 |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/sanctions-siege-warfare/ |access-date=16 October 2019 |archive-date=25 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225145737/https://www.thenation.com/article/sanctions-siege-warfare/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vengeyi |first1=Obvious |title=Sanctions against Zimbabwe: A Comparison with Ancient Near Eastern Sieges |journal=Journal of Gleanings from Academic Outliers |date=2015 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=69–87 |url=https://www.academia.edu/28310267}}</ref> The [[United Nations Security Council]] (UNSC) has generally refrained from imposing comprehensive sanctions since the mid-1990s, in part due to the controversy over the efficacy and civilian harms attributed to the [[sanctions against Iraq]].;<ref name="Giumelli 2015"/> sanctions can have unintended consequences.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Yong Suk |year=2018 |title=International isolation and regional inequality: Evidence from sanctions on North Korea |url=https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/juecon/v103y2018icp34-51.html |journal=Journal of Urban Economics |volume=103 |issue=C |pages=34–51 |doi=10.1016/j.jue.2017.11.002 |s2cid=158561662|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

According to a 2025 article in ''[[The Lancet Global Health]]'', economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union are associated with 38 million deaths from 1970 to 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hickel|first1=Jason|author-link1=Jason Hickel|last2=Sullivan|first2=Dylan|last3=Tayyab|first3=Omer |date=September 3, 2026 |title=US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/9/3/us-and-eu-sanctions-have-killed-38-million-people-since-1970|work=[[Al Jazeera]] |location= |publisher= |access-date=February 7, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=August 2025 |title=The health toll of economic sanctions|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00278-5/fulltext|journal=[[The Lancet Global Health]]|volume=13 |issue=8 |publisher= |pages=E1327 |doi= 10.1016/S2214-109X(25)00278-5|access-date=}}</ref>

=== Smart Sanctions ===
One of the most popular suggestions to combat the humanitarian issues that arise from sanctions is the concept of "smart sanctions", and a lot of research has been done on this concept also known as targeted sanctions.<ref name=":13">Gordon, Joy. "Smart Sanctions Revisited." ''Ethics & International Affairs'', vol. 25, no. 3, 2011, pp. 315–335., {{doi|10.1017/S0892679411000323}}</ref> The term "smart sanctions" refers to measures like asset freezes, travel bans, and arms embargoes that aim to target responsible parties like political leaders and elites with the goal of avoiding causing widespread collateral damage to innocent civilians and neighboring nations.<ref name=":13"/>

Though there has been enthusiasm about the concept, as of 2016, the Targeted Sanctions Consortium (TSC) found that targeted sanctions only result in policy goals being met 22 percent of the time.<ref>Kanji, Laura. "Moving Targets: The Evolution and Future of Smart Sanctions." ''Harvard International Review'' 37.4 (2016): 39–42. ProQuest. Web. 30 November 2023</ref>

Smart Sanctions have also not been totally successful in avoiding civilian harm or unintended consequences.<ref name=":13" /> For example, arms embargoes can impact the self-defense efforts of those under attack, aviation bans can affect a nation's transportation sector and the jobs of civilians associated with them, and financial sanctions targeting individuals raise due process issues.<ref name=":13" /> One example of smart sanctions in practice can be seen with sanctions imposed by the United States on the Russian Federation following the latter's 2014 [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|annexation of Crimea]], which were intended to exert pressure on Russia's financial sector.<ref name=":14">Ashford, Emma. “Not-So-Smart Sanctions: The Failure of Western Restrictions Against Russia.” ''Foreign Affairs'', vol. 95, no. 1, 2016, pp. 114–123. {{JSTOR|43946631}}. Accessed 6 December 2023.</ref> The sanctions resulted in American credit card companies [[Visa Inc.|Visa]] and [[Mastercard]] suspending all transactions of sanctioned Russian banks, effectively canceling the credit cards of ordinary Russian consumers.<ref name=":14" /> In addition, the suspension of the [[SWIFT]] payment system in Russia, following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, led to the widespread adoption of its own domestic payment system and decreased reliance on Western banking.<ref>Keskin, G. (2025, October 13). ''Weaponised finance: sanctions, SWIFT and the future of global political risk''. Atlas Institute for International Affairs. <nowiki>https://atlasinstitute.org/weaponized-finance-sanctions-swift-and-the-future-of-global-political-risk/</nowiki></ref>

== Sanctions evasion and shadow fleets ==
{{Main|Shadow fleet}}

Economic sanctions, largely on oil exporters, have led to the growth of so-called [[Dark fleet|''dark'']] and ''shadow fleets'' of tankers that move sanctioned crude and refined products outside regular monitoring and service networks. The terms are used for tankers that operate at the limits of, or outside, conventional monitoring and regulatory frameworks, typically in order to move sanctioned or high-risk oil cargoes. These fleets are most closely associated with Russian crude exports after 2022, but similar patterns have been documented in trades involving Iran, Venezuela and North Korea.<ref name=":15">{{Cite journal |last1=Rodriguez-Diaz |first1=Emilio |last2=Alcaide |first2=Juan Ignacio |last3=Endrina |first3=Nieves |date=2025-06-07 |title=Shadow Fleets: A Growing Challenge in Global Maritime Commerce |journal=Applied Sciences |language=en |volume=15 |issue=12 |pages=6424 |doi=10.3390/app15126424 |doi-access=free |issn=2076-3417}}</ref> Since 2025, Venezuelan shadow vessels have also drawn increased attention, due to the Trump administration's efforts to enforce economic sanctions.<ref>Mower, J. (2025, December 22). US in active pursuit of third vessel associated with Venezuela's shadow fleet. ''S&P Global Energy''. <nowiki>https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/crude-oil/122125-us-in-active-pursuit-of-third-vessel-associated-with-venezuelas-shadow-fleet</nowiki></ref>

In the sanctions literature, “dark fleet” is used for vessels that hide their identity or activities to evade regulations and monitoring. These tankers may change flag and name frequently, use complex ownership chains and front companies, falsify documentation, and sail with [[Automatic identification system|Automatic Identification System]] (AIS) transponders switched off for long periods. This type of opaque structure was first mapped in detail in a 2019 case where United States authorities seized a [[International sanctions against North Korea|North Korean vessel]] operating through layered ownership in several jurisdictions.<ref name=":15" />

Alongside these are “grey fleets”, which keep AIS switched on but often manipulate the data, for example by misreporting destinations or cargoes. Grey fleet operators exploit gaps and inconsistencies in national and international rules so they appear formally compliant while bypassing sanctions in practice. They have become central to moving Russian oil to non-sanctioning buyers such as China, India and Türkiye.<ref name=":15" />

Many recent studies use “Russian shadow fleet” as an umbrella term for both dark- and grey-fleet tankers that carry Russian oil while concealing their links to Russia, operating without insurance from [[International Group of P&I Clubs|International Group]] protection and indemnity clubs, and being owned through companies registered outside the European Union, the G7 and allied states.<ref>Bonsoom, J. (2025). Dark Waters Ahead. ''Department of Political Science, University of Lund'' <nowiki>https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9189765</nowiki></ref> This fleet is largely composed of older [[Aframax]] and [[Suezmax]] tankers purchased out of mainstream fleets and re-flagged to open registries or small coastal and island states, as Western firms have withdrawn from Russian trades.<ref name=":16">Hilgenstock, B., Ribakova E., Shapoval N. (2023). Bold measures are needed as Russia’s oil is slipping beyond G7 reach (Oil Price Cap monitoring brief, November 2023). ''KSE Institute.'' <nowiki>https://kse.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/OPC_November2023-1.pdf</nowiki></ref><ref name=":17">Poussenkova, N. (2024). ''Survival of the Fleetest: Russian Oil Companies under Western Sanctions''. <nowiki>https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-99406-0</nowiki></ref>

=== Economic logic and incentives ===
The emergence of a shadow fleet fits standard economic theories of sanctions and [[black market]]s. Classical work by [[Kenneth E. Boulding|Boulding]] and [[Gary Becker|Becker]] argued that price caps, quotas and embargoes on profitable goods tend to generate illicit markets when the expected net return from evasion exceeds the return available under the sanctioned regime.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boulding |first=K. E. |date=February 1947 |title=A Note on the Theory of the Black Market |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-economics-and-political-science-revue-canadienne-de-economiques-et-science-politique/article/abs/note-on-the-theory-of-the-black-market/F64409A85166F8900EB650DD50E77459 |journal=Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Economiques et Science Politique |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=115–118 |doi=10.2307/137604 |jstor=137604 |issn=0315-4890}}</ref><ref>Becker, G. S. (1968). Crime and Punishment: an economic approach. ''Journal of Political Economy'', ''76''(2), 169–217. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1086/259394</nowiki></ref> In this framework, sanctions create a wedge between the world price and the effective price received by the exporter. If exporters can recover part of that wedge by paying higher logistics and risk costs, they have a clear incentive to do so.

Recent economic analyses apply this logic to the Russian oil sanctions. Hilgenstock et al.<ref name=":16" /> and Stockbruegger<ref name=":18">Stockbruegger, J. (2023). Reducing Russia’s oil revenues. ''The RUSI Journal'', ''168''(5), 34–42. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2023.2276303</nowiki></ref> describe how the post-2022 [[2022 Russian crude oil price cap sanctions|price-cap]] regime ties access to key maritime services such as shipping finance, insurance and brokerage to certified compliance with the cap. The intention was to keep Russian barrels on the market, while forcing Russia to sell at a discount and absorb higher transaction costs. In practice, this architecture created strong substitution incentives. As coalition firms tightened due diligence or withdrew from Russian cargoes, Russia and associated traders shifted to non-coalition channels: older hulls held via opaque ownership, wider use of flags of convenience, non-International Group insurance or unclear financial guarantees, more ship-to-ship transfers and intermittent AIS darkness or identity manipulation.<ref name=":16" /><ref name=":17" />

Two margins matter. First, the price margin. Monitoring by think-tanks and central banks reports that by late 2023 many Russian crude cargoes were selling above the nominal cap, with the incidence of sanctions showing up, instead, in higher bundled freight and insurance charges, and in buyer discounts relative to benchmark grades.<ref name=":16" /><ref name=":18" /> [[FOB (shipping)|Free-on-board]] prices stayed within formal limits, but total delivered prices and margins shifted through opaque service pricing.

Second, the capacity margin. Cardoso et al. model evasion capacity – the size of the shadow fleet and its supporting services – as a choice variable. In their calibrated model, Russia can increase the share of exports sold outside coalition services by “investing” in a larger shadow fleet and its enablers. Where evasion capacity can expand at reasonable cost, tightening the cap or moving towards bans does not necessarily reduce Russian revenue; instead, trade re-routes through the shadow fleet and world prices adjust.<ref name=":19">Cardoso, S. D., W. Salant, S., & Daubanes, J. (2025). The Dynamics of Evasion: The Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports and the Amassing of the Shadow Fleet. In ''CESifo Working Papers'' ({{ISSN|2364-1428}}). Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH. <nowiki>https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp11618.pdf</nowiki></ref> In this setting, caps remain only partially effective unless policy also constrains the growth or utilisation of evasion capacity.

On the producer side, Grebennikov describes how Russia has adjusted its fiscal rules by applying a fixed Urals discount in tax calculations. This cushions budget revenue against volatility in reported export prices and implicitly recognises the higher supply-chain and intermediation costs that accompany sanctions evasion.<ref name=":20">Grebennikov, V. I. (2024). The Impact of Sanctions on Russian Oil Trade. ''Russian Foreign Trade Academy''. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.24412/2072-8042-2024-2-121-130</nowiki></ref> Poussenkova et al. link these fiscal adjustments to a broader re-routing of exports towards India and China, which gain bargaining power as European buyers exit, and competition among service providers thins.<ref name=":21">{{Cite journal |last1=Poussenkova |first1=Nina |last2=Mironova |first2=Irina |last3=Jirušek |first3=Martin |date=2024-01-29 |title=Western Sanctions and Russia's Role for Global Energy |url=http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/658789 |journal=Russian Analytical Digest (RAD) |language=en |volume=308 |doi=10.3929/ethz-b-000658789 |hdl=20.500.11850/658789 |issn=1863-0421}}</ref>

The economic literature is clear on the direction of these incentives but weaker on their exact magnitude. Much early empirical work relies on administrative export prices and customs data with patchy coverage and varying definitions, and there is almost no micro-level data on the pricing and performance of non-International Group insurance contracts. Assertions that many vessels are “uninsured” often mean only that they lack IG cover; they may still be backed by alternative guarantees whose quality is hard to verify.<ref name=":18" /><ref name=":21" />

=== Evolution of sanctions and policy response ===
Work on the Russian shadow fleet illustrates how sanctions design tends to evolve over time. Rather than a single, static measure, sanctioning coalitions usually adjust instruments in response to evasion and to wider economic effects.<ref name=":20" />

In the Russian case, early measures focused on a price cap that was tied to access to maritime services such as finance, insurance and brokering. The intention was to keep oil supplies on the market while compressing Russian revenue. As evidence accumulated that a growing share of exports was moving through shadow-fleet tankers and non-coalition service providers, the policy mix became progressively tighter. Governments introduced more demanding attestation requirements, began listing specific vessels and facilitators, stepped up insurance document checks at key maritime chokepoints, and restricted suspicious sales of older hulls into opaque ownership structures. By 2024–2025, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union had also adopted measures directly targeting logistics companies, energy traders and tankers believed to be involved in systematic evasion, while formally maintaining the cap framework.<ref name=":18" /><ref>Antonenko, N., & Savina, A. (2025). Sanctions Against Russia: Dynamics, Enhanced Restrictions and Economic Effects. ''SSRN Electronic Journal''. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5368025</nowiki></ref>

Economic modelling of these developments uses the shadow fleet as an example of how sanctions and evasion capacity interact. Cardoso et al. show that making a cap stricter, or replacing it with broader prohibitions, does not automatically reduce the target’s income if evasion can expand at relatively low cost.<ref name=":19" /> In such settings, exporters and buyers re-route trade through alternative fleets and service networks, and some of the intended revenue loss is offset by higher world prices. The models therefore stress that the effectiveness of sanctions depends not only on the level of the cap or the breadth of legal restrictions, but also on policies that raise the cost of evasion, for example by limiting access to recognised insurance and bunkering services for high-risk vessels or by tightening controls on ship sales into opaque structures.

From the perspective of the wider sanctions literature, this case underlines three general points. First, sanctions are often implemented as a sequence of measures that respond to observed loopholes rather than as a fully designed regime from the outset. Second, the line between price-based tools and de facto bans can blur over time as senders add restrictions on services and specific actors. Third, policy changes that look tougher on paper may have limited impact if they do not address the parallel networks that sanctions themselves have helped to create.

=== Externalities and the blue-economy debate ===
Policy essays on the shadow fleet stress externalities rather than just revenue effects. Both Stockbruegger and the Poussenkova et al. argue that the growth of an ageing, lightly regulated tanker pool with opaque ownership and non-standard insurance increases environmental and safety risks borne by coastal states and seafarers. In their view, the re-routing and de-risking of sanctioned trade by coalition firms pushes expected social costs onto jurisdictions and actors who did not choose the sanctions.<ref name=":18" /><ref name=":21" />

Parlov and Sverdrup take a similar line from a legal perspective, claiming that the combination of flags of convenience, reduced inspections and unclear liability undermines more than five decades of work to build a coherent international regime for tanker safety, pollution control and victim compensation.<ref name=":22">Parlov, I. & Sverdrup, U. (2024) Chapter 8: The Emerging ‘Shadow Fleet’ as a Maritime Security and Ocean Governance Challenge In; Lott, A (ed.) 2024, ''Maritime Security Law in Hybrid Warfare'', BRILL, Boston. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [30 November 2025].</ref> Braw and others estimate that a major spill involving a shadow-fleet tanker in European waters could generate clean-up and compensation costs in the order of billions of US dollars, although these figures are scenario-based rather than grounded in observed accident data.<ref>Braw, E. (2024). The threats posed by the global shadow fleet—and how to stop it. ''The Atlantic Council. <nowiki>https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/the-threats-posed-by-the-global-shadow-fleet-and-how-to-stop-it/#sanctions</nowiki>''</ref>

So far, these arguments are plausible but not yet backed by detailed micro-evidence. No study provides systematic information on premium levels, deductibles, exclusions or claims outcomes under non-IG cover. Without such data, it is impossible to say how much of the so-called “evasion wedge” is due to weak insurance and liability versus pure logistics, buyer power or regulatory arbitrage.

=== International law and maritime sanctions enforcement ===
Most legal discussion of sanctions evasion at sea centres on how shadow-fleet practices interact with the law of the sea. The basic framework is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and International Maritime Organization (IMO) instruments such as [[MARPOL 73/78|MARPOL]]. These place primary responsibility for safety and pollution control on flag states, while port states enforce rules when vessels call at their ports.<ref name=":23">Nguyen, T. (2023). The Challenges of Dark Ships to the Safety and Security of Commercial Shipping and the Way Forward. ''Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy'', 8(2), 310–328. Brill.</ref><ref name=":24">Beckman, R., Nguyen, T., & Ong, J. (2025). Possible Actions by Coastal States to Protect Their Marine Environment from Oil Tankers in the Dark Fleet. ''The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law'' 40: 3–30. Brill</ref>

Shadow-fleet operators are described as exploiting this division by using flags of convenience with weak enforcement and by avoiding ports in jurisdictions that apply strict port-state control. Instead, they rely on ship-to-ship transfers on the high seas or in EEZs, where traditional port-state tools are harder to use.<ref name=":24" />

A key question is how far coastal states can act inside their EEZs to support sanctions. Suggested measures include applying existing IMO rules on ship-to-ship transfers through documentation and insurance checks, designating monitored transfer zones, and using UNCLOS obligations on flag states to press registries that accept large numbers of high-risk tankers.<ref name=":24" /><ref name=":22" /> A minority of authors argue for a stricter reading of the Convention’s requirement of a “genuine link” between a flag state and its vessels, but attempts to turn this into a practical tool have not succeeded.<ref name=":23" /><ref name=":25">Childs, N. (2025). Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ and Sanctions Evasion: What Is To Be Done? ''International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).''</ref>

The literature generally concludes that these options remain largely theoretical. There is little evidence that coastal states have yet applied them systematically to shadow-fleet operations, so most work maps what states could do in principle rather than documenting state practice in enforcing sanctions at sea.<ref name=":24" /><ref name=":25" />

=== Gaps and ongoing debates ===
Across legal, economic, environmental and geopolitical work, the literature on sanctions evasion via shadow fleets is still at an early stage. Authors agree that the fleets pose a structural challenge to sanctions enforcement and maritime governance, but empirical knowledge is fragmented.

First, there is a basic data deficit. The fleets operate deliberately in opaque ways, which hampers measurement. Legal analyses of potential coastal-state responses under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea – for example, using article 211 paragraph 5 to impose documentation and insurance requirements for ship-to-ship transfers in the exclusive economic zone – remain almost entirely doctrinal. There is no solid evidence that states have tried these measures in a sustained way, so their feasibility is unknown.<ref name=":24" /><ref name=":22" /> Economic studies repeatedly note the absence of reliable micro-data on insurance, ownership chains and claims, and rely instead on partial customs data and indicative shipping information.

Second, there is a geographical bias. Most detailed work focuses on Europe, the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic routes, where political interest and media scrutiny are strongest. Yet key operational hubs for the shadow fleet lie elsewhere: ship-to-ship transfer zones in the eastern Mediterranean, the Arabian Sea and Southeast Asia, permissive port-state regimes in parts of West Africa and the South Atlantic, and final discharge ports in Asia and the Middle East. Bai et al. and Poussenkova et al. argue that these permissive corridors effectively set the floor for global evasion costs and thus for the true effectiveness of sanctions, but they remain under-analysed.<ref name=":21" /><ref>Bai, X., Fernández-Villaverde, J., Li, Y., Xu, L., & Zanetti, F. (2025). ''Charting the uncharted: the (Un)Intended consequences of oil sanctions and dark shipping''. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.3386/w33486</nowiki></ref>

Third, there is almost no systematic work on seafarers’ rights and labour conditions in the shadow fleet, despite indications that many vessels are old, heavily worked and registered under flags with weak labour oversight. Existing studies treat the fleet mainly as an instrument of state strategy or corporate evasion rather than as a workplace embedded in global labour markets. International labour law and human-rights obligations are mentioned as potential levers but not explored in detail.<ref name=":22" />

Finally, the broader geopolitical implications are only partially mapped. Current analyses show how the shadow fleet mitigates Western sanctions and increases Russia’s ability to re-orient exports towards non-coalition buyers, but there is little systematic work on how this reshapes bargaining power, long-term energy relationships or the authority of institutions such as the International Maritime Organization. The risk that aggressive secondary sanctions on shadow-fleet actors could generate collateral damage for developing countries, or accelerate broader shifts in trade and alliance patterns, is noted but not well quantified.

Taken together, existing work on sanctions and the shadow fleet shows that targets respond to economic pressure by building alternative logistics and financial networks, and that these networks create new regulatory and welfare problems of their own. The basic mechanisms are well understood in theory. The scale, distribution and long-term implications are not.

==Implications for businesses==
There is an importance, especially with relation to financial loss, for companies to be aware of embargoes that apply to their intended export or import destinations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Do I need an export licence?|url=https://www.gov.uk/guidance/beginners-guide-to-export-controls|access-date=5 March 2021|website=GOV.UK|date=11 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Properly preparing products for trade, sometimes referred to as an embargo check, is a difficult and timely process for both importers and exporters.<ref>{{Cite web|title=SAP Help Portal|url=https://help.sap.com/viewer/bdb1d2fb216941a69f6300006343e977/11.0.16/en-US/4addab208f6f23aee10000000a42189c.html|access-date=5 March 2021|website=help.sap.com}}</ref>

There are many steps that must be taken to ensure that a [[List of legal entity types by country|business entity]] does not accrue unwanted fines, taxes, or other punitive measures.<ref>{{Cite web|title=US Trade Sanctions Are a Trap for the Unwary {{!}} Norton Rose Fulbright|url=https://www.projectfinance.law/publications/us-trade-sanctions-are-a-trap-for-the-unwary|access-date=5 March 2021|website=www.projectfinance.law|language=en}}</ref> Common examples of embargo checks include referencing embargo lists,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Office of Foreign Assets Control – Sanctions Programs and Information {{!}} U.S. Department of the Treasury|url=https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/office-of-foreign-assets-control-sanctions-programs-and-information|access-date=5 March 2021|website=home.treasury.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Perform Sanction, PEPs and Watchlist Verification w/ Lexis Diligence|url=https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-diligence/sanction-peps-and-watch-list-verification.page|access-date=5 March 2021|website=www.lexisnexis.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=SAP Help Portal|url=https://help.sap.com/viewer/5424e112323f4f8fa760fe742cde1a1c/6.17.17/en-US/f6eed353ca9f4408e10000000a174cb4.html|access-date=5 March 2021|website=help.sap.com}}</ref> cancelling transactions, and ensuring the validity of a trade entity.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World-Check KYC Screening & Due Diligence|url=https://www.refinitiv.com/en/products/world-check-kyc-screening|access-date=5 March 2021|website=www.refinitiv.com|language=en}}</ref>

This process can become very complicated, especially for countries with changing embargoes. Before better tools became available, many companies relied on spreadsheets and manual processes to keep track of compliance issues. Today, there are software based solutions that automatically handle sanctions and other complications with trade.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Export Control and Sanctions Compliance {{!}} About SAP|url=https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/export-statements.html|access-date=5 March 2021|website=SAP|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Embargo Check|url=https://www.anasys.com/en/embargo-check/|access-date=5 March 2021|website=AnaSys a Bottomline Company|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=22 January 2021|title=Embargo Check|url=https://www.uniserv.com/en/solutions/data-quality-tools/embargo-check/|access-date=5 March 2021|website=Uniserv GmbH – Customer Data Experts.|language=en|archive-date=7 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407170314/https://www.uniserv.com/en/solutions/data-quality-tools/embargo-check/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Examples==
[[File:GASOLINE SHORTAGE HIT THE STATE OF OREGON IN THE FALL OF 1973 BY MIDDAY GASOLINE WAS BECOMING UNAVAILABLE ALONG... - NARA - 555405.jpg|thumb|An undersupplied US gasoline station, closed during the oil embargo in 1973]]

===United States sanctions===
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====US Embargo Act of 1807====
{{Main|Embargo Act of 1807}}

The United States [[Embargo of 1807]] involved a series of laws passed by the [[United States Congress|US Congress]] (1806–1808) during the second term of President [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=2986 | title = The Embargo of 1807 | author = University of Houston | publisher = digitalhistory.uh.edu | year = 2013 | author-link = University of Houston }}</ref> [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and [[First French Empire|France]] were engaged in the [[War of the Fourth Coalition]]; the US wanted to remain [[Neutral country|neutral]] and to trade with both sides, but both countries objected to American trade with the other.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www2.gcc.edu/dept/econ/ASSC/Papers2005/Embargo1807_Snyder.pdf | title= The Embargo of 1807 |location=Pennsylvania | publisher= [[Grove City College]] | author1= Aaron Snyder | author2= Jeffrey Herbener | website= gcc.edu | date= 15 December 2004 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130517115213/http://www2.gcc.edu/dept/econ/ASSC/Papers2005/Embargo1807_Snyder.pdf | archive-date= 17 May 2013 }}</ref> American policy aimed to use the new laws to avoid war and to force both France and Britain to respect American rights.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/embargo-1807 | title = Embargo of 1807 | publisher = monticello.org | date = 8 April 2013}}</ref> The embargo failed to achieve its aims, and Jefferson repealed the legislation in March 1809.

====US embargo of Cuba====
{{Main|United States embargo against Cuba}}

The United States embargo against Cuba began on 14 March 1958, during the overthrow of dictator [[Fulgencio Batista]] by [[Fidel Castro]] during the [[Cuban Revolution]]. At first, the embargo applied only to arms sales; however, it later expanded to include other imports, eventually extending to almost all trade on 7 February 1962.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/proclamations/03447.html | title = Proclamation 3447 – Embargo on all trade with Cuba | author = National Archives and Records Administration | date = 15 August 2016 | publisher = archives.gov | author-link = National Archives and Records Administration }}</ref> Referred to by Cuba as ''"el bloqueo"'' (the blockade),<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/cuba-trade-embargo-turns-50-still-no-rum-or-cigars-though-some-freedom-in-travel/2012/02/07/gIQAKaYfwQ_blog.html | title = Cuba trade embargo turns 50: Still no rum or cigars, though some freedom in travel | author = Elizabeth Flock | newspaper = washingtonpost.com | date = 7 February 2012}}</ref> the US embargo on Cuba remains {{as of|2022|lc=on}} one of the longest-standing embargoes in modern history.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15634914 | title = Officially Sanctioned: A Guide to the U.S. Blacklist | author = Eric Weiner | publisher = npr.org | date = 15 October 2007}}</ref> Few of the United States' allies embraced the embargo, and many have argued it has been ineffective in changing Cuban government behavior.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/01/16/its-time-for-the-u-s-to-end-its-senseless-embargo-of-cuba/ | title = It's Time For The U.S. To End Its Senseless Embargo Of Cuba | author1= Daniel Hanson | author2= Dayne Batten | author3= Harrison Ealey | magazine = forbes.com | date = 16 January 2013}}</ref> While taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, American President [[Barack Obama]] nevertheless reaffirmed the policy in 2011, stating that without the granting of improved human rights and freedoms by Cuba's current government, the embargo remains "in the national interest of the United States".<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/09/obama-quietly-renews-us-embargo-cuba/42430/ | title = Obama Quietly Renews U.S. Embargo on Cuba | author = Uri Friedman | magazine = [[The Atlantic]] | date = 13 September 2011 | access-date = 23 August 2017 | archive-date = 13 November 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131113220230/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/09/obama-quietly-renews-us-embargo-cuba/42430/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==== Other countries ====
{{Main|United States sanctions against Iran|Humanitarian impacts of U.S. sanctions against Iran}}

=== Russian sanctions ===
Russia has been known to use economic sanctions to achieve its political goals. Russia's focus has been primarily on implementing sanctions against the pro-Western governments of [[Post-Soviet states|former Soviet Union states]]. The Kremlin's aim is particularly on states that aspire to join the European Union and [[NATO]], such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|title=The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian influence in Central and Eastern Europe : a report of the CSIS Europe Program and the CSD Economics Program|last=Conley|first=Heather A.|others=Mina, James, Stefanov, Ruslan, Vladimirov, Martin, [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]] (Washington, D.C.), Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria)|isbn=9781442279582|location=Washington, DC|oclc=969727837|year = 2016}}</ref> Russia has enacted a law, the [[Dima Yakovlev Law]], that defines sanctions against US citizens involved in "violations of the human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens". It lists US citizens who are banned from entering Russia.<ref name="kremlin_law_descr">[http://eng.kremlin.ru/acts/4810 A law on sanctions for individuals violating fundamental human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens has been signed] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102005952/http://eng.kremlin.ru/acts/4810|date=2 January 2013}} // Kremlin.ru, 28 December 2012.</ref>

==== Russia sanctions on Ukraine ====
{{Main|Russian sanctions against Ukraine}}

[[Viktor Yushchenko]], the third president of Ukraine who was elected in 2003, lobbied during his term to gain admission to NATO and the [[Ukraine–European Union relations|EU]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Newnham|first=Randall|date=July 2013|title=Pipeline Politics: Russian Energy Sanctions and the 2010 Ukrainian Elections|journal=[[Journal of Eurasian Studies]]|volume=4|issue=2|pages=115–122|doi=10.1016/j.euras.2013.03.001|doi-access=free}}</ref> Soon after Yushchenko entered office, Russia demanded [[Kyiv]] pay the same rate that it charged Western European states. This quadrupled Ukraine's energy bill overnight.<ref name=":2" /> Russia subsequently cut off the supply of [[Natural gas in Russia|natural gas]] in 2006, causing significant harm to the [[Economy of Ukraine|Ukrainian]] and [[Economy of Russia|Russian economies]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/3307.cfm|title=Russia-Ukraine 'Gas War' Damages Both Economies|website=www.worldpress.org|language=en|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> As the Ukrainian economy began to struggle, Yushchenko's approval ratings dropped significantly; reaching the single digits by the [[2010 Ukrainian presidential election|2010 election]]; [[Viktor Yanukovych]], who was more supportive of Moscow won the election in 2010 to become the fourth president of Ukraine. After his election, gas prices were reduced substantially.<ref name=":2" />

==== Russian sanctions on Georgia ====
The [[Rose Revolution]] in Georgia brought [[Mikheil Saakashvili]] to power as the third president of the country. Saakashvili wanted to bring Georgia into NATO and the EU and was a strong supporter of the US-led war in Iraq and Afghanistan.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Newnham|first=Randall E.|title=Georgia on my mind? Russian sanctions and the end of the 'Rose Revolution'|journal=Journal of Eurasian Studies|volume=6|issue=2|pages=161–170|doi=10.1016/j.euras.2015.03.008|year=2015|doi-access=free}}</ref> Russia would soon implement a number of different sanctions on Georgia, including natural gas price raises through [[Gazprom]] and wider trade sanctions that impacted the Georgian economy, particularly Georgian exports of wine, citrus fruits, and mineral water. In 2006, Russia banned all imports from Georgia which was able to deal a significant blow to the [[Economy of Georgia (country)|Georgian economy]].<ref name=":3" /> Russia also expelled nearly 2,300 Georgians who worked within its borders.<ref name=":3"/>

===United Nations sanctions===
The United Nations issues sanctions by consent of the [[United Nations Security Council]] (UNSC) and/or [[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly]] in response to major international events, receiving authority to do so under Article 41 of Chapter VII of the [[United Nations Charter]].<ref name="UN Sanctions">{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53850#.WfNxURNSyRt|title=UN sanctions: what they are, how they work, and who uses them|last=Section|first=United Nations News Service|date=4 May 2016|website=UN News Service Section|language=en|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> The nature of these sanctions may vary, and include financial, trade, or weaponry restrictions. Motivations can also vary, ranging from humanitarian and environmental concerns<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37755#.WfNxyxNSyRt|title= New UN project uses financial incentives to try to save the dugong|last=Section|first=United Nations News Service|date=14 March 2011|website=UN News Service Section|language=en|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> to efforts to halt [[nuclear proliferation]]. Over two dozen sanctions measures have been implemented by the United Nations since its founding in 1945.<ref name ="UN Sanctions"/>

Most UNSC sanctions since the mid-1990s have targeted individuals and entities rather than entire governments, a change from the comprehensive trade sanctions of earlier decades. For example, the UNSC maintains lists of individuals indicted for crimes or linked to international terrorism, which raises novel legal questions regarding [[due process]]. According to a dataset covering the years 1991 to 2013, 95% of UNSC sanction regimes included "sectoral bans" on aviation and/or the import (or export) of arms or raw materials, 75% included "individual/group" sanctions such as asset freezes or restrictions on travel, and just 10% targeted national finances or included measures against [[central bank]]s, [[sovereign wealth fund]]s, or foreign investment. The most frequently used UNSC sanction documented in the dataset is an embargo against imported weapons, which applied in 87% of all cases and was directed against non-state actors more often than against governments. Targeted sanctions regimes may contain hundreds of names, a handful, or none at all.<ref name="Giumelli 2015">{{cite journal|last=Giumelli|first=Francesco|title=Understanding United Nations targeted sanctions: an empirical analysis|journal=[[International Affairs (journal)|International Affairs]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|volume=91|issue=6|date=November 2015|pages=1351–1368|doi=10.1111/1468-2346.12448|url=https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/f97592f6-c863-44ac-b416-822e339f296e}}</ref>

==== Sanctions on Somalia, 1992 ====
{{Main|United Nations arms embargo on Somalia}}

The UN implemented sanctions against Somalia beginning in April 1992, after the overthrow of the [[Siad Barre]] regime in 1991 during the [[Somali Civil War]]. UNSC [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 751|Resolution 751]] forbade members to sell, finance, or transfer any military equipment to Somalia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/751|title=Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea|website=www.un.org|language=en|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref>

==== Sanctions on North Korea, 2006 ====
{{Main|Sanctions against North Korea}}

The UNSC passed Resolution 1718 in 2006 in response to a nuclear test that the [[North Korea|Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)]] conducted in violation of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The resolution banned the sale of military and luxury goods and froze government assets.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.nti.org/learn/countries/north-korea/nuclear/ |title= North Korea {{!}} Countries |website= www.nti.org |access-date= 27 October 2017}}</ref> Since then, the UN has passed multiple resolutions subsequently expanding sanctions on North Korea. Resolution 2270 from 2016 placed restrictions on transport personnel and vehicles employed by North Korea while also restricting the sale of natural resources and fuel for aircraft.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sc12267.doc.htm|title=Security Council Imposes Fresh Sanctions on Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2270 (2016) {{!}} Meetings Coverage and Press Releases|website=www.un.org|language=en|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref>

The efficacy of such sanctions has been questioned in light of continued nuclear tests by North Korea in the decade following the 2006 resolution. Professor William Brown of [[Georgetown University]] argued that "sanctions don't have much of an impact on an economy that has been essentially bankrupt for a generation".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/09/why-did-sanctions-fail-against-north-korea/|title=Why Did Sanctions Fail Against North Korea?|website=Foreign Policy|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref>

==== Sanctions on Libya ====
On 26 February 2011, the UNSC issued an arms embargo against the Libya through [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973|Security Council Resolution 1970]] in response to humanitarian abuses occurring in the [[Libyan Civil War (2011)|First Libyan Civil War]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sipri.org/databases/embargoes/un_arms_embargoes/libya/libya_2011|title=UN Arms embargo on Libya |website=www.sipri.org|language=en|access-date=6 December 2017}}</ref> The embargo was later extended to mid-2018. Under the embargo, Libya has suffered severe inflation because of increased dependence on the private sector to import goods.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/internationalgovernance/shared/PSIG_images/Sanctions/Templates/Libya%2520I%2520Template.doc|title=Evaluating the Impacts and Effectiveness of Targeted Sanctions|website=graduateinstitute.ch|access-date=7 December 2017}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}</ref> The sanctions caused large cuts to health and education, which caused social conditions to decrease. Even though the sanctions were in response to human rights, their effects were limited.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unicefinemergencies.com/downloads/eresource/docs/Sanctions/2011-06-21%20Literature%20Review%20on%20the%20Effects%20of%20Targeted%20Sanctions.docx|title=Literature Review on the Effects of Targeted Sanctions|website=www.unicefinemergencies.com|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-date=4 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504113351/http://www.unicefinemergencies.com/downloads/eresource/docs/Sanctions/2011-06-21%20Literature%20Review%20on%20the%20Effects%20of%20Targeted%20Sanctions.docx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== Sanction on the Central African Republic ====

In 2013 the UN decreed an arms embargo against the CAR. The arms embargo was established in the context of an intercommunity conflict between the Séléka rebels, with a Muslim majority, and the predominantly Christian militias. to fight back. Raised UN Security Council lifts arms embargo on CAR on 1 August 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1152656|title=Security Council lifts arms embargo on Central African Republic forces |website=www.news.un.org|date=30 July 2024 |language=en|access-date=1 August 2024}}</ref>

====Sanctions on apartheid South Africa====
{{Main|International sanctions during apartheid}}

In effort to punish South Africa for its policies of [[apartheid]], the [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopted a voluntary international oil-embargo against South Africa on 20 November 1987; that embargo had the support of 130 countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://richardknight.homestead.com/files/oilembargo.htm|title=Oil Embargo against Apartheid South Africa on richardknight.com|website=richardknight.homestead.com}}</ref> South Africa, in response, expanded its [[Sasol]] production of [[synthetic crude]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Murphy|first=Caryle|date=27 April 1979|title=To Cope With Embargoes, S. Africa Converts Coal Into Oil|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/04/27/to-cope-with-embargoes-s-africa-converts-coal-into-oil/cd39adab-5084-4e46-a28f-79de2896f75e/|access-date=12 December 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

All United Nations sanctions on South Africa ended over the [[Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa|Negotiations to end Apartheid]], [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 919|Resolution 919]] and the [[1994 South African election]]s, in which [[Nelson Mandela]] was elected as the first post-Apartheid president. When asked in 1993 if economic sanctions had helped end apartheid, Mandela replied "Oh, there is no doubt."<ref>{{cite Q|Q121303715}}</ref>

===Other multilateral sanctions===
The United States, Britain, the [[Republic of China (1912-49)|Republic of China]] and the Netherlands imposed [[sanctions against Japan]] in 1940–1941 in response to its expansionism. Deprived of access to vital oil, iron-ore and steel supplies, Japan started planning for military action to [[Dutch East Indies campaign|seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies]], which required a preemptive [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], triggering the American entry into the [[Pacific War]].<ref>
{{cite web|url= http://history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20001206155000/http://history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm|url-status= dead|archive-date= 6 December 2000|title= Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941|date= 3 December 2000|publisher= Department of the Navy – Naval Historical Center|access-date= 20 July 2019|location= Washington|quote= The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. [...] The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.}}</ref>

In 1973–1974, [[OAPEC]] instigated the [[1973 oil crisis]] through its [[oil embargo]] against the United States and other industrialized nations that supported Israel in the [[Yom Kippur War]]. The results included a sharp rise in [[Price of oil|oil prices]] and in [[OPEC]] revenues, an emergency period of [[energy rationing]], a [[1973–75 recession|global economic recession]], large-scale [[Energy conservation|conservation]] efforts, and long-lasting shifts toward natural gas, [[ethanol fuel|ethanol]], [[nuclear power|nuclear]] and other [[alternative energy]] sources.<ref>{{cite book | first= Leonardo | last= Maugeri | title= The Age of Oil | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JWmx5uKA6gIC | date= 2006 | publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group | pages= 112–116 |isbn= 9780275990084 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.history.com/topics/energy-crisis | title= Energy Crisis (1970s) | publisher= [[The History Channel]] | date= 2010}}</ref> Israel continued to receive Western support, however.

In 2010, the European Union made the decision to [[Sanctions against Iran|sanction]] Iran due to their involvement in their [[Nuclear program of Iran|nuclear program]].<ref name="loc.gov">{{Cite web |title=European Union: Renewed Sanctions Against Iran |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2010-08-09/european-union-renewed-sanctions-against-iran/ |access-date=18 December 2023 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. }}</ref> Theresa Papademetriou states the exact restrictions the EU posed on Iran, "prohibition on the provision of insurance, increased restrictions on and notifications needed for transfers of [[Funding|funds]] to and from Iran, restrictions on the supply of or traffic in technology and equipment to be used in certain oil and gas fields and prohibition of investment in such fields, expansion of the list of goods and technology whose supply to Iran is either subject to prior authorization or is completely banned and new [[Visa policy|visa]] restrictions."<ref name="loc.gov"/> Also in 2010, the UN Council imposed sanctions on Iran due to their involvement in their nuclear program.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |last=Sen |first=Ashish |date=8 May 2018 |title=A Brief History of Sanctions on Iran |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/a-brief-history-of-sanctions-on-iran/ |access-date=18 December 2023 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}}</ref> These sanctions banned Iran from carrying out tests on their nuclear weapons and imposed an embargo on the transfer of weapons into the country.<ref name="auto"/> These sanctions resulted in drastic macroeconomic downturns for the Iranian economy including volatility in GDP, increase in unemployment, and increase in inflation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sashi |first1=Sivramkrishna |last2=Bhavish |first2=Sharma |date=1 December 2019 |title=Macroeconomic Implications of US Sanctions on Iran: A Sectoral Financial Balances Analysis |journal=Studies in Business and Economics |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=182–204 |doi=10.2478/sbe-2019-0053 |issn=2344-5416|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Current sanctions==
{{incomplete list|date=January 2015}}

===By targeted country===
List of sanctioned countries (the below is not an exhaustive list):<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sanctio.com/en | title=Sanctions risk by countries }}</ref>
*[[Sanctions against Afghanistan|Afghanistan sanctions]] by the US<ref>{{cite news |date=17 August 2021 |title=Biden administration freezes billions of dollars in Afghan reserves, depriving Taliban of cash |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=http://washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/17/treasury-taliban-money-afghanistan/}}</ref>
*[[Turkish–Azeri blockade of Armenia|Turkish–Azeri blockade against Armenia]], enacted in 1988 is an ongoing transportation and economic [[embargo]] which primarily aims at curbing the [[Karabakh movement]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jardine |first1=Bradley |title=With new railway, Turkey seeks to isolate Armenia and integrate Azerbaijan |url=https://eurasianet.org/with-new-railway-turkey-seeks-to-isolate-armenia-and-integrate-azerbaijan |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240418065453/https://eurasianet.org/with-new-railway-turkey-seeks-to-isolate-armenia-and-integrate-azerbaijan |archive-date=2024-04-18 |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=[[Eurasianet]] |publisher=[[Columbia University]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Avedian |first1=Vahagn |date=2013-10-31 |title=The Unsustainable European Policy towards the South Caucasus |url=https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/10/31/the-unsustainable-european-policy-towards-the-south-caucasus/view-all/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=[[Foreign Policy Journal]] |language=en-US |quote=The outspoken Azeri policy (in conjunction with the Turkish embargo) is to force Armenians to choose "prosperity without Karabakh or poverty with Karabakh," pushing Armenia to the degree of destitution that "people will even stop thinking about Karabakh." This has been confirmed on numerous occasions by President Aliyev himself, the latest from October 7, 2013: 'We must further keep Armenia isolated from diplomatic, political, economic, regional initiatives.' The same applies to the Turkish policy, which, in addition to the Karabakh dispute, also aims at the issue of forcing Armenia to drop its efforts for an international recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ter-Matevosyan |first1=Vahram |date=2017-05-04 |title=Armenia in the Eurasian Economic Union: reasons for joining and its consequences |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15387216.2017.1360193 |journal=[[Eurasian Geography and Economics]] |language=EN |publisher=[[Routledge]] |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=340–360 |doi=10.1080/15387216.2017.1360193 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231118212022/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15387216.2017.1360193 |archive-date=2023-11-18 |access-date=2024-08-21 |quote=By inventing a "one nation, two states" formula, the leaders of Turkey and Azerbaijan have worked closely since the early 1990s to marginalize Armenia from regional energy and communication Projects.}}</ref>. Other aims include having Armenia abandon pursuit of international recognition of [[Armenian genocide|Turkey's genocide]] in [[Western Armenia]], Armenia's ratification of the 1921 borders inherited from the Kemalist-Soviet [[Treaty of Kars]],{{efn|Following [[Turkish-Armenian War|Turkey's invasion of Armenia in 1920]], the [[Democratic Republic of Armenia]] signed the [[Treaty of Alexandropol]] under duress, effectively accepting Turkish territorial demands. However, the treaty was never ratified by an independent post-Soviet Armenia.}} and the establishment of an [[Zangezur corridor|extraterritorial corridor through Armenian territory]].
*China by the EU and the US. Sanctions made on [[arms embargo]], enacted in response to the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]]<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1961947,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213160426/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1961947,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=13 February 2010 | title =Should Europe Lift Its Arms Embargo on China? | author =Leo Cendrowicz | magazine =[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date =10 February 2010}}</ref>
**[[European Union arms embargo on the People's Republic of China]]
** [[Executive Order 13936|Hong Kong]], enacted in response to the [[National Security Law of the People's Republic of China|National Security Law]]
*[[United States embargo against Cuba|Cuban embargoes by the US]]. It covers arms, consumer goods and financial assets, enacted in 1958<ref>{{Cite web |title=United States embargo against Cuba – History |work=World Bulletin / News From Turkey and Islamic World |url=https://worldbulletin.dunyabulteni.net/history/united-states-embargo-against-cuba-history-h184385.html |access-date=16 June 2022 |language=}}</ref>
*EU, US, Australia, Canada and Norway by Russia since August 2014 on beef, pork, fruit and vegetable produce, poultry, fish, cheese, milk and dairy items.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dw.de/russia-announces-full-embargo-on-most-food-from-us-eu/a-17838717 | work=Deutsche Welle | title=Russia announces 'full embargo' on most food from US, EU | date=7 August 2014}}</ref> On 13 August 2015, the embargo was expanded to include Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, and Liechtenstein<ref name="Russian embargo expansion">{{cite news|title=Russia expands food imports embargo to non-EU states|url=http://english.irib.ir/news/world/europe/item/214154-russia-expands-food-imports-embargo-to-non-eu-states|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228155419/http://english.irib.ir/news/world/europe/item/214154-russia-expands-food-imports-embargo-to-non-eu-states|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 February 2021|access-date=10 November 2015|work=English Radio|date=13 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-33905340|title=Russia expands food import ban|date=13 August 2015|work=BBC News|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref>
*Gaza Strip by Israel since 2001, under blockade since 2007 supposedly due to the large number of illicit arms traffic used to wage war{{clarify|date=April 2025}}
*Indonesia by Australia on live cattle due to the alleged cruel slaughter methods in Indonesia<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13692211|title=Australia bans all live cattle exports to Indonesia|date=8 June 2011|work=BBC News|access-date=2 January 2016}}</ref>{{Clarify|reason=is this still in force? cant find any source on it yet|date=June 2022}}
* [[Sanctions against Iran|Iran sanctions]] by the US and its allies, notably by barring nuclear, missile and many military exports to Iran and target investments in: oil, gas and petrochemicals, exports of refined petroleum products, banks, insurance, financial institutions, and shipping.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/iran.pdf | title =What You Need To Know About U.S. Economic Sanctions | author =United States Department of the Treasury | publisher =treasury.gov| author-link =United States Department of the Treasury }}</ref> Enacted 1979, increased through the following years and reached its tightest point in 2010.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/world/meast/iran-sanctions-facts | title =A summary of sanctions against Iran | author =Josh Levs | publisher =cnn.com | date =23 January 2012}}</ref> In April 2019 the US threatened to sanction countries that continued to [[List of countries by proven oil reserves|buy oil from Iran]] after an initial six-month waiver announced in November 2018 had expired.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-oil/u-s-to-end-all-waivers-on-imports-of-iranian-oil-crude-price-jumps-idUSKCN1RX0R1|title=U.S. to end all waivers on imports of Iranian oil, crude price jumps|last1=Wroughton|first1=Lesley|date=22 April 2019|work=Reuters}}</ref> According to the BBC, [[United States sanctions against Iran|US sanctions against Iran]] "have led to a sharp downturn in Iran's economy, pushing the value of its currency to record lows, quadrupling its annual inflation rate, driving away foreign investors, and triggering protests".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48011496|title=Iran oil: US to end sanctions exemptions for major importers|date=22 April 2019|work=BBC News}}</ref> These sanctions have taken a toll on [[Humanitarian impacts of U.S. sanctions against Iran|humanitarian concerns]].
* Mali by the [[United Nations Security Council|UNSC]] in relation to the spiraling security situation and hostilities in breach of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mali sanctions regime |url=https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/sanctions-regimes/Pages/mali-sanctions-regime |access-date=16 June 2022 |website=Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Sanctions against Burma|Myanmar sanctions]] by the EU. Sanctions were imposed against Myanmar due to the worsening state of democracy and [[Human rights in Burma|human rights infringements]]<ref>Howse, Robert L. and Genser, Jared M. (2008) [http://students.law.umich.edu/mjil/article-pdfs/v29n2-howse-genser.pdf "Are EU Trade Oh hell no on Burma Compatible with WTO Law?"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607153959/http://students.law.umich.edu/mjil/article-pdfs/v29n2-howse-genser.pdf |date=7 June 2010 }} ''Michigan Journal of International Law'' 29(2): pp. 165–96</ref>
* Nicaragua by the UK. Sanctions imposed in 2020 to push the government to respect democratic principles and legal institutions<ref>{{Cite web |title=Financial sanctions, Nicaragua |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-nicaragua |access-date=16 June 2022 |website=GOV.UK |date=15 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Sanctions against North Korea|North Korean sanctions]]:
**international sanctions imposed on North Korea since the [[Korean War]] of 1950–1953 eased under the [[Sunshine Policy]] of South Korean President [[Kim Dae Jung]] and of US President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/202/42450.html |title= Clinton Ends Most N. Korea Sanctions |publisher= Globalpolicy.org |date= 18 September 1999 |access-date= 30 March 2015}}</ref> but tightened again in 2010<ref>[http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=116316&z=5] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723132200/http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=116316&z=5|date=23 July 2010}}</ref>
**by the UN, US and EU on luxury goods (and arms) enacted 2006<ref>{{cite web |title=Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) |url=http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/sanctions-embargoes/by-country/democratic%20people%20republic%20of%20korea/index.html |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090609003228/http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/sanctions-embargoes/by-country/democratic%20people%20republic%20of%20korea/index.html |archive-date=9 June 2009 |access-date=8 March 2016 |publisher=Department for Business Innovation and Skills}}</ref>
**[[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718]] (2006) – a reaction to the DPRK's claim of a nuclear test
*[[Sanctions against Russia|Russian sanctions]]:
** by the US. On 2 August 2017, President [[Donald Trump]] signed into law the [[Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act]] that grouped together sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea<ref>"[https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-overwhelmingly-passes-new-russia-and-iran-sanctions/2017/06/15/df9afc2a-51d8-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html Senate overwhelmingly passes new Russia and Iran sanctions]". ''The Washington Post''. 15 June 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-sanctions-idUSKBN1AI2N0|title=Iran says new U.S. sanctions violate nuclear deal, vows 'proportional reaction' |newspaper=Reuters |date=2 August 2017}}</ref>
** by the EU. In March 2021, [[Reuters]] reported that the EU has placed immediate sanctions on both [[Chechnya]] and Russia—due to ongoing government sponsored and backed violence against [[LGBT community|LGBTIQ+]] individuals<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 March 2021 |title=EU sanctions Russians over rights abuses in Chechnya |newspaper=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-russia-rights-idUSKBN2BE20O}}</ref>
** [[International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War|international sanctions]] were also implemented in response to the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]] that started in 2014
** [[International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|international sanctions]] during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
*Somalia by the West. Sanctions imposed since 2010, were due to the [[human rights in Somalia|human rights abuses]] and [[Anti-piracy measures in Somalia|anti-piracy measures and concerns]].
*Sudan by the US in 1997<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Sudan – Sudan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/us-imposes-new-sanctions-sudan |access-date=7 June 2022 |website=reliefweb.int |date=4 November 1997 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) |url=https://www.wm.edu/offices/techtransfer/ExportControls/Regulations/OFAC/index.php#:~:text=Currently,%20sanctioned%20countries%20include%20the,Sudan,%20Syria,%20and%20Zimbabwe. |access-date=27 June 2022 |website=William & Mary |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Sanctions against Syria|Syrian sanctions]] by the EU and the US on arms and imports of oil<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15753975 | work=BBC News | title=Syria sanctions | date=27 November 2011}}</ref>
*[[Embargo against Northern Cyprus|Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus embargo]] by the UN on consumer goods, enacted since 1994<ref name="talmon">{{cite journal |last1=Talmon |first1=Stefan |date=2001 |title=The Cyprus Question before the European Court of Justice |url=http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/4/727.short |journal=European Journal of International Law |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=727–750 |doi=10.1093/ejil/12.4.727 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis|Venezuelan sanctions]] by the US and its allies since 2015.<ref name="TIME">{{cite magazine|author=Rhodan, Maya|title= White House sanctions seven officials in Venezuela|url= https://time.com/3737536/barack-obama-venezuela-sanctions/|access-date= 2 April 2019|magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date= 9 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-venezuela-idUSKBN0M51NS20150310 |title= U.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials |date= 10 March 2015 |work=Reuters |access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref> An arms embargo and the selling of assets were banned due to human rights violations, high government corruption, links with drug cartels and electoral rigging in the [[2018 Venezuelan presidential election]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/613250814/president-trump-approves-new-sanctions-on-venezuela|title=President Trump Approves New Sanctions On Venezuela|website=[[NPR]]| date=22 May 2018 | last1=Neuman | first1=Scott }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-eu/eu-readies-sanctions-on-venezuela-approves-arms-embargo-idUSKBN1DD0UN?il=0|title=EU readies sanctions on Venezuela, approves arms embargo|first=Robin|last=Emmott|newspaper=Reuters|date=13 November 2017}}</ref> Sanctions imposed by Canada since 2017,<ref name="CBCCanadaSanc">{{cite news |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-venezuela-sanctions-1.4303663 |work= CBC Canada |date= 22 September 2017 |publisher= Thomson Reuters |access-date= 3 April 2019 |title= Canada imposes sanctions on key Venezuelan officials}}</ref><ref name="CanadaSanc">{{cite news |url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/canada-sanctions-40-venezuelans-with-links-to-political-economic-crisis/article36367074/ |work= The Globe and Mail |title= Canada sanctions 40 Venezuelans with links to political, economic crisis |author= Zilio, Michelle |date= 22 September 2017 |access-date= 3 April 2019}} Also at {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170924234118/http://puntodecorte.com/esta-la-lista-los-funcionarios-venezolanos-sancionados-canada/ Punto de Corte]}} and [http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/mundo/canada-sanciona-nicolas-maduro-funcionarios-venezolanos_204786 El Nacional]</ref><ref name="VOACanadaSanc">{{cite news |url= https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-to-impose-sanctions-on-more-venezuelan-officials/4416647.html |work= VOA News |title= Canada to impose sanctions on more Venezuelan officials |date = 30 May 2018 |publisher= Reuters |access-date= 4 April 2019}}</ref> and since 2018 by Mexico,<ref name="MexicoSanc">{{cite news|work= Sumarium group|title= México rechaza elecciones en Venezuela y sanciona a siete funcionarios|url= http://sumarium.com/mexico-rechaza-elecciones-en-venezuela-y-sanciona-a-siete-funcionarios/|access-date= 21 April 2018|language= es}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Also at [https://www.vpitv.com/venezuela/senado-mexicano-aprueba-acuerdo-en-rechazo-a-las-elecciones-en-venezuela/ VPITV]</ref> Panama<ref name="PanamaSanctions">{{cite news |url= http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2453678&CategoryId=10717 |work= Latin American Herald Tribune |date= 27 March 2018 |access-date= 3 April 2019 |title= Panama sanctions Venezuela, including Maduro & 1st Lady family companies |author= Camacho, Carlos |archive-date= 24 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235201/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2453678&CategoryId=10717 |url-status= dead }}</ref> and Switzerland<ref name="SwitzerlandReuters">{{cite news |url= https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-venezuela/swiss-impose-sanctions-on-seven-senior-venezuelan-officials-idUSKBN1H42KP |work= Reuters |date= 28 March 2018 |access-date= 3 April 2019 |title= Swiss impose sanctions on seven senior Venezuelan officials}} Also at [https://www.diariolasamericas.com/america-latina/suiza-impone-sanciones-venezuela-y-congela-bienes-siete-altos-cargos-n4146916 Diario Las Americas]</ref>

===By targeted individuals===
* [[International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis|List of individuals sanctioned during the Venezuelan crisis]]
* [[List of people and organizations sanctioned during the Russo-Ukrainian War]]
* [[List of people and organizations sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus]]
* [[Sanctions against Afghanistan|United Nations sanction]] imposed by [[UN Security Council Resolution 1267]] in 1999 against all [[Al-Qaida]]- and [[Taliban]]-associated individuals. The cornerstone of the sanction is a consolidated list of persons maintained by the Security Council. All nations are obliged to freeze bank accounts and other financial instruments controlled by or used for the benefit of anyone on the list.

===By sanctioning country or organization===
* Australia currently sanctions 9 countries<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sanctions Regimes |url=https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/sanctions-regimes |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=www.dfat.gov.au}}</ref>
* [[Chinese sanctions]]
** [[Rare earths trade dispute|Chinese restrictions on rare metals exports]]
* [[India sanctions]]
* United Kingdom currently has sanctions on 27 countries<ref>{{Cite web |title=UK sanctions regimes |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-sanctions-regimes-under-the-sanctions-act |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=GOV.UK |date=31 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* United Nations has since 1966 established 30 sanctions regimes to countries (such as [[Southern Rhodesia]], South Africa, [[Yugoslavia]] and more) and to organizations (such as [[Islamic State|ISIL]], [[Al-Qaeda|al-Qaida]] and the [[Taliban]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sanctions {{!}} United Nations Security Council |url=https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/information |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=www.un.org}}</ref>
* [[United States sanctions]] and [[United States embargoes]]
** [[2002 United States steel tariff]] was placed by the United States on steel to protect its industry from foreign producers such as China and Russia. The [[World Trade Organization]] ruled that the tariffs were illegal. The European Union threatened retaliatory tariffs on a range of US goods that would mainly affect [[swing states]]. The US government then removed the steel tariffs in early 2004.

===By targeted activity===
* In response to cyber-attacks on 1 April 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the first-ever economic sanctions. The Executive Order was intended to impact individuals and entities ("designees") responsible for cyber-attacks that threaten the national security, foreign policy, economic health, or financial stability of the US. Specifically, the Executive Order authorized the Treasury Department to freeze the assets of designees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pwc.com/en_US/us/financial-services/regulatory-services/publications/assets/sanctions-cyber-crime.pdf|title=Sanctions: U.S. action on cyber crime|website=pwc|publisher=PwC Financial Services Regulatory Practice, April 2015}}</ref> The European Union implemented their first targeted financial sanctions regarding cyber activity in 2020.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thompson|first=Natalie|date=1 October 2020|title=Countering Malicious Cyber Activity: Targeted Financial Sanctions|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3770816|journal=|language=en|volume=|pages=|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3770816 |ssrn=3770816|s2cid=236785768 |via=|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* In response to intelligence analysis alleging Russian hacking and interference with the 2016 US elections, President Obama expanded presidential authority to sanction in response to cyber activity that threatens democratic elections.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/274594-obama-extends-cyber-sanctions-powers/|title=Obama extends cyber sanctions power|first=Cory|last=Bennett|work=The Hill |date=29 March 2016}}</ref> Given that the original order was intended to protect critical infrastructure, it can be argued that the election process should have been included in the original order.

===Bilateral trade disputes===
* Vietnam as a result of capitalist influences over the 1990s and having imposed sanctions against Cambodia, is accepting of sanctions disposed with accountability.{{clarify|date=January 2015}}
* Brazil introduced sanctions against the US in March 2010. These sanctions were placed because the US government was paying cotton farmers for their products against World Trade Organization rules. The sanctions cover cotton, as well as cars, chewing gum, fruit, and vegetable products.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/brazil-slaps-trade-sanctions-on-us--to-retaliate-for-subsidies-to-cotton-farmers/1 |title=Brazil slaps trade sanctions on U.S. to retaliate for subsidies to cotton farmers |publisher=Content.usatoday.com |date=9 March 2010 |access-date=30 March 2015}}</ref> The WTO is currently supervising talks between the states to remove the sanctions.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

==Former sanctions==
* [[Comecon]] nations ([[Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls|CoCom]] export controls) by the [[Western Bloc]]
* [[2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and Georgian wines|Georgian and Moldovan import ban]] by Russia on agricultural products, wine and mineral water (2006–2013)<ref>{{cite news |date=16 December 2013 |title=Georgia Doubles Wine Exports as Russian Market Reopens |work=RIA Novosti |url=http://en.ria.ru/business/20131216/185616873/Georgia-Doubles-Wine-Exports-as-Russian-Market-Reopens.html}}</ref>
* [[Sanctions against Iraq|Iraqi sanctions]] by the US (1990–2003)<ref>{{cite web |title=Resolution 1483 – UN Security Council – Global Policy Forum |url=http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/document/2003/0522resolution.htm |access-date=30 May 2009 |publisher=Globalpolicy.org}}</ref>
* [[Arab League boycott of Israel|Israeli boycott]] by Arab nations
* Italy by the [[League of Nations]] in 1935 after the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Italian invasion of Abyssinia]]
* Japan ([[ABCD line]]) by the US, UK, China and the Netherlands in 1940 to discourage [[Japanese militarism|militarism]]
* Libya by the UN in 2011 due to mass killings of Libyan protesters/rebels. Ended in 2012 after the [[Death of Muammar Gaddafi|overthrow and execution of Gaddafi]]
*India by the UK due to nuclear exports restriction<ref name="UKnuclear">{{Cite web |title=India and Pakistan (Nuclear Exports) |url=http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/sanctions-embargoes/by-country/india-pakistan/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218045356/http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/sanctions-embargoes/by-country/india-pakistan/index.html |archive-date=18 February 2010 |website=BIS}}</ref>
*Macedonia total trade embargo by Greece (1994–1995)
*Mali total embargo by [[ECOWAS]] in 2012 to force the junta to return power to the civilian government and re-install the National constitution<ref>{{cite news |author=Lydia Polgreen |date=2 April 2012 |title=Mali Coup Leaders Suffer Sanctions and Loss of Timbuktu |newspaper=The New York Times |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/world/africa/rebels-take-timbuktu-in-mali.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201182715/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/world/africa/rebels-take-timbuktu-in-mali.html |archive-date= 1 February 2024 }}</ref><ref>Callimachi, Rukmini (3 April 2012) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120404171138/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/post-coup-mali-hit-with-sanctions-by-african-neighbours/article2390504/ "Post-coup Mali hit with sanctions by African neighbours"]. ''The Globe and Mail''. Retrieved 4 May 2012.</ref>
*[[United States embargo against Nicaragua|Nicaraguan embargo]] by the US
*[[North Vietnam]] (and then unified Vietnam) trade embargo by the US (1964–1994)<ref>{{cite news |last=Cockburn |first=Patrick |date=4 February 1994 |title=US finally ends Vietnam embargo |work=The Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/us-finally-ends-vietnam-embargo-1391770.html |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240224192311/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/us-finally-ends-vietnam-embargo-1391770.html |archive-date= 24 February 2024 }}</ref>
*Pakistan by the UK in 2002 on nuclear export restrictions<ref name="UKnuclear" />
* [[2006–2007 economic sanctions against the Palestinian National Authority|Palestinian National Authority sanctions]] by Israel, US and other countries (2006–2007)
* [[2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis|Qatar]] by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt due to Qatar's alleged support for terrorist organizations (2017–2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=International: United Nations Welcomes Loosening of Sanctions in Gulf Region |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-02-17/international-united-nations-welcomes-loosening-of-sanctions-in-gulf-region/ |access-date=16 June 2022 |website=Library of Congress |date=17 February 2021 |last1= Boomer |first1=Elizabeth }}</ref>
* [[International sanctions during apartheid|South African sanctions]] by the international community during [[Apartheid]] (see also [[disinvestment from South Africa]])
*Serbia by Kosovo's unilaterally declared government in 2011<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sofiaecho.com/2011/07/21/1127258_kosovo-imposes-embargo-on-serbia|title=Kosovo imposes embargo on Serbia|date=21 July 2011|work=The Sofia Echo|access-date=2 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191608/http://sofiaecho.com/2011/07/21/1127258_kosovo-imposes-embargo-on-serbia |archive-date= 4 March 2016 }}</ref>
*[[Sanctions against Yugoslavia|Yugoslavian sanctions]] by the UN in response to the [[Bosnian War]] (1992–2001)<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Mandala de Elegua |date=2005 |first1= Sandra María |last1=Esteves |publisher=University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.6710954.cmp.21 |journal=Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater |access-date=27 June 2022 |doi=10.3998/mpub.6710954.cmp.21 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Sukovic |first1=Danilo |last2=Jovanovic |first2=Predrag |date=2001 |title=A Decade Under Sanctions |url=https://www.transparentnost.org.rs/stari/dokumenti/d012.html |website=transparentnost.org.rs |access-date=27 June 2022 |archive-date=27 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227113131/https://www.transparentnost.org.rs/stari/dokumenti/d012.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Embargo Act of 1807]]

==See also==
{{Portal|Economics}}
*[[Arms embargo]]
*[[Boycott]]
*[[Economic freedom]]
*[[Economic warfare]]
* [[Globalization]]
*[[International political economy]]
*[[International sanctions]]
*[[Magnitsky legislation]]
*[[Political economy]]
*[[Shadow fleet|Shadow Fleet]]
* [[Specially Designated National]]
*[[Trade war]]
*[[Transshipment]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Ashouri, Mahan "The Role of transnational Private Actors in Ukraine International Flight 752 Crash in Iran Under Economic Sanctions Pressure" (2021) [https://jnslp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The_Role_of_Transnational_Private_Actors_in_Ukraine_International_Flight_752_2.pdf]
* Brzoska, Michael. "International sanctions before and beyond UN sanctions." ''International Affairs'' 91.6 (2015): 1339–1349.
* Caruso, Raul. "The impact of international economic sanctions on trade: An empirical analysis." ''Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy'' 9.2 (2003) [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9310993.pdf online].
* Cortright, David, et al. ''The sanctions decade: Assessing UN strategies in the 1990s'' (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000).
* Doxey, Margaret P. ''International sanctions in contemporary perspective'' (1987) [https://archive.org/details/internationalsan0000doxe online]
** Doxey, Margaret. "International sanctions: a framework for analysis with special reference to the UN and Southern Africa." ''International organization'' 26.3 (1972): 527–550.
** Doxey, Margaret. "International sanctions in theory and practice." ''Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law'' 15 (1983): 273+. [http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1806&context=jil online]
* Drezner, Daniel W. ''The Sanctions Paradox''. (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
* Escribà-Folch, Abel, and Joseph Wright. "Dealing with tyranny: International sanctions and the survival of authoritarian rulers." ''International studies quarterly'' 54.2 (2010): 335–359. [https://www.ucdc.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/Academic/Courses/V12SB/sanctions%20and%20authoritarian%20rulers.pdf online]
* Felbermayr, Gabriel; Morgan, T. Clifton; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto V. (2025). "[[doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-081623-020909|Economic Sanctions: Stylized Facts and Quantitative Evidence]]". ''Annual Review of Economics''.
* Farrall, Jeremy Matam. ''United Nations sanctions and the rule of law'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007). [https://www.michaelkirby.com.au/images/stories/speeches/2000s/vol65+/2008/2285-BOOK_REVIEW_UN_SANCTIONS_MAY_2008.doc online]
* Hufbauer, Gary C. ''Economic sanctions and American diplomacy'' (Council on Foreign Relations, 1998) [https://books.google.com/books?id=urvIo1FQWZwC&dq=International+Sanctions++Hufbauer,+Gary+C.&pg=PP9 online].
* Hufbauer, Gary C., Jeffrey J. Schott, and Kimberley Ann Elliott. '' Economic Sanctions Reconsidered: History and Current Policy'' (Washington DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 1990)
* Kaempfer, William H. ''International economic sanctions: a public choice perspective'' (1992) [https://archive.org/details/internationaleco0000kaem online]
* Köchler, Hans. ''The United Nations sanctions policy & international law'' (1995) [https://archive.org/details/unitednationssan0000koch online]
* [[Paul Krugman|Krugman, Paul]], "The American Way of Economic war: Is Washington Overusing Its Most Powerful Weapons?" (review of [[Henry Farrell (political scientist)|Henry Farrell]] and [[Abraham L. Newman|Abraham Newman]], ''Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy'', Henry Holt, 2023, 288 pp.), ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', vol. 103, no. 1 (January/February 2024), pp. 150–156. "The [U.S.] dollar is one of the few currencies that almost all major banks will accept, and... the most widely used... As a result, the dollar is the currency that many companies must use... to do international business." (p. 150.) "[L]ocal banks facilitating that trade... normally... buy U.S. dollars and then use dollars to buy [another local currency]. To do so, however, the banks must have access to the U.S. financial system and... follow rules laid out by Washington." (pp. 151–152.) "But there is another, lesser-known reason why the [U.S.] commands overwhelming economic power. Most of the world's [[fiber-optic cables]], which carry data and messages around the planet, travel through the United States." (p. 152.) "[T]he U.S. government has installed 'splitters': [[prism (optics)|prism]]s that divide the beams of light carrying information into two streams. One... goes on to the intended recipients, ... the other goes to the [[National Security Administration|National Security Agency]], which then uses high-powered [[computation]] to analyze the data. As a result, the [U.S.] can monitor almost all international communication." (p. 154) This has allowed the U.S. "to effectively cut Iran out of the world financial system... Iran's economy stagnated... Eventually, Tehran agreed to cut back its [[nuclear reactor|nuclear]] programs in exchange for relief." (pp. 153–154.) "[A] few years ago, American officials... were in a panic about [the Chinese company] [[Huawei]]... which... seemed poised to supply [[5G]] equipment to much of the planet [thereby possibly] giv[ing] China the power to eavesdrop on the rest of the world – just as the [U.S.] has done.... The [U.S.] learned that Huawei had been dealing surreptitiously with Iran – and therefore violating U.S. sanctions. Then, it... used its special access to information on international bank data to [show] that [Huawei]'s chief financial officer, [[Meng Wanzhou]] (... the founder's daughter), had committed [[bank fraud]] by falsely telling the British [[financial services company]] [[HSBC]] that her company was not doing business with Iran. Canadian authorities, acting on a U.S. request, arrested her... in December 2018. After... almost three years under house arrest... Meng... was allowed to return to China... But by [then] the prospects for Chinese dominance of 5G had vanished..." (pp. 154–155.) Farrell and Newman, writes Krugman, "are worried about the possibility of [U.S. ''Underground Empire''] overreach. [I]f the [U.S.] weaponizes the dollar against too many countries, they might... band together and adopt alternative methods of international payment. If countries become deeply worried about U.S. spying, they could lay fiber-optic cables that bypass the [U.S.]. And if Washington puts too many restrictions on American exports, foreign firms might turn away from U.S. technology." (p. 155.)
* Mulder, Nicholas. ''The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War'' (2022) [https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Weapon-Rise-Sanctions-Modern/dp/0300259360/ excerpt] also see [https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-economic-weapon-book-review-the-limits-of-sanctions-from-abyssinia-to-ukraine-11643302954?mod=djembooks online review]
* Nossal, Kim Richard. "International sanctions as international punishment." ''International Organization'' 43.2 (1989): 301–322.
* Royal Institute of International Affairs. ''International Sanctions'' (1935).
*{{cite book|last=Selden|first=Zachary|title=Economic Sanctions as Instruments of American Foreign Policy|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|year=1999|isbn=978-0-275-96387-3}}
* Stevenson, Tom, "First Recourse for Rebels" (review of Nicholas Mulder, ''The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War'', Yale, 2022, {{ISBN|978 0 300 25936 0}}, 434 pp.), ''[[London Review of Books]]'', vol. 44, no. 6 (24 March 2022), pp. 25–29. "US sanctions are based on monopoly power over a global commons: the world's reserve currency and medium of exchange." (p. 25.) "At some point the US may no longer be in a position to exploit its financial centrality as it does now. For large parts of the world that moment will be cause for celebration." (p. 29.)

==External links==
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* [https://bscn.nl/en/sanctions-risk-list-countries Business and Sanctions Consulting Network: List of Countries]
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Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet

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'''Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet''', {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCH|PC}} (21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854) was a British colonial administrator who was [[Lieutenant Governor]] of [[British Honduras]] from 1814 to 1822 and of [[Van Diemen's Land]] (present-day [[Tasmania]]) from 1824 to 1836. The campaign against [[Aboriginal Tasmanians]], known as the [[Black War]], occurred during this term of office. He later served as Lieutenant Governor of [[Upper Canada]] from 1838 to 1841, and [[Governor of Bombay]] from 1842 to 1846.

==Early life==
George Arthur was born in [[Plymouth]], England. He was the youngest son of John Arthur, from a [[Cornish people|Cornish]] family,<ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |title=Arthur, Sir George (1784–1854) |first=A.G.L. |last=Shaw |edition=online |id2=arthur-sir-george-1721 |access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref> and his wife, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Cornish. He entered the army in 1804 as an [[Ensign (rank)|ensign]] and was promoted lieutenant in June 1805. He served during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], including Sir [[James Henry Craig|James Craig]]'s expedition to [[Italy]] in 1806. In 1807 he went to [[Egypt]], and was severely wounded in the attack upon Rosetta. He recuperated and was promoted to captain under Sir James Kempt in [[Sicily]] in 1808, and participated in the [[Walcheren Campaign|Walcheren expedition]] in 1809.

==Family==
[[File:Lady Eliza Orde Ussher Arthur.jpg|thumb|left|Lady Eliza Orde Ussher Arthur]]
Major George Arthur married Eliza Orde Ussher, daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Sigismund Smith, K.C.B., in May 1814. Lady Arthur lived in [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]] 1838–41 with three of the couple's sons and their five daughters. She died in London, England, 14 January 1855. Their daughter Catherine married Sir [[Henry Bartle Frere]] after he had been her father's personal secretary for two years in Bombay, and gave birth to the poet [[Mary Frere]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |year=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/14 |page=14}}</ref><ref name="Raza">{{cite ODNB |id=33273 |title=Frere, Mary Eliza Isabella [May] (1845–1911)|last=Raza|first=Rosemary Cargill}}</ref> Their son John married Aileen Spring Rice, the granddaughter of [[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon|Lord Monteagle of Brandon]].

==Honduras==
In 1814 he was appointed lieutenant governor of [[British Honduras]], holding at the same time the rank of [[colonel]] on the staff, thus exercising the military command as well as the civil government.

Arthur fell out with Honduran landowners over the local system of democratically elected magistrates. Pointing out its iniquity, he reported cases of maltreatment of women in slavery that went unpunished. In an 1823 [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Commons]] debate, [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolitionists]] cited Arthur's 1816 letters describing the maltreatment. However, Arthur had also stated in an 1816 article that, apart from those few cases he had reported, in no part of the world had he seen "the labouring class of people possess anything like the comforts and advantages of the Slave population of Honduras". Despite opponents mocking Arthur's contradictory position, [[William Wilberforce]]'s resolution prevailed and flogging of women in slavery was banned. With this collaboration and success came Wilberforce's patronage which was key to Arthur's next promotion.<ref>{{cite book |volume=1: Introduction |first=Nicholas |last=Russell |date=1 June 2022 |title=Manuscripts relating to the January 1830 samurai repulse of the piratically seized Van Diemen's Land colonial brig ''Cyprus'' from Mugi, Awa Province (Tokushima), Japan |url=https://piratesandsamurai.com/1.Introduction.pdf |pages=68–70 |access-date=3 March 2022 |publisher=Nicholas Russell |location=Ashiya, Japan |via=Pirates and Samurai}}{{self-published inline|date=June 2023}}</ref>

==Van Diemen's Land==
[[File:Gov Davey's proclamation.jpg|thumb|left|Proclamation board incorrectly labelled "[[Governor Davey's Proclamation]], 1816", depicting Governor Arthur's proclamation {{circa|1830}}]]
In 1823 he was appointed lieutenant governor of [[Van Diemen's Land]] (later known as Tasmania). He arrived on the ship {{ship||Adrian|1819 ship|2}} with his wife and family on 12 May 1824 and took office on 14 May. At the time Van Diemen's Land was the main British [[penal colony]] and it was separated from New South Wales in 1825. It was during Arthur's time in office that Van Diemen's Land gained much of its notorious reputation as a harsh penal colony. He selected [[Port Arthur, Tasmania|Port Arthur]] as the ideal location for a prison settlement, on a [[peninsula]] connected by a narrow, easily guarded [[isthmus]], surrounded by shark-infested seas. Arthur's predecessors had executed no one in Tasmania as capital punishment was carried out in Sydney. George Arthur executed 260 people in his term of office (some bodies were left hanging for months).<ref>{{Cite book|title = Van Diemen's Land|last = Boyce|first = James|publisher = Black Inc.|year = 2008|isbn = 978-1-86395-413-6|page = 169}}</ref>

As lieutenant governor, George Arthur is responsible for the repression and persecution of the [[Tasmanian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] population in the conflict known as the [[Black War]]. Throughout the 1820s Arthur had instituted various measures to protect settlers from Aboriginal attacks, including the stationing of garrison troops in remote farmhouses and the dispatch of combined military and police teams into the wilderness to track Indigenous bands.<ref name=Connor>{{cite book|last=Connor|first=John|title=The Australian Frontier Wars 1788{{ndash}}1838|publisher=University of New South Wales Press|year=2002|pages=93–95|isbn=0-86840-756-9}}</ref> These proved ineffective, and by 1830 the conflict between Aborigines and settlers had increased.

Arthur's initial brief had stated, "when such disturbances cannot be prevented or allayed by less vigorous measures, to oppose force by force, and to repel such Aggressions in the same manner, as if they proceeded from subjects of any accredited State." However, on 17 April 1828 in an official dispatch, Arthur described Aboriginal combatants as "Savages", a nomenclature that placed them outside the conventions of European warfare.<ref>{{cite book |volume=1: Introduction |first=Nicholas |last=Russell |date=1 June 2022 |title=Manuscripts relating to the January 1830 samurai repulse of the piratically seized Van Diemen's Land colonial brig ''Cyprus'' from Mugi, Awa Province (Tokushima), Japan |url=https://piratesandsamurai.com/1.Introduction.pdf |pages=45–47 |access-date=3 March 2022 |publisher=Nicholas Russell |location=Ashiya, Japan |via=Pirates and Samurai}}{{self-published inline|date=June 2023}}</ref>

In February 1830 Arthur sought public input on alternative measures to end the fighting; suggestions included a system of rewards for captured Aborigines, and the importation of packs of hunting dogs to "set [on] the natives as they would a quail." Arthur himself expressed regret that a treaty was not signed with Aborigines when the colony was established. In its absence, and given the increasing attacks on both sides, on 27 August 1830 Arthur obtained Executive Council approval for a declaration of martial law.<ref name=Connor/>

The centrepiece of Arthur's military efforts would be the [[Black Line]] fiasco, which was intended to drive the Aborigines from the colony's grazing land onto isolated peninsulas where they could be controlled. At the beginning of the Black War in 1826 Arthur issued an official statement setting out those situations that would justify settlers using violence: 'If it should be apparent that there is a determination on the part of one or more of the native tribes to attack, rob, or murder the white inhabitants generally, any person may arm, and joining themselves to the military, drive them by force to a safe distance, treating them as open enemies.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Forgotten War|last = Reynolds|first = Henry|publisher = UNSW Australia|year = 2013|isbn = 978-1-74223-392-5|page = 63}}</ref>

In 1833, Arthur wrote to his line superior, [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] [[F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich|Viscount Goderich]], "I am willing to make almost any prudent sacrifice that may tend to compensate for the injuries that the government is unwillingly and unavoidably made the instrument of inflicting." However, Arthur was a fastidious administrator who once wrote to his son "As to chance and good luck I know of nothing more absurd". "All happens under the direction of providence of the Almighty who works by human agency". To the first Aboriginal Establishment (internment camp) on Bruny Island, Arthur initially sent used blankets without any instruction to laund them and a syphilitic assistant overseer. When mortality there skyrocketed, Arthur became concerned. However, his concern appears to have been for the perception of his Abolitionist patrons and the home government regarding deaths of women and children in custody rather than for the tragedy of the [[Aboriginal Tasmanians|Aboriginal Tasmanians']] lives lost. Arthur obfuscated the mortality and distanced himself by setting up a committee. At the Aboriginal Establishment's subsequent locations, the litany of pernicious mortality-driving failings continued while Arthur, the Committee and the overseers ignore the everyday prophylactic protocols implemented on [[Penal transportation|convict transports]], in prisons and barracks. The failings are in every aspect remarkably reminiscent of the contagion-driving factors documented in an 1811 Parliamentary Paper on the 1809 [[Walcheren Campaign|Walcheren Debacle]] that Arthur most probably read. A split command hobbled the expeditionary force which became figuratively and literally bogged down. Lacking necessary supplies, accommodation and medical care, mortality due to contagion rose to 10%. Arthur served and fell ill at Walcheren. After the evacuation, he become [[Aide-de-camp]] and close friend to [[George Don (British Army officer)|General George Don]] who had initially reconnoitered Walcheren and was then brought in to organize the evacuation. The Parliamentary Paper cited around 50 of Don's dispatches. At its various subsequent locations, the Aboriginal Establishment's mortality rate averaged just over 10%, while every other institution under Arthur was a paragon of well-managed efficiency with mortality rates below England's average of 1.9%.

A ''Sydney Monitor'' editorial on his recall stated, "[Arthur] gave plausible replies, while he smiled in secret, knowing that those smiles would be communicated to his satraps and underlings, and that they would increase rather than mitigate this undercurrent of tyranny against the opposers of his government." The improbable level of failures and this description of his character point to Arthur obfuscating an orchestrated diminution which is consistent with a caution Arthur had received from Goderich's predecessor, [[George Murray (British Army officer)|Sir George Murray]], in 1830. Murray – an expert in military intelligence analysis who had served as a lieutenant-governor – wrote, "the adoption of any line of conduct, having for its avowed, or for its secret object, the extinction of the Native race, could not fail to leave an indelible stain upon the character of the British Government."<ref>{{cite book |volume=1: Introduction |first=Nicholas |last=Russell |date=1 June 2022 |title=Manuscripts relating to the January 1830 samurai repulse of the piratically seized Van Diemen's Land colonial brig ''Cyprus'' from Mugi, Awa Province (Tokushima), Japan |url=https://piratesandsamurai.com/1.Introduction.pdf |pages=91–92, 111–118, 136–146 |access-date=3 March 2022 |publisher=Nicholas Russell |location=Ashiya, Japan |via=Pirates and Samurai}}{{self-published inline|date=June 2023}}</ref>

Arthur failed in his attempts to reform the colony and the system of [[penal transportation]] with Arthur's autocratic and authoritarian rule leading to his recall in January 1836. By this time he was one of the wealthiest men in the colony, having totaled £50,000 (in 1839 value) by selling nearly all his landed property.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/arthur-sir-george-1721|title = Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter = Arthur, Sir George (1784–1854)|publisher = National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}}</ref> He departed Hobart for England on 30 October 1836, boarding the ''Elphinstone'' in tears, acclaimed by hundreds of cheering colonists.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Robert |title=The Fatal Shore |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |year=1986 |isbn=0-394-50668-5}} Chapter XI, § 6.</ref>

==Canada==
In 1837 Arthur was [[knight]]ed as a [[Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order]] (KCH),<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=19527 |date=26 July 1837 |page=1978}}</ref> given the rank of [[Major General]] on the staff. In December 1837 he was appointed lieutenant governor of [[Upper Canada]] and took office in [[Toronto]] from 23 March 1838. From the very start of his administration, he had to deal with the aftermath of the [[Upper Canada Rebellion]] and was instrumental in the execution of [[Peter Matthews (rebel)]] and [[Samuel Lount]]. In the same year, Upper Canada was [[Battle of the Windmill|invaded]] by a band of [[Hunter Patriot|American sympathizers]], one of a series of attempts to subvert British authority in Upper and [[Lower Canada]]. He failed to address the issues of fixing colonial administration from the influence of [[Family Compact]], and was replaced by [[John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham|Lord Durham]] while the [[13th Parliament of Upper Canada]] sat betimes.

The two colonies were united in 1841. [[Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham|The Lord Sydenham]], the first governor-general, asked Sir George Arthur to administer Upper Canada as deputy governor. Arthur agreed, on condition that the service was unpaid. Later in 1841 he returned to England and was created a hereditary [[baronet]] in recognition of his services in Canada.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=19975 |date=4 May 1841 |page=1138}}</ref>

==India==
On 8 June 1842, Arthur was appointed governor of the Indian presidency of [[Bombay]], which he retained until 1846. He displayed great tact in the office, as well as ability, and this helped in extending and strengthening British rule in India.

Arthur was appointed provisional governor-general, but did not assume office, as he was compelled by ill health to leave India before [[Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge|Lord Hardinge]] vacated the governor-generalship.

Sir George Arthur, during his administration of the affairs of the presidency, perfected the [[Deccan survey]], the object of which was to equalise and decrease the pressure of the land assessment on the cultivators of the [[Deccan]]; and gave his hearty support to the project of a railway line from Bombay to [[Kalyan|Cailian]], which may be regarded as the germ of the [[Great Indian Peninsular Railway]], while during his administration the reclamation of the foreshore of the island of Bombay was projected. During his tenure, he inaugurated the famous '[[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals|Grant Medical College]]' in Bombay (1845 AD) one of the first three Medical Colleges in India teaching the western medical sciences. The other two being, the Medical College, Bengal (1835 AD) and [[Madras Medical College]] (Formerly Madras Medical School in 1835 and later, Madras Medical College in 1850 AD). The hospital for the Grant Medical College, the Jamshedji Jijiboy Hospital was constructed by the Parsee Trust beforehand.

==Final years==
On his return to England in 1846, he was made a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|privy councillor]], and in 1853 he received the colonelcy of the [[50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot]]. He was promoted to [[lieutenant-general]] in 1854 and died that September.

==Legacy==
Famous [[Arthur Road Jail]] in Mumbai is named after Arthur Road which was named after [[Sir George Arthur]], [[Governor of Bombay]]

Arthur's time in Tasmania was dramatised in the 1945 radio play ''[[Conflict in Van Diemen's Land]]''.

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==See also==
* [[1828 Proclamation of Demarcation]]
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]]
* [[Governor of Bombay]]
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Sources==
*{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=George|Last=Arthur|shortlink=0-dict-biogA.html#arthur1}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |title=[[The Companion to Tasmanian History]] |editor1-last=Alexander |editor1-first= Alison |year=2005 |publisher=Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania |location=Hobart, Tasmania |isbn=1-86295-223-X |oclc=61888464}}
* {{cite DCB |title=Arthur, Sir George |first=Phillip |last=Buckner |volume=8 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/arthur_george_8E.html}}
* Robson, L. L. (1983). ''A History of Tasmania. Volume I. Van Diemen's Land From the Earliest Times to 1855''. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-554364-5}}.
* {{cite ODNB |id=707 |title=Arthur, Sir George, first baronet (1784–1854) |first=A.G.L. |last=Shaw}}

==External links==
* [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/arthur-sir-george-1721 Bio at Australian Dictionary of Biography]
* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Belize.html World Statesmen – Belize]
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Minister of Education (India)

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The '''Minister of Education''', formerly the '''Minister of Human Resources Development''' (1985–2020),<ref name=News18>{{cite web|title=HRD Ministry Renamed as Ministry of Education as Modi Cabinet Reverses Change Made by Rajiv Gandhi
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|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Kl shrimali.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[K. L. Shrimali]]''' {{small|(1909{{ndash}}2000) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Rajasthan]]}} (MoS)
|22 February 1958
|10 April 1962
!{{ayd|1958|2|22|1962|4|10}}
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of Education
|-
!(2)
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Kl shrimali.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[K. L. Shrimali]]''' {{small|(1909{{ndash}}2000) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Rajasthan]]}}
|10 April 1962
|31 August 1963
!{{ayd|10 Apr 1962|31 Aug 1963}}
|rowspan="9"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|rowspan="3" bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[Fourth Nehru ministry|Nehru IV]]'''
|rowspan="3"| [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
|-
!3
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Humayun Kabir portrait.gif|70px]]
|'''[[Humayun Kabir (Bengal politician)|Humayun Kabir]]''' {{small|(1906{{ndash}}1969) MP for [[Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency|Basirhat]]}}
|31 August 1963
|21 November 1963
!{{ayd|1963|8|31|1963|11|21}}
|-
!rowspan="5"| 4
|rowspan="5" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|rowspan="5"| [[File:Mohamed Ali Currim Chagla.jpg|70px]]
|rowspan="5"| '''[[M. C. Chagla]]''' {{small|(1900{{ndash}}1981) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Maharashtra]]}}
|21 November 1963
|27 May 1964
!rowspan="5"| {{ayd|1963|11|21|1966|11|13}}
|-
|27 May 1964
|9 June 1964
|bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[First Nanda ministry|Nanda I]]'''
|[[Gulzarilal Nanda]] ''{{small|(Acting)}}''
|-
|9 June 1964
|11 January 1966
|bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[Shastri ministry|Shastri]]'''
|[[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]
|-
|11 January 1966
|24 January 1966
|bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[Second Nanda ministry|Nanda II]]'''
|[[Gulzarilal Nanda]] ''{{small|(Acting)}}''
|-
|24 January 1966
|13 November 1966
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[First Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira I]]'''
|rowspan="3"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!5
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]''' {{small|(1905{{ndash}}1977) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Assam]]}}
|14 November 1966
|13 March 1967
!{{ayd|1966|11|14|1967|3|13}}
|-
!6
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Triguna Sen 2010 stamp of India.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Triguna Sen]]''' {{small|(1905{{ndash}}1998) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Tripura]]}}
|16 March 1967
|14 February 1969
!{{ayd|1967|3|16|1969|2|14}}
|bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[Second Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira II]]'''
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of Education and Youth Services
|-
!7
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"|
|
|'''[[V. K. R. V. Rao]]''' {{small|(1908{{ndash}}1991) MP for [[Bellary Lok Sabha constituency|Bellary]]}}
|14 February 1969
|18 March 1971
!{{ayd|1969|2|14|1971|3|18}}
|[[Indian National Congress (R)]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"| '''[[Second Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira II]]'''
|[[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of Education and Culture
|-
!8
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"|
|[[File:SiddharthaShankarRay.png|70px]]
|'''[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]''' {{small|(1920{{ndash}}2010) MP for [[Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency|Raiganj]]}}
|18 March 1971
|20 March 1972
!{{ayd|1971|3|18|1972|3|20}}
|rowspan="2"| [[Indian National Congress (R)]]
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"| '''[[Third Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira III]]'''
|rowspan="2"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!9
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"|
|[[File:Saiyid Nurul Hasan 16 (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]]''' {{small|(1921{{ndash}}1993) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Uttar Pradesh]]}} (MoS, I/C)
|24 March 1972
|24 March 1977
!{{ayd|1972|3|24|1977|3|24}}
|-
!10
|bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Party}}"|
|[[File:Pratap Chandra Chunder - The noted educationalist and former Union Minister inaugurates the exhibition, of award winning and selected photographs from 18th National Photo Contest, jointly organized by Photo Division (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]''' {{small|(1919{{ndash}}2008) MP for [[Calcutta North East Lok Sabha constituency|Calcutta North East]]}}
|24 March 1977
|28 July 1979
!{{ayd|1977|3|24|1979|7|28}}
|[[Janata Party]]
|bgcolor="#1F75FE"| '''[[Morarji Desai ministry|Desai]]'''
|[[Morarji Desai]]
|-
!11
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (Urs)}}"|
|[[File:Dr-Karan-Singh-sept2009.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Karan Singh]]''' {{small|(born 1931) MP for [[Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency|Udhampur]]}}
|28 July 1979
|14 January 1980
!{{ayd|1979|7|28|1980|1|14}}
|[[Indian National Congress (Urs)]]
|bgcolor="#6495ED"| '''[[Charan Singh ministry|Charan Singh]]'''
|[[Charan Singh]]
|-
!12
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:B. Shankaranand portrait.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[B. Shankaranand]]''' {{small|(1925{{ndash}}2009) MP for [[Chikkodi Lok Sabha constituency|Chikkodi]]}}
|14 January 1980
|17 October 1980
!{{ayd|1980|1|14|1980|10|17}}
|rowspan="4"| [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|rowspan="3" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"| '''[[Fourth Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira IV]]'''
|rowspan="3"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!13
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Shankarrao Chavan 2007 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Shankarrao Chavan]]''' {{small|(1920{{ndash}}2004) MP for [[Nanded Lok Sabha constituency|Nanded]]}}
|17 October 1980
|8 August 1981
!{{ayd|1980|10|17|1981|8|8}}
|-
!rowspan="2"| 14
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|rowspan="2"| [[File:Sheila Kaul Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]
|rowspan="2"| '''[[Sheila Kaul]]''' {{small|(1915{{ndash}}2015) MP for [[Raebareli Lok Sabha constituency|Raebareli]]}} (MoS, I/C)
|8 August 1981
|31 October 1984
!rowspan="2"| {{ayd|1981|8|8|1984|12|31}}
|-
|31 October 1984
|31 December 1984
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"| '''[[First Rajiv Gandhi ministry|Rajiv I]]'''
|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of Education
|-
!15
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Shri K.C Pant (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[K. C. Pant]]''' {{small|(1931{{ndash}}2012) MP for [[New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency|New Delhi]]}}
|31 December 1984
|25 September 1985
!{{ayd|1984|12|31|1985|9|25}}
|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"| '''[[Second Rajiv Gandhi ministry|Rajiv II]]'''
|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of Human Resource Development
|-
!16
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]''' {{small|(1921{{ndash}}2004) MP for [[Ramtek Lok Sabha constituency|Ramtek]]}}
|25 September 1985
|25 June 1988
!{{ayd|1985|9|25|1988|6|25}}
|rowspan="2"| [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"| '''[[Second Rajiv Gandhi ministry|Rajiv II]]'''
|rowspan="2"| [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
!16
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:P. Shiv Shankar (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[P. Shiv Shankar]]''' {{small|(1929{{ndash}}2017) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Gujarat]]}}
|25 June 1988
|2 December 1989
!{{ayd|1988|6|25|1989|12|2}}
|-
!17
|bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Dal}}"|
|[[File:V. P. Singh (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[V. P. Singh]]''' {{small|(1931{{ndash}}2008) MP for [[Fatehpur Lok Sabha constituency|Fatehpur]]}} (Prime Minister)
|2 December 1989
|10 November 1990
!{{ayd|1989|12|2|1990|11|10}}
|[[Janata Dal]]
|style="background:#4C915F"| '''[[V. P. Singh ministry|V. P. Singh]]'''
|[[V. P. Singh]]
|-
!18
|bgcolor="{{party color|Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)}}"|
|
|'''[[Raj Mangal Pande]]''' {{small|(1920{{ndash}}1993) MP for [[Deoria Lok Sabha constituency|Deoria]]}}
|21 November 1990
|21 June 1991
!{{ayd|1990|11|21|1991|6|21}}
|[[Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)]]
|style="background:#74C365"| '''[[Chandra Shekhar ministry|Chandra Shekhar]]'''
|[[Chandra Shekhar]]
|-
!19
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh briefing the Media after two day meeting of the National Monitoring Committee on Minorities Education, in New Delhi on July 12, 2006 (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Arjun Singh (Madhya Pradesh politician)|Arjun Singh]]''' {{small|(1930{{ndash}}2011) MP for [[Satna Lok Sabha constituency|Satna]]}}
|23 June 1991
|24 December 1994
!{{ayd|1991|6|23|1994|12|24}}
|rowspan="4"| [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|rowspan="4" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"| [[Rao ministry|'''Rao''']]
|rowspan="4"| [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|-
!20
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]''' {{small|(1921{{ndash}}2004) MP for [[Nandyal Lok Sabha constituency|Nandyal]]}} (Prime Minister)
|24 December 1994
|9 February 1995
!{{ayd|1994|12|24|1995|2|9}}
|-
!21
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Madhavrao Scindia 2005 stamp of India.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Madhavrao Scindia]]''' {{small|(1945{{ndash}}2001) MP for [[Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency|Gwalior]]}}
|9 February 1995
|17 January 1996
!{{ayd|1995|2|9|1996|1|17}}
|-
!{{ndash}}
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]''' {{small|(1921{{ndash}}2004) MP for [[Nandyal Lok Sabha constituency|Nandyal]]}} (Prime Minister)
|17 January 1996
|16 May 1996
!{{ayd|1996|1|17|1996|5|16}}
|-
!22
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|[[File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee (crop 2).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]''' {{small|(1924{{ndash}}2018) MP for [[Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency|Lucknow]]}} (Prime Minister)
|16 May 1996
|1 June 1996
!{{ayd|1996|5|16|1996|6|1}}
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|style="background:#FFA551;"| '''[[First Vajpayee ministry|Vajpayee I]]'''
|[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|-
!rowspan="2"| 23
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Dal}}"|
|rowspan="2"| [[File:Somappa Rayappa Bommai 132.jpg|70px]]
|rowspan="2"| '''[[S. R. Bommai]]''' {{small|(1927{{ndash}}2007) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Odisha]]}}
|5 June 1996
|21 April 1997
!rowspan="2"| {{ayd|1996|6|5|1998|3|18}}
|rowspan="2"| [[Janata Dal]]
|style="background:#4C915F"| '''[[Deve Gowda ministry|Deve Gowda]]'''
|[[H. D. Deve Gowda]]
|-
|21 April 1997
|18 March 1998
|style="background:#4C915F"| '''[[Gujral ministry|Gujral]]'''
|[[Inder Kumar Gujral]]
|-
!rowspan="2"| 24
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|rowspan="2"| [[File:Murli Manohar Joshi MP.jpg|70px]]
|rowspan="2"| '''[[Murli Manohar Joshi]]''' {{small|(born 1934) MP for [[Allahabad Lok Sabha constituency|Allahabad]]}}
|19 March 1998
|13 October 1999
!rowspan="2"| {{ayd|1998|3|19|2004|05|22}}
|rowspan="2"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|style="background:#FFA551;"| '''[[Second Vajpayee ministry|Vajpayee II]]'''
|rowspan="2"| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|-
|13 October 1999
|22 May 2004
|style="background:#FFA551;"| '''[[Third Vajpayee ministry|Vajpayee III]]'''
|-
!(19)
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh briefing the Media after two day meeting of the National Monitoring Committee on Minorities Education, in New Delhi on July 12, 2006 (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Arjun Singh (Madhya Pradesh politician)|Arjun Singh]]''' {{small|(1930{{ndash}}2011) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Madhya Pradesh]]}}
|23 May 2004
|22 May 2009
!{{ayd|2004|5|23|2009|5|22}}
|rowspan="3"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|bgcolor="#87CEEB"| [[First Manmohan Singh ministry|'''Manmohan I''']]
|rowspan="3"| [[Manmohan Singh]]
|-
!25
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Kapil Sibal.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Kapil Sibal]]''' {{small|(born 1948) MP for [[Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency|Chandni Chowk]]}}
|28 May 2009
|28 October 2012
!{{ayd|2009|5|28|2012|10|28}}
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#87CEEB"| [[Second Manmohan Singh ministry|'''Manmohan II''']]
|-
!26
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Pallam Raju (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[M. M. Pallam Raju]]''' {{small|(born 1962) MP for [[Kakinada Lok Sabha constituency|Kakinada]]}}
|28 October 2012
|26 May 2014
!{{ayd|2012|10|28|2014|5|26}}
|-
!27
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|[[File:Smt. Smriti Irani in April 2023.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Smriti Irani]]''' {{small|(born 1976) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Gujarat]]}}
|26 May 2014
|5 July 2016
!{{ayd|2014|5|27|2016|7|5}}
|rowspan="3"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|rowspan="2" style="background:#FFA551;"| '''[[First Modi ministry|Modi I]]'''
|rowspan="3"| [[Narendra Modi]]
|-
!28
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|[[File:Prakash Javadekar MIB (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Prakash Javadekar]]''' {{small|(born 1951) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Madhya Pradesh]], till 2018 Rajya Sabha MP for [[Maharashtra]], from 2018}}
|5 July 2016
|30 May 2019
!{{ayd|2016|7|5|2019|5|30}}
|-
!29
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|[[File:Ramesh Pokhriyal 2024.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Ramesh Pokhriyal]]''' {{small|(born 1959) MP for [[Haridwar Lok Sabha constituency|Haridwar]]}}
|31 May 2019
|29 July 2020
!{{ayd|2019|5|31|2020|7|29}}
|style="background:#FFA551;"| '''[[Second Modi ministry|Modi II]]'''
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of Education
|-
!(29)
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|[[File:Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', 2020.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Ramesh Pokhriyal]]''' {{small|(born 1959) MP for [[Haridwar Lok Sabha constituency|Haridwar]]}}
|29 July 2020
|7 July 2021
!{{ayd|2020|7|29|2021|7|7}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|rowspan="2" style="background:#FFA551;"| '''[[Second Modi ministry|Modi II]]'''
|rowspan="3"| [[Narendra Modi]]
|-
!rowspan="2"|30
|rowspan="2"bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|rowspan="2"|[[File:The Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan being greeted by the Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Dr. M.M. Kutty, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|rowspan="2"|'''[[Dharmendra Pradhan]]''' {{small|(born 1969) MP for [[Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency|Sambalpur]]}}
|rowspan="2"|7 July 2021
|rowspan="2"|''Incumbent''
!rowspan="2"|{{ayd|2021|7|7}}
|-
|style="background:#FFA551;"| '''[[Third Modi ministry|Modi III]]'''
|}

== Ministers of state ==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! rowspan="2"| #
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |Portrait
! rowspan="2" style="width:17em" |Minister {{small|(Birth-Death) Constituency}}
! colspan="3" |Term of office
! rowspan="2" style="width:8em" |Political party
! rowspan="2"| Ministry
! rowspan="2" style="width:9em" |Prime Minister
|-
!style="width:7em"| From
!style="width:7em"| To
!style="width:7em"| Period
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of State for Education and Scientific Research
|-
!1
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Kl shrimali.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[K. L. Shrimali]]''' {{small|(1909{{ndash}}2000) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Rajasthan]]}} (MoS)
|17 April 1957
|22 February 1958
!{{ayd|17 Apr 1957|22 Jan 1958}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[Third Nehru ministry|Nehru III]]'''
|[[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of State for Education
|-
!2
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Ramchandra Martand Hajarnavis.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Ramchandra Martand Hajarnavis]]''' {{small|(1908{{ndash}}1976) MP for [[Bhandara Lok Sabha constituency|Bhandara]]}} (Minister of Cultural Affairs)
|13 June 1964
|29 October 1965
!{{ayd|13 Jun 1964|29 Oct 1965}}
|rowspan="3"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[Shastri ministry|Shastri]]'''
|[[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]
|-
!3
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Sher Singh Kadyan Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]
|'''Sher Singh Kadyan''' {{small|(1917{{ndash}}2009) MP for [[Rohtak Lok Sabha constituency|Rohtak]]}}
|rowspan="2"| 13 March 1967
|rowspan="2"| 14 February 1969
!rowspan="2"| {{ayd|13 Mar 1967|14 Feb 1969}}
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#87CEEB"| '''[[Second Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira II]]'''
|rowspan="2"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!4
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|[[File:Bhagwat Jha Azad.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Bhagwat Jha Azad]]''' {{small|(1922{{ndash}}2011) MP for [[Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency|Bhagalpur]]}}
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of State for Education and Youth Services
|-
!5
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"|
|[[File:Bhakt Darshan portrait.gif|70px]]
|'''[[Bhakt Darshan]]''' {{small|(1912–1991) MP for [[Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency|Garhwal]]}}
|18 February 1969
|18 March 1971
!{{ayd|18 Feb 1969|18 Mar 1971}}
|[[Indian National Congress (R)]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"| '''[[Second Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira II]]'''
|[[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of State for Education and Culture
|-
!6
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"|
|[[File:Saiyid Nurul Hasan 16 (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]]''' {{small|(1921{{ndash}}1993) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Uttar Pradesh]]}}
|4 October 1971
|24 March 1972
!{{ayd|4 Oct 1971|24 Mar 1972}}
|[[Indian National Congress (R)]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (R)}}"| '''[[Third Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira III]]'''
|[[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!7
|bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Party}}"|
|
|'''[[Dhanna Singh Gulshan]]''' {{small|MP for [[Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency|Bathinda]]}}
|14 August 1977
|rowspan="2"| 28 July 1979
!{{ayd|14 Aug 1977|28 Jul 1979}}
|rowspan="2"| [[Janata Party]]
|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#1F75FE"| '''[[Morarji Desai ministry|Desai]]'''
|rowspan="2"| [[Morarji Desai]]
|-
!8
|bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Party}}"|
|[[File:Renuka Devi Barkataki official portrait.gif|70px]]
|'''[[Renuka Devi Barkataki]]''' {{small|(1932{{ndash}}2017) MP for [[Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency|Gauhati]]}}
|16 August 1977
!{{ayd|16 Aug 1977|28 Jul 1979}}
|-
!9
|bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Party (Secular)}}"|
|[[File:Rashida Haque Choudhury Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Rashida Haque Choudhury]]''' {{small|MP for [[Silchar Lok Sabha constituency|Silchar]]}}
|30 July 1979
|14 January 1980
!{{ayd|30 Jul 1979|14 Jan 1980}}
|[[Janata Party (Secular)]]
|bgcolor="#6495ED"| '''[[Charan Singh ministry|Charan Singh]]'''
|[[Charan Singh]]
|-
!10
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Sheila Kaul Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Sheila Kaul]]''' {{small|(1915{{ndash}}2015) MP for [[Raebareli Lok Sabha constituency|Raebareli]]}}
|24 November 1980
|8 August 1981
!{{ayd|24 Nov 1980|8 Aug 1981}}
|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"| '''[[Fourth Indira Gandhi ministry|Indira IV]]'''
|[[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
!colspan="10"| Minister of State for Human Resource Development
|-
!11
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:The Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee addressing at the inauguration of the Orientation Programme for the media persons accredited to the press gallery of Lok Sabha, in New Delhi on July 28, 2006 (cropped).jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Margaret Alva]]''' {{small|(born 1942) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Karnataka]]}} (Women and Child Development, Youth Affairs and Sports)
|rowspan="2"| 25 September 1985
|2 December 1989
!{{ayd|25 Sep 1985|2 Dec 1989}}
|rowspan="4"| [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|rowspan="4" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"| '''[[Second Rajiv Gandhi ministry|Rajiv II]]'''
|rowspan="4"| [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
!12
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Sushila Rohatgi Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Sushila Rohatgi]]''' {{small|(1921{{ndash}}2011) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Uttar Pradesh]]}} (Education and Culture)
|12 May 1986
!{{ayd|25 Sep 1985|12 May 1986}}
|-
!13
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|[[File:Krishna Sahi Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]
|'''[[Krishna Sahi]]''' {{small|(born 1931) MP for [[Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency|Begusarai]]}} (Education and Culture, until 1988; Culture, from 1988)
|12 May 1986
|rowspan="2"| 2 December 1989
!{{ayd|12 May 1986|2 Dec 1989}}
|-
!14
|bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
|
|'''[[Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi]]''' {{small|(1920{{ndash}}2018) MP for [[Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha constituency|Muzaffarpur]]}} (Education and Culture, until 1989; Education, from 1989)
|14 February 1988
!{{ayd|14 Feb 1988|2 Dec 1989}}
|-
!15
|bgcolor="{{party color|Janata Dal}}"|
|[[File:MGK Menon.webp|70px]]
|'''[[M. G. K. Menon]]''' {{small|(1928{{ndash}}2016) Rajya Sabha MP for [[Rajasthan]]}} (Education)
|20 January 1990
|23 April 1990
!{{ayd|20 Jan 1990|23 Apr 1990}}
|rowspan="2"| [[Janata Dal]]
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Srinivas (singer)

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{{about|the 1990s playback singer Srinivas also known as Srinivasan Doraiswamy |the 1950s playback singer|P. B. Sreenivas| other people known as Srinivas|Srinivas#Notable people}}
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| birth_name = Srinivasan Doraiswamy
| alias = Jeans Srinivas
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1959|11|7}}
| origin = [[Ambasamudram]], [[Tirunelveli]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
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| genre = [[Film score]]
| occupations = [[Playback singer]]
[[Composer]]
| years_active = 1993–present
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'''Srinivasan Doraiswamy''', known by his stage name '''Srinivas''' or '''Jeans Srinivas''', is an Indian [[playback singer]] in the [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Malayalam]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Kannada]], and [[Hindi]] music industries. Credited to 3000 songs, he is also a music composer, working on projects including films, jingles, albums, television serials, and devotional albums. He received the [[Kalaimamani]] award by the [[Government of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu state government]] in 2005 and the [[Tamil Nadu State Film Awards|Tamil Nadu State Film Award]] twice for the songs "[[Padayappa (soundtrack)|Minsara Poove]]" ([[Padayappa]]) in 1999 and "Maargazhiyil" ([[Onbadhu Roobai Nottu]]) in 2008. He has also received the Best Male Singer [[Kerala State Film Awards|Kerala State Film Award]] for the song "Bhasuri" ([[Rathri Mazha]]) in 2007, the Film Critics Award for Best Composer for the movie "[[Seetha Kalyanam (2009 film)|Seetha Kalyanam]]" in 2009, and Best Playback Singer for "[[Dil Chahta Hai (soundtrack)|Kaisi Hai Yeh Ruth]]" ([[Dil Chahta Hai]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rajinikanth's Minsara Kanna from Padayappa was originally a female solo, later singer Srinivas sang the male track at gunpoint! |url=https://www.ottplay.com/news/rajinikanths-minsara-kanna-from-padayappa-was-originally-a-female-solo-later-singer-srinivas-sang-the-male-track-at-gunpoint/d34db5e921377 |website=OTTPLAY}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=When singer Srinivas took a song request from Ranil Wickremesinghe, the president of Sri Lanka |url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/when-singer-srinivas-took-a-song-request-from-ranil-wickremesinghe-the-president-of-sri-lanka/article67093039.ece |access-date=2024-04-21 |website=The Hindu|date=18 July 2023 |last1=Srinivasan |first1=Meera }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Srinivas |url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/3K9qRRRqtuxgBRLxRCxpDl |access-date=2024-04-21 |website=Spotify}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Srinivas Movies |url=https://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/srinivas-singer.html#filmography |access-date=2024-04-21 |website=FilmiBeat}}</ref>

==Early life==
Singer Srinivas was born on 7 November in Ambasamudram in [[Tamil Nadu]] to Duraiswamy and Lakshmi.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

==Career==
{{verify|date=July 2025}}
Srinivas began his musical journey in 1992 after being inspired by the soundtrack of [[Mani Ratnam]]'s Tamil film "[[Roja (film)|Roja]]," which featured fresh voices and sounds by debut composer [[A. R. Rahman|A.R. Rahman]].{{Citation needed|reason=No source provided for the statement|date=July 2025}} Encouraged by Rahman, Srinivas relocated to Chennai in 1993 to pursue music seriously. His first film song was for the [[Telugu movie]] "[[One by Two (1993 film)|One By Two]]" in [[Vidyasagar (composer)|Vidyasagar]]'s music. He gained recognition with his rendition of [[Mehdi Hassan|Mehdi Haasan]]'s ghazals, leading Rahman to offer him work in Chennai.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-11-11 |title=Soulful tribute to Mehdi Hassan |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Soulful-tribute-to-Mehdi-Hassan/article15684217.ece |access-date=2024-04-25 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj8AKnPfSgk |title=In the {{as written|begi|ning [sic]}} I was mad fan of RD Burman and Kishore Kumar! Singer Srinivas - CWC {{!}} Part 1 |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-03-31 |title=Nowadays, for a singer to even sing 100 songs is a huge deal: Srinivas |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/nowadays-for-a-singer-to-even-sing-100-songs-is-a-huge-deal-srinivas/articleshow/99135609.cms |access-date=2024-04-25 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Srinivasan |first=Meera |date=2023-07-18 |title=When singer Srinivas took a song request from Ranil Wickremesinghe, the president of Sri Lanka |url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/when-singer-srinivas-took-a-song-request-from-ranil-wickremesinghe-the-president-of-sri-lanka/article67093039.ece |access-date=2024-04-25 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJonUVcCxU |title=Minsara Kanna Live Performance {{!}} Nithyasree Mahadevan {{!}} Singer Srinivas {{!}} JFW Achievers Awards 2022 |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

Srinivas collaborated extensively with Rahman, singing tracks for several films. His notable works include "Mellisaiye" from "[[Mr. Romeo]]" (1996) and "En Uyire" from "[[Uyire]]" (1998). He achieved widespread acclaim with hits like "[[Padayappa (soundtrack)|Minsaara Poove]]" from "[[Padayappa]]" (1999), earning him his first Tamil Nadu Government State award for Best Male Singer. Srinivas continued his successful collaboration with Rahman, contributing to songs like "[[Alai Payuthey (soundtrack)|Endendrum Punnagai]]" and "[[Alai Payuthey (soundtrack)|Snehidhane]]" from "[[Alai Payuthey|Alaipayuthey]]" (2000) and "Muzhumadhi" from "[[Jodhaa Akbar|Jodha Akbar]]" (2008).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rajinikanth's Minsara Kanna from Padayappa was originally a female solo, later singer Srinivas sang the male track at gunpoint! |url=https://www.ottplay.com/news/rajinikanths-minsara-kanna-from-padayappa-was-originally-a-female-solo-later-singer-srinivas-sang-the-male-track-at-gunpoint/d34db5e921377 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=OTTPlay |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Srinivas |url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/3K9qRRRqtuxgBRLxRCxpDl |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Spotify |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqLIwXuojnI |title=Minsaara Poove {{!}} Srinivas {{!}} Sharanya Srinivas {{!}} Padaiyappa {{!}} Madai Thirandhu {{!}} Chapter 3 : Iruvar |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRvZOFV6eU |title=Jodhaa Akbar (Tamil) - Muzhumadhi Video {{!}} @A.R. Rahman {{!}} Hrithik Roshan, AishwaryaRai |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

Apart from [[Tamil cinema|Tamil]], Srinivas also worked on [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] albums with Rahman, earning the moniker "Jeans Srinivas" after the popularity of his song "[[Jeans (film)|Priya Priya]]" in the Telugu version of the movie "[[Jeans (film)|Jeans.]]" His association with Rahman extended to [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam]], with recent contributions to films like "[[Galatta Kalyaanam|Galatta Kalyanam]]" (2021) and the Malayalam version of "[[Ponniyin Selvan: II (soundtrack)|Ponniyin Selvan - II]]." Throughout his career, Srinivas has been known for his versatile voice and close collaboration with A.R. Rahman.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAyvx_OLI_Q |title=Priya Priya Song With Lyrics- Jeans Songs -Aishwarya Rai, Prashanth, A.R. Rahman-Aditya Music Telugu |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttYczyVZPTs |title=Endrendrum Punnagai Song with Lyrics {{!}} Alaipayuthey Songs {{!}} A R Rahman Hits {{!}} Mani Ratnam Hit Movies |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUGZuc30xyE |title=Evergreen Hits of Srinivas {{!}} Nonstop Malayalam Film Songs |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1KJM68x-T0 |title=Srinivas sings "Kaisi Hai Ye Rut" Dil Chahta Hai {{!}} The Complete Jam Sessions |language=en |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-01-05 |title=Star Singer completes 50 episodes; Singer Srinivas to grace the grand celebration |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/malayalam/star-singer-completes-50-episodes-singer-srinivas-to-grace-the-grand-celebration/articleshow/106569321.cms |access-date=2024-04-25 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nippon Paint joins hands with Playback Singer Mr. Srinivas, launches Nenjil Oru Vannam – Chennaionline |url=https://www.chennaionline.com/chennai-360/nippon-paint-joins-hands-with-playback-singer-mr-srinivas-launches-nenjil-oru-vannam/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=www.chennaionline.com}}</ref>

== Television ==
He has frequently appeared as a judge in ''[[Vijay Television]]'' Super Singer, ''[[Zee Tamil]] Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'', and other reality shows of Tamil Nadu.<ref name=":0" />{{Failed verification|date=March 2026}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:60%;"
!'''Year'''
!Program
!Channel
!Language
|-
| rowspan="2" |2025
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Tamil Li'l Champs season 5|''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 5'']]
| rowspan="4" |[[Zee Tamil]]
| rowspan="4" |Tamil
|-
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors season 5|''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors 5'']]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2024
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Tamil Li'l Champs season 4|''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 4'']]
|-
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors season 4|''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors 4'']]
|-
|2024
|[[Star Singer|''Star Singer 9'']]
|[[Asianet (TV channel)|Asianet]]
|Malayalam
|-
|2023
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Tamil Li'l Champs (season 3)|''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Tamil Li'l Champs 3'']]
| rowspan="3" |[[Zee Tamil]]
| rowspan="3" |Tamil
|-
|2022-2023
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors (season 3)|''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors 3'']]
|-
|2021
|''[[Rockstar (Indian TV series)]]''
|-
|2019
|[[Top Singer (TV series)|''Top Singer Season 1'']]
|[[Flowers TV]]
|Malayalam
|-
|2019
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors (season 2)|''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors 2'']]
| rowspan="2" |[[Zee Tamil]]
| rowspan="7" |Tamil
|-
|2017-2018
|[[Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors]]
|-
|2015-2016
|''[[Super Singer 5]]''
| rowspan="5" |[[Star Vijay]]
|-
|2014
|''[[Super Singer 4]]''
|-
|2010-2011
|''[[Super Singer 3]]''
|-
|2008
|''[[Super Singer 2]]''
|-
|2006
|''[[Super Singer 1]]''
|}

==Awards==
*[[Kalaimamani]], [[Government of Tamil Nadu]]
*[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer|Best Male Singer]] - [[Rathri Mazha]], [[Kerala state film awards]]
*[[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Male Playback]] - [[Padayappa]] and [[Onbadhu Roobai Nottu]]
*2017 - Vijay Television Awards for Favourite Judge Male [[Vijay Television Awards|Vijay Television Awards<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 September 2015 |title=Srinivas wins Best Male Judge |url=https://twitter.com/vijaytelevision/status/645282010035027968?lang=en |website=Official Twitter Account of Vijay TV}}</ref>]]

==Discography==
{{Main|List of songs recorded by Srinivas}}

=== Tamil discography (selected songs) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
!Film
!Song
!Composer(s)
!Co-singer(s)
!Lyricist
|-
|1998
!''[[Uyire]] '''(D)''' ''
|“Ennuyire”
|rowspan="4"|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|Sujatha Mohan
|rowspan="3"|[[Vairamuthu]]
|-
|1999
!''[[Taj Mahal (1999 film)|Taj Mahal]]''
|“Chotta Chotta”
|
|-
|1999
!''[[Padayappa]]''
|“Minsara Poove”
|[[Nithyasree Mahadevan]], [[Palakkad Sreeram]]
|-
|2008
!''[[Jodhaa Akbar]] '''(D)''' ''
|“Muzhumathy”
|
|[[Na. Muthukumar]]
|-
|2014
!''[[Naan Than Bala]]''
|“Uyire Unakkaga”
|Venkat Krishi
|[[Priyadarshini (singer)|Priyadarshini]]
|[[Na. Muthukumar]]
|}

=== Telugu discography ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
!Film
!Song
!Composer(s)
!Co-singer(s)
|-
| rowspan="2" |1993
!''[[Thiruda Thiruda|Donga Donga]] (D)''
|"Etilona Chepalanta"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Suresh Peters]]
|-
!''[[Gentleman (1993 film)|Gentleman]] (D)''
|"Maavele Maavele"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Minmini]], Noel James
|-
|1994
!''[[Palnati Pourusham]]''
|"O Silku Paapa"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Malgudi Subha]], [[Suresh Peters]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |1995
! rowspan="2" |''[[Bombay (1995 film)|Bombay]] (D)''
|"Poolakundi Komma"
| rowspan="2" |[[A. R. Rahman]]
|Pallavi, Subha, Anupama
|-
|"Idhu Matrubhoomi"
|[[Sujatha Mohan]], Noel
|-
!''[[Vaddu Bava Thappu]]''
|"Hello Hello Sreevaru"
|[[Vidyasagar (composer)|Vidyasagar]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1996
!''[[Kadhal Desam|Prema Desham]] (D)''
|"Hello Doctor"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[KK (singer)|KK]]
|-
!''[[Mr. Romeo]]'' (D)
|"Evaridhi Evaridhi"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|Noel James, Chandran, Anto
|-
| 1997
!''[[Minsara Kanavu|Merupu Kalalu]] (D)''
|"Oh La La La"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]], [[Unni Menon]]
|-
| rowspan="6" |1998
! rowspan="2" |[[Jeans (film)|''Jeans'']] (D)
|"Priya Priya Champodde"
| rowspan="2" |[[A. R. Rahman]]
|
|-
|"Gundello Gayanni"
|
|-
!''[[Aahaa..! (1998 film)|Aahaa..!]]''
|"Manasaina"
|[[Vandemataram Srinivas]]
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |''[[Pelli Peetalu]]''
|"Chitapata Chinukulu"
| rowspan="2" |[[S. V. Krishna Reddy]]
| rowspan="2" |[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
|"Jil Jil Jil"
|-
!''[[Dil Se..|Prematho]] (D)''
|"Ooristhu Ooguthu"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Sujatha Mohan]]
|-
| rowspan="9" |1999
!''[[Jodi (1999 film)|Jodi]] (D)''
|"Nanu Preminchananu"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Sujatha Mohan]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |''[[Kadhalar Dhinam|Premikula Roju]] (D)''
|"Manasu Padi"
| rowspan="2" |[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[M. G. Sreekumar]]
|-
|"Roja Roja"(Sad)
|
|-
!''[[Premaku Velayera]]''
|"Kannu Kannu Kalupukoni"
|[[S. V. Krishna Reddy]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
!''[[Oke Okkadu]]'' (D)
|"Eruvaka Saguthundaga"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Swarnalatha]]
|-
!''[[Padayappa|Narasimha]] (D)''
|"Meriseti Puvva"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Nithyasree Mahadevan]]
|-
![[A. K. 47 (film)|''A. K. 47'']] (D)
|"Alala Alala Nee Kosam"
|[[Hamsalekha]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |''[[Harischandraa]]''
|"Daychey Dora"
| rowspan="2" |Agosh
|Gopal Rao
|-
|"Vinudu Vinudu Antha"
|[[Mano (singer)|Mano]]
|-
| rowspan="10" |2000
! rowspan="3" |''[[Alaipayuthey|Sakhi]] (D)''
|"Vasanthapu"
| rowspan="3" |[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|-
|"Snehituda Snehituda"
|[[Sadhana Sargam]]
|-
|"Maangalyam"
|[[Clinton Cerejo]]
|-
!''[[Manoharam (2000 film)|Manoharam]]''
|"Bharatha Maatha"
|[[Mani Sharma]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
!''[[Priyuralu Pilichindi]]'' (D)
|"Yemaaye Naa Kavitha"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
!''[[Mugavaree|Chirunaama]] (D)''
|"O Sakha Sakha"
|[[Deva (composer)|Deva]]
|[[Swarnalatha]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |''[[Abbas (actor)|Madhuri]]''
|"Gee Laila"
| rowspan="2" |Murali
|[[Gopika Poornima]]
|-
|"Sannaga O Pilupu"
|[[Sujatha Mohan]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |''[[Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai|Premani Cheppara]] (D)''
|"Adhe Vennela"
| rowspan="2" |[[Rajesh Roshan]]
|
|-
|"Nidurinche Gundela"
|
|-
| rowspan="9" |2001
!''[[Roja Selvamani|Durga]]''
|"Kannukotti"
|SD Shantakumar
|
|-
!''[[Nandhaa|Akrosham]] (D)''
|"Amma Antunna"
|[[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
|
|-
!''[[Prematho Raa]]''
|"Preminchadame"
|[[Mani Sharma]]
|
|-
![[Hanuman Junction (film)|''Hanuman Junction'']]
|"Konaseemallo O Koyila"
|[[Suresh Peters]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
!''[[Kushi (2001 film)|Kushi]]''
|"Cheliya Cheliya"
|[[Mani Sharma]]
|[[Harini (singer)|Harini]]
|-
!''[[Minnale|Cheli]] (D)''
|"Varshinche Megham"
|[[Harris Jayaraj]]
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Chiranjeevulu (2001 film)|''Chiranjeevulu'']]
|"Anuraagam Anubandham"
| rowspan="2" |A.B.Murali
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
|"Palliey Pachani"
|[[Gopika Poornima]]
|-
!''[[Srinivas|Ramana]]''
|"Raayanchala Raave"
|Maharshi
|Amrutha
|-
| rowspan="7" |2002
! rowspan="2" |''[[Pammal K. Sambandam|Bramhachari]] (D)''
|"Sakala Kala Vallabuda"
| rowspan="2" |[[Deva (composer)|Deva]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Sujatha Mohan]]
|-
|"Ghatothkacha"
|-
!''[[Mani Sharma|Priyadarshini]]''
|"Maatalake Andhanidi"
|[[Mani Sharma]]
|Prasanna
|-
!''[[Allari (film)|Allari]]''
|"Nara Naram"
|Paul J
|Aparna
|-
!''[[Baba (2002 film)|Baba]] (D)''
|"Baba Theme"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|
|-
!''[[Panchatanthiram|Panchatantram]] (D)''
|"Meri Jaan"
|[[Deva (composer)|Deva]]
|[[Shalini (actress)|Shalini]]
|-
!''[[Chakri (composer)|Kanulu Moosina Neevaye]]''
|"Aalapana Aagena"
|[[Chakri (composer)|Chakri]]
|[[Sunitha Upadrashta]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |2003
!''[[Chakri (composer)|Donga Ramudu And Party]]''
|"Chalirathiri"
| rowspan="3" |[[Chakri (composer)|Chakri]]
|[[Sunitha Upadrashta]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |''[[Ammayilu Abbayilu]]''
|"Neeloni Andhalu"
| rowspan="2" |[[Kousalya (singer)|Kousalya]]
|-
|"Ishtapadi Ishtapadi"
|-
!''[[M. M. Srilekha|Ishtapadi]]''
|"Rayabharamenduke"
|[[M. M. Srilekha]]
|[[Sujatha Mohan]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2004
!''[[Gharshana]]''
|"Ye Chilipi"
|[[Harris Jayaraj]]
|
|-
!''[[K. M. Radha Krishnan|Megham]]''
|"Neepai Naakunnadi"
|[[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
| rowspan="7" |2005
!''[[Ullam Ketkumae|Preminchi Choodu]] (D)''
|"Enno Janmala Bandham"
|[[Harris Jayaraj]]
|[[Saindhavi]]
|-
!''[[Aaru (film)|Aaru]] (D)''
|"Hrudayam Anu"
|[[Devi Sri Prasad]]
|[[Srilekha Parthasarathy]]
|-
!''[[Koti (composer)|Mr Errababu]]''
|"Neeli Meghala"
|[[Koti (composer)|Koti]]
|[[Malavika (singer)|Malavika]]
|-
!''Naidu LLB''
|"Nuvve Nuvve"
|[[S. A. Rajkumar]]
|[[Harini (singer)|Harini]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |''[[Thaka Thimi Tha]]'' (D)
|"Neelo Dagina Prema"
| rowspan="2" |[[D. Imman]]
|[[Singer Usha|Usha]]
|-
|"Himsa"
|
|-
!''[[Ponniyin Selvan (2005 film)|Muddula Koduku]] (D)''
|"Chirugali"
|[[Vidyasagar (composer)|Vidyasagar]]
|[[Sadhana Sargam]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |2006
!''[[Bommarillu]]''
|"Bommanu Geesthe"
|[[Devi Sri Prasad]]
|[[Gopika Poornima]]
|-
!''[[Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu|Raghavan]] (D)''
|"Hrudayame"
|[[Harris Jayaraj]]
|[[Mahalakshmi Iyer]]
|-
!''[[Kokila (1990 film)|Kokila]]''
|"Kokila Kokila"
|Madhukar
|[[Shreya Ghoshal]]
|-
!''[[Veyil (2006 film)|Vesavi]] (D)''
|"Urikene Manasane"
|[[G. V. Prakash Kumar]]
|[[Shreya Ghoshal]]
|-
| rowspan="5" |2007
!''[[Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikecei|Himsinche 23Va Raju Pulikesi]] (D)''
|"Aasha Kanvey"
|[[Sabesh–Murali]]
|
|-
!''[[Nava Vasantham]]''
|"Friendshippe Thiyyani"
|[[S. A. Rajkumar]]
|[[Tippu (singer)|Tippu]], [[Gopika Poornima]]
|-
!''[[Chakri (composer)|Sathyabhama]]''
|"Theme Music"
|[[Chakri (composer)|Chakri]]
|
|-
!''[[Vel (film)|Deva]] (D)''
|"Peguthenchukunna"
|[[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
|
|-
!''Tinnama Padukunnama, Tellarinda''
|"Konchem Konge Pattu"
|[[M. M. Srilekha]]
|[[M. M. Srilekha]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2008
!''[[Jodhaa Akbar]]'' (D)
|"Aamani Ruthuvu"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|
|-
!''[[Jayamkondaan|Jayam Mandhe]] (D)''
|"Nee Vechiunna Vakili"
|[[Vidyasagar (composer)|Vidyasagar]]
|Shravya
|-
!''Adivishnu''
|"Eedu Rangula Harivillu"
|[[M. M. Srilekha]]
|[[K. S. Chithra]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2009
![[Ananda Thandavam (film)|''Ananda Thandavam'']] (D)
|"Poovunai"
|[[G. V. Prakash Kumar]]
|[[Harini (singer)|Harini]]
|-
!''[[Sontha Ooru]]''
|"Kanula Vakite Kadulutunna"
|Saketh Sairam
|
|-
|2010
!''[[Krishnudu|Pappu]]''
|"Mellaga O"
|Phani Kalyan
|Radhika
|-
| rowspan="2" |2014
!''[[Lingaa]] (D)''
|"Chinna Chinna"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|Aditi Paul
|-
!''[[Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014 film)|Premalayam]] (D)''
|"Chalunaya"
|[[A. R. Rahman]]
|[[Bela Shende]]
|-
|2015
!''[[Anegan|Anekudu]] (D)''
|"Yegise Nadhi"
|[[Harris Jayaraj]]
|[[Shakthisree Gopalan]]
|}

=== Kannada discography (selected songs) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
!Film
!Song
!Composer(s)
!Co-singer(s)
!Lyricist
|-
|1998
![[Yaare Neenu Cheluve]]
|“Kushalave Kshemavee“
|[[Hamsalekha]]
|Anuradha Sriram
|[[Hamsalekha]]
|-
|2004
|''[[Maurya (2004 film)|Maurya]]''
|Usiraguve Hasiraguve
|[[Gurukiran]]
|[[Shreya Ghoshal]]
|[[K.Kalyan]]
|}

===As music composer===
;Films
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Film
!Language
!Notes
|-
|2000
|''En Iniya Ilamaane''
| rowspan="2" |Tamil
|Film unreleased<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fVNIAAAAIBAJ&dq=tamil+review+new+straits+times&pg=PA35&article_id=5713,377026 | title=New Straits Times }}</ref>
|-
|2002
|''[[Yai! Nee Romba Azhaga Irukke!]]''
|Composed one song "Ini Naanum"
|-
|2003
|''[[Ivar (2003 film)|Ivar]]''
| rowspan="2" |Malayalam
|
|-
|2009
|''[[Seetha Kalyanam (2009 film)|Seetha Kalyanam]]''
|
|-
|2010
|''[[Kushti (film)|Kushti]]''
|Hindi
|
|-
|2011
|''[[The Train (2011 film)|The Train]]''
|Malayalam
|
|-
|2015
|''[[Kangaroo (2015 film)|Kangaroo]]''
|Tamil
|
|-
|}

===Onscreen appearances===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Albums
!Year
!Film
!Language
!Notes
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|1999
|''[[Poovellam Kettuppar]]''
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|appearance in song "Sevvaanam Vetkam Kondathu"
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|2008
|''[[Vallamai Tharayo]]''
|appearance in song "En Veettil"
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|2019
|''[[Sarvam Thaala Mayam]]''
|as himself
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==References==
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* {{IMDb name|id=0820204|name=Srinivas}}
* [http://www.hindilyrix.com/singers/singer-srinivas.html About Srinivas]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20010413162314/http://www.indolink.com/tamil/cinema/People/2000/June/srinivas.html Interview with Srinivas]}}

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Fateh Singh (Delhi politician)

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'''Fateh Singh''' (born 13 January 1957) is an Indian politician from the [[Aam Aadmi Party]] (AAP) in [[Delhi]]. He was a member of the [[Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi]] and represented [[Gokalpur (Delhi Assembly constituency)|Gokalpur (Assembly constituency)]] of Delhi.<ref name=" Election result ">{{cite news|title=Election result|publisher=Election commission of India|accessdate=17 February 2015|url=http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseU05.htm|archive-date=27 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227005206/http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseU05.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Earlier, he was a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP). He was a member of [[First Legislative Assembly of Delhi]] and served as its deputy speaker from 1995 to 1998.

==Personal life==
He is a materials dealer.<ref name="ndtv"/> He is the son of Saktoo Singh. He is a [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA) from [[Chaudhary Charan Singh University]] (CCS university) of [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He is married; his wife is a housewife.<ref name="aff">{{cite web | url=http://docs2.myneta.info/affidavits/ews3delhi2015/66/FATEH%20SINGH.pdf | title=Fateh Singh Affidavit | work=myneta.info/ | accessdate=17 February 2015 | archive-date=17 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217121605/http://docs2.myneta.info/affidavits/ews3delhi2015/66/FATEH%20SINGH.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Political career==
Fateh Singh contested the [[1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election]]s in the [[Nand Nagari]] assembly constituency, which was reserved for [[scheduled caste]]s, on a [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) ticket. He got 13,429 votes and defeated his nearest rival Rup Chand of the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) by a margin of 781 votes.<ref name="1993elections">[http://www.elections.in/delhi/assembly-constituencies/1993-election-results.html Delhi Assembly Election Results 1993]</ref> He became member of the [[First Legislative Assembly of Delhi]] and was elected the deputy speaker from 1995 to 1998. He also was on the Rules Committee, as the deputy speaker.<ref name="1997elections">[http://delhiassembly.nic.in/1997-1998.htm Delhi Legislative Assembly]</ref>

Fateh Singh contested as an independent in the [[2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly election]]s from [[Gokalpur (Delhi Assembly constituency)|Gokalpur (Assembly constituency)]]. He got 10,262 votes and came fourth. [[Bahujan Samaj Party]]'s Surendra Kumar won, while BJP's Ranjeet Singh was third.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iamin.in/en/north-east-delhi/news/aaps-fateh-singh-says-he-left-bjp-because-he-wanted-work-common-man-50402 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217140333/http://www.iamin.in/en/north-east-delhi/news/aaps-fateh-singh-says-he-left-bjp-because-he-wanted-work-common-man-50402 | url-status=unfit | archive-date=17 February 2015 | title=AAP's Fateh Singh says he left BJP because he wanted to work for the common man | publisher=I am in DNA of North East Delhi | date=14 January 2015 | accessdate=17 February 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2008/stats_DL_2008.pdf 2008 Election Commission of India]</ref>

Fateh Singh defected to the [[Aam Aadmi Party]] (AAP) from the BJP in December 2014, with three other BJP leaders. This was officially announced in an AAP rally at [[Shahdara district|Shahdara]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Ex-BJP-MLA-joins-AAP/articleshow/45542578.cms | title=Ex-BJP MLA joins AAP | work=The Times of India| date=17 December 2014 | accessdate=17 February 2015}}</ref> He contested the [[2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election]]s from Gokalpur and got 71,240 votes, defeating the sitting MLA (member of Legislative Assembly) Ranjeet Singh of the BJP by 31,968 votes.<ref name="ndtv">{{cite news | url=http://www.ndtv.com/elections/delhi/gokalpur-mla-results | title=Gokulpur Results | agency=NDTV | accessdate=17 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217121102/http://www.ndtv.com/elections/delhi/gokalpur-mla-results | archive-date=17 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ec">{{cite web | url=http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseU054.htm | title=Election Result | publisher=ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA | accessdate=16 February 2015 | archive-date=15 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215154246/http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseU054.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU0567.htm?ac=68 |title=Assembly Elections 2015 Results, Election Commission of India |access-date=17 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217123859/http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU0567.htm?ac=68 |archive-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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Raja Rani (1956 film)

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{{short description|1956 film by A. Bhimsingh}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| image = Raja Rani 1956.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[A. Bhimsingh]]
| writer = [[M. Karunanidhi|Mu. Karunanidhi]]
| starring = [[Sivaji Ganesan]] [[Padmini (actress)|Padmini]]
| cinematography = Jiten Banerji (supervisor) G. Vittal Rao
| editing = [[A. Bhimsingh]]
| music = [[T. R. Pappa]]
| studio = National Productions
| distributor = Subbu & Co
| released = {{film date|1956|2|25|df=y|ref1=}}
| runtime = 168 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}
'''''Raja Rani''''' ({{translation|The King and Queen}}){{Efn|Also the names of the title characters.}} is a 1956 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language film directed by [[A. Bhimsingh]] and written by [[M. Karunanidhi]]. The film stars [[Sivaji Ganesan]] and [[Padmini (actress)|Padmini]]. The film was produced by National Productions . It was released on 25 February 1956.

== Plot ==
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Rani is the only daughter of an impoverished, visually challenged man. Her hunt for a job ends when she is engaged as a box office window ticket vendor at a drama company by its owner Babu. During a play, some gangsters rob Rani of the day's collection, drug her and escape with the booty. The evil-minded Babu who turns up later tries to take advantage of Rani's condition. However, she escapes from him and jumps into a car, falling unconscious in the rear seat.

Raja is the owner of an electrical goods company with a passion for theatre and is the lead player in Babu's drama troupe. Unaware of the turn of events, Raja reaches home. He is surprised to find a girl in his car. Then he comes across a news item that a rich man's daughter named Leela has run away from home. He thinks the girl in the car is Leela. Pretending to be Leela, Rani starts acting in the drama troupe. The two fall in love. Raja then launches his own drama company and stages [[Socrates]], playing the title character. Babu tries to wreck the love of Raja and Rani, and so adds real poison to the drink to be given to Raja in the scene that has Socrates drinking poison. How the lovers get united forms the rest of the film.

== Cast ==
{{Col-begin|width=40%}}
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;Male<ref name="song book">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/download/sok.RajaRani_A.BheemSingh_1956/118.%20Raja%20Rani_A.BheemSingh_1956.pdf |title=ராஜா ராணி |publisher=National Productions |year=1956 |language=ta |type=[[song book]] |access-date=7 July 2022 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
* [[Sivaji Ganesan]] as Raja
* [[S. S. Rajendran]] as Babu
* [[N. S. Krishnan]] as Samarasam
* K. Durai Sami as Gnanakannu
* M. N. Krishnan as Current
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;Female<ref name="song book" />
* [[Padmini (actress)|Padmini]] as Rani
* [[Rajasulochana|Raja Suclochana]] as Geetha
* [[T. A. Mathuram]] as Shantham
* Angamuthu as Geetha's mother
{{col-end}}

== Production ==
After the success of ''[[Parasakthi (1952 film)|Parasakthi]]'' (1952), many producers approached [[M. Karunanidhi]] to write scripts for them. One of the films he wrote was ''Raja Rani''.<ref name="Hindu">{{Cite news |last=Guy |first=Randor |author-link=Randor Guy |date=11 April 2015 |title=Raja Rani (1956) |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/raja-rani-1956/article7092701.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713105535/https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/raja-rani-1956/article7092701.ece |archive-date=13 July 2018 |access-date=11 November 2021 |work=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> [[Sivaji Ganesan]] was cast as the lead actor, making this the first of 18 collaborations with director [[A. Bhimsingh]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 June 2020 |title=சிவாஜி கணேசன், ஏ.பீம்சிங் இணைந்த படங்கள் |trans-title=Films featuring the collaboration of Sivaji Ganesan and A. Bhimsingh |url=https://screen4screen.com/news/sivaji-bhimsingh-movies |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119112847/https://screen4screen.com/news/sivaji-bhimsingh-movies |archive-date=19 November 2023 |access-date=4 August 2022 |website=Screen 4 Screen |language=ta}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=ராம்ஜி |first=வி. |date=15 October 2020 |title=சிவாஜியின் செல்லமான 'பீம்பாய்'... 'குடும்பக்கதை'களின் யதார்த்த இயக்குநர்; பாடல்களில் வித்தியாசம்; காட்சிகளில் எளிமை; வசனங்களில் இயல்பு; - சிவாஜியின் இயக்குநர் ஏ.பீம்சிங் 96வது பிறந்தநாள் ஸ்பெஷல் |url=https://www.hindutamil.in/news/cinema/tamil-cinema/591344-96th-birthday-of-a-bhimsingh.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424064619/https://www.hindutamil.in/news/cinema/tamil-cinema/591344-96th-birthday-of-a-bhimsingh.html |archive-date=24 April 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022 |website=[[Hindu Tamil Thisai]] |language=ta}}</ref> The film was shot at the now-closed Newtone Studios in [[Kilpauk]]. Its owners were Dinshaw K. Tehrani and Jiten Banerjee, who supervised the audiography and cinematography respectively. G. Vittal Rao handled the camera. The dances were choreographed by Hiralal and Sampathkumar.<ref name="Hindu" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=31-40 |url=http://www.nadigarthilagam.com/filmographyp4.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406110253/http://nadigarthilagam.com/filmographyp4.htm |archive-date=6 April 2017 |access-date=11 November 2021 |website=nadigarthilagam.com}}</ref> The film also features [[Play within a film|two plays]]: one based on [[Socrates]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Warrier |first=Shobha |author-link=Shobha Warrier |date=23 July 2001 |title='He was the ultimate star' |url=https://www.rediff.com/entertai/2001/jul/23sive.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116192233/http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2001/jul/23sive.htm |archive-date=16 January 2018 |access-date=4 August 2022 |website=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref> and another on [[Cenkuttuvan]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 October 2021 |title=சிவாஜியால் மட்டுமே அது முடியும் |url=https://www.hindutamil.in/news/supplements/hindu-talkies/721770-sivaji-ganesan-birthday.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118203524/https://www.hindutamil.in/news/supplements/hindu-talkies/721770-sivaji-ganesan-birthday.html |archive-date=18 November 2021 |access-date=4 August 2022 |website=[[Hindu Tamil Thisai]] |language=ta}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
The music was composed by [[T. R. Pappa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Raja Rani (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP |url=https://music.apple.com/in/album/raja-rani-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-ep/1496726209 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111152451/https://music.apple.com/in/album/raja-rani-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-ep/1496726209 |archive-date=11 November 2021 |access-date=11 November 2021 |website=[[Apple Music]]}}</ref> The songs were well received especially songs like ''Manippura Pudhu Manippuraa'' by M. L. Vasanthakumari and ''Sirippu Idhan Sirappai'' by N. S. Krishnan & T. A. Madhuram.<ref name="Hindu" />

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singers !! Lyrics !! Length (m:ss)
|-
| "Vaanga Vaanga...Indriravu Miga Nandriravu" || M. L. Vasanthakumari & S. V. Ponnusamy || [[M. Karunanidhi]]|| 03:30
|-
| "Sirippu Idhan Sirappai" || N. S. Krishnan & T. A. Madhuram || [[A. Maruthakasi]]|| 03:12
|-
| "Manippuraa Pudhu Manippuraa" || M. L. Vasanthakumari || M. Karunanidhi || 02:52
|-
| "Kannatra...Poonai Kannai Moodikondaal" || S. C. Krishnan || M. Karunanidhi || 03:28
|-
| "Kaanadha Inbamellaam Kandidalaam" || Seerkazhi Govindarajan & T. V. Rathnam || Villipuththan || 02:44
|-
| "Sollaale Veenaanadhe" || Jikki || A. Maruthakasi || 03:06
|-
| "Aanandha Nilai Peruvom" || T. V. Rathnam & N. L. Ganasaraswathi || [[M. K. Athmanathan]]|| 02:56
|-
| "Thirumanam Aagaadha Penne" || T. V. Rathnam || Vivekan || 02:46
|-
| "Thirai Pottu Naame" || A. M. Rajah & Jikki || A. Maruthakasi || 03:07
|-
| "Inba Nan Naalidhe" || M. L. Vasanthakumari || M. Karunanidhi ||
|-
| "Kaadhale Uyiraagi" || A. M. Rajah || || 01:02
|}

== Release and reception ==
''Raja Rani'' was released on 25 February 1956,<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 February 1956 |title=Raja Rani |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19560225&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=5 December 2018 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |pages=10 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and distributed by Subbu & Co.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 February 1956 |title=Raja Rani |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19560223&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=5 May 2022 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |pages=3 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Kanthan of ''[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]]'' lauded the performances of Ganesan and Padmini, especially the former's dialogue delivery, and stated that the film was entertaining piece by piece.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=காந்தன் |date=18 March 1956 |title=ராஜா ராணி |url=https://archive.org/details/kalki1956-03-18/page/n21/mode/2up? |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231119113039/https://archive.org/details/kalki1956-03-18/page/n21/mode/2up? |archive-date=19 November 2023 |access-date=19 November 2023 |magazine=[[Kalki (magazine)|Kalki]] |pages=20–21 |language=ta}}</ref>

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes}}

{{A. Bhimsingh}}

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Paradeshi

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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Paradeshi
| image = Lal_in_Paradesi.JPG
| caption = Theatrical Poster
| director = [[P. T. Kunju Muhammed]]
| producer = [[Antony Perumbavoor]]
| writer = P. T. Kunju Muhammed
| starring = [[Mohanlal]] [[Swetha Menon]] [[Lakshmi Gopalaswamy]] [[Padmapriya Janakiraman]]
| music = '''Songs:''' [[Ramesh Narayan]] [[Shahabaz Aman]] '''Background Score:''' Ramesh Narayan
| cinematography = [[:ml:കെ.ജി._ജയൻ|K. G. Jayan]]
| editing = [[Don Max (film editor)|Don Max]]
| studio = [[Aashirvad Cinemas]]
| distributor = [[Pyramid Saimira]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2007|10|24}}
| runtime = 135 minutes
| country = India
| language = Malayalam
| budget =
}}

'''''Paradeshi''''' ({{Translation|Foreigner}}) is a 2007 Indian [[Malayalam]]-language [[drama film]] written and directed by [[P. T. Kunju Muhammed]]. It was produced by [[Antony Perumbavoor]] under the company [[Aashirvad Cinemas]]. [[Mohanlal]] plays Valiyakaththu Moosa, in three stages of his life, between the ages of 35 and 80. It also features [[Swetha Menon]], [[Lakshmi Gopalaswamy]], [[Padmapriya Janakiraman]], [[Jagathy Sreekumar]], and [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]] in significant roles.

The film portrays the issue of Indian citizens who left the country before the [[partition of India]] in search of job, mostly to [[Arabia]], and happened to reach [[Pakistan]], and then when they returned to the homeland, happened to be holding a [[Pakistan]]i [[passport]]. They are now being forced by the Indian authorities to go to Pakistan, and even the Pakistani authorities won't take them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/07/14/stories/2006071400780200.htm |title=The Hindu : Friday Review Thiruvananthapuram / On Location : Citizen sans a country |website=www.hindu.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011203413/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/07/14/stories/2006071400780200.htm |archive-date=11 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Plot==
{{More plot|date=August 2019}}
Valiyakathu Moosa is an [[Indian Muslim]] who moves from the [[Malabar District|Malabar]] region of [[Kerala]], [[India]] to [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]] during the [[British Raj]] in search of a job. Post-[[Partition of India|partition]], he returns from Pakistan and settles down in [[Malappuram]], Kerala. This man, who lives as a true Indian, doesn't get his Indian passport and thus an Indian identity in the official sense, even after 50 years of Independence.

[[Indian Police Service|Indian police]] harass him and his neighbours in a similar situation as Pakistani spies. The film has [[Mohanlal]] playing the character in three stages of his life, between the ages of 35 and 80

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Mohanlal]] as Valiyakathu Moosa
* [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]] as Musthafa Hamza
* [[Swetha Menon]] as Aamina
* [[Jagathy Sreekumar]] as Abdul Rahman
* [[Lakshmi Gopalaswami]] as Khadeeja
* [[Padmapriya Janakiraman]] as Usha, journalist
* [[T. G. Ravi]] as Usman
* [[Madhupal]] as Adv. Pradeep
* [[Vijayaraghavan (actor)|Vijayaraghavan]] as Koch Ousep
* [[VK Sreeraman]] as Adv. Ramakrishnan
* [[Cochin Haneefa]] as Head Constable
* [[Bharath Gopi]]
* Nilambur Ayesha
* [[Suresh Krishna (actor)|Suresh Krishna]] as Ravi Tharakan
* [[Irshad (actor)|Irshad]] as Prakashan
* [[Sona Nair]]
* [[Sreenath]]
* [[Ambika Mohan]] as Valiykath Moosa's mother
* [[Zeenath]]
* Manka Mahesh
* Rema Devi
* Deepika Mohan
}}

==Production==
The film was produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the banner of [[Aashirvad Cinemas]] and A&A Productions. The locations of the film included [[Ottappalam]] in [[Kerala]] and [[Rajasthan]].

==Music==
The music was composed by [[Ramesh Narayan]] and [[Shahabaz Aman]].
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| title2 = Thattam Pidichu
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| lyrics4 = Rafeeq Ahammed
| music4 = [[Shahabaz Aman]]
| extra4 = [[M. G. Sreekumar]] [[Vineeth Sreenivasan]]
}}

==Release==
The film was released on 24 October 2007 theatrically by [[Pyramid Saimira]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sify.com/movies/malayalam/fullstory.php?id=14536849 |title=Ramzan releases - Sify.com |website=[[Sify]] |access-date=9 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011040137/http://sify.com/movies/malayalam/fullstory.php?id=14536849 |archive-date=11 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Awards==
;[[National Film Awards]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Make-up Artist]] – [[Pattanam Rasheed]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/55th_nff_2007.pdf|title=55th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref>

;[[Kerala State Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|title=State Film Awards (1991–99)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234157/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/stateawards3.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016|url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/stateawards3.htm|publisher=[[Kerala State Chalachitra Academy]]|access-date=10 April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] – [[Mohanlal]]
* [[Kerala State Film Award for Best Story|Best Story]] – [[P. T. Kunju Muhammed]]
* [[Kerala State Film Award for Best Makeup Artist|Best Makeup Artist]] – Pattanam Rasheed
* [[Kerala State Film Award (Special Jury Award)|Special Jury Award]] – [[Jagathy Sreekumar]]
* [[Kerala State Film Award for Best Dubbing Artist|Best Dubbing Artist]] – Hafsath, Zeenath

;[[Kerala Film Critics Association Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-17 |title=Film Critics Awards Complete List From 1977 Till 2012 |url=https://www.keralafilmcritics.com/2020/10/film-critics-awards-complete-list-from.html |website=Kerala Film Critics Association}}</ref>
* [[Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] – Mohanlal
* [[Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] – [[Lakshmi Gopalaswami]]
* Best Make-up Artist – Pattanam Rasheed

;[[Filmfare Awards South]]
*[[Filmfare Award for Best Actor (Malayalam)|Best Actor]] – Mohanlal<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/55th-annual-Tiger-Balm-South-Filmfare-Awards/articleshow/3228046.cms |title=55th annual Tiger Balm South Filmfare Awards |last=Chuman Das |date=13 July 2008 |agency=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=23 May 2015 |archive-date=8 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708120930/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/55th-annual-Tiger-Balm-South-Filmfare-Awards/articleshow/3228046.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] – Lakshmi Gopalaswami

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0997173|Paradeshi}}

{{Aashirvad Cinemas}}

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Manam Virumbuthe Unnai

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{{Infobox film
| name = Manam Virumbuthe Unnai
| image = Manam Virumbuthe Unnai.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[M. Sivachandran]]
| writer = M. Sivachandran
| producer = S. S. K. Sankaralingam
| starring = {{ubl|[[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]]|[[Meena (actress)|Meena]]|[[Karan (actor)|Karan]]|[[Rajiv Krishna]]}}
| cinematography = [[Ilavarasu]]
| editing = [[B. Lenin]] [[V. T. Vijayan]]
| music = [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| studio = SSK. Productions
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1999|12|17}}
| runtime = 140 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Manam Virumbuthe Unnai''''' ({{translation|The heart prefers you}}) is a 1999 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[romantic drama]] film directed by [[M. Sivachandran]]. The film stars [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]], [[Meena (actress)|Meena]], [[Karan (actor)|Karan]] and [[Rajiv Krishna]]. It was released on 17 December 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |title=மனம் விரும்புதே உன்ன / Manam Virumbuthe Unnai (1999) |url=https://screen4screen.com/movies/manam-virumbuthe-unnai |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231227022539/https://screen4screen.com/movies/manam-virumbuthe-unnai |archive-date=27 December 2023 |access-date=18 March 2024 |website=Screen 4 Screen}}</ref>

== Plot ==
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Shanmugam, a widower, has two daughters Kavita and Anita. In fact, the children were abandoned and he brought them up without them knowing that they were orphans. Kavita and Anita pressure him to see the photo of their mother Amudha, he describes the girl of his dreams to his friend Sabapathy who then paints her portrait and Shanmugam shows them the portrait. By chance, the children see Priya, who looks like the woman in the portrait. Shanmugam, Kavita and Anita go to her home in the city.

Priya's family is an extended and rich family. Her relative Prakash secretly loves for Priya while Chandru is the supposed to be her future husband. In the city, Shanmugam meets his acquaintance Kaasi and he brings them to Priya's house. They decide to stay there. Then, Chandru finds out Priya's photo in his luggage. Afterwards, Chandru and Priya begin to tease Shanmugam. Shanmugam loves Priya but after knowing that Prakash is in love with her, he sacrifices his love. Prakash overhears Priya saying that she is the mother of two children. In the marriage, Prakash sends his henchmen to kill Shanmugam but he attacks everyone and Prakash insults Priya by stopping this marriage. Priya leaves the place, Shanmugam urges Prakash to kill him but Prakash breaks down emotionally. In the end, Shanmugam unites with Priya.

== Cast ==
{{cast listing|
*[[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]] as Shanmugam
*[[Meena (actress)|Meena]] as Priya
*[[Karan (actor)|Karan]] as Chandru
*[[Rajiv Krishna]] as Prakash
*[[Jai Ganesh]] as Priya's father
*[[Lakshmi (actress)|Lakshmi]] as Saradha, Priya's mother
*[[Delhi Ganesh]]
*[[Devan (actor)|Devan]] as Ramesh
*[[S. S. Chandran]] as Kaasi
*[[Dhamu]] as Sabapathy
*[[P. Shwetha]] as Kavitha
*Baby Ashwini as Anita
*Latha as Latha
}}

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack was composed by [[Ilaiyaraaja]] and released by Five Star Audio.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manam Virumbuthey Unnai Tamil Film Audio Cassette by Ilayaraaja |url=https://mossymart.com/product/manam-virumbuthey-unnai-tamil-film-audio-cassette-by-ilayaraaja/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815062432/https://mossymart.com/product/manam-virumbuthey-unnai-tamil-film-audio-cassette-by-ilayaraaja/ |archive-date=15 August 2023 |access-date=15 August 2023 |website=Mossymart}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Manam Virumbuthe Unnai (1998) |url=https://www.raaga.com/album/T0000896 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607082008/https://www.raaga.com/album/T0000896 |archive-date=7 June 2019 |access-date=7 June 2019 |website=[[Raaga.com]]}}</ref>

{{track listing
| headline = Track list
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 30:03
| title1 = Ilavenirkala Panjami
| lyrics1 = [[Arivumathi]]
| extra1 = [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]]
| length1 = 4:54
| title2 = Kutti Kuyilai
| lyrics2 = [[Palani Bharathi]]
| extra2 = Hariharan, [[Bhavatharini]]
| length2 = 5:14
| title3 = Manasa killi
| lyrics3 = Palani Bharathi
| extra3 = [[Srinivas (singer)|Srinivas]], [[S. N. Surendar]], [[Swarnalatha]]
| length3 = 5:44
| title4 = Poomala Ponnukkoru
| lyrics4 = Palani Bharathi
| extra4 = [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]]
| length4 = 4:53
| title5 = Vaanathil Aadum
| lyrics5 = Ponnadiyan
| extra5 = [[K. S. Chithra]]
| length5 = 2:11
| title6 = Yetho Yetho
| lyrics6 = [[Vaali (poet)|Vaali]]
| extra6 = [[Sujatha Mohan|Sujatha]], Hariharan
| length6 = 4:57
| title7 = Vaanathil Aadumm
| lyrics7 = Ponnadiyan
| extra7 = [[Mano (singer)|Mano]]
| note7 = Reprise
| length7 = 2:10
}}

== Accolades ==
Ilavarasu won the [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 December 2000 |title=Awards: Tamilnadu Government Announces Cinema State Awards -1999 |url=http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/awards/29-12-00/state.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622010121/http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/awards/29-12-00/state.htm |archive-date=22 June 2008 |access-date=15 August 2023 |website=[[Dinakaran]]}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb title}}

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N. V. N. Somu

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| office1 = 28th [[Government of India|Union]] [[Minister_of_Defence_(India)#List_of_ministers_of_state|Minister of State for Defence]]
| term_start1 = 21 April 1997
| term_end1 = 14 November 1997
| primeminister1 = [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]
| minister1 = [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]]
| predecessor1 = ''Himself''
| successor1 = [[Harin Pathak]] ([[Third Vajpayee ministry|1999-2000]])
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| term_start2 = 6 July 1996
| term_end2 = 21 April 1997
| primeminister2 = [[H. D. Deve Gowda]]
| minister2 = [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]]
| predecessor2 = [[Mallikarjun Goud]] ([[Rao ministry|September 1995-May 1996]])
| successor2 = ''Himself''
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member]] of the [[Indian Parliament]] ([[Lok Sabha]])
| constituency3 = [[Chennai North (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chennai North]]
| term_start3 = 10 May 1996
| term_end3 = 14 November 1997
| predecessor3 = [[D. Pandian]]
| successor3 = [[C. Kuppusami]] ([[1998 Indian general election|1998]]-[[2009 Indian general election|2009]])
| constituency4 = [[Chennai North (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chennai North]]
| term_start4 = December 1984
| term_end4 = November 1989
| predecessor4 = [[G. Lakshmanan]]
| successor4 = [[D. Pandian]]
| office5 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency5 = [[Park Town (state assembly constituency)|Park Town]]
| term_start5 = 19 June 1980
| term_end5 = 15 November 1984
| predecessor5 = T. S. Nallathambi
| successor5 = [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| office6 = Deputy [[Mayor of Madras]]
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'''Natarajan Somasundaram''' (11 May 1937 – 14 November 1997),<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=Somu killed in helicopter crash |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/nov/14somu.htm |accessdate=31 October 2018 |work=Rediff.com |date=14 November 1997}}</ref> popularly known as '''N. V. N. Somu''', was a [[Politics of Tamil Nadu|politician]], journalist, lawyer, and trade unionist from [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. He was a veteran of the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK).

Somu served as a [[councillor]] in the [[Greater Chennai Corporation|Madras Corporation]] (1968-73), Deputy [[Mayor of Madras]] (1971-72) [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] from [[Park Town Assembly constituency|Park Town]] (1980-84), and [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of the Indian Parliament]] ([[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Lok Sabha]]) from [[Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency|Chennai North]] (1984-89; 1996-97). In his second tenure as MP, he also served as [[Minister of Defence (India)#List of ministers of state|Minister of State for Defence]] under two successive [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Ministers]] - [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] and [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]. The later tenure was cut short by his death in a helicopter crash, when he was on an official tour of [[Arunachal Pradesh]] in November 1997.

Somu's daughter [[Kanimozhi NVN Somu]] is also a DMK [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|MP]], [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu|representing Tamil Nadu]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]] since 2021.

== Early life ==
He was born to a Mudaliar family on 11 May 1937 in [[Gnayiru]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/DrKanimozhiSomu/posts/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B4%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4-%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95-%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81-%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9F-%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B1/1522232052669672/|title=|authorlink=என். எஸ். கனிமொழி}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://x.com/mukesh06DMK/status/1984440335381250094?s=20|title=}}</ref> (a [[List of neighbourhoods of Chennai|suburb]] in present-day [[Tiruvallur district]], Tamil Nadu) to [[Dravidian movement]] veterans Bhuvaneshwari and [[N. V. Natarajan]]{{Efn|Natarajan initially supported the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) before joining the [[Dravidian movement]]. He later served as the DMK's organisation secretary (1959-72), and Tamil Nadu's [[Department of Labour and Employment (Tamil Nadu)|Minister of Labour and]] [[Department of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare (Tamil Nadu)|Backward Classes]] (1969-71) in the [[first Karunanidhi ministry]].
|group=notelist}}. In late 1938, at 18 months, Somu accompanied his mother to [[Vellore Central Prison]], owing to the latter's participation in the [[Anti-Hindi agitation of 1937–1940|Anti-Hindi agitation]] launched by [[Periyar E. V. Ramasamy|'Periyar' E. V. Ramasamy]], then leader of the [[Justice Party (India)|Justice Party]] and the [[Self-Respect Movement]]<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==
Somu joined the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK){{Efn|At this point, the party was led by [[C. N. Annadurai]].|group=notelist}} during his student days. After training as a lawyer, he began his career as a reporter in the [[List of Tamil-language newspapers|Tamil-language newspaper]] ''[[Dina Thanthi]].''<ref name=":0" /> During 1953-66, he was the sub-editor of ''Dravidan''<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version): Sixth Session (ParT I) (Eleventh Lok Sabha)|date=1997|publisher=LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT, NEW DELHI|pages=3|url=https://eparlib.sansad.in/bitstream/123456789/3464/1/lsd_11_6_19-11-1997.pdf}}</ref> a Tamil weekly published by his father.<ref>{{Cite web |title=இதழ் விவரங்கள் : ''திராவிடன்'' |url=https://tamildigitallibrary.in/periodicals-details/TVRVeU1EUT1BdG9aYXRvejB0bzk-/TVRBPUF0b1phdG96MHRvOQ--/TWpFPUF0b1phdG96MHRvOQ--}}</ref>

He also headed the DMK's legal wing for several years.<ref name=":0" />

=== At the Madras Corporation (1968-73) ===
In 1968, he was elected as a DMK [[councillor]] (Kondiyampathi Division) to the [[Greater Chennai Corporation|Madras Corporation]]. The next year (1969), owing to his [[Trade unions in India|trade unionist]] credentials, he became the President of ''[[The Hindu Group|The Hindu]]'' Office and National Press Employees' Union.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Today in Indian History - N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.|url=https://www.baltimoreindian.com/desi/historicaleventdetails.asp?id=576|website=www.baltimoreindian.com|access-date=2026-01-31}}</ref>

On 29 November 1971, he defeated M. Bhaktavatsalam [of the [[Indian National Congress (O)]]] by 32 votes to become Deputy to [[Mayor of Chennai|Mayor]] [[Kamakshi Jayaraman]].{{Efn|Kamakshi Jayaraman herself was elected Mayor earlier on the same day.|group=notelist}} He remained in that position till 1972.<ref>{{Cite news|title=How a Brahmin woman was elected the Mayor of Madras on DMK ticket in 1971|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/how-a-brahmin-woman-was-elected-the-mayor-of-madras-ondmkticket-in-1971/article70302472.ece|work=The Hindu|access-date=2026-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251216093040/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/how-a-brahmin-woman-was-elected-the-mayor-of-madras-ondmkticket-in-1971/article70302472.ece|archive-date=2025-12-16|language=en}}</ref>

===Member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (1980-84)===
He was elected as [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) from [[Park Town Assembly constituency|Park Town constituency]] in [[1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1980]].{{Election box begin|title=[[1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election]]: Park Town<ref>{{cite web | last = Election Commission of India | title = Statistical Report on General Election 1980 | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1980/StatisticalReportTamil%20Nadu%201980.pdf | access-date = 19 April 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006231656/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1980/StatisticalReportTamil%20Nadu%201980.pdf | archive-date = 6 October 2010}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|candidate=N. V. N. Somu|party=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|votes=38,095|percentage=55.94%|change=23.16%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Gandhi Kamaraj National Congress|candidate=S. Lalchand Daga|votes=23,197|percentage=34.06%|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Janata Party|candidate=A. Arumugha Naicker|votes=6,556|percentage=9.63%|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Nahar Manakchand|votes=146|percentage=0.21%|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=C. Jagajothi Alias Govindarajulu|votes=104|percentage=0.15%|change=}}

{{Election box margin of victory |votes=14,898|percentage=21.88%|change=17.16%}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=68,098|percentage=57.11%|change=9.58%}}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors=120,797|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link |winner=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|loser=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|swing=23.16%}}
{{Election box end}}
===Member of the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) (1984-89; 1996-97)===
He was elected as a [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of the Indian Parliament]] (MP) from [[Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency]] twice - in [[1984 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu|1984]] and [[1996 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu|1996]].<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf Volume I, 1984 Indian general election, 8th Lok Sabha]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_I_LS_96.pdf Volume I, 1996 Indian Lok Sabha election, 11th Lok Sabha]</ref>{{Election box begin|title=[[1984 Indian general election]]: Chennai North}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=N. V. N. Somu|party=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|votes=2,61,941|percentage=52.20%|change=-5.13%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[G. Lakshmanan]]|votes=2,25,491|percentage=44.93%|change=|}}

{{Election box margin of victory |votes=36,450|percentage=7.26%|change=-11.89%}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=5,01,827|percentage=51.33%|change=-19.98%}}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors=9,91,099|change=34.08%}}
{{Election box hold with party link |winner=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|loser=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|swing=-5.13%}}
{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin|title=[[1996 Indian general election]]: Chennai North}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link| |candidate=N. V. N. Somu|party=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|votes=5,59,048|percentage=66.11%|change=27.66%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[D. Pandian]]|votes=1,69,431|percentage=20.04%|change=-34.58%|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=W. R. Varada Rajan|votes=66,479|percentage=7.86%|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Mohan V. Bharathamatha|votes=19,113|percentage=2.26%|change=-0.10%|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Pattali Makkal Katchi|candidate=G. Mahadevan|votes=16,143|percentage=1.91%|change=|}}

{{Election box margin of victory |votes=3,89,617|percentage=46.07%|change=29.91%}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=8,45,640|percentage=55.85%|change=0.72%}}
{{Election box registered electors |reg. electors=15,53,112|change=14.31%}}
{{Election box gain with party link |winner=Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|loser=Indian National Congress|swing=11.50%}}
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===Union Minister of State for Defence (1996-97)===
Soon after being elected from the Chennai North constituency in 1996, Somu took oath as [[Union Government|Union]] [[Minister of Defence (India)#List of ministers of state|Minister of State]] ([[Ministry of Defence (India)|Defence]]) in the [[Deve Gowda ministry|ministry under]] [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] on 6 July 1996. After Deve Gowda's resignation in April 1997, Somu was sworn in to the same portfolio in the succeeding [[Gujral ministry|ministry under]] Prime Minister [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]. In both these tenures, Somu was ministerial junior to [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]].

== Death ==

=== Background ===
On 13 November 1997, Somu toured [[Arunachal Pradesh]]'s [[Sino-Indian border dispute|areas bordering China]] as part of a two-day official visit to the [[Northeast India|northeastern States]]. The next day (November 14), he was scheduled to address the [[Indian Army]]'s senior officials, including the [[General officer commanding#Usage in the Indian Army|General Officer Commanding-in-Chief]] (GoC) of the [[IV Corps (India)|IV Corps]] at [[Tezpur]], [[Assam]].<ref name=":2" /> After that, he was intending to fly back to Chennai via [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] the same night. His subsequent plans included participation as chief guest in the [[National Library Week]] celebrations on 15 November, and to formally request [[Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister]] and DMK president M. Karunanidhi for a foreword for a proposed publication on N.V. Natarajan.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=When a Union Minister of State from Tamil Nadu died in a chopper crash in Arunachal Pradesh|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/when-a-union-minister-of-state-from-tamil-nadu-died-in-a-chopper-crash-in-arunachal-pradesh/article70559933.ece|work=The Hindu|access-date=2026-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260128075252/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/when-a-union-minister-of-state-from-tamil-nadu-died-in-a-chopper-crash-in-arunachal-pradesh/article70559933.ece|archive-date=2026-01-28|language=en}}</ref>

=== The crash ===
On November 14 morning, after a telephone conversation with his wife,<ref name=":3" /> Somu boarded a [[Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama|Cheetah helicopter]] stationed north of Mago village, Lungar Sector in [[Tawang district]]. He was accompanied by [[Major general|Major General]] Ramesh Chandra Nagpal (GoC of the Four Mountain Division).<ref name=":2" /> The helicopter (driven by pilot majors PK Agarwal and PC Sharma) took off at around 9:00 am [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]. Shortly afterwards, at 9:10 am, radio contact with the helicopter was lost. Around 9:20 am, the helicopter crashed at a nearby remote area at an altitude of more than 4000 metres,<ref name=":2" /> killing all four occupants.{{Efn|The report carried by ''[[Business Standard]]'' claims that "A fifth victim of the tragedy, that occurred a little after 9 am at a spot one-and-a-half km from Tawang in Lungar sector was yet to be identified". However, all other sources identify only four victims.}} Five army choppers, sent to rescue probable survivors, could only locate the wreckage with the bodies at 12:10 pm.<ref name=":0" /> Official sources said the crash was apparently caused due to poor visibility caused by mist in the early hours.<ref name=":2" />

=== Condolences ===

* [[President of India|President]] '''[[K. R. Narayanan]]''' praised Somu as "a diligent and conscientious member of the council of ministers and an able parliamentarian", adding that his demise removed "a personality of prominence and great promise to the country".<ref name=":2" />
* Prime Minister '''I. K. Gujral''', on hearing the news, cancelled his scheduled two-day visit to Bombay, where he was to commission the warship [[INS Delhi (D61)|INS ''Delhi'' (D61)]].<ref name=":0" />{{Efn|The warship was commissioned as scheduled on 15 November. |group=notelist}} He called Karunanidhi to convey his condolences to Somu's family.<ref name=":3" /> Praising Somu as "a warm and gentle person"<ref name=":2" /> in his condolence message, Gujral added “His views were always constructive and were expressed in the larger interest of the country. I shall miss his wise counsel in the Council of Ministers.”<ref name=":3" />

* Defence Minister '''Mulayam Singh Yadav''' described Somu as an honest and upright minister whose untimely death was an irreparable loss to the DMK and the [[United Front (India, 1996)|United Front]] government.<ref name=":2" />
* [[Speaker of the Lok Sabha|Lok Sabha Speaker]] '''[[P. A. Sangma]]''' said that he had lost "a valued friend and parliamentary colleague" and that the country "a young administrator of considerable promise".<ref name=":2" />
* [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee|'''Atal Behari Vajpayee''']] (former PM) said "the tragic death of NVN Somu is a loss for which we will all grieve".<ref name=":2" />
* The central secretariat of the [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI) expressed its "deep shock and sorrow" at Somu's death.<ref name=":2" />
* '''Karunanidhi''' said that the service rendered by Somu “as the artery of the Dravidian movement" could not be forgotten. He added "[Somu] was the personification of love and compassion, a model of simplicity and he moved with everyone with brotherly affection. Death had suddenly engulfed such a kind-hearted person.<ref name=":3" />

=== Funeral ===
Somu's body was taken to Tezpur for embalming. It was then taken to Madras and was [[Lying in state|laid in state]] at Somu's house in [[Purasawalkam]].<ref name=":2" /> The funeral was attended by Gujral, his wife [[Sheila Gujral]], Vajpayee, Mulayam Singh, [[G. K. Moopanar]], and Karunanidhi.<ref name=":3" /> The chiefs of the three uniformed services were present, along with other senior officers and "thousands" of people.<ref name=":0" /> The body was cremated at Brick Kiln Road cremation ground, following last rites by Somu's son Thirumaran, and the army's [[21-gun salute]] succeeded by [[Reverse arms|reversed arms]]. After that, Army [[Bugle|buglers]] sounded the [[Last Post]].<ref name=":3" />

=== Aftermath ===
An obituary reference to Somu was made in the [[Lok Sabha]] on 19 November by Sangma.<ref name=":1" />

== Family ==
He was survived by his wife Uma Devi,<ref name=":3" /> son Thirumaran, and a daughter [[Kanimozhi NVN Somu]] - both doctors.<ref name=":2">{{cite news |title= Somu Killed In Copter Crash Over Arunachal |date=15 November 1997 |work=Business Standard |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/somu-killed-in-copter-crash-over-arunachal-197111501014_1.html |accessdate=2017-05-15}}</ref> Kanimozhi NVN Somu is a DMK [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|MP in the Rajya Sabha]], [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu|representing Tamil Nadu]] since September 2021.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Hindu |title=Descendants shine in party of rising sun |first=B. |last=Kolappan |date=21 April 2016 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/descendants-shine-in-party-of-rising-sun/article8501998.ece |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421015034/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/descendants-shine-in-party-of-rising-sun/article8501998.ece |archivedate=2016-04-21}}</ref><ref name=":3" />

== Notes ==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

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{{11th LS members from Tamil Nadu}}

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Thalayanai Pookal

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{{short description|Indian television series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Thalayanai Pookal ZEE Tamil HD.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| genre = Soap
| creator =
| based_on = [[Balakumaran|Thalayanai Pookal Novel]]
| writer = [[Balakumaran]] '''Dialogues''' N.Jeganathan Shivanarayanan Shankarapandi N.Rama Gopinath
| screenplay = Francis Papu V.Chandrasekhar R.K.Vijaykumar Rajai
| story = [[Balakumaran]]
| creative_director = R.K.Raghunath Jayasri Shridhar Francis Papu
| director = Franchis Papu (1-100) Ram Kumaradhas (100-123) K.Sulaiman (123-384) A.N.Jaheer Hussain (385-497) M.Shankar (498-549)
| starring = [[Nisha Krishnan]] [[Anjali Rao (actress)|Anjali Rao]] [[Sandra Amy]] [[Neelima Rani]] [[Delhi Kumar]] Prakash Rajan Navin Kumar
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| num_seasons =
| num_episodes = 549
| list_episodes =
| producer = Vimala Ramanan
| company = Hansa Vision
| theme_music_composer = Kiran
| open_theme = Ilayavan
| cinematography = K.C.Ramesh Pazhanikumar Manikkam
 Sumee Baskaran
| editor = Sajin.C
| camera = [[Multi-camera]]
| runtime = 22 minutes
| network = [[Zee Tamil]]
| first_aired = {{start date|df=yes|2016|5|23}}
| last_aired = {{end date|df=y|2018|6|29}}
}}
{{Contains special characters|Tamil}}

'''''Thalayanai Pookal''''' is a 2016 [[Tamil language|Tamil]] [[Drama|family]] soap opera that airs on [[Zee Tamil]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tamil.filmibeat.com/television/balakumaran-s-thalayanai-pookal-on-zee-tamil-039749.html|title=பாலகுமாரனின் தலையணைப் பூக்கள் கதை... ஜீ தமிழில் சீரியலாகிறது|website= Tamil Filmibeat |date=16 April 2016 }}</ref> The show aired from 23 May 2016 to 29 June 2018 on Monday to Friday at 9:00 ([[Indian Standard Time|IST]]). Later from 16 October 2017, the show shifted from Monday to Friday at 10:00 ([[Indian Standard Time|IST]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/tamil/Thalayanai-Pookal-to-be-aired-from-May-23/articleshow/52255396.cms|title=Thalayanai Pookal to be aired from May 23|website=The Times of India |date=13 May 2016 }}</ref> On 23 April 2018, the show shifted again to air Monday through Friday at 22:30 ([[Indian Standard Time|IST]]) for 549 Episodes. The story is partially based on [[Balakumaran]]'s novel Thalayanai Pookal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/tamil/Balakumarans-Thalayanai-Pookal-on-Zee-Tamil/articleshow/51838500.cms|title=Balakumarans Thalayanai Pookal on Zee-Tamil|website=The Times of India |date=15 April 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/tamil/A-serial-based-on-Bala-Kumarans-novel/articleshow/52361054.cms|title=A serial based on Bala Kumaran's novel|website=The Times of India |date=21 May 2016 }}</ref> The show starred [[Anjali Rao (actress)|Anjali Rao]], [[Nisha Krishnan]], [[Sandra Amy]], [[Delhi Ganesh]] Shrekar, [[Shreekumar]], [[Neelima Rani]] and among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-tv-serials/46584/Chinna-thirai-Television-News/Balakumarans-Thalayanai-Pookal-Novel-becomes-TV-Serial.htm|title=Balakumarans Thalayanai Pookal Novel becomes TV Serial|website= [[Dinamalar]] |date=21 May 2016 }}</ref>

==Plot==
It is the story of Vedavalli, a brilliant and pragmatic middle class young girl who gets married into a wealthy joint family and fights to keep it united. The story is about family values, women empowerment and triumph of right thinking over evil intent.

Vedavalli and Sundar are engaged to get married. On the marriage day, Kalpana, a worker in Sundar's company, marries Sundar by using some dirty tactics. Nagarajan brings home Mallika and her mother to work in their home. Mallika wants to marry Nagarajan to settle in life.

Vedavalli's marriage is fixed with Vivek again but Vivek dies in an accident on the morning of the wedding. Nagarajan was forced to marry Vedavalli due to his father's request. The rest of the story is on how Vedavalli and Nagarajan overcome the differences between them and learn to love each other while fight against the obstacles arise in their life with the power of their love.

==Cast==
===Main===
* [[Nisha Ganesh]] (Epi: 1-340)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/tamil/Nisha-Ganesh-to-play-the-lead-in-Thalayanai-Pookal/articleshow/51924645.cms|title=Nisha Ganesh to play the lead in Thalayanai Pookal|website=The Times of India |date=21 April 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-tv-serials/46262/Chinna-thirai-Television-News/Nisha-Krishnan-acting-New-Serial.htm|title=Nisha Ganesh in Thalayanai Pookal|website= [[Dinamalar]] |date=12 May 2016 }}</ref> and [[Anjali Rao (actress)|Anjali Rao]] (Epi: 341-549) as Vethavalli Nagarajan
* [[Shreekumar]] (Epi: 1-508) and Navin Kumar (Epi:509-549) as Nagarajan Ramanathan - Ramanathan's second son/S.Velraj
* [[Neelima Rani]] as Mallika
* [[Sandra Amy]] as Kalpana Sundharrajan - Sundhar's wife and the first daughter-in-law of the Ramanathan family.
* Shrikar and Prakash Rajan as Sundharrajan Ramanathan, Ramanathan's first son

===Supporting===
* [[Delhi Kumar]] as Ramanathan - Father of Sundharrajan, Nagarajan and Natarajan
* Sridhar as Natarajan Ramanathan, Ramanathan's youngest son
* [[Anandhi (actress)|Anandhi]] as Anitha Natarajan, Natarajan's wife, youngest daughter-in-law
* Vanitha Hariharan as Manju
* Vizuthugal Santhanam as Vedhavalli's father
* Babita as Vedhavalli's mother
* Azhagappan as Panchayathu
* Sairam as Kalpana's father
* Tharani as Kalpana's mother
* Sudha

==Production==
===Casting===
The series is a Family story. [[Nisha Krishnan]] formerly of the series Kana Kanum Kalangal Kallooriyin Kadhai, [[Deivamagal]], [[Office (2013 series)|Office]] and [[Saravanan Meenatchi (season 2)]] plays the lead female role of Vethavalli. Later [[Anjali Rao (actress)|Anjali Rao]] was replaced role of Vethavalli in Episode: 440. [[Shreekumar]] landed in lead male role of Nagarajan, who has appeared in many Tamil language serials likes [[Naanal (TV series)|Naanal]], [[Uravugal]] and [[Bommalattam (TV series)|Bommalattam]]. [[Sandra Amy]] and [[Neelima Rani]] was cast to portray the negative role of Kalpana and Mallika. Other Important cast include Shrikar, Prakash Rajan, [[Delhi Kumar]], Anandhi and Sridhar.

===Soundtrack===
{{track listing
| headline = Track list
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Enakku Vassa Pandadi (எனக்கு வாச்ச பொண்டாடி)
| lyrics1 =
| extra1 = [[K. S. Chitra]]
| music1 =
| length1 = 1:15
}}

===Airing History===
The show premiered from 23 May 2016 on Monday to Friday at 9:00PM ([[Indian Standard Time|IST]]). Later, the timing for this show changed after 16 October 2017 when a new show named [[Sembaruthi]] replaced the time pushing this serial to air Monday to Friday at 10:00PM ([[Indian Standard Time|IST]]). from 23 April 2018, the show shifted to airs Monday through Friday at 10:30PM ([[Indian Standard Time|IST]]). a show named [[Rekka Katti Parakkudhu Manasu]] replaced the time.

{| class="wikitable"
! Airing Date !! Days !! Time (IST) !! Episodes
|-
| 23 May 2016 - 13 October 2017 || rowspan="3" | Mon-Fri || 21:00 || 1-365
|-
| 16 October 2017 – 20 April 2018|| 22:00 || 366-499
|-
| 23 April 2018 – 29 June 2018 || 22:30 || 500-549
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|10303040}}

{{Zee Tamil shows}}

[[Category:Zee Tamil original programming]]
[[Category:Tamil-language melodrama television series]]
[[Category:2016 Tamil-language television series debuts]]
[[Category:Tamil-language television shows]]
[[Category:2018 Tamil-language television series endings]]
[[Category:Television shows based on Tamil-language novels]]
[[Category:Television shows set in Tamil Nadu]]

Aonla Lok Sabha constituency

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{{Short description|Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| type = LS
| name = Aonla {{Small|UP-24}}
| established = 1962-present
| reservation = None
| party = [[Samajwadi Party]]
| mp = [[Neeraj Kushwaha Maurya]]
| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Lok Sabha constituencies/2019/Uttar Pradesh/Aonla.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Aonla Lok Sabha constituency
| latest_election_year = [[2024 Indian general elections|2024]]
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| assembly_cons = [[Shekhupur Assembly constituency|Shekhupur]] [[Dataganj Assembly constituency|Dataganj]] [[Faridpur Assembly constituency|Faridpur]] [[Bithari Chainpur Assembly constituency|Bithari Chainpur]] [[Aonla Assembly constituency|Aonla]]
}}
'''[[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]] Lok Sabha constituency''' ({{IPA|hi|ãːʋlaː}}) is one of the 80 [[Lok Sabha]] (parliamentary) constituencies in [[Uttar Pradesh]] state in northern [[India]].

==Assembly segments==
Assembly segments are:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/024_PC_Statistics_English.aspx|title=Information and Statistics-Parliamentary Constituencies-24-Aonla|publisher=Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh website}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!No
!Name
!District
!Member
!colspan="2"| Party
!colspan="2"|2024 Lead
|-
|116
|[[Shekhupur Assembly constituency|Shekhupur]]
|rowspan="2"| [[Budaun district|Budaun]]
|Himanshu Yadav
|{{party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
|{{party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
|-
| 117
|[[Dataganj Assembly constituency|Dataganj]]
|Rajeev Kumar Singh
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=4}}
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|122
|[[Faridpur Assembly constituency|Faridpur]] (SC)
|rowspan="3"| [[Bareilly district|Bareilly]]
|Vacant
|{{party name with color|Samajwadi Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|123
|[[Bithari Chainpur Assembly constituency|Bithari Chainpur]]
|Raghavendra Sharma
|-
|126
|[[Aonla Assembly constituency|Aonla]]
|[[Dharmpal Singh]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|}

== Members of Parliament ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Member
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|[[1962 Indian general election|1962]]
|[[Brij Raj Singh (politician)|Brij Raj Singh]]
|{{Full party name with color|Hindu Mahasabha}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1967|1967]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Savitri Shyam]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1971|1971]]
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1977|1977]]
|[[Brij Raj Singh (politician)|Brij Raj Singh]]
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1980|1980]]
|Jaipal Singh Kashyap
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party (Secular)|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1984|1984]]
|Kalyan Singh Solanki
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1989|1989]]
| rowspan="2" |Raj Veer Singh
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1991|1991]]
|-
|[[1996 Indian general election|1996]]
|[[Kunwar Sarvraj Singh|Sarvraj Singh]]
|{{Full party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1998|1998]]
|Raj Veer Singh
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 1999|1999]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Sarvraj Singh]]
|{{Full party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 2004|2004]]
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Dal (United)|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 2009|2009]]
|[[Maneka Sanjay Gandhi|Maneka Gandhi]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|-
|[[Indian general election, 2014|2014]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Dharmendra Kashyap]]
|-
|[[Indian general election, 2019|2019]]
|-
|[[Indian general election, 2024|2024]]
| [[Neeraj Kushwaha Maurya]]
|{{Full party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
|-
|}

==Election results==

=== General election 2024 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2024 Indian general elections]]: [[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]]<ref name="2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Aonla">{{cite news |title=2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Aonla |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/candidateswise-S2424.htm |accessdate=19 February 2025 |work= |publisher=Election Commission of India |date=4 June 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606015529/https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/candidateswise-S2424.htm |archivedate=6 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref>}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate=[[ Neeraj Kushwaha Maurya]]
|party= Samajwadi Party
|votes= 4,92,515
|percentage=45.23
|change={{up}}45.23
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Dharmendra Kashyap]]|votes=4,76,546|percentage=43.76|change={{down}}7.31}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Abid Ali|votes=95,630|percentage=8.78|change={{down}}31.49}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above|None of the Above]]|votes=6,858|percentage=0.63|change={{down}}0.24}}
{{Election box majority||votes=15,969|percentage=1.47|change={{down}}9.33}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=10,88,896|percentage=57.56|change={{down}}1.41}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Samajwadi Party
|loser = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== General election 2019 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Indian general elections]]: [[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]]}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Dharmendra Kashyap|Dharmendra Kumar]]
|votes = 5,37,675
|percentage =51.07
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Ruchi Veera]]
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|votes = 4,23,932
|percentage = 40.27
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Kunwar Sarvraj Singh]]
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 62,548
|percentage=5.94
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above|None of the Above]]
|votes = 9,198
|percentage =0.87
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,13,743
|percentage = 10.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 10,52,902
|percentage = 58.97
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner =Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== General election 2014 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Indian general elections]]: [[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]]}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Dharmendra Kashyap|Dharmendra Kumar]]
|votes = 4,09,907
|percentage = 41.16
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = [[Kunwar Sarvraj Singh]]
|votes = 2,71,478
|percentage = 27.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Sunita Shakya
|votes = 1,90,200
|percentage = 19.10
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Saleem Iqbal Shervani]]
|votes = 93,861
|percentage = 9.43
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
|candidate = Yogendra Kumar Verma
|votes = 4,332
|percentage = 0.44
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the Above]]
|votes = 10,496
|percentage = 1.05
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,38,429
|percentage = 13.90
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 9,95,817
|percentage = 60.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==See also==
* [[Bareilly district]]
* [[List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha]]

==External links==
*[https://www.indiaelections2014.info/parliament/2019/states/uttar_pradesh/aonla/lok_sabha_parliamentary_election_2019_results.html Aonla lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details]
* [https://resultuniversity.com/election/aonla-lok-sabha List of MP from Aonla Lok Sabha]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh}}
{{Bareilly division topics}}

{{Coord|28.28|79.16|display=title}}

[[Category:Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Politics of Bareilly district]]

List of Punjabi films

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{{short description|None}}
{{Punjabi film list}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2024}}

==1930s==
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 1930s}}
K.D. Mehra made the first Punjabi "talkie" film, ''[[Sheela (film)|Sheela]]'', also known as ''[[Sheela (film)|Pind Di Kurhi]]'', in 1935.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Indian popular cinema: a narrative of cultural change|last=Gokulsing |first=K.|author2=[[Wimal Dissanayake]] |year=2004|publisher=Trentham Books|isbn=978-1-85856-329-9|page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_plssuFIar8C&dq=Ayodhyecha+Raja+1932&pg=PA24 }}</ref> Young [[Noor Jehan]] was introduced as an actress and singer in this film. ''Sheila'' was made in the city of [[Calcutta]] (now [[Kolkata]]) and released in [[Lahore]]. It ran very successfully and was a hit across the province.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|isbn = 9781135943189|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA146 |last1 = Rajadhyaksha|first1 = Ashish|last2 = Willemen|first2 = Paul|date = 10 July 2014}}</ref> Due to the success of this film more producers started making Punjabi films.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041219/spectrum/main5.htm|title=The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum|work=tribuneindia.com|access-date=30 March 2015}}</ref>

'''Notable Punjabi film of the 1930s:'''
* ''[[Sheela (film)|Pind Di Kurhi]]'' (1930) – the first Punjabi film with [[Synchronization|synchronized]] sound

==1940s–1970s==
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 1940s}}
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 1950s}}
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 1960s}}
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 1970s}}

==1980s==
'''Notable Punjabi films of the 1980s:'''

==1990s==
'''Notable Punjabi films of the 1990s:'''

==2000s==
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 2000s}}

==2010s==
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 2010s}}

==2020s==
{{main|List of Punjabi films of the 2020s}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Cinema of Punjab}}
{{Lists of films by language}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Punjabi Films}}
[[Category:Lists of Punjabi films| ]]

M. M. Thomas

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{{Short description|Indian Christian theologian, social thinker, and activist (1916–1996)}}
{{Indian patronymic|Thomas|Madathilparampil Mammen}}
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'''Madathilparampil Mammen Thomas''' (1916—1996) was an Indian Christian theologian, social thinker, and activist. He served as Governor of the [[India]]n State, [[Nagaland]] (1990–1992), and as the Chairperson of the Central Committee of [[World Council of Churches]] (1968–1975).

==Biography==
Thomas was born on 15 May 1916 at Kozhenchery, [[Kerala]] India. His father Madathilparampil Mammen was a reformation leader, printer and publisher based in [[Kozhenchery]], Kerala, and was involved in the Independence Movement in [[India]] during the Salt Satygraha. His mother was Ooriapadickal Mariamma, a school teacher. He was the eldest of nine children.

Thomas was raised in a [[Mar Thoma Syrian Church]],<ref>[https://brill.com/display/book/9789401206198/B9789401206198-s013.xml Brill website, ''Christ between the Religions: The Great Three: Panikkar, Thomas, Samartha'', article by J.P. Schouten]</ref> in which his father was well known evangelist. In 1931, Thomas went to study Chemistry in a college in Trivandrum, Kerala, and had an evangelical spiritual experience. As a consequence, he became active in the Mar Thoma Youth Union and the Student Christian Movement, and became involved in evangelism among low-caste youth. He later attended the [[Union Theological Seminary]] in New York.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VGJ4w6oVqoAC&dq=Vengal+Chakkarai&pg=PA59 Google Books, ''Theologia Crucis in Asia: Asian Christian Views on Suffering'', by Andreas Anangguru Yewangoe, page 82]</ref> Soon after obtaining his degree in 1935, he accepted the post of a teacher at Ashramam High School, Perumbavoor, run by the Mar Thoma Church, where the teachers used to pay part of their meager salary to the students from poor families. In 1937, instead of taking a lucrative job he went to [[Trivandrum]], the capital of [[Kerala]] and started an orphanage there.<ref name="pilgrimage">{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=M. M. |title=My Pilgrimage in Mission |journal=[[International Bulletin of Missionary Research]] |date=January 1989 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=28–31 |url=http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/1989-01/1989-01-028-thomas.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720163505/http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/1989-01/1989-01-028-thomas.pdf|archive-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>

Thomas was the first full-time organizing secretary of Yuvajana Sakhyam (the Youth wing of the [[Mar Thoma Church]]) from 1945-47.<ref>{{cite book|first=N.M.|last=Mathew|title=Malankara Marthoma Sabha Charitram ([[Mar Thoma Church]] History)|volume=3|year=2008|page=129}}</ref> He applied for ordination in the [[Mar Thoma Church]], but that was rejected because of his membership in Communist party. At the same time he was rejected by the communist party because of his faith.{{blockquote|An amendment I proposed for the "Aim and Basis" of the Youth Christian Council of Action wanted it to "accept the Catholic Christian Faith and Marxian Scientific Socialism," reacting against "both Fundamentalism that is indifferent to science and social questions and the Liberal Social Gospel which denies the fact of sin" and to offer "the Orthodox Christian Faith as in the long run the only possible basis for social and scientific realism." It was to pursue this double task of the Christian mission that I asked for ordination in my church and for membership in the Communist party. Both rejected me, for opposite reasons.<ref name="pilgrimage"/>}}

Thomas became known for his ecumenical work, first being on staff with the [[World Student Christian Federation]] in Geneva (1947-1953), then serving as a moderator of the Central committee of the [[World Council of Churches]] (1968-1975).<ref name=bdcm>{{cite book|first=Charles C.|last=West|chapter=Thomas, M(adathilparampil) M(ammen)|title= Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|editor-first=Gerald H. |editor-last=Anderson|location=New York|publisher=Macmillan Reference |year=1998|pages=666–667}}</ref> He also served with the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society from 1958 to 1975.<ref>[https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/t-u-v/thomas-madathilparampil-mammen-1916-1996/ Boston University website, Missiology section, ''Thomas, M(adathilparampil) M(ammen) (1916-1996)'']</ref>

In 1990 he was appointed as Governor of [[Nagaland]], a state with a large number of Christians, but later resigned in 1992.<ref name=bdcm/>

He was conferred with the honorary doctorate degree by the University of [[Uppsala]] in 1978.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=West |first1=Charles C. |title=A Tribute |journal=The Princeton Seminary Bulletin |date=1997 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=208–210 |url=http://www.talentshare.org/~mm9n/articles/mmt/index.htm |access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref> He was living at Manjadi, [[Tiruvalla]]. He died on 3 December 1996 and was laid to rest at [[Tiruvalla]], [[Kerala]].<ref name=":0" />

==Works==
#Secular Ideologies and the Secular Meaning of Christ (Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1976)
#''The acknowledged Christ of the Indian Renaissance'' (1969 SCM Press, London)
#''Risking Christ for Christ's Sake'' (1987)<ref>[https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog8049 Anglican Church of Canada website, ''Risking Christ for Christ's Sake'']</ref>
#''Nagas towards 2000''
#''Response to Tyranny''
# ''The Indian church: identity and fulfilment'' (contributor) (1971)<ref>[https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?kn=Madathilparampil%20Mammen%20Thomas&sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-topnav-_-Results ABE Books website, ''Madathilparampil Mammen Thomas'']</ref>
# ''Towards a theology of contemporary ecumenism : a collection of addresses to ecumenical gatherings (1947-1975)'' <ref>[https://archives.anglican.ca/list?q=&p=1&ps=&sort=title_sort%20asc&name_facet=thomasmmmadathilparampilm001916001996000000000000%7CThomas,%20M.M.%20(Madathilparampil%20M.),%201916-1996 Anglican Church of Canada website, ''Thomas, M.M. (Madathilparampil M.), 1916-1996'']</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Paul David Devanandan]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading==
* {{cite book |editor-last1=Athyal |editor-first1=Jesudas M. |editor-last2=Zachariah |editor-first2=George |editor-last3=Melanchthon |editor-first3=Monica |title=The Life, Legacy and Theology of M. M. Thomas: 'Only Participants Earn the Right to be Prophets' |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-02547-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HxwFDAAAQBAJ |language=en}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|first=M. M.|last=Ninan|title=The Life, Legacy, and Theology of M. M. Thomas|url=http://www.oration.com/~mm9n/articles/MMT.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003162353/http://www.oration.com/~mm9n/articles/MMT.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-10-03}}

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[[Category:1996 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Thiruvalla]]
[[Category:Mar Thoma Syrian Church Christians]]
[[Category:Indian Christian theologians]]
[[Category:Governors of Nagaland]]
[[Category:Christian communists]]
[[Category:Christian and Hindu interfaith dialogue]]

Subir Marak

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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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'''Subir Marak''' (born 1975)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Subir Marak(NPP):Constituency- RANGSAKONA (ST)(WEST GARO HILLS) - Affidavit Information of Candidate |url=https://www.myneta.info/Meghalaya2023/candidate.php?candidate_id=7109 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=www.myneta.info}}</ref> is an Indian politician from [[Meghalaya]]. He is a member of the [[Meghalaya Legislative Assembly]] from Rangsakona Assembly constituency, which is reserved for Scheduled Tribe community, in [[West Garo Hills district]]. He won the [[2023 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election]] representing the [[National People's Party (India)]].

== Early life and education ==
Marak is from Boiragipara village, Garobadha post, [[Ampati]], South West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Members {{!}} Meghalaya Government Portal |url=https://meghalaya.gov.in/meghalaya-legislative-assembly/44297 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=meghalaya.gov.in}}</ref> He is the son of Gonendra Sangma. He completed his civil engineering in 1996 at Shillong Polytechnic. His wife is a headmistress in a private school.<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==
Marak won from [[Rangsakona Assembly constituency]] representing National People's Party (India) in the 2023 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election. He polled 13,605 votes and defeated his nearest rival, [[Zenith Sangma|Zenith M. Sangma]] of [[All India Trinamool Congress]], by a margin of 788 votes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Subir Marak in Meghalaya Assembly Elections 2023 |url=https://www.news18.com/assembly-elections-2023/meghalaya/subir-marak-rangsakona-candidate-s15a052c002/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=News18 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Election Commission of India |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultAcGenMar2023/ConstituencywiseS1552.htm?ac=52 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401172824/https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultAcGenMar2023/ConstituencywiseS1552.htm?ac=52 |archive-date=2023-04-01 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=results.eci.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-03-02 |title=Meghalaya election result 2023: Full list of winners constituency-wise |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/meghalaya-election-winner-list-2023-npp-bjp-tmc-congress-candidate-list-for-meghalaya-assembly-election-2023-leading-trailing-candidates-parties-101677727601523.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240423102958/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/meghalaya-election-winner-list-2023-npp-bjp-tmc-congress-candidate-list-for-meghalaya-assembly-election-2023-leading-trailing-candidates-parties-101677727601523.html |archive-date=2024-04-23 |access-date=2024-12-25 |work=Hindustan Times |language=en-us}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:1975 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:National People's Party (India) politicians]]
[[Category:Meghalaya MLAs 2023–2028]]
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Usmanpur, Firozabad

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{{Short description|Village in Uttar Pradesh, India}}
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'''Usmanpur''' ({{IAST|Usmānpur}}), also called '''Karapillu''', is a village in [[Firozabad]] block of [[Firozabad district]], Uttar Pradesh. It is located southwest of Firozabad, on the bank of the [[Yamuna]]. As of 2011, it had a population of 2,173, in 358 households.

== Geography ==
Usmanpur (also called Karapillu) is located on the south bank of a big meander in the [[Yamuna]], southwest of Firozabad. An area of farmland extends southwest of Usmanpur, toward the hamlet of Kabirpur, while there is a large area of open [[scrubland]] to the southeast. Immediately to the east of Usmanpur is a patch of [[Vachellia nilotica|babul]] woodland belonging to the Firozabad Reserved Forest. Beyond this to the northeast is the hamlet of Malipatti, and beyond that is the village of [[Chandwar]].<ref name="Survey of India map G44A8">{{cite map |author=[[Survey of India]] |title=Open Series Map No. G44A8 |date=2005 |scale=1:50,000 |type=[[Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system|Universal Transverse Mercator]] projection |edition=1st}}</ref>

== Demographics ==
As of 2011, Usmanpur had a population of 2,173, in 358 households.<ref name="Census 2011 A"/>{{rp|119}} This population was 55.0% male (1,196) and 45.0% female (977). The 0–6 age group numbered 520 (290 male and 230 female), making up 23.9% of the total population. No residents were members of Scheduled Castes.<ref name="Census 2011 B">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Firozabad, Part B (Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1211/download/3858/DH_2011_0916_PART_B_DCHB_FIROZABAD.pdf |website=Census of India |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|110–1}}

The [[1981 Census of India|1981 census]] recorded Usmanpur as having a population of 1,012 people (544 male and 468 female), in 161 households and 161 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1981">{{cite book |title=Census 1981 Uttar Pradesh: District Census Handbook Part XIII-B: Village & Town Directory, District Agra |date=1982 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/28672/download/31854/28391_1981_AGR.pdf |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|192–3}}

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Usmanpur as comprising 2 hamlets, with a total population of 706 people (387 male and 319 female), in 129 households and 112 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 1,422 acres.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (22 - Agra District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/28472/download/31654/21841_1961_AGR.pdf |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|xciv}}

== Infrastructure ==
As of 2011, Usmanpur had 1 primary school; it did not have any healthcare facilities. Drinking water was provided by well, hand pump, and tube well/bore well; there were no public toilets. The village did not have a post office or public library; there was at least some access to electricity for all purposes. Streets were made of ''[[Indian vernacular architecture#pucca|pakka]]'' materials.<ref name="Census 2011 A">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Firozabad, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1210/download/3854/DH_2011_0916_PART_A_DCHB_FIROZABAD.pdf |website=Census of India |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|119–24}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Firozabad district}}

[[Category:Villages in Firozabad district]]

List of Odia films of 1998

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{{Ollywood films}}
The following is a list of films produced in 1988 by the [[Ollywood]] film industry, which is based in [[Bhubaneshwar]] and [[Cuttack]]:

==A-Z==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Notes
|-
| {{Year header}} | '''[[1998 in film|1998]]'''
|-
|''[[Bou (film)|Bou]]''||[[Sabyasachi Mohapatra]]||[[Mahasweta Roy]], [[Bijay Mohanty]]|| ||
|-
|''[[Eei Sangharsha]]''||[[Arun Mohanty]] ||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]], [[Deepti Naval]] || ||
|-
|''[[Laxmi Ra Abhisara]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Laxmi Ra Abhisara|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459926/|access-date=2021-11-20}} {{unreliable source?|date=September 2022}}</ref>|| [[Raju Mishra]] ||[[Anita Das]], [[Mihir Das]], [[Saroj Das]] || ||
|-
|''[[Nandan (film)|Nandan]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Nandan|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1431288/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>||[[A. K. Bir]] ||[[Soubhagya Chandan Satapathy]] || ||
|-
| ''[[Rupa Gaan Ra Suna Kania]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Rupa Gaan Ra Suna Kania|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1452921/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>||[[Raju Mishra]]||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]] || ||
|-
|''[[Sahara Jaluchi]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Sahara Jaluchi|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1449247/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>|| [[Sudhansu Sahu]] ||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]], [[Mihir Das]], [[Mithun Chakraborty]], [[Uttam Mohanty]] || ||
|-
|''[[Santana (1998 film)|Santana]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Santana|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1452922/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>||[[Mohammad Mohsin]] ||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]], [[Rachana Banerjee]]|| ||Remake of Hindi movie ''[[Beta (1998 film)|Beta]]''
|-
|''[[Singha Bahini]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Singha Bahini|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456896/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>||[[Basant Sahu]] ||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]], [[Rachana Banerjee]], [[Anushree (Kannada actress)|Anushree]] ||||
|-
|''[[Soubhagyabati]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Soubhagyabati|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467082/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>|| ||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]], [[Jyoti Misra]], [[Mihir Das]] || ||
|-
|''[[Stree (1998 film)|Stree]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Stree|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1449847/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>||[[Rabi Kinnagi]] ||[[Ajit Das]], [[Mihir Das]], [[Archana Joglekar]] || ||
|-
|''[[Suna Palinki]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Suna Palinki|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1449848/|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>||[[Surya Misra]] ||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]], [[Gayatri Jariwala]], [[Rachana Banerjee]], [[Sagar Misra]] || ||
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Indian film list}}
{{1998 films}}

[[Category:Lists of Odia films by year|1998]]
[[Category:Lists of 1998 films by language|Ollywood]]
[[Category:1990s in Orissa]]
[[Category:1998 in Indian cinema]]

Radhika (Malayalam actress)

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{{short description|Indian actress}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2019}}
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{{Infobox person
| parents =
| name = Radhika
| image = NEE 7339.jpg
| caption = Radhika in 2022
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Cherthala]], [[Kerala]], India
| years_active = 1992; 2000{{ndash}}2013, 2019, 2023
| spouse = {{marriage|Abhil Krishna|2016}}
}}

'''Radhika''' is an Indian actress who appears mainly in [[Malayalam film]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/radhika-recreates-her-character-rezia-from-classmates-meets-lal-jose/articleshow/80406676.cms|title=Radhika recreates her character Rezia from 'Classmates'; meets Lal Jose|website=[[The Times of India]]|date=22 January 2021 }}</ref>

==Career==

She became popular by the character Razia in director [[Lal Jose]]'s blockbuster movie ''[[Classmates (2006 film)|Classmates]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/7-interesting-facts-about-classmates-actress-radhika-that-you-may-not-know/etphotostory/79042850.cms|title = 7 interesting facts about 'Classmates' actress Radhika that you may not know|website = [[The Times of India]]|date = 4 November 2020}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Radhika got engaged to [[Dubai]]-based Abhil Krishna on 27 December 2016,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marunadanmalayali.com/cinema/stardust/classmates-fame-radhika-wedding-35722|title = ക്ലാസ്‌മേറ്റ്‌സ് ഫെയിം രാധിക വിവാഹിതയാകുന്നു; വരൻ ഗൾഫ് മലയാളിയായ അഭിൽ കൃഷ്ണ; വിവാഹം ഫ}}</ref> and they were married on 12 February 2017.

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 1992 || ''[[Vietnam Colony]]'' || Krishnamoorthy's niece || Child artist
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| rowspan=3 | 2000 || ''[[Life Is Beautiful (2000 film)|Life Is Beautiful]]'' || Audience ||
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|| ''[[Darling Darling (2000 film)|Darling Darling]]'' || Lathika ||
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|| ''[[Kannukkul Nilavu]]'' || Hema's friend || Tamil film
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| rowspan=2 | 2001 || ''[[Sharja To Sharja]]'' || Ammu Kutty ||
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|| ''[[One Man Show (film)|One Man Show]]'' || Aswathi ||
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| 2003 || ''[[War and Love (2003 film)|War and Love]]'' || Rukhiya ||
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| rowspan=2 | 2005 || ''[[Daivanamathil]] ''|| Najma ||
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|| ''[[Thaskaraveeran (2005 film)|Thaskara Veeran]]'' || Sethulakshmi ||
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| rowspan=3 | 2006 || ''[[Achanurangatha Veedu]]'' || Hari's fiancée ||
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|| ''[[Classmates (2006 film)|Classmates]]'' || Razia ||
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|| ''Panthalayinilekkoru Yatra'' || ||Telefilm
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| rowspan=3 | 2007 || ''[[Changathipoocha]]'' || Sridevi ||
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|| ''[[Mission 90 Days]]'' || Nalini ||
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|| ''[[Nasrani (film)|Nasrani]]'' || Archana Shankar ||
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| rowspan=3 | 2008 || ''[[One Way Ticket (2008 film)|One Way Ticket]]'' || Sajira ||
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|| ''[[Minnaminnikoottam]]'' || Kalyani ||
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|| ''[[Twenty:20 (film)|Twenty:20]]'' || Radhika ||
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|2009|| ''[[Daddy Cool (2009 Malayalam film)|Daddy Cool]]'' ||Millie
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| rowspan=2 | 2010|| ''[[In Ghost House Inn]]'' || Marathakam/& her twin sister ||
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|| ''[[Best of Luck (2010 film)|Best Of Luck]]'' || Herself || Guest appearance
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| rowspan=2 | 2011|| ''[[Kudumbasree Travels]]'' || Sreedevi / Hemalatha ||
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|| ''Kadhayile Nayika'' || Maya ||
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| rowspan=3 | 2012 || ''[[Udumban]]'' || Isaipriya || [[Tamil language|Tamil]] film<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2012/feb/20/a-tighter-script-would-have-helped-341662.html|title=A tighter script would have helped!|date=20 February 2012|work=The New Indian Express}}</ref> Credited as Sana
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|| ''[[Cobra (2012 film)|Cobra]]'' || Rosy (Raja's fiancée) ||
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|| ''[[Mayamohini]]'' || Swathi ||Guest Appearance
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| rowspan=2 | 2013 || ''[[Annum Innum Ennum]]'' || Anjana aka Anju ||
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|| ''Pakaram'' || Sakshi ||
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|2019|| ''[[Oolu]]'' || Meenakshi ||
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|2023|| ''[[Ayisha (2023 film)|Ayisha]]'' ||Nisha
|Malayalam - [[Arabic]] bilingual film<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-03 |title=Malayalam Actress Radhika's Character Poster From Manju Warrier's Ayisha Out |url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/malayalam-actress-radhikas-character-poster-from-manju-warriers-ayisha-out-6751207.html |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=News18 |language=en}}</ref>
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==References==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|2390400}}
* [https://archive.today/20130217233356/http://popcorn.oneindia.in/artist-filmography/4237/2/radhika.html OneIndia article]
* [http://cinespot.net/gallery/v/South+Cinema/Actress/Radhika/ Cinespot article]

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Mahmood Ali (Indian politician)

2025-12-29T20:46:49Z

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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Mohammed Mahmood Ali
| image = Mahmood Ali with CM KCR 1 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Ali in 2025
| office = [[Second K. Chandrashekar Rao ministry|Cabinet Minister]], [[Government of Telangana]]
| 2blankname = Department and ministry
| 2namedata = * Home.
* Prisons.
* Fire Services
| governor = [[E. S. L. Narasimhan]] [[Tamilisai Soundararajan]]
| term_end = 4 December 2023
| predecessor = [[Nayani Narasimha Reddy]]
| 1blankname = Chief Minister
| 1namedata = [[K. Chandrashekar Rao]]
| 2blankname1 = Chief Minister
| 2namedata1 = [[K. Chandrashekar Rao]]
| governor1 = [[E. S. L. Narasimhan]]
| term_start = 13 December 2018
| term_start1 = 2 June 2014
| term_end1 = 6 September 2018
| successor = [[Anumula Revanth Reddy]]
| predecessor1 = '''Position Established'''
| successor1 =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|3|3|df=yes}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Legislative Assembly - Telangana-Legislature |url=https://legislature.telangana.gov.in/getMLCMemberDetails?memid=3&constid=21&orderby=1&termid=4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407174903/https://legislature.telangana.gov.in/getMLCMemberDetails?memid=3&constid=21&orderby=1&termid=4 |archive-date=2024-04-07 |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=Telangana Legislature}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Hyderabad State (1948–1956)|Hyderabad State]], India
| residence = [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]], India
| office3 = [[Telangana Legislative Council|Member of the Telangana Legislative Council]]
| term_start3 = 2010
| constituency3 = [[Telangana]]
| spouse = Nasreen Fathima
| children = One Son (Md Azam Ali) and Two Daughters
| alma_mater = [[Osmania University]]
| party = [[Bharat Rashtra Samithi]]
| office1 = [[List of deputy chief ministers of Telangana|Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana]]
| alongside1 = [[T. Rajaiah]] [[Kadiyam Srihari]]
| website =
| constituency =
}}
'''Mohammed Mahmood Ali''' (born 2 March 1952<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Legislative Assembly - Telangana-Legislature |url=https://legislature.telangana.gov.in/getMLCMemberDetails?memid=3&constid=21&orderby=1&termid=4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407174903/https://legislature.telangana.gov.in/getMLCMemberDetails?memid=3&constid=21&orderby=1&termid=4 |archive-date=2024-04-07 |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=Telangana Legislature}}</ref>) is an Indian politician who was the Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana from 2014 until 2018. The departments of the State Home Ministry, Prisons and Fire Services were allocated to him during the [[Second K. Chandrashekar Rao ministry|2nd K. Chandrasekhar Rao ministry]], and he held them from 2018-2023.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Telangana State Disaster Response and Fire Services Department |url=https://fire.telangana.gov.in/WebSite/KetContact.aspx |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602114748/https://fire.telangana.gov.in/WebSite/KetContact.aspx |archive-date=2023-06-02 |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Telangana Fire Disaster Response - Emergency and Civil Defense Department}}</ref> He is a member of [[Telangana Legislative Council]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Legislative Council - Telangana-Legislature |url=https://legislature.telangana.gov.in/councilmemprofile |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212203354/https://legislature.telangana.gov.in/councilmemprofile |archive-date=2023-12-12 |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=[[Telangana Legislative Assembly|Telangana Legislature]]}}</ref>

==Early life==
Ali was born in [[Hyderabad]] and lives in [[Azampura]]. He received his [[Bachelor's degree]] in [[Commerce]] from [[Osmania University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2018-12-14 |title=KCR loyalist only minister to take oath |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/kcr-loyalist-only-minister-to-take-oath/articleshow/67083979.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228083939/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/kcr-loyalist-only-minister-to-take-oath/articleshow/67083979.cms |archive-date=2019-12-28 |access-date=2024-01-01 |work=[[The Times of India]] |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> He later ventured in [[dairy farming]] business, in which he earned a lot of money.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Moses |first=Ajay |date=2019-03-20 |title=Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali's assets remain his animals |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2019/mar/20/minister-alis-assets-remain-his-animals-1953485.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324152605/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2019/mar/20/minister-alis-assets-remain-his-animals-1953485.html |archive-date=2019-03-24 |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=[[The New Indian Express]]}}</ref>

==Political career==
Ali was elected as a Member of Legislative Council of [[Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014)|United Andhra Pradesh]] in 2010. He got into the [[Telangana movement]] in 2001 when [[K. Chandrashekar Rao]] launched the [[Telangana Rashtra Samithi]] now called the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and is considered one of the founding members of the party. After the creation of Telangana, he became a representative of the Telangana Legislative Council. He is the president of the BRS party's minority cell.<ref name=":0" />

He is a close aide to '''Chandrashekar Rao''', and has been with him since the start of the Telangana agitation movement.<ref name=":0" />

After the formation of Telangana and the [[2014 Telangana Legislative Assembly election|subsequent elections]], he was handed the departments of Revenue, Stamps and Registrations, Relief and Rehabilitation, Urban Land Ceiling. He managed the same from 2014–2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=Council of Ministers |url=http://www.telangana.gov.in/Pages/CouncilofMinisters.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714142420/http://www.telangana.gov.in/Pages/CouncilofMinisters.aspx |archive-date=2014-07-14 |accessdate=2014-07-14 |work=[[Government of Telangana]]}}</ref>

He was the second Home Minister of Telangana in the [[second K. Chandrashekar Rao ministry]], replacing [[Nayani Narasimha Reddy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=KCR to Be Sworn in Telangana State's First CM on June 2 |url=http://deccan-journal.com/content/kcr-sworn-first-chief-minister-telangana-indias-29th-state |accessdate=2014-05-02 |work=Deccan Journal |archive-date=2 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602200130/http://deccan-journal.com/content/kcr-sworn-first-chief-minister-telangana-indias-29th-state |url-status=live }}</ref> He also managed the departments of Prisons and Fire Services.<ref name=":2" />

===Deputy Chief Minister===
[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurating Hyderabad Metro, at Hyderabad (1).jpg|left|thumb|Mahmood Ali with Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] in 2017]]On 2 June 2014, Ali was appointed the first ''ever'' Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao following the party victory in the state's Legislative Assembly election. He shared the post with [[T. Rajaiah|T Rajaiah]].<ref name=":0" />

After the [[2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election]]s, he shared the post with [[Kadiyam Srihari]].

==Personal life==
He is married to Nasreen Fathima, and has a son and two daughters.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> Per his election affidavits, he owns a dairy farm, as well as a function hall named ‘Azam Function Hall’, both of which helped him earn a lot of money.<ref name=":1" /> In his 2018 election affidavits, Ali declared his movable assets at Rs 1.07 crore, a near 50% jump from his previous affidavit in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=1. MOHD MAHMOOD ALI.pdf |url=https://ceotelangana.nic.in/Legislative%20Council%20Electoral%20Rolls/AFFIDAVITS%20OF%20CANDIDATES%20OF%20BIENNIAL%20ELECTIONS%20TO%20COUNCIL%20BY%20MLAs/1.%20MOHD%20MAHMOOD%20ALI.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407175820/https://ceotelangana.nic.in/Legislative%20Council%20Electoral%20Rolls/AFFIDAVITS%20OF%20CANDIDATES%20OF%20BIENNIAL%20ELECTIONS%20TO%20COUNCIL%20BY%20MLAs/1.%20MOHD%20MAHMOOD%20ALI.pdf |archive-date=2024-04-07 |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=Chief Election Officer, Telangana}}</ref> His immovable assets also doubled as they stood at Rs 2.2 crore. His wife’s movable assets tripled. Ali has specified that his major source of “income” was through dairy farm, salary as deputy chief minister and “rental” from function hall.<ref name=":1" />

During the 2024 [[Republic Day]] celebrations at the Telangana Bhavan in [[Banjara Hills]], he fainted due to fatigue and was rushed to [[Apollo Hospitals|Apollo Hospital]].<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2024-01-27 |title=Former Telangana Dy CM Mahmood Ali releases statement over his health |url=https://www.siasat.com/former-telangana-dy-cm-mahmood-ali-releases-statement-over-his-health-2964921/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=[[The Siasat Daily]] |language=en |archive-date=29 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204046/https://www.siasat.com/former-telangana-dy-cm-mahmood-ali-releases-statement-over-his-health-2964921/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-01-26 |title=Watch: Former Telangana Deputy CM Mahmood Ali faints during Republic Day celebrations |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/former-telangana-deputy-cm-mahmood-ali-faints-republic-day-celebrations-9129236/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=[[The Indian Express]] |language=en |archive-date=14 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314114618/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/former-telangana-deputy-cm-mahmood-ali-faints-republic-day-celebrations-9129236/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Controversies ==
In 2022, when he was the Home Minister of Telangana, he made a statement saying women wearing short clothes could lead to problems.<ref>{{Cite web |author= |date=2023-06-18 |title=Women wearing short clothes could lead to problems, says Telangana home minister |url=https://scroll.in/latest/1051107/women-wearing-short-clothes-could-lead-to-problems-says-telangana-home-minister |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623011415/https://scroll.in/latest/1051107/women-wearing-short-clothes-could-lead-to-problems-says-telangana-home-minister |archive-date=2023-06-23 |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Scroll.in]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2023, he slapped his personal security officer for not having a bouquet at hand, when Ali had stepped onto a stage to wish Minister for Animal Husbandry [[Talasani Srinivas Yadav]] on his birthday.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2023-10-06 |title=Telangana Home Minister Mahmood Ali slaps personal security officer; caught on tape |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-home-minister-mahmood-ali-slaps-personal-security-officer-caught-on-tape/article67387838.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011225153/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-home-minister-mahmood-ali-slaps-personal-security-officer-caught-on-tape/article67387838.ece |archive-date=2023-10-11 |access-date=2024-01-02 |work=[[The Hindu]] |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dn9NNxCxDs Celebration video on Mohammad Mahmood Ali becoming Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana State]

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Uropeltis ceylanica

2025-12-16T04:01:38Z

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{{Short description|Species of snake}}
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{{Speciesbox
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite journal |author=Ganesh, S.R. |author-link=species:Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh |author2=Giri, V. |author2-link=species:Varad B. Giri |title=''Uropeltis ceylanica'' |journal=[[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] |volume=2021 |page=e.T127972986A127973772 |publisher=[[IUCN]] |date=2021 |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/127972986/127973772 |access-date=19 October 2021}}</ref>
| image = Silybura shortii.jpg
| genus = Uropeltis
| species = ceylanica
| authority = [[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier]], 1829
| synonyms = * ''Uropeltis ceylanicus'' {{small|Cuvier, 1829}}
* ''Uropeltis Ceylanicus'' {{small|— [[Jean-Théodore Cocteau|Cocteau]], 1833}}
* ''Uropeltis ceylonica'' {{small|— [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1830}}
* ''Pseudo-typhlops ceylanicus'' {{small|— [[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]], 1839}}
* ''Siluboura Ceylonicus'' {{small|— [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1845}}
* ''U''[''ropeltis'']. ''Ceylonicus'' {{small|— Gray, 1845}}
* [''Coloburus''] ''Ceylanicus'' {{small|— [[André Marie Constant Duméril|A.M.C. Duméril]] & [[Auguste Duméril|A.H.A. Duméril]], 1854}}
* ''Siluboura ceylonica'' {{small|— Gray, 1858}}
* ''Silybura ceylanica'' {{small|— [[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]], 1861}}
* ''Silybura brevis'' {{small|[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1862}}
* ''C''[''oloburus'']. ''Ceylanicus'' {{small|— [[Giorgio Jan|Jan]], 1863}}
* ''Silybura nilgherriensis'' {{small|Beddome, 1863}}
* ''Siluboura ceylanica'' {{small|— Günther, 1864}}
* ''S''[''ilybura'']. ''ceylonica'' {{small|— Günther, 1875}}
* ''Silybura nilgherriensis'' var. ''annulata'' {{small|[[Richard Henry Beddome|Beddome]], 1886}}
* ''Silybura brevis'' {{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}}
* ''Silybura ellioti'' var. ''annulata'' {{small|— Boulenger, 1893}}
* ''Uropeltis ceylanicus'' {{small|— [[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith]], 1943}}
* ''Uropeltis'' (''Siluboura'') ''ceylanicus'' {{small|— [[species:B.C. Mahendra|Mahendra]], 1984}}
* ''U''[''ropeltis'']. ''ceylanicus annulata'' {{small|— [[species:T.S.N. Murthy|Murthy]], 1990}}
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="McD99">[[species:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]], [[Jonathan A. Campbell|Campbell JA]], [[species:T'Shaka A. Touré|Touré TA]] (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1''. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).</ref>
}}

:'''''Common names:''' Ceylon earth snake, Cuvier's shieldtail, Kerala shieldtail.''
'''''Uropeltis ceylanica''''' is a [[species]] of nonvenomous shieldtail snake in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Uropeltidae]]. The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to the [[Western Ghats]] of [[South India]]. No [[subspecies]] are currently recognized as being valid, but the presence of several synonyms, many recently resurrected, calls for further taxonomic studies of this species complex.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=634735 |taxon=''Uropeltis ceylanica'' |access-date=1 September 2007}}</ref> It is a burrowing snake with a pointy head equipped to penetrate the soil.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} It has a thick tail which looks as if it has been cut at an angle.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} In Kerala it's called ''iru thala moori'', which means two headed organism, as the tail end looks like another head.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} It primarily eats earth worms.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

==Geographic range==
''U. ceylanica'' is found in the [[Western Ghats]] of southern [[India]] from [[Goa]], [[Castle Rock, Karnataka|Castle Rock]] southwards to [[Travancore]] ([[Agasthyamalai]]) near [[Trivandrum]]. The [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given as "Ceylan"— is a mistake, since this species has never been found in [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name="McD99"/>

==Description==
The [[Dorsum (anatomy)|dorsum]] of ''U. ceylanica'' is brown or blackish brown; sometimes patterned with spots or streaks. The [[Abdomen|venter]] is yellowish; some specimens have dark brown spots or are entirely brown. The ventral side of the tail is brown or black in the middle, and yellow on the sides.

Adults may attain a total length (including tail) of {{convert|45|cm|in|abbr=on}}.

The [[dorsal scales]] are arranged in 17 rows at midbody (in 19 rows behind the head). The [[Ventral scales|ventrals]] number 120-146; the [[subcaudal scales|subcaudals]] number 8-12.

The snout is rounded. The [[Rostral scale|rostral]] is one-fourth the length of the shielded part of the head. Portions of the rostral are visible from above and shorter than its distance from the [[frontal scale|frontal]]. Nasals are in contact with each other behind the rostral. The frontal is slightly longer than it is broad. The diameter of the eyes is more than half the length of the [[ocular scale|ocular shield]]. The total length of the snake is 21 to 29 times the diameter of the body. The ventrals are twice as large as the contiguous scales. The end of tail is flat dorsally, obliquely truncated, with strongly [[keeled scales]] which are bi-, tri-, or quadricarinate. It has a terminal [[scute]] with a transverse ridge and two points.<ref>[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger, G.A.]] (1893). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families...Uropeltidæ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (''Silybura brevis'', pp. 158–159).</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
{{Refbegin}}
*[[Richard Henry Beddome|Beddome, R.H.]] (1863). "Descriptions of New Species of the Family Uropeltidæ from Southern India, with Notes on other little-known Species". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' '''1863''': 225–229 + Plates XXV–XXVII.
*Beddome, R.H. (1863). "Further Notes upon the Snakes of the Madras Presidency; with some Descriptions of New Species". ''Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science'' '''6''': 41–48. [Reprint: (1940). ''J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London'' '''1''' (10): 306–314].
*Beddome, R.H. (1864). "Descriptions of New Species of the Family Uropeltidæ from Southern India, with Notes on other little-known Species". ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series'' '''13''': 177–180.
*Beddome, R.H. (1886). "An Account of the Earth-Snakes of the Peninsula of India and Ceylon". ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series'' '''17''': 3–33.
*[[Jean-Théodore Cocteau|Cocteau, J.T.]] (1833). "''Sur le genre de reptiles ophidiens nommé'' Uropeltis ''par Cuvier, et description d'une espèce de ce genre''". ''Magasin de Zoologie Guérin, Paris, Class. III'', seven unnumbered pages + Plate 2. (in French).
*[[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier, [G].]] (1829). ''Le Règne Animal Distribué, d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée. Tome II.'' Paris: Déterville. xv + 406 pp. (''Uropeltis ceylanicus'', new species, p. 76). (in French).
*[[species:Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh|Ganesh, S.R.]]; [[species:R. Aengals|Aengals, R.]]; [[species:Eric Ramanujam|Ramanujam, E.]] (2014). "Taxonomic reassessment of two Indian shieldtail snakes in the ''Uropeltis ceylanicus'' species group (Reptilia: Uropeltidae)". ''Journal of Threatened Taxa'' '''6''; (1): 5305–5314.
*[[David J. Gower|Gower, D.J.]]; [[Ashok Captain|Captain, A.]]; [[species:Sanjay S. Thakur|Thakur, S.S.]] (2008). "On the taxonomic status of ''Uropeltis bicatenata'' (GÜNTHER) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Uropeltidae)". ''Hamadryad'' '''33''' (1): 64–82.
* [[John Edward Gray|Gray, J.E.]] (1858). "On a new Genus and several New Species of Uropeltidæ, in the Collection of the British Museum". ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Third Series'' '''2''': 376–381.
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Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story

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{{Short description|Annual Indian literary award}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
The '''Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story''' is an award given every year by the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] (Kerala Literary Academy) to Malayalam writers for writing a [[narrative|story]] of literary merit. It is one of the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award#Awards|twelve categories]] of the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]].{{hsp}}<ref name="Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story">{{cite web |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/Stories.htm |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |access-date=17 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109150057/https://keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/Stories.htm |archive-date=9 November 2013 |language=ml}}</ref><ref>[http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3065&Itemid=2379 "Literary Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618062155/http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3065&Itemid=2379 |date=2012-06-18 }}. [[Government of Kerala]]. Retrieved 28 April 2014.</ref>

==Awardees==
{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! Year
! Book
! Author
! Image
|-
| 1966
| ''Naalalu Naaluvazhi''
| [[Parappurath]]
|
|-
| 1967
| ''Achingayum Kochuramanum''
| E. M. Kovur
|
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Thanuppu]]''
| [[Kamala Surayya]]
| [[File:Kamala das.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1969
| ''Mothiram''
| [[Karur Neelakanta Pillai]]
|
|-
| 1970
| ''Presidentinte Adyathe Maranam''
| [[N. P. Mohammed]]
|
|-
| 1971
| ''Jalam''
| [[K. P. Nirmal Kumar]]
|
|-
| 1972
| ''Payasam''
| [[Tatapuram Sukumaran]]
| [[File:TATAPURAM SUKUMARAN.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1973
| ''Muni''
| [[Pattathuvila Karunakaran]]
|
|-
| 1974
| ''Sakshi''
| [[T. Padmanabhan]]
| [[File:T Padmanabhan.JPG|80px]]
|-
| 1975
| ''Malamukalile Abdullah''
| [[Punathil Kunjabdulla]]
| [[File:Punathil W.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1976
| ''Marichittillathavarude Smarakam''
| [[M. Sukumaran]]
|
|-
| 1977
| ''Sakunam''
| [[Kovilan]]
| [[File:Kovilan.jpeg|80px]]
|-
| 1978
| ''Pediswapnangal''
| [[Sethu (writer)|Sethu]]
| [[File:Malayalam writer Sethu.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1979
| ''Oridathu''
| [[Paul Zacharia|Zacharia]]
| [[File:Paul zakariaDSC 0108.resized.JPG|80px]]
|-
| 1980
| ''Aswathamavinte Chiri''
| [[Kakkanadan]]
| [[File:Kakkanadan.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1981
| ''Veedum Thadavum''
| [[Anand (writer)|Anand]]
| [[File:Anand p sachidanandan-2.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1982
| ''Neeruravakalkku Oru Geetham''
| [[G. N. Panicker]]
|
|-
| 1983
| ''Vasthuhara''
| [[C. V. Sreeraman]]
|
|-
| 1984
| ''Thrikkottur Peruma''
| [[U. A. Khader]]
| [[File:U a khader.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1985
| ''Hridayavathiyaya Penkutty''
| [[M. Mukundan]]
| [[File:M mukundan.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1986
| ''Swargam Thurakkunna Samayam''
| [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]
| [[File:Mt vasudevan nayar.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1987
| ''Puzha''
| [[Vettoor Raman Nair|Vettur Raman Nair]]
|
|-
| 1988
| ''Dinosurinte Kutty''
| [[E. Harikumar]]
|
|-
| 1989
| ''Noolpalam Kadakkunnavar''
| [[Vaisakhan]]
| [[File:Vaishakhan.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1990
| ''Bhoomiputhrante Vazhi''
| [[S. V. Venugopan Nair]]
|
|-
| 1991
| ''Kulambocha''
| Jayanarayanan
|
|-
| 1992
| ''Veeduvittu Pokunnu''
| [[Ashtamoorthi K. V.|Ashtamoorthi]]
| [[File:Ashtamoorthy_(1).jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1993
| ''Manjilapakshi''
| [[Maanasi]]
|
|-
| 1994
| ''Samantharangal''
| Shatrughnan
| [[File:Sathrughnan.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1995
| ''Higuita''
| [[N. S. Madhavan]]
| [[File:N S madhavan.JPG|80px]]
|-
| 1996
| ''Rathrimozhi''
| [[N. Prabhakaran]]
| [[File:N Prabhakaran-image.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1997
| ''Aswasathinte Manthra Charadu''
| [[Mundoor Krishnankutty]]
|
|-
| 1998
| ''Oru Rathrikkoru Pakal''
| [[Asokan Charuvil]]
| [[File:Asokancharuvil-2.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1999
| ''Reindeer''
| [[Chandramathi]]
|
|-
| 2000
| ''Randu Swapna Darshikal''
| [[Gracy (writer)|Gracy]]
|
|-
| 2001
| ''Khadikarangal Nilaykkunna Samayam''
| [[Subhash Chandran]]
| [[File:Novelist Subhash Chandran from Kerala, India.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 2002
| ''Karkkidakathile kakkakal''
| K. A. Sebastian
|
|-
| 2003
| ''Jalasandhi''
| [[P. Surendran]]
| [[File:P surendran.JPG|80px]]
|-
| 2004
| ''Jagarooka''
| [[Priya A. S.]]
| [[File:Priya A S.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 2005
| ''Thaapam''
| [[T. N. Prakash]]
| [[File:T.N. Prakash.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 2006
| ''Chavukali''
| [[E. Santhosh Kumar]]
| [[File:E. Santhoshkumar.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 2007
| ''Selected Stories''
| [[Shihabuddin Poythumkadavu]]
| [[File:Shihabuddin_Poithumkadavu.jpg|80px]]
|
|-
| 2008
| ''Komaala''
| [[Santhosh Echikkanam]]
| [[File:സന്തോഷ് ഏച്ചിക്കാനം.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 2009
| ''Ave Maria''
| [[K. R. Meera]]
| [[File:KR_Meera_KLF-2016.JPG|80px]]
|-
| 2010<ref name=2010award>{{cite web |title=2010 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards |author= |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Award-Announcement-%2710.pdf |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date= |accessdate=14 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110125033131/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Award-Announcement-%2710.pdf |archive-date=25 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| ''Parasya Sareeram''
| [[E. P. Sreekumar]]
|
|-
| [[2011 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2011]]<ref name=2011award>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/sahitya-akademi-awards-announced/article3715418.ece | title=Sahitya Akademi awards announced | newspaper=The Hindu | date=2 August 2012 | access-date=7 August 2019 }}</ref>
| ''Policukarante Penmakkal''
| [[U. K. Kumaran]]
| [[File:Uk kumaran.jpg|80px]]
|-
| [[2012 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2012]]<ref name=2012award>[http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/story.php?id=137916 "Jayachandran Nair and Santhosh Kumar get Sahithya academy award "] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715223147/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/story.php?id=137916 |date=2013-07-15 }}. ''Mathrubhumi''. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2014.</ref>
| ''Peramaram''
| [[Satheesh Babu Payyannur]]
|
|-
| [[2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2013]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Sahitya-Akademi-award-for-Meeras-Aarachar/articleshow/45583043.cms|title=Sahitya Akademi award for Meera's 'Aarachar'|newspaper=The Times of India|date=20 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014}}</ref>
| ''Marichavar Cinema Kanukayanu''
| Thomas Joseph
|
|-
| [[2014 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2014]]<ref>{{cite press release |author= |title=2014 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202014_new.pdf |location=[[Trichur]] |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date=29 February 2016 |access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref>
| ''Bhavanabhedanam''
| [[V. R. Sudheesh]]
| [[File:Vr sudheesh.jpg|80px]]
|-
| [[2015 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2015]]<ref>{{cite press release |author= |title=2015 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/08-08-2016/Award2015.pdf |location=[[Trichur]] |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date=28 March 2017 |access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref>
| ''Ashithayude Kathakal''
| [[Ashitha (writer)|Ashitha]]
|
|-
| [[2016 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2016]]<ref>{{cite press release |author= |title=2016 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/07-01-2018/Award_2016_new.pdf |location=[[Trichur]] |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date=21 February 2018 |access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref>
| ''Adam''
| [[S. Hareesh]]
| [[File:S. Hareesh Writer.jpg|80px]]
|-
| [[2017 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2017]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-sahitya-akademi-awards-announced/article26073815.ece |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards announced |date=24 January 2019 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref>
| ''Ithara Characharangalude Charitrapusthakam''
| [[Aymanam John]]
|
|-
| [[2018 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2018]]<ref>[https://english.mathrubhumi.com/books/books-news/kerala-sahitya-akademi-awards-k-v-mohan-kumar-s-ushnarashi-best-novel-1.4378500 "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards: K. V. Mohan Kumar's 'Ushnarashi' best novel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221050858/https://english.mathrubhumi.com/books/books-news/kerala-sahitya-akademi-awards-k-v-mohan-kumar-s-ushnarashi-best-novel-1.4378500 |date=21 December 2019 }}. ''Mathrubhumi''. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2022.</ref>
| ''Mananchira''
| [[K. Rekha]]
| [[File:K_Rekha_at_Kollam3.resized.JPG|80px]]
|-
|[[2019 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2019]]<ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/kerala-sahitya-akademi-fellowships-for-p-valsala-nvp-unithiri/article33843100.ece "Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships for P. Valsala, N.V.P. Unithiri"]. ''The Hindu''. 15 February 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2022.</ref>
|''Ramachi''
|[[Vinoy Thomas]]
|[[File:Vinoy_Thomas_at_Pedayangode_(2).jpg|80px]]
|-
|[[2020 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2020]]<ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/akademi-fellowship-for-sethu-perumbadavam/article35960287.ece "Akademi fellowship for Sethu, Perumbadavam"]. ''The Hindu''. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2022.</ref>
|''Vaank''
|[[Unni R.]]
|[[File:Unni_r.jpg|80px]]
|-
|[[2021 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2021]]<ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/state-sahitya-akademi-fellowships-for-vaisakhan-kp-sankaran/article65689827.ece "State Sahitya Akademi fellowships for Vaisakhan, K.P. Sankaran"]. ''[[The Hindu]]''. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.</ref>
|''Vazhi Kandupidikkunnavar''
|[[V. M. Devadas]]
| [[File:Devadas_V.M_Malayalam_Novelist_from_Kerala.jpg|80px]]
|-
|[[2022 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2022]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/kerala-sahitya-akademi-awards-announced-v-shinilal-s-sambarkkakranthi-wins-best-novel-1.8688660 |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards announced, V Shinilal's 'Sambarkkakranthi' best novel |newspaper=Mathrubhumi |date=30 June 2023 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref>
|''Muzhakkam''
|[[P. F. Mathews]]
| [[File:Mathews at EeMaYau premiere.jpg|80px]]
|-
|[[2023 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2023]]<ref name="2023 Award">{{Cite news |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships announced |language= |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2024/Jul/26/kerala-sahitya-akademi-fellowships-announced |newspaper=[[The New Indian Express]] |date=26 July 2024 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref>
|''Udaya Sports and Arts Club''
|N. Rajan
|
|-
| [[2024 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2024]]<ref name="2024 Award">{{Cite news |title=K.V. Ramakrishnan, Ezhacheri Ramachandran selected for Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kv-ramakrishnan-ezhacheri-ramachandran-selected-for-kerala-sahitya-akademi-fellowships/article69740893.ece |access-date=23 November 2025 |newspaper=The Hindu |date=26 June 2025}}</ref>
| ''Garisappa Aruvi Adhava Oru Jalayatra''
| [[V. Shinilal]]
|
|}

==References==
<references />
{{Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award}}
{{Malayalam Literature |state=collapsed}}

[[Category:Awards established in 1966]]
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Fazilatun Nessa Indira

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{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Fazilatun Nessa Indira
|native_name = ফজিলাতুন নেসা
|native_name_lang = bn
|image = Fazilatun Nessa Indira speech Installation of CCTV Cameras in Public Transport event in Mirpur Dhaka 2022-10-16 (PID-0020639) (cropped).jpg
|caption = Indira in 2022
|office = [[Ministry of Women and Children Affairs|Minister of State for Women and Children Affairs]]
|primeminister = [[Sheikh Hasina]]
|term_start = 13 July 2019
|term_end = 10 January 2024
|predecessor = [[Meher Afroz Chumki]]
|successor = [[Simeen Hussain Rimi]]

|office1 = Member of Bangladesh Parliament

|constituency1 = Reserved women's seat-23
|term_start1 = 28 February 2024
|term_end1 = 6 August 2024
|predecessor1 = [[Ratna Ahmed]]

|constituency2 = Reserved women's seat-22
|term_start2 = 29 January 2014
|term_end2 = 29 January 2024
|predecessor2 = [[Mahfuza Rahman Rina]]
|successor2 = [[Masuda Siddique Roji]]

|constituency3 = Reserved Women's Seat-46
|term_start3 = 9 December 2011
|term_end3 = 24 January 2014
|predecessor3 = ''Position created''
|successor3 = [[Merina Rahman]]

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1 Jan 1956|df=y}}
|party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]
|nationality = Bangladeshi
}}

'''Fazilatun Nessa Indira''' (born 1 January 1956)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.gov.bd/member-profile/012032301/fazilatun-nesa|title=Member profile|publisher=Bangladesh Government|accessdate=2024-10-15}}</ref> is a [[Bangladesh Awami League]] politician and a former [[Ministry of Women and Children Affairs|State Minister of Women and Children Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/government-affairs/2019/07/11/cabinet-reshuffle-2-new-ministers-to-take-oath|title=Imran to become minister, Indira state minister|date=2019-07-11|website=Dhaka Tribune|access-date=2019-07-13}}</ref> She was selected as a member of parliament from the reserved seats for women consecutively in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th parliamentary elections.<ref name=banga>{{Cite web|url=https://en.banglainsider.com/politics/6050/Bangabandhu-named-her|title=Bangabandhu named her|website=en.banglainsider.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-13|archive-date=2019-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713014556/https://en.banglainsider.com/politics/6050/Bangabandhu-named-her|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-12-09 |title=EC declares five AL candidates elected |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-213354 |access-date=2024-12-08 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Indira was elected as the general secretary of Mohila Awami League through council election of 2003. She was elected as the women affairs secretary of [[Bangladesh Awami League]] in the triennial council in October 2016.<ref name=banga/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/1433/al-names-22-more-secretaries-of-central-committee|title=AL names 22 more secretaries of central committee|website=New Age|language=en|date=25 October 2016|access-date=2024-07-10}}</ref>

==References==
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World Scrabble Championship 2007

2025-11-01T23:20:39Z

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{World-Scrabble-Championship | year=2007 | date-from=9 November 2007| date-to=12 November 2007| location=[[Mumbai]], [[India]] | winner=[[Nigel Richards (Scrabble)|Nigel Richards]] | number-of-players=104 | sponsor=Mattel | previous=2005 | next=2009}}

The '''World Scrabble Championship 2007''' was held in the Taj President Hotel, [[Mumbai]], [[India]] between 9 November and 12 November. The winner was [[Nigel Richards (Scrabble)|Nigel Richards]] of [[New Zealand]].<ref name=wsc2007>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wscgames.com/2007/prizes.html|title = 2007 WSC Prizes}}</ref>

The tournament began with a 24-round [[Swiss tournament]], whose top two players contested a best-of-five final.

==Results==
The preliminary stage involved 104 players, the largest number of players in WSC history, over 24 rounds, using the "[[Swiss draw#Scrabble|Chew Pairing]]" system to select the draw for each round.

Nigel Richards beat [[Ganesh Asirvatham]] of [[Malaysia]] 3–0 in the final. This was the first time either of them had reached the final. Ganesh was the number 1 rated player in the world at the time, and Nigel the form player had always been knocking on the door in majors and was a multiple winner of the [[Brand's Crossword Game King's Cup]] including 2007.

Nigel won the first game 412–316.<ref name=game1>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wscgames.com/cgi-bin/showgcg.cgi?id=/2007/f1;turn=0|title = Untitled Document}}</ref> He [[bingo (Scrabble)|bingoed]] [[wikt:varsity|VARSITy]]; Ganesh bingoed [[wikt:seringa|sERINGA]]. Nigel's [http://www.wscgames.com/cgi-bin/showgcg.cgi?id=/2007/f1;turn=1 opening play] was [[wikt:gavot|GAVOT]] with the '''V''' on the centre star. During the game Ganesh [http://www.wscgames.com/cgi-bin/showgcg.cgi?id=/2007/f1;turn=10 missed the bingo] [[wikt:outcrawl|OUTCRAWL]].

Nigel won the second game 400–371.<ref name=game2>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wscgames.com/cgi-bin/showgcg.cgi?id=/2007/f2;turn=0|title = Untitled Document}}</ref> Ganesh took an early lead with [[wikt:aether|AETHERS]] but had to exchange tiles twice, and although he caught up again with ANTIENTS and a late-game bingo [[wikt:duplied|DUPLiED]], and Nigel only bingoed once with [[wikt:odonate|ODONAtE]], Nigel won on the strength of the value he got out of the J, Q and X with [[wikt:jerbil|JERBIL]], [[wikt:quohog|QUOHOG]] and FAX.

Nigel wins the third game 499–470<ref name=game3>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wscgames.com/cgi-bin/showgcg.cgi?id=/2007/f3;turn=0|title = Untitled Document}}</ref> and becomes New Zealand's first world champion. This game was a bingo-fest with Nigel's [[wikt:recopy|RECOPIES]], [[wikt:equinias|EQuINIAS]] and OVERAPT to Ganesh's [[wikt:treck|TRECKING]], [[wikt:adnation|ADNATION]], DIrTIEST and a [[Scrabble#Scoring|triple-triple]] [[wikt:tailleur|TAILLEUR]]. However, once again, Nigel's luck with drawing the high scoring letters saw him have the edge in a fitting finale.

==Complete results==
{| class="wikitable"
!Position
!Name
!Country
!Win–loss
!Spread
!Prize ([[United States dollar|USD]])<ref name=wsc2007 />
|-
!1
|Richards, Nigel||New Zealand||19–5||align="right"|+1594||align="right"|15,000
|-
!2
|Asirvatham, Ganesh||Malaysia||18–6||align="right"|+2501||align="right"|6,000
|-
!3
|Jighere, Wellington||Nigeria||18–6||align="right"|+1635||align="right"|3,000
|-
!4
|Wapnick, Joel||Canada||17–7||align="right"|+1075||align="right"|2,000
|-
!5
|Bhandarkar, Akshay||United Arab Emirates||16–8||align="right"|+1056||align="right"|1,000
|-
!6
|Litunya, Patrick||Kenya||16–8||align="right"|+845||align="right"|900
|-
!7
|Wee, Ming Hui Hubert||Singapore||16–8||align="right"|+824||align="right"|800
|-
!8
|Adamson, Tim||United States||16–8||align="right"|-363||align="right"|700
|-
!9
|Umujose, Emmanuel||Nigeria||15–9||align="right"|+983||align="right"|600
|-
!10
|Oyekunle, Lanre||South Africa||15–9||align="right"|+907||align="right"|500
|-
!11
|[[David Eldar]]||World Youth Champion||15–9||align="right"|+578||
|-
!12
|Ong, Suanne||Malaysia||15–9||align="right"|+503||
|-
!13
|Okulicz, Edward||Australia||15–9||align="right"|+263||
|-
!14
|Sukhumrattanaporn, Charnwit||Thailand||15–9||align="right"|-103||
|-
!15
|[[Helen Gipson]]||England||14½–9½||align="right"|+376||
|-
!16
|Fisher, Andrew||Australia||14–10||align="right"|+1154||
|-
!17
|Boys, David||Canada||14–10||align="right"|+682||
|-
!18
|Panyasophonlert, Komol||Thailand||14–10||align="right"|+542||
|-
!19
|Williams, Gareth||Wales||14–10||align="right"|+419||
|-
!20
|Sulaiman, Mohammad||Pakistan||14–10||align="right"|+414||
|-
!21
|Thevenot, Geoff||United States||14–10||align="right"|+407||
|-
!22
|Warner, Howard||New Zealand||14–10||align="right"|+365||
|-
!23
|Webb, David||England||14–10||align="right"|+266||
|-
!24
|Kramer, Jim||United States||14–10||align="right"|+198||
|-
!25
|[[Adam Logan]]||World Champion||14–10||align="right"|+140||
|-
!26
|Brousson, Theresa||Malta||14–10||align="right"|-124||
|-
!27
|Rio, Odette Carmina||Philippines||13½–10½||align="right"|+506||
|-
!28
|O'Laughlin, John||United States||13–11||align="right"|+1050||
|-
!29
|Kantimathi, Sam||United States||13–11||align="right"|+850||
|-
!30
|Gongolo, Michael||Kenya||13–11||align="right"|+516||
|-
!31
|Fernando, Naween Tharanga||Australia||13–11||align="right"|+371||
|-
!32
|Benedict, Nathan||United States||13–11||align="right"|+333||
|-
!33
|Cheah, Siu Hean||Singapore||13–11||align="right"|+322||
|-
!34
|Hovelmeier, Trevor Mark||South Africa||13–11||align="right"|+272||
|-
!35
|Chakrabarti, Amit||United States||13–11||align="right"|+207||
|-
!36
|Tamas, Adrian||Romania||13–11||align="right"|+96||
|-
!37
|Hoekstra, Ron||Canada||13–11||align="right"|+76||
|-
!38
|Carter, Gerald||Thailand||13–11||align="right"|+75||
|-
!39
|Robertshaw, Phil||England||13–11||align="right"|+5||
|-
!40
|Simmons, Allan||Scotland||13–11||align="right"|-4||
|-
!41
|Lobo, Ralph||Oman||13–11||align="right"|-80||
|-
!42
|Allan, Paul||Scotland||13–11||align="right"|-363||
|-
!43
|Appleby, Phil||England||13–11||align="right"|-538||
|-
!44
|Katz-Brown, Jason||United States||12–12||align="right"|+692||
|-
!45
|Dennis, Di||England||12–12||align="right"|+534||
|-
!46
|Kirk, Terry||England||12–12||align="right"|+251||
|-
!47
|Saldanha, Dean||Canada||12–12||align="right"|+248||
|-
!48
|Hingorani, Varisht||India||12–12||align="right"|+214||
|-
!49
|Baker, Michael||United States||12–12||align="right"|+167||
|-
!50
|Sujjayakorn, Panupol||Thailand||12–12||align="right"|+165||
|-
!51
|Philpotts, Adam||England||12–12||align="right"|+164||
|-
!52
|Berofsky, Evan||Canada||12–12||align="right"|+158||
|-
!53
|Schellenberg, Mark||Canada||12–12||align="right"|+100||
|-
!54
|Martin, Edward||England||12–12||align="right"|-91||
|-
!55
|Lamabadusuriya, Harshan||England||12–12||align="right"|-148||
|-
!56
|Saengsit, Weera||Thailand||12–12||align="right"|-177||
|-
!57
|May, Christopher||Australia||12–12||align="right"|-214||
|-
!58
|Iqbal, Wajid||Pakistan||12–12||align="right"|-285||
|-
!59
|Martus, Teodoro||Philippines||12–12||align="right"|-337||
|-
!60
|Ali, Mohammed Zafar||Bahrain||12–12||align="right"|-580||
|-
!61
|Pratt, Daniel||United States||11½–12½||align="right"|+69||
|-
!62
|Manase, Joshua Otieno||Kenya||11–13||align="right"|+507||
|-
!63
|Grant, Jeff||New Zealand||11–13||align="right"|+348||
|-
!64
|Gabriel, Marty||United States||11–13||align="right"|+211||
|-
!65
|Kelly, Wayne||England||11–13||align="right"|-66||
|-
!66
|Ikekeregor, Dennis||Nigeria||11–13||align="right"|-149||
|-
!67
|Linn, Robert||United States||11–13||align="right"|-258||
|-
!68
|Kenas, Mark||United States||11–13||align="right"|-315||
|-
!69
|Credo, Ronald||Philippines||11–13||align="right"|-319||
|-
!70
|Chow, Jie Ming Benjamin||Singapore||11–13||align="right"|-346||
|-
!71
|Jackman, Bob||Australia||11–13||align="right"|-356||
|-
!72
|Polatnick, Steve||United States||11–13||align="right"|-452||
|-
!73
|Matsuda, Manabu||Japan||11–13||align="right"|-975||
|-
!74
|Buddhdev, Anand||Netherlands||11–13||align="right"|-1035||
|-
!75
|MacNeil, Rod||United States||11–13||align="right"|-1090||
|-
!76
|Wachira, Francis||Kenya||10½–13½||align="right"|-417||
|-
!77
|Charles, Leslie||Barbados||10–14||align="right"|+102||
|-
!78
|Rodrigues, Sherwin||India||10–14||align="right"|+11||
|-
!79
|Anthonius, Ferdy||Indonesia||10–14||align="right"|-260||
|-
!80
|Chunkath, Mohan Verghese||India||10–14||align="right"|-270||
|-
!81
|Wanniarachchi, Lakshan||Sri Lanka||10–14||align="right"|-286||
|-
!82
|Delicata, David||Malta||10–14||align="right"|-306||
|-
!83
|Butler, Lynne||New Zealand||10–14||align="right"|-322||
|-
!84
|Delia, Jojo||Malta||10–14||align="right"|-406||
|-
!85
|Kalumba, Paul Yandisha||Zambia||10–14||align="right"|-443||
|-
!86
|Hemachandra, Sanath||Oman||10–14||align="right"|-576||
|-
!87
|O'Neill, Shane||Wales||10–14||align="right"|-950||
|-
!88
|Chakravarthy, Ranganathan||India||9–15||align="right"|-8||
|-
!89
|Leah, Tony||Canada||9–15||align="right"|-376||
|-
!90
|Craig, Joanne||New Zealand||9–15||align="right"|-445||
|-
!91
|Amarasinghe, Asanka||Sri Lanka||9–15||align="right"|-468||
|-
!92
|Amarasinghe, Indunil||Sri Lanka||9–15||align="right"|-531||
|-
!93
|Ajayi, Olajide Ademola||Ireland||9–15||align="right"|-533||
|-
!94
|Bohbot, Herve||France||9–15||align="right"|-542||
|-
!95
|Esmail, Mushtak||Tanzania||9–15||align="right"|-551||
|-
!96
|Jegels, Llewellin||Germany, Federal Republic of||9–15||align="right"|-686||
|-
!97
|Collins, Frederick||Guyana||9–15||align="right"|-786||
|-
!98
|Usakiewicz, Wojciech||Poland||8–16||align="right"|-844||
|-
!99
|Reshamwala, Shakir||Kuwait||8–16||align="right"|-883||
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!100
|Ntege, Chris||Uganda||8–16||align="right"|-984||
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!101
|Kuroda, Kunihiko||Japan||8–16||align="right"|-1003||
|-
!102
|Modeste, Anthony||Trinidad and Tobago||8–16||align="right"|-1011||
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!103
|Nässén, Greger||Sweden||6½–17½||align="right"|-2347||
|-
!104
|Alban, Loreta||Qatar||5½–18½||align="right"|-1345||
|}

*'''FINALS''':
*Game 1: Nigel 412 – Ganesh 316
*Game 2: Nigel 400 – Ganesh 371
*Game 3: Nigel 499 – Ganesh 470

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.wscgames.com/2007/ Official site]

{{WSC}}

[[Category:World Scrabble Championships|2007]]
[[Category:2007 in Indian sport]]
[[Category:2000s in Mumbai]]

53rd Kerala State Film Awards

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{{Short description|State awards for Malayalam films of 2022}}
{{More citations needed|date=October 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox award
| name = 53rd Kerala State Film Awards
| image =
| caption =
| alt =
| awarded_for = Best works in Malayalam cinema in a select year
| presenter = [[Kerala State Chalachitra Academy]]
| host =
| date = {{Start date|df=yes|2023|07|21}}
| location = [[Thiruvananthapuram]]
| country = India
| reward =
| year = 1969
| most_wins = ''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]'' (7)
| website = {{URL|keralafilm.com}}
| previous = [[52nd Kerala State Film Awards|2022 (52nd)]]
| main = [[Kerala State Film Awards]]
| next = [[54th Kerala State Film Awards|2024 (54th)]]
}}

The '''53rd Kerala State Film Awards''', presented by the [[Kerala State Chalachitra Academy]], was announced by [[Saji Cherian]], [[Department of Cultural Affairs (Kerala)|Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala]] on 21 July 2023.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/movies/movie-news/2023/07/21/kerala-state-film-awards-2022-winners-list.html|title=‘ന്നാ താൻ കേസ് കൊട്’ ജനപ്രിയചിത്രം, ഷാഹി കബീർ മികച്ച സംവിധായകൻ: ചലച്ചിത്ര അവാർഡ് പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുന്നു - Kerala Film Awards | date=21 July 2023 |access-date=21 July 2023 |work=Manorma Online News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/malayalam/53rd-kerala-state-film-awards-nanpakal-nerathu-mayakkam-best-film-mammootty-vincy-aloshious-mahesh-narayanan-8851060|title=53rd Kerala State Film Awards: Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam named Best Film; Mammootty, Vincy Aloshious, Mahesh Narayanan bag top honours |date=21 July 2023 |access-date=21 July 2023 |work=Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-21 |title=സംസ്ഥാന ചലച്ചിത്ര പുരസ്‌കാരം; മികച്ച നടൻ മമ്മൂട്ടി, നടി വിൻസി അലോഷ്യസ്‌ |url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/news/kerala-state-film-awards-best-actress-actor-cinema-director-2022-2023-1.8749311 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Mathrubhumi |language=en}}</ref>

==Writing category==
===Jury===
{| style="border: 1px solid #BEB168;background-color:#FDFCF6;"
|-
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EFD0;" |{{•}} K. C. Narayanan (chairman)
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} [[K. Rekha]]
| {{•}} M. A. Dileep
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} C. Ajoy
|}

===Awards===
All award recipients receive a cash prize, certificate and statuette.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Name of award
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Title of work
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Awardee(s)
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Cash prize
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|Best Book on Cinema]]
|''Cinemayude Bhavanadeshangal''
|[[C. S. Venkiteswaran]]
|align="right"|₹30,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Article on Cinema|Best Article on Cinema]]
|''Punasthapanam Enna Mahendrajalam''
|Sabu Pravadas
|align="right"|₹20,000
|}

===Special Mention===
All recipients receive a certificate and statuette.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Name of award
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Title
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Awardee(s)
|-
! scope="row"|Book on Cinema
|No award
|No award
|-
! scope="row"|Article on Cinema
|No award
|No award
|}

==Film category==
===Jury===
{| style="border: 1px solid #BEB168;background-color:#FDFCF6;"
|+Final jury
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EFD0;" |{{•}} [[Gautam Ghose]] (chairman)
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} Nemam Pushparaj
| {{•}} [[K. M. Madhusudhanan]]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} Hari Nair
| {{•}} D. Yuvaraj
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} [[Gautami]]
| {{•}} Jency Gregory
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} C. Ajoy
|}

{| style="border: 1px solid #BEB168;background-color:#FDFCF6;"
|+Second jury
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EFD0;" |{{•}} [[K. M. Madhusudhanan]] (chairman)
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} [[B. Rakesh]]
| {{•}} Sajas Rahman
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} Vinod Sukumaran
| {{•}} C. Ajoy
|}

{| style="border: 1px solid #BEB168;background-color:#FDFCF6;"
|+First jury
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EFD0;" |{{•}} Nemam Pushparaj (chairman)
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} V. J. James
| {{•}} K. M. Sheeba
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| {{•}} Roy P. Thomas
| {{•}} C. Ajoy
|}

===Awards===
All award recipients receive a cash prize, certificate and statuette.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Name of award
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Title of film
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Awardee(s)
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;" |Cash prize
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
|rowspan="2"| ''[[Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam]]''
|Director: [[Lijo Jose Pellissery]]
|align="right"|₹200,000
|-
|Producer: [[S. George|George Sebastian]]
|align="right"|₹200,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film|Second Best Film]]
|rowspan="2"| ''[[Adithattu]]''
|Director: [[Jijo Antony]]
|align="right"|₹150,000
|-
|Producer: Godjo J.
|align="right"|₹150,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|''[[Ariyippu]]''
|[[Mahesh Narayanan]]
| align="right"|₹200,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|''[[Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam]]''
|[[Mammootty]]
| align="right"|₹100,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
|''[[Rekha (2023 film)|Rekha]]''
|[[Vincy Aloshious]]
|align="right"|₹100,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Character Actor|Best Character Actor]]
|''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]''
|P. P. Kunhikrishnan
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Character Actress|Best Character Actress]]
|''[[Saudi Vellakka]]''
|Devi Varma
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"|[[Kerala State Film Award – Special Jury Award|Special Jury Award]]
|''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]''
| [[Kunchacko Boban]] ({{small|awarded for acting}})
|align="right"| ₹25,000
|-
|''[[Appan (film)|Appan]]''
| [[Alencier Ley Lopez]] ({{small|awarded for acting}})
|align="right"| ₹25,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist|Best Child Artist]]
| ''Pallotty 90s Kids''
| [[Davinchi Santhosh]] ({{small|Male category}})
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
| ''[[Vazhakku]]''
| Thanmaya Sol A. ({{small|Female category}})
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row" |[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Story|Best Story]]
| ''[[Pada (film)|Pada]]''
| Kamal K. M.
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| ''[[Ela Veezha Poonchira]]''
| [[Manesh Madhavan]]
|align="right"| ₹25,000
|-
| ''[[Vazhakku]]''
| [[Chandru Selvaraj]]
|align="right"| ₹25,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay (Original)]]
| ''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]''
| [[Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval]]
|align="right"| ₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay (Adaptation)]]
| ''[[Oru Thekkan Thallu Case]]''
| Rajesh Kumar R.
|align="right"| ₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyrics|Best Lyrics]]
| ''Viddikalude Mash'' ({{small|"Thiramalayanu Njan"}})
|[[Rafeeq Ahammed]]
|align="right"| ₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director – Songs|Best Music Director (songs)]]
| ''[[Pathonpatham Noottandu]]'' ({{small|"Mazhilpeeli Ilakunnu" and "Karumban Inningu"}}) ''[[Ayisha (film)|Ayisha]]'' ({{small|All songs}})
|[[M. Jayachandran]]
|align="right"| ₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director – Score|Best Music Director (score)]]
|''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]''
|[[Dawn Vincent]]
|align="right"| ₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer|Best Male Singer]]
|''Pallotty 90s Kids'' ({{small|"Kanave Mizhiyil Unare"}})
| [[Kapil Kapilan]]
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer|Best Female Singer]]
|''[[Pathonpatham Noottandu]]'' ({{small|"Mayipeeli Ilakunnu Kanna"}})
|[[Mridula Warrier]]
|align="right"| ₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Editor|Best Editor]]
| ''[[Thallumaala]]''
| Nishadh Yusuf
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Art Director|Best Art Director]]
| ''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]''
| Jyothish Shankar
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Sync Sound|Best Sync Sound]]
| ''[[Ariyippu]]''
| Vaishak P. V.
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Sound Mixing|Best Sound Mixing]]
| ''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]''
| Vipin Nair
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Sound Design|Best Sound Design]]
|''[[Ela Veezha Poonchira]]''
|[[Ajayan Adat]]
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Processing Lab / Colourist|Best Processing Lab / Colourist]]
|''[[Ela Veezha Poonchira]]''
|After Studios / Robert Lang
|align="right"|₹25,000
|-
|''[[Vazhakku]]''
|iGene - DI and VFX / R. Rangarajan
|align="right"|₹25,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Makeup Artist|Best Makeup Artist]]
| ''[[Bheeshma Parvam]]''
| Ronnex Xavier
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Costume Designer|Best Costume Designer]]
| ''[[Saudi Vellakka]]''
| Manjusha Radhakrishnan
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Dubbing Artist|Best Dubbing Artist]]
|''[[Pathonpatham Noottandu]]'' ({{small|Character: Padaveedan Thampy}})
| [[Shobi Thilakan]] ({{small|Male category}})
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
|''[[Saudi Vellakka]]'' ({{small|Character: Ayisha Rowther}})
|[[Pauly Valsan]] ({{small|Female category}})
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Choreography|Best Choreography]]
| ''[[Thallumaala]]''
| [[Shobi (choreographer)|Shobi Paul Raj]]
|align="right"|₹50,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Film with Popular Appeal and Aesthetic Value|Best Film with Popular Appeal and Aesthetic Value]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Nna Thaan Case Kodu]]''
|Director: [[Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval]]
|align="right"|₹100,000
|-
|Producer: Santhosh T. Kuruvilla
|align="right"|₹100,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Debut Director|Best Debut Director]]
|''[[Ela Veezha Poonchira]]''
|Shahi Kabir
|align="right"|₹100,000
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Children's Film|Best Children's Film]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Pallotty 90's Kids]]''
|Director: [[Jithin Raj (film director)|Jithin Raj]]
|align="right"|₹100,000
|-
|Producer: [[Sajid Yahiya]]
|align="right"|₹150,000
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
| ''[[Vazhakku]]''
| Anish D. Sumesh Gopal<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-08-16 |title=Digibricks VFX Studio triumphs with Kerala Film State Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in 'Vazhakku' |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/digibricks-vfx-studio-triumphs-with-kerala-film-state-award-for-outstanding-visual-effects-in-vazhakku/articleshow/102761360.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>
|align="right"| ₹50,000
|}

===Special Mention===
All recipients receive a certificate and statuette.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Name of award
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Title of film
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Awardee(s)
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" class="unsortable" |Awarded for
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award – Special Mention|Special Mention]]
|''Ilavarambu''
| Biswajith S.
| Direction
|-
! scope="row"|[[Kerala State Film Award – Special Mention|Special Mention]]
|''Vettapattikalum Ottakkarum''
| Rarish G. Kurup
| Direction
|}

===Special Award in Any Category for Women/Transgender===
All recipients receive a cash prize, certificate, and statuette.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Name of award
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Title of film
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Awardee(s)
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Awarded for
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0" |Cash prize
|-
! scope="row" |Special Award in Any Category for Women/Transgender
|''[[B 32 Muthal 44 Vare]]''
|Shruthi Sharanyam
|Direction
|align="right"|₹50,000
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*https://www.keralafilm.com

{{Kerala State Film Awards}}

[[Category:Kerala State Film Awards]]

H.E.H. the Nizam's Charitable Trust

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{{Short description|Non-profit organization}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2020}}

'''H.E.H. The Nizam’s Charitable Trust''' is a non-profit organization. It is currently headed by [[Prince Muffakham Jah]] - the grandson of 7th [[Nizam]] [[Mir Osman Ali Khan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grotal.com/Hyderabad/Nizam-Charitable-Trust-C70/ |title=Nizam Charitable Trust in Hyderabad |publisher=Grotal.com |date= |accessdate=2022-08-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=5 July 2017|title=Nizam's heir goes by Blue Book, wants market rate for acquired land|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/nizams-heir-goes-by-blue-book-wants-market-rate-for-acquired-land/articleshow/59449745.cms|access-date=3 July 2018|publisher=timesofindia}}</ref> The trust grants scholarships to around 2,000 students every year. The beneficiaries include students belonging to the states of Andhra Pradesh and [[Telangana]] from 5th to 10th class, intermediate level, and degree students.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiacom.com/hyderabad/h-e-h-the-nizams-charitable-trust_hyderabad_hyd_11625.html|title=H e H the Nizam's Charitable Trust in Masab Tank, Hyderabad - 500028 | Charity Trusts / Voluntary and Welfare Organization|access-date=28 May 2018|archive-date=12 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912092134/https://www.indiacom.com/hyderabad/h-e-h-the-nizams-charitable-trust_hyderabad_hyd_11625.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Noted beneficiaries==
===Sarojini Naidu===
The Nightingale of India [[Sarojini Naidu]] was one of the beneficiaries of this trust, which gave her a chance to study in England, first at [[King's College London|King's College, London]] and later at [[Girton College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/nizams-kin-pulls-out-firmans-showing-last-rulers-generosity/articleshow/67416257.cms|title=Nizam's kin pulls out 'firmans' showing last ruler's generosity | Hyderabad News - Times of India|website=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Akbar / |first1=Syed |title=Nizam's kin pulls out 'firmans' showing last ruler's generosity |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/nizams-kin-pulls-out-firmans-showing-last-rulers-generosity/articleshow/67416257.cms |access-date=1 March 2021 |work=The Times of India |agency=TNN |language=en}}</ref>

== Controversy ==
The officials of the Trust alleged that the government officials constantly harassed them by sending baseless notices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.taxpublishers.in/Ency_DT/DT_Judg_Show?131I0497%3Fa0 |title=CIT v. Trustees of H.E.H. The Nizam S Charitable Trust |access-date=23 March 2022 |archive-date=12 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912130922/http://www.taxpublishers.in/Ency_DT/DT_Judg_Show?131I0497%3Fa0 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In one of the cases, a [[Supreme Court of India]] Judge said:

''"This is indeed a Secular Comprehensive Public Charitable Trust which, unfortunately, had a prolonged litigation directing towards bigger scope for corruption by the Government ministers and officials."''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/1152970/?formInput=nizam%27s%20charitable%20trust | title=Advocate-General, Andhra ... vs V. Ramana Rao on 24 December, 1965 | publisher=indiakanoon.com | access-date=15 February 2020 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Nizam's Rubath]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Charities based in India]]
[[Category:Establishments in Hyderabad State]]

Northeast India–Myanmar pine forests

2025-10-06T20:41:49Z

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{{Short description|Ecoregion in Myanmar and India}}
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| name = Northeast India–Myanmar pine forests
| image = Terrace cultivation, Pfutsero, Nagaland (6328134243).jpg
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| image_caption = Terrace cultivation in [[Pfütsero]], [[Nagaland]]
| biogeographic_realm = [[Indomalayan realm|Indomalayan]]
| biome = [[tropical and subtropical coniferous forests]]
| map = Ecoregion IM0303.png
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| map_caption = Ecoregion territory (in purple)
| border = [[Mizoram–Manipur–Kachin rain forests]]
| border1 = [[Chin Hills–Arakan Yoma montane forests]]
| border2 = [[Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests]]
| country = [[India]]
| country1 = [[Myanmar]]
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| state = [[Nagaland]]
| state1 = [[Mizoram]]
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The '''Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests''' is a montane [[subtropical coniferous forest]] [[ecoregion]] in the mountains of [[Northeastern India]] and adjacent portions of [[Myanmar]] (also known as Burma).

==Setting==
The ecoregion covers an area of {{convert|9700|km2}} of the [[Naga Hills]] that with the [[Patkai]] (including the [[Lushai Hills]]) and the [[Manipur]] Hills form part of the [[Burmese-Java arc]] of folded mountains that run south-east of the [[Himalayas]] and make up the India-Myanmar border region. The pine forests are found between {{convert|1500|-|2500|m}} in elevation, and occur in three separate enclaves. The largest enclave straddles the boundary between India's [[Nagaland]] state and Myanmar, and the two smaller enclaves grows in the southern part of India's [[Mizoram]] state, also along the Myanmar border. The pine forests are surrounded at lower elevations by the predominantly broadleaf [[Mizoram–Manipur–Kachin rain forests]] and are part of the huge [[Burma Monsoon Forest]] transition zone between the [[South Asia]] and [[Indochina]] regions.<ref>{{WWF ecoregion|id=im0303|name=Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests}}</ref>

==Flora==
The [[pine]] forests forms a habitat that is rare in the [[Indomalayan realm]]. [[Tenasserim pine]] ''(Pinus latteri)'' is the dominant [[species]] at lower elevations, sometimes associated with [[dipterocarp]]s. At higher elevations, [[Khasi pine]] ''(P. kesiya)'' and [[blue pine]] ''(P. wallichiana)'' are the predominant species, associated with other evergreens including [[Tsuga|hemlocks]] ''(Tsuga)'' and [[fir]]s ''(Abies)'', and broadleaf trees, including [[oak]]s ''(Quercus)'' and [[maple]]s ''(Acer)'', while ''[[Rhododendron]]'', ''[[Ilex]]'', ''[[Prunus]]'', and [[bamboo]] ''([[Arundinaria]])'' are common [[understory]] [[shrub]]s.

==Fauna==
Although home to a smaller variety of wildlife than the surrounding [[rainforest]] these pine forests are relatively unspoilt and therefore still important habitat for a number of species adapted to the rocky heights. When the area was surveyed by the [[Wildlife Conservation Society]] in the 1950s mammals of the pine forest included [[Red serow]] ''(Capricornis rubidus)'', [[Sambar (deer)|sambar]] ''(rusa unicolor)'', [[Indian muntjac]] ''(Muntiacus muntjac)'', [[wild boar]] ''(Sus scrofa)'', and [[Asian black bear]] ''(ursus thibetanus)'' while smaller mammals include [[Oriental giant squirrel]]s, [[Indian giant flying squirrel]] and [[civet]]s. None of these mammals are endemic to this ecoregion.

Birds reported in the survey include the [[silver-breasted broadbill]] ''(Serilophus lunatus)'', [[white-naped yuhina]] ''(Yuhina bakeri)'', [[rufous-vented tit]] ''(Periparus rubidiventris)'', [[stripe-throated yuhina]] ''(Yuhina gularis)'', a number of [[Old World babbler]]s, [[grey-sided laughingthrush]] ''(Garrulax caerulatus)'', [[rufous-chinned laughingthrush]] ''(Garrulax rufogularis)'', [[striated laughingthrush]] ''(Garrulax striatus)'', purple and green [[cochoa]]s, [[beautiful nuthatch]] ''(Sitta formosa)'', [[sultan tit]] ''(Melanochlora sultana)'', some [[leafbird]]s and [[white-browed fulvetta]] ''(fulvetta vinipectus)'' while large numbers of [[shelduck]] and [[bar-headed goose]] were seen on the [[Chindwin River]]. Two more species of laughingthrush are thought to be endemic to these mountains: [[brown-capped laughingthrush]] ''(Garrulax austeni)'' and [[striped laughingthrush]] ''(Garrulax virgatus)''.

==Threats and preservation==
[[File:Clearings for Jhum cultivation, Nagaland.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Clearing land for cultivation, Nagaland]]
These mountains have been poorly researched since the 1950s, when it was noted that patches were being systematically cleared for farming and this [[shifting cultivation]] continues today resulting in [[soil erosion]] and loss of habitat for wildlife.

==See also==
*[[List of ecoregions in India]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
*Wikramanayake, Eric; Eric Dinerstein; Colby Loucks; et al. (2002). ''Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment''. Island Press; Washington, D.C. (U.S.)

== External links ==
* {{commons-inline}}

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[[Category:Ecoregions of India]]
[[Category:Ecoregions of Myanmar]]
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[[Category:Forests of Myanmar]]
[[Category:Montane forests]]
[[Category:Indomalayan ecoregions]]
[[Category:Flora of Myanmar|*]]
[[Category:Flora of Northeast India|*]]

Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India

2025-09-03T05:44:59Z

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{{Short description|Extended Indian reservation for Anglo-Indians}}
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| long_title = An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.
| citation = [http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend95.pdf 95th Amendment]
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| date_passed = 3 August 2009
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| date_passed2 = 4 August 2009
| date_assented = 18 January 2010
| date_commenced = 25 January 2010
| date_of_expiry = 26 January 2020
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| bill = The Constitution (One Hundred and Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2009
| bill_citation = [http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/109%20amendment/109th%20%20Amendment.pdf Bill No. XX of 2009]
| bill_date = 30 July 2009
| introduced_by = [[Veerappa Moily|M. Veerappa Moily]]
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| summary = Extended the period of reservation of seats for the [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]] and [[Anglo-Indians]] in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies till 2020
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The '''Ninety-fifth Amendment''' of the [[Constitution of India]], officially known as '''The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009''', extended the period of reservation of seats for the [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]] and representation of the [[Anglo-Indians]] in the [[Lok Sabha]] and the State Legislative Assemblies for another ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 2020.

Article 334 of the Constitution had originally required the reservation of elected seats to cease in 1960, but this was extended to 1970 by the [[Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India|8th Amendment]]. The period of reservation was extended to 1980, 1990,<ref>{{cite book|title=Equality Justice and Reverse Discrimination|publisher=Mittal Publications|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ud6XQOz4bhwC&pg=PA450|author=C.L. Anand|accessdate=26 November 2013}}</ref> 2000 and 2010 by the [[Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of India|23rd]], [[Forty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India|45th]], [[Sixty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India|62nd]] and [[Seventy-ninth Amendment of the Constitution of India|79th]] Amendments respectively. The 95th Amendment extended the period of reservation to 2020. The period of reservation was further extended to 2030 by the [[One Hundred and Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India|104th]] Amendment.

==Text==
{{blockquote|
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:---

'''1. ''Short title and commencement''''' (1) This Act may be called the Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009.
:(2) It shall come into force on the 25th day of January, 2010.

'''2. ''Amendment of article 334''''' In article 334 of the Constitution, for the words "sixty years", the words "seventy years" shall be substituted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend95.pdf |title=Ninety-fifth Amendment}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
}}

The full text of Article 334 of the Constitution, after the 95th Amendment, is given below:
{{blockquote|
'''368. ''Reservation of seats and special representation to cease after ten years.'''''
Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Part [Part XVI], the provisions of this Constitution relating to—
:'''(a)''' the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People and in the Legislative Assemblies of the States; and
:'''(b)''' the representation of the [[Anglo Indian]] community in the House of the People and in the Legislative Assemblies of the States by nomination,
:shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of <s>sixty years</s> ''seventy years'' from the commencement of this Constitution: Provided that nothing in this article shall affect any representation in the House of the People or in the legislative Assembly of a State until the dissolution of the then existing House or Assembly, as the case may be.<ref name="Constitution1949">{{cite web|title=The Constitution of India (1949)|url=http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/E.pdf|work=Lok Sabha Secretariat|accessdate=30 November 2013|page=1091|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013102/http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/E.pdf|archivedate=3 December 2013}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
}}

==Proposal and enactment==
The bill of ''The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009'' was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 30 July 2009 as the ''Constitution (One Hundred and Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2009'' (Bill No. XX of 2009). It was introduced by [[M. Veerappa Moily]], then [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Minister of Law and Justice]], and sought to amend article 334 of the Constitution relating to reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and special representation of the Anglo-Indian community in the House of the People and in the Legislative Assemblies of the States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-31/india/28212116_1_st-quota-constitutional-amendment-bill-109th-amendment |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203062848/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-31/india/28212116_1_st-quota-constitutional-amendment-bill-109th-amendment |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-12-03 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=India News, Latest Sports, Bollywood, World, Business & Politics News |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Article 334 of the Constitution lays down that the provisions of the Constitution relating to the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the representation of the Anglo-Indian community by nomination in the House of the People and the Legislative Assemblies of the States shall cease to have effect on the expiration of the period of sixty years from the commencement of the Constitution. In other words, these provisions will cease to have effect on the 25th January 2010, if not extended further.

2.Although the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes have made considerable progress in the last sixty years, the reasons which weighed with the Constituent Assembly in making provisions with regard to the aforesaid reservation of seats and nomination of members, have not ceased to exist. It is, therefore, proposed to continue the reservation for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the representation of Anglo-Indians by nomination for a further period of ten years.

3. The Bill seeks to achieve the above object.
|M. Veerappa Moily|{{cite web|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/SOR95.pdf |title=The Constitution (One Hundred and Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2009}} {{PD-notice}}
}}
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The bill was debated and passed by Rajya Sabha on 3 August. It was then debated by the Lok Sabha on 4 August 2009, and passed on the same date.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/CA_95-98.pdf | title=The constitution (ninety-fifth amendment) act, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013146/http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/CA_95-98.pdf | archive-date=3 December 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prsindia.org/billtrack/the-constitution-one-hundred-and-ninth-amendment-bill-2009-738/ |title=PRS | Bill Track | The Constitution (109th Amendment) Bill, 2009|publisher=Prsindia.org |date= 28 October 2016|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=663866 |title=Bill to Extend Reservation of Seats for SCS/STS Passed |access-date=28 November 2013 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013700/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=663866 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200908041711.htm |title=The Hindu News Update Service |website=www.hindu.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203050432/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200908041711.htm |archive-date=3 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-08-04/india/28175447_1_st-quota-state-assemblies-lok-sabha-and-state |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203053700/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-08-04/india/28175447_1_st-quota-state-assemblies-lok-sabha-and-state |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-12-03 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=India News, Latest Sports, Bollywood, World, Business & Politics News |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> The bill, after ratification by the States, received assent from then President on 18 January 2010, and was notified in ''[[The Gazette of India]]'' on 19 January 2010. The 95th Amendment came into effect on 25 January 2010.<ref>{{Cite web| title=The constitution (ninety-fifth amendment), An Act further to amend the Constitution of India | url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend95.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130230833/http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend95.pdf | archive-date=2012-01-30}}</ref>

The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 364 of the Constitution, and was formalized by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that formalized the amendment are listed below:
{{Expand list|date=November 2013}}
*[[Assam]] (5 September 2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=sep0609/at01 |title=The Assam Tribune Online |website=www.assamtribune.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033730/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=sep0609/at01 |archive-date=2013-12-03}} </ref>
*[[Mizoram]] (19 October 2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mizoram/Mizo-house-ratifies-109th-Constitution-amendment/Article1-467173.aspx |title=Mizo house ratifies 109th Constitution amendment- Hindustan Times |website=www.hindustantimes.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024033934/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mizoram/Mizo-house-ratifies-109th-Constitution-amendment/Article1-467173.aspx |archive-date=24 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|agency= Press Trust of India |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-mizo-house-ratifies-109th-constitution-amendment-1300838 |title=Mizo house ratifies 109th Constitution amendment |work=Daily News and Analysis|date=2009-10-20 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>
*[[Bihar]] (21 December 2009)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bihar-assembly-ratifies-109th-amendment-bill/557331/ |title=Bihar Assembly ratifies 109th Amendment Bill |work=The Indian Express|date=2009-12-21 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>
*[[Manipur]] (14 January 2010)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=3..150110.jan10 |title=House okays : 15th jan10 ~ E-Pao! Headlines |publisher=E-pao.net |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of amendments of the Constitution of India]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Amendments of the Constitution of India|095]]
[[Category:2009 in Indian law]]

St. Mary's Forane Church, Bharananganam

2025-09-02T02:04:22Z

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{{Infobox church
| name = St. Mary's Forane Church, Bharananganam
| image = Bharananganam.jpg
| caption = St. Mary's Forane Church, Bharananganam
| location = [[Bharananganam]], [[Kottayam district]], [[Kerala]]
| country = [[India]]
| pushpin map = India Kerala
| coordinates = {{coord|9|42|00|N|76|43|40|E|display=inline,title}}
| denomination = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]]
| tradition =
| website =
| architectural type = Modern
| style =
| parish =
| membership =
| dedication = [[Saint Mary]]
| archdiocese = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Palai|Palai]]
| founded date = {{Start date and age|1004}}<ref name="Outlook">{{cite news |title=Pala: Sacred Heart of Kottayam |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/traveller/ot-getaway-guides/pala_sacred_heart_of_kottayam |publisher=Outlook India}}</ref>
| diocese =
| district = Kottayam
|archbishop = [[Raphael Thattil]]
| vicar = Fr. Attappatt Zacharias
| asstpriest = Fr. Vazhayil Thomas, Fr. Vaakkethakkidiyel Kuriakose
}}

'''St. Mary's Forane Church, Bharananganam''' (established in 1004 A.D.) is a [[Syro-Malabar Church|Syro-Malabar Catholic church]] located in [[Kottayam district]] of [[Kerala]], [[India]]. Located in a small town named Anakkallu in [[Bharananganam]], the church is also known as '''Bharananganam Church''' or '''Anakkallu church'''. It is one of the oldest church and Christian pilgrim centre in Kottayam district.

The tomb of [[Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception|Saint Alphonsa]] is in this church.<ref name="New Indian Express">{{cite news |title=Over 100,000 take part in function for Saint Alphonsa |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2008/Nov/09/over-100000-take-part-in-function-for-saint-alphonsa-5502.html |publisher=[[The New Indian Express]]}}</ref> The podium where [[Pope John Paul II]] addressed the audience in 1986, was also removed and preserved as a monument in the church.

==Etymology==
When they prepared to build a church in Bharanganam, there was a big dispute among the locals about where to build it. When it was not possible to find a solution to this, a decision was made that a stone can be placed in the elephant's trunk and a church can be built wherever the elephant places the stone.<ref name="Elizabath">{{cite web |last1=Joseph |first1=Elizabath |title=അൽഫോൻസാമ്മയുടെ സ്മരണകളുറങ്ങുന്ന ഭരണങ്ങാനം |url=https://malayalam.nativeplanet.com/travel-guide/let-us-pilgrimage-the-tomb-st-alphonsa-bharananganam/articlecontent-pf32536-002962.html}}</ref> It is believed that the place where the elephant laid the stone was later known as Anakkallu (combination of two Malayalam words "Ana" (meaning elephant) and "kallu" (meaning stone)) and the church built there was known as Anakkallu Palli.<ref name="Elizabath"/>

==Parishes under this Forane==
Amparanirappel St. John's Church (established 21 August 1917), Choondachery St. Joseph's Church (established 24 July 1994), Edappady St. Joseph's Church (established 1886), Idamattom St. Michael's Church (established 15 July 1865), Kizhaparayar St. Gregorios Church (established 17 November 1926), Mallikassery St. Thomas Church (established 1954), Paika St. Joseph's Church (established 1901), Plassanal St. Mary's Church (established 16 July 1848), Poovathodu St. Thomas Church (established 1887) and Vilakkumadom St. Fransis Xavier Church (established 1849) are the parishes under this Forane.<ref name="CHURCH">{{cite web |title=ST. MARY'S FORANE CHURCH |url=https://www.palaidiocese.com/church-profile/3}}</ref>

==St. Alphonsa Church, Bharanganam==
A cemetery chapel of St. Mary's Church was started in 1945.<ref name="Government">{{cite web |title=പ്രധാനപ്പെട്ട തീര്‍ത്ഥാടന കേന്ദ്രങ്ങള്‍ |url=https://kottayam.nic.in/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F-%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%BE/ |publisher=[[Government of Kerala]]}}</ref> The tomb of Saint Alphonsa was in that cemetery chapel. On 12 October 2008, after Alphonsama was beatified, a church was built there and was named St. Alphonsa Church.<ref name="Government"/> Thousands of devotees come and participate in this feast associated with the anniversary of Saint Alphonsa's death, on July 28 every year in the church.<ref name="Government"/>

Almost 40 years after Alphonsa's death, on February 8, 1986, Pope John Paul II beatified Alphonsa and [[Kuriakose Elias Chavara]] on the same day at Nehru stadium in [[Kottayam]].<ref name="ManoramaOnline">{{cite news |title=Papal visit to India in the offing! Cardinals hold talks with PM Modi|url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2021/01/20/pope-francis-likely-to-visit-india.html |publisher=[[Malayala Manorama]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-11-09 |title=Over 100,000 take part in function for Saint Alphonsa |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2008/Nov/09/over-100000-take-part-in-function-for-saint-alphonsa-5502.html |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> The podium where Pope John Paul addressed the audience and conducted the Mass in February 1986, was also removed and preserved as a monument in the church, in front of the tomb of Saint Alphonsa.<ref name="ManoramaOnline"/> The Alphonsa Museum, which houses hundreds of exhibits related to the life of Saint Alphonsa, is also located in the chapel compound.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tomb of St. Alphonsa Bharananganam |url=https://kcbc.co.in/KCBC/Pilgrims/12 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=kcbc.co.in}}</ref>

==Honors==
The Indian Postal Department issues a special pictorial cancellation stamp to post offices connected to popular tourist destinations and pilgrimages in India. Bharananganam Church is one of the third Christian churches in Kerala to receive this honor ([[Malayattoor Saint Thomas Church|Malayattoor Church]] and [[St. Joseph's Parish Shrine, Pavaratty|Pavaratty Church]] are the other two churches).<ref name="MM">{{cite web |title=pavaratty st joseph church {{!}} വിശ്വാസികളുടെ നേർച്ചപ്പണം ധൂർത്തടിക്കില്ല; രണ്ട് കോടിയോളം രൂപ നിരാലംബർക്കും അശരണർക്കും നൽകും; പള്ളിപ്പെരുന്നാളിന് ധൂർത്തും ആർഭാടവും ഉണ്ടാകില്ല; പൂരമാതൃകയിൽ കോടികൾ ഒഴുക്കുന്ന മത്സരത്തിനും തെക്കും ഭാഗവും വടക്കും ഭാഗവും ഇത്തവണ ഇല്ല; പാവറട്ടി സെന്റ് ജോസഫ് ദേവാലയം മാതൃകയാവുന്നത് ഇങ്ങനെ - MarunadanMalayalee.com |url=https://www.marunadanmalayalee.com/news/special-report/pavaratty-st-joseph-church-105915 |website=www.marunadanmalayalee.com |date=9 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209053557/https://www.marunadanmalayalee.com/news/special-report/pavaratty-st-joseph-church-105915 |archive-date=9 December 2020 }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Churches in Kottayam district]]
[[Category:Ancient churches of the Saint Thomas Christians (pre-1606)]]

2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

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[[File:Secretary Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Esper Host the India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue (49239817267).jpg|thumb|From left to right: [[Rajnath Singh]], [[S. Jaishankar|Subrahmanyam Jaishankar]], [[Mike Pompeo]], and [[Mark Esper]] during the second 2+2 summit on December 18, 2019]]
The '''2+2 Ministerial Dialogue''' is a diplomatic summit that has been held every year since 2018 initially between the [[Minister of External Affairs (India)|Minister of External Affairs]] or Foreign Minister, and [[Minister of Defence (India)|Defence Minister]] of [[India]] with the [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] and [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] of the [[United States]] to discuss and work on common issues of concern to improve and strengthen [[India–United States relations]].

In 2019, the summit involved the respective Foreign and Defence ministers between both India and [[Japan]]. In 2021, the summit was expanded to meetings with the Foreign and Defence ministers of [[Australia]] and [[Russia]].

==History==
The dialogue came to existence from an agreement between [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]] and [[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]]. The dialogue was created to replace the [[Strategic and Commercial Dialogue]] which started under the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]]. Both nations agreed to the summit during Modi's visit to the United States in June 2017 which was officially announced the following month in August after a phone call between Modi and Trump.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-india-us-would-have-discussed-in-22-dialogue-5243151/|title=What India, US would have discussed in '2+2' dialogue|work=The Indian Express|date=July 3, 2018|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

The first summit was supposed to be held on July 6, 2018, in [[Washington, D.C.]], but had been postponed by India's Defence Minister, [[Nirmala Sitharaman]], citing "unavoidable reasons".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/after-22-delay-india-declines-us-offer-to-host-nirmala-sitharaman-5239482/|title=After 2+2 delay, India declines US offer to host Nirmala Sitharaman|work=The Indian Express|date=June 30, 2018|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> This was the third time the dialogue was postponed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/online-articles/us-india-22-dialogue|title=The U.S.-India 2+2 Dialogue|work=Journal of International Affairs|date=September 3, 2018|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

===2018===
The first summit was held on September 6 between the Minister of External Affairs, [[Sushma Swaraj]], Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]], and Secretary of Defense [[Jim Mattis]] in [[New Delhi]]. The meeting between both sides reaffirmed the U.S.'s designation of India as a "Major Defense Partner". India was granted license-free exports, re-exports, and transfers under the License Exception Strategic Trade Authorization. India and the U.S. signed a Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement which facilitates interoperability between militaries and sale of high-end technology. The summit resulted in both sides beginning negotiations for the Industrial Security Annex which would allow U.S. defense firms to sell military equipment to Indian partners.

Among other things that were agreed upon was continuing to deepen cooperation in counterterrorism, [[Afghan peace process|facilitate peace]] in [[Afghanistan]], increase further economic cooperation, and the establishment of six nuclear power plans in India between [[Nuclear Power Corporation of India]] and [[Westinghouse Electric Company]]. Representatives from both countries agreed to turn the meeting into an annual affair.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://in.usembassy.gov/joint-statement-on-the-inaugural-u-s-india-22-ministerial-dialogue/|title=Joint Statement on the Inaugural U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue|work=U.S. Embassy in India|date=September 7, 2018|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

===2019===
[[File:Secretary Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Esper Host the India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue (49239817617).jpg|thumb|Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper meeting with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on December 18, 2019, for the second 2+2 summit]]

The second summit was held on December 18 in Washington, D.C., between Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defense [[Mark Esper]], Minister of External Affairs, [[S. Jaishankar]], and Minister of Defense [[Rajnath Singh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://in.usembassy.gov/2019-u-s-india-22-ministerial-dialogue/|title=2019 U.S. – India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue|work=U.S. Embassy in India|date=December 13, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> The meeting revolved most of the areas of concern from the previous year. The ministers and secretaries welcomed the [[Quadrilateral Security Dialogue]] that was held between India, the United States, Australia, and [[Japan]] in September.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/32227/Joint+Statement+on+the+Second+IndiaUS+2432+Ministerial+Dialogue|title=Joint Statement on the Second India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue|work=Ministry of External Affairs|date=December 19, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

The meeting resulted in both countries signing the Industrial Security Annex which allowed one-hundred and fourteen fighter jets to be sold to India. Both sides were still negotiating the final details of signing the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation agreement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/defence-ties-with-us-set-to-deepen-rajnath-singh/article61605050.ece|title=Industrial Security Annex opens Indian private partnerships for U.S. defence firms|work=The Hindu|date=December 19, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

===2020===
[[File:India-USA 2+2 Dialogue, in New Delhi on October 27, 2020.jpg|thumb|From left to right: Mark Esper, Mike Pompeo, Rajnath Singh, and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during the third 2+2 summit on October 27, 2020]]

The third summit was held on October 27 in New Delhi where both sides announced the signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation and with the United States vowing to support India's "territorial sovereignty and liberty" which was a response to the [[2020–2022 China–India skirmishes|May skirmishes]] between India and [[China]]'s armed forces at the disputed region of their border known as the [[Line of Actual Control]]. Secretary Pompeo described the [[Chinese Communist Party]] as "no friend to democracy". Both sides also discussed combating the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-us-22-dialogue-rajnath-singh-raises-chinas-action-in-ladakh/article61713564.ece|title=India-U.S. 2+2 dialogue - U.S. to support India's defence of territory|work=The Hindu|date=October 27, 2020|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

===2021===
In November, it was announced that the fourth meeting between India and the U.S. would be held in November and have the possibility of both Narendra Modi and President [[Joe Biden]] meeting in Washington, but no date was set for the summit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-us-will-hold-2-2-talks-in-november-101630779444158.html|title=India, US will hold 2+2 talks in November|work=Hindustan Times|date=September 5, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> In October, officials from both countries had discussed regional issues during the sixteenth US-India Defence Policy Group meeting that was said to lay the groundwork for the next 2+2 dialogue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-us-discuss-indo-pacific-regional-issues-ahead-of-2-2-dialogue-2569998|title=India, US Discuss Indo-Pacific, Regional Issues Ahead Of 2+2 Dialogue|work=NDTV|date=October 9, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

On December 16, the Minister of External Affairs spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi, announced that a 2+2 was unlikely to be held in 2021 as details including a date had yet to be finalized.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theprint.in/diplomacy/india-us-22-dialogue-unlikely-this-year-details-being-worked-out-mea-says/782824/|title=India-US 2+2 dialogue unlikely this year, details being worked out, MEA says|work=The Print|date=December 16, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> However, no 2+2 summit was held in 2021.

===2022===
In March, it was announced that India and the U.S. would hold the 2+2 meeting in Washington, D.C., on April 11 between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Secretary of State [[Antony Blinken]], and Secretary of Defense [[Lloyd Austin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-us-to-hold-22-dialogue-on-april-11/articleshow/90526180.cms|title=India, US to hold 2+2 dialogue on April 11|work=The Economic Times|date=March 29, 2022|access-date=April 9, 2022}}</ref> Singh was expected to be in the U.S. from April 10 to 13.<ref name="Japan 2022"/> The summit was held in Washington on April 11, with both sides looking forward to India hosting the next summit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/fourth-annual-u-s-india-22-ministerial-dialogue/|title= Fourth Annual U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue |work=United States Department of State|date=April 11, 2022|access-date=December 31, 2022}}</ref>

After the summit, Antony Blinken remarked during the press conference that the U.S. was monitoring the rise in abuses of human rights in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/india/us-monitoring-rise-rights-abuses-india-blinken-says-2022-04-11/|title=U.S. monitoring rise in rights abuses in India, Blinken says|work=Reuters|date=April 11, 2022|access-date=December 31, 2022}}</ref> Three days later on the thirteenth, Jaishankar rebuked that India had concerns about human rights in the U.S. citing hate crimes against members of the Indian community in New York. But mainly attributed the attacks on human rights in India under the premiership of Narendra Modi to "lobbies and the vote banks which drive that."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wionews.com/india-news/jaishankar-reacts-to-blinkens-rise-in-human-rights-abuses-in-india-remarks-shows-concerns-over-cases-in-us-470876|title='We look at US human rights too': Jaishankar refers to recent attacks on Indian community|work=WION|date=April 14, 2022|access-date=December 31, 2022}}</ref>

===India and Japan===
On November 30, 2019, India and Japan held their first 2+2 meeting in New Delhi between [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister]] [[Toshimitsu Motegi]], [[Minister of Defense (Japan)|Defense Minister]] [[Taro Kono]], Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, and Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/32131/Joint+Statement++First+IndiaJapan+2432+Foreign+and+Defence+Ministerial+Meeting|title=Joint Statement - First India-Japan 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting|work=Ministry of External Affairs|date=November 30, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

The meeting was seen as a deepening of relations between India and Japan in light of their mutual tension with [[China]] and concern with China's assertiveness in expanding not only its influence but also control in regional issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/column/india-japan-22-dialogue-an-eyesore-for-china/20191203.htm|title=India-Japan 2+2 dialogue: An eyesore for China|work=Rediff|date=December 3, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

In April 2022, it was announced that India and Japan would hold their second 2+2 meeting in Tokyo in mid-April with Singh and S. Jaishankar meeting with their counterparts Defence Minister [[Nobuo Kishi]] and Foreign Minister [[Yoshimasa Hayashi]].<ref name="Japan 2022">{{cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/apr/05/india-japan-2-2-dialogue-set-to-take-place-in-mid-april-in-tokyo-2437930.html|title=India, Japan 2+2 dialogue set to take place in mid-April in Tokyo|work=The Indian Express|date=April 5, 2022|access-date=April 9, 2022}}</ref> However, no meeting was held in Tokyo as instead the meeting was changed to take place in September.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-japan-22-dialogue-set-to-take-place-next-month-in-tokyo/articleshow/93761075.cms|title=India, Japan 2+2 dialogue set to take place next month in Tokyo|work=The Economic Times|date=August 24, 2022|access-date=December 31, 2022}}</ref> The meeting took place on September 8 in Tokyo with S. Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh meeting with Prime Minister [[Fumio Kishida]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thediplomat.com/2022/09/india-and-japan-hold-22-ministerial-dialogue/|title=India and Japan Hold 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue|work=The Diplomat|date=September 8, 2022|access-date=December 31, 2022}}</ref>

===India and Australia===
From September 10 to 12, 2021, India and Australia, held their first 2+2 summit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-australia-to-hold-22-ministerial-dialogue-on-sept-10-12-7499746/|title=India, Australia to hold '2+2 ministerial dialogue' on Sept 10-12|work=The Indian Express|date=September 9, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

India was represented by the Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, and Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh. Australia was represented by [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] [[Marise Payne]] and [[Minister for Defence (Australia)|Defense Minister]] [[Peter Dutton]]. The summit was held in New Delhi, with both countries sharing mutual interests with the United States and Japan over China's ambitions. Both sides held the forum after Narendra Modi and [[Prime Minister of Australia|Australian Prime Minister]] [[Scott Morrison]] agreed to upgrade the relations to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership after a virtual summit in June 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/australia-india-22-dialogue-converging-interests/|title=Australia-India 2+2 Dialogue: Converging Interests|work=The Diplomat|date=September 16, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

Both sides agreed to further expand cooperation by holding the summit once every two years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/34250/Joint_Statement_on_Inaugural_IndiaAustralia_22_Ministerial_Dialogue_11_September_2021_New_Delhi|title=Joint Statement on Inaugural India-Australia 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue (11 September 2021, New Delhi)|work=Ministry of External Affairs|date=September 11, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

===India and Russia===
[[File:Putin with Modi.jpg|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Narendra Modi for the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit in New Delhi on December 6, 2021]]

On November 26, 2021, it was announced India and Russia would hold a 2+2 summit on December 6 with [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs]] [[Sergey Lavrov]] and [[Minister of Defence (Russia)|Defence Minister]] [[Sergei Shoigu]] with their respective Indian counterparts S. Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh. The meeting included the possibility of [[President of Russia|Russian President]] [[Vladimir Putin]] visiting India meeting with Narendra Modi during the summit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-russia-inaugural-22-dialogue-on-december-6-russian-embassy/articleshow/87931489.cms|title=India, Russia inaugural '2+2' dialogue on December 6: Russian embassy|work=The Economic Times|date=November 26, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> The agreement for such a summit was made in agreement during a phone call on April 28 between Putin and Modi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm?dtl/34541/Inaugural+22+Dialogue+of+the+Foreign+and+Defence+Ministers+of+India+and+the+Russian+Federation|title=Inaugural 2+2 Dialogue of the Foreign and Defence Ministers of India and the Russian Federation|work=Ministry of External Affairs|date=November 26, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> Lavrov described the summit by stating, "I'm confident that the new mechanism is going to turn into an efficient dialogue platform to talk about a wide range of regional and international topics a little further deepening our traditional, mutual understanding. It'll help reinforce our specially privileged strategic partnership between our countries".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/2-2-dialogue-will-turn-into-efficient-platform-russian-fm-lavrov-121120600615_1.html|title=2+2 dialogue will turn into efficient platform: Russian FM Lavrov|work=Business Standard|date=December 6, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

Putin arrived in India for the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit in New Delhi on December 6, which was being held along with the 2+2 summit. An agreement was reached by both sides with India producing more than six hundred thousand [[Kalashnikov rifle]]s and a military and technical cooperation pact was agreed upon lasting until 2031 which included a pledge to boost annual trade to thirty billion dollars by 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/putin-modi-discuss-trade-humanitarian-situation-afghanistan-2021-12-06/|title=India, Russia strike trade, arms deals during Putin visit|work=Reuters|date=December 6, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref>

===India and United Kingdom===
The inaugural India-UK 2+2 Foreign and Defence Dialogue was held in New Delhi on 16 October 2023. The Indian delegation was co-chaired by [[Piyush Srivastava]], Joint Secretary Europe West, and [[Vishwesh Negi]], Joint Secretary, International Cooperation. The UK delegation was co-chaired by [[Ben Mellor]], India Director, Indian Ocean Directorate and [[Robert Magowan]], Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Finance and Military Capability.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm?dtl/37191/Inaugural+IndiaUK+22+Foreign+and+Defence+Dialogue|title=Inaugural India-UK 2+2 Foreign and Defence Dialogue|work=Ministry of External Affairs|date=October 16, 2023|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|India|Australia|Russia|United Kingdom|United States|Politics}}
* [[Foreign relations of India]]
* [[Foreign relations of Australia]]
* [[Foreign relations of Japan]]
* [[Foreign relations of Russia]]
* [[Foreign relations of the United Kingdom]]
* [[Foreign relations of the United States]]
* [[India–United States relations]]
* [[India–Japan relations]]
* [[India–Russia relations]]
* [[India–United Kingdom relations]]
* [[Australia–India relations]]
* [[C5+1]]
* [[Quadrilateral Security Dialogue]]

==References==
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{{Foreign relations of India}}
{{Foreign relations of Australia}}
{{Foreign relations of Japan}}
{{Foreign relations of Russia}}
{{Foreign relations of the United Kingdom}}
{{Foreign relations of the United States}}
{{India–United States relations}}

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Favvara Chowk

2025-05-14T14:09:36Z

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'''''Favvara Chowk''''' ({{Translation|Fountain Square}}) is an Indian television [[comedy]] series. Produced by H3 Entertainment, premiered on 5 December 2022 on [[Dangal TV]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/exclusive-bharti-singh-and-haarsh-limbachiyaa-to-make-their-fiction-debut-with-favvara-chowk/articleshow/95681955.cms | title=Exclusive! Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa to make their fiction debut with Favvara Chowk - Times of India | website=[[The Times of India]] | last1=Maheshwri | first1=Neha }}</ref> It stars [[Bharti Singh]], [[Antara Biswas|Monalisa]], [[Ali Asgar (actor)|Ali Asgar]], [[Abhishek Verma (actor)|Abhishek Verma]], Surabhi Mehra, Samriddhi Mehra and [[Haarsh Limbachiyaa]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/bharti-singh-on-her-first-fiction-show-favvara-chowk-the-biggest-challenge-was-to-bring-all-the-artistes-together | title=Bharti Singh on her first fiction show Favvara Chowk, 'The biggest challenge was to bring all the artistes together' }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/tv/news/nazar-actress-monalisa-to-star-in-bharti-singh-and-haarsh-limbachiyaas-show-fawara-chowk-1202096?amp | title=Nazar actress Monalisa to star in Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa's show 'Fawara Chowk' | date=5 December 2022 | access-date=31 December 2022 | archive-date=31 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231044810/https://www.pinkvilla.com/tv/news/nazar-actress-monalisa-to-star-in-bharti-singh-and-haarsh-limbachiyaas-show-fawara-chowk-1202096?amp | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Plot ==
The series is based in Indore, revolves around Ashok who runs a Jhama Jham Cafe with his son Manoj and Rama who runs her Madhuri Beauty Parlour with her twin daughters.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/monalisa-every-comedy-show-needs-an-element-of-tadka-and-my-character-in-favvara-chowk-is-just-that/articleshow/95942743.cms | title=Monalisa: Every comedy show needs an element of tadka and my character in Favvara Chowk is just that - Times of India | website=[[The Times of India]] | last1=Maheshwri | first1=Neha }}</ref>

== Cast ==
* [[Bharti Singh]] as Favvara Devi
* [[Ali Asgar (actor)|Ali Asgar]] as Ashok
* [[Antara Biswas|Monalisa]] as Rama
* [[Abhishek Verma (actor)|Abhishek Verma]] as Manoj Indori
* Samriddhi Mehra as Riddhi
* Surabhi Mehra as Siddhi
* [[Haarsh Limbachiyaa]] as Pappi Faraar

== Production ==
The series was announced in 2022 by [[Dangal (TV channel)|Dangal TV]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mumbailive.com/en/entertainment/bharti-singh-and-haarsh-limbachiyaa-set-to-make-their-fiction-debut-76050 | title=Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa set to make their fiction debut | Bollywood News Today | date=28 November 2022 }}</ref> The promo of the series was released in November 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vst2n3XobqQ|title=कुछ नमकीन-कुछ रंगीन किस्सों के साथ आ रहा है....{{!}} Favvara Chowk {{!}} 5th Dec, {{!}} New Promo {{!}} DangalTV
|website=[[YouTube]]|date=23 November 2022
}}</ref> [[Antara Biswas|Monalisa]] and [[Ali Asgar (actor)|Ali Asgar]] were signed as the lead.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ndtv.in/television/monalisa-to-star-in-bharti-singh-and-haarsh-limbachiyaa-news-show-fawara-chowk-3580280 | title=भाभी जी के लुक में मोनालिसा ने शेयर किया फोटो, फव्वारा चौक में भारती सिंह और चिंकी- मिंकी के साथ दिखेंगी एक्ट्रेस }}</ref> The series is set in [[Indore]], shooting began in November 2022 and mainly shot at the [[Film City, Mumbai|Film City]], [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.abplive.com/entertainment/television/ali-asgar-and-monalisa-romantic-dance-video-going-viral-from-comedy-show-set-favvara-chowk-2279473 | title='थप्पड़' के बाद अब अली असगर के साथ मोनालिसा का रोमांस! बालकनी में लगाए ठुमके, देखें वीडियो | date=11 December 2022 }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of programmes broadcast by Dangal TV]]
* [[List of Hindi comedy shows]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb title}}
* [https://www.dangalplay.com/tv-shows/fawara-chowk/ENTERR10_TVSHOW_638f1d99fa04320ffb83af0c ''Favvara Chowk''] on Dangal Play
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The Great Indian Film and Literature Festival

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'''The Great Indian Film and Literature Festival''' (abbreviated as '''GIFLIF''') is a [[Film festival|film]] and [[literary festival]] in [[India]], started in 2012.<ref name="outlook"/> It is India's first film and literature festival. The festival conducts [[film screening]]s, theater presentations, [[poetry reading]], [[musical concert]]s and workshops.<ref name="toi"/> The Great Indian Film and Literature Festival is supported by the [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Department of Culture]] and [[Ministry of Tourism (India)|Department of Tourism]], and the [[Government of Madhya Pradesh]].<ref name="daily" /><ref name="businessworld" />

== History ==
The GIFLIF was founded in 2012 by Karan Kukreja and Manoj Kukreja.<ref name="toi">{{cite news |title=Great Indian Film and Literature Festival: Building a fest that's truly Indian |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/great-indian-film-and-literature-festival-building-a-fest-thats-truly-indian/articleshow/56065133.cms |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=December 19, 2016}}</ref> It was formerly known as the ''Gurgaon International Film and Literature Festival''.<ref name="gurgaon"/><ref name="bhopal">{{cite news |last1=Kohli |first1=Sharad |title=Gurgaon film & lit fest wows Bhopal |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/54697643.cms |newspaper=The Times of India |date=October 5, 2016}}</ref> The festival has three successfully running chapters in [[Gurgaon]] (2015, 2016), [[Bhopal]] (2016, 2017, 2018) and [[Raipur]] (2018).

== Editions ==

=== 1st Edition ===
The first edition of GIFLIF was held at DLF CyberHub in [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]] in December 2015. The festival showcased 1764 films from all around the world.<ref name="gurgaon">{{cite news |title='GIFLIF' kickstarts with Subhash Ghai, Sudhir Mishra in Delhi |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-giflif-kickstarts-with-subhash-ghai-sudhir-mishra-in-delhi-2152542 |work=[[Daily News and Analysis]] |date=December 6, 2015}}</ref> The following authors, film and literary personalities participated in the 1st edition:{{div col|colwidth=10em}}
* [[Subhash Ghai]]
* [[Gulzar]]
* [[Piyush Mishra]]
* [[Shabana Azmi]]
* [[Pallavi Joshi]]
* [[Avirook Sen]]
* [[Sudhir Mishra]]
{{div col end}}

=== 2nd Edition ===
The second edition of GIFLIF was held in October 2016 at Jehan Numa Palace Hotel in [[Bhopal]], [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Great Indian Film and Literature festival enthralls Bhopal |url=https://www.exchange4media.com/industry-briefing/the-great-indian-film-and-literature-festival-enthralls-bhopal_66384.html |publisher=Exchange4media.com |date=October 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=इमोटिकॉन्स और स्पेलचेक ने हमारी भाषा से शब्द खत्म कर दिए हैं : शंकर |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/bhopal/news/latest-bhopal-news-041013-2342357.html |work=[[Daily Bhaskar]] |date=July 31, 2018 |language=Hindi}}</ref> The following authors, film and literary personalities participated in the 2nd edition:<ref name="bhopal"/>{{div col}}
* [[Gulzar]]
* [[Gopaldas Neeraj]]
* [[Prakash Jha]]
* [[Sudhir Mishra]]
* [[Piyush Mishra]]
* [[Kiran Nagarkar]]
{{div col end}}

=== 3rd Edition ===
The third edition of GIFLIF was held at DLF Cyber Hub in [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]] from 2 December 2016 to 4 December 2018 to showcase the vernacular spirit of Indian film and literature.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Borgohain |first1=Ananya |title=The Great Indian Film and Literature Festival 2016 to begin from December 2 |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/agenda/trend/the-great-indian-film-and-literature-festival-2016-to-begin-from-december-2.html |work=[[Daily Pioneer]] |date=November 29, 2016}}</ref> The festival was inaugurated by [[Padma Vibhushan]] [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]] and author [[Ruskin Bond]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pati |first1=Ipsita |title=Three-day film and lit festival at DLF CyberHub |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/gurugram/three-day-film-and-lit-festival-at-dlf-cyberhub-from-december-2/story-6s9xJ0avKEXEggAM4z9K0O.html |newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]] |date=December 10, 2016}}</ref> In this three-day festival, there were a panel discussion on [[film production]], [[digital media]], [[advertising]], [[publishing]], [[literature]], [[scriptwriting]] and [[film screening]]s.<ref>{{cite news |title=द ग्रेट इंडियन फिल्म एंड लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल 2 दिसंबर से होगा शुरू |url=https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/literature/2-1626811 |publisher=[[NDTV]] |date=November 18, 2016 |language=Hindi}}</ref><ref name="toi" /> The following film and literary personalities participated in the 3rd edition:{{div col|colwidth=10em}}
* [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
* [[Subhash Ghai]]
* [[Prakash Jha]]
* [[Ruskin Bond]]
* [[Kiran Nagarkar]]
* [[Piyush Mishra]]
* [[Rajshekhar]]
* [[Rajat Kapoor]]
* [[Vinay Pathak]]
* [[Juhi Chaturvedi]]
* [[Major General]] [[G. D. Bakshi]]
* [[Anjum Rajabali]]
* Anurag Batra
* [[Anand Neelakantan]]
* [[Sharat Katariya]]
* [[Rajkumar Gupta]]
* Rahul Roushan
* [[Arunabh Kumar]]
{{div col end}}

=== 4th Edition ===
The 4th edition of GIFLIF was held at Hotel Lake View Ashok in [[Bhopal]], [[Madhya Pradesh]] from August 4, 2017 to August 6, 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barange |first1=Sushma |title=जिफलिफ में शामिल होंगे देश के प्रतिष्ठित साहित्यकार |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/bhopal/news/c-58-country-iconic-writers-will-join-giflif-bp0851-NOR.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219184134/https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/bhopal/news/c-58-country-iconic-writers-will-join-giflif-bp0851-NOR.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 19, 2018 |work=Daily Bhaskar |date=August 4, 2017 |language=Hindi}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=GIFLIF 2017: करप्शन पर अशोक चक्रधर ने ऐसे किया कटाक्ष |url=https://dbvideos.bhaskar.com/trending/ashok-chakradhar-poem-session-in-giflif-56925.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802193152/https://dbvideos.bhaskar.com/trending/ashok-chakradhar-poem-session-in-giflif-56925.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 2, 2018 |accessdate=August 1, 2018 |work=Daily Bhaskar |language=Hindi}}</ref> The following authors, film and literary personalities participated in the 4th edition:
{{div col|colwidth=10em}}
* [[Vinay Pathak]]
* [[Rajat Kapoor]]
* [[Jayprad Desai]]
* [[Ashok Chakradhar]]
* [[Rahat Indori]]
* [[Ruskin Bond]]
* [[Varun Gandhi]]
* Vijay Tiwari
* Sheela Mishra
* [[Piyush Mishra]]
* [[Javed Akhtar]]
{{div col end}}

=== 5th Edition ===
The fifth edition of GIFLIF was held in [[Raipur]], the capital of [[Chhattisgarh]]. It was inaugurated by [[Raman Singh]], the [[Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh]] on 5 January 2018.<ref name="news18">{{cite news |last1=Sahu |first1=Raghawendra |title=रायपुर में 'ग्रेट इंडियन फिल्म एंड लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल' का शुभारंभ |url=https://hindi.news18.com/videos/chhattisgarh/raipur-inauguration-of-great-indian-film-and-literature-festival-in-raipur-1222881.html |publisher=[[News 18]] |date=January 6, 2018 |language=Hindi}}</ref><ref name="outlook">{{cite news |last1=Bhoi |first1=Ravi |title=रायपुर में तीन दिन चला फिल्म एंड लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल, ये रही खास बातें |url=https://www.outlookhindi.com/art-and-culture/general/the-film-and-literature-festival-was-played-three-days-in-raipur-know-special-things-22973 |publisher=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |date=January 7, 2018 |language=Hindi}}</ref> Actor [[Piyush Mishra]]'s band ''Ballimaran'', performed his famous poems like ''Ik Bagal' and 'Aarambh Hai Prachand'.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ballimaran gets city vibing |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/raipur/ballimaran-gets-city-vibing/articleshow/62670434.cms |newspaper=The Times of India |date=January 27, 2018}}</ref>'' [[Piyush Mishra]] also recited his latest poem titled ''Tum Meri Jaan Ho Raziya Bee'', at the GIFLIF's [[Raipur]] chapter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pareek |first1=Shabdita |title=This Soul-Stirring 20 Minute Video Of Piyush Mishra Reciting His Own Poem Is Worth Every Minute |url=https://www.scoopwhoop.com/piyush-mishra-poem/#.1h34nv5mk |publisher=[[ScoopWhoop]] |date=February 2, 2018}}</ref> The ''Amir A Social Spark'', a book by Dr. Kirti Sisodia, was also released by CM [[Raman Singh]].<ref name="news18" /> The following authors, film and literary personalities participated in the 5th edition: {{div col|colwidth=10em}}
* [[Gopaldas Neeraj]]
* [[Ruskin Bond]]
* [[Raman Singh]]
* [[Saurabh Shukla]]
* Surender Sharma
* [[Ravinder Singh (author)|Ravinder Singh]]
* [[Rahat Indori]]
* [[Shakeel Azmi]]
* [[Piyush Mishra]]
* Abhishek Acharya
{{div col end}}

== Patrons ==
[[AISECT University]], Screenwriters Association, and [[Whistling Woods International]] are some of its patrons. The festival is supported by the [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Department of Culture]] and the [[Ministry of Tourism (India)|Department of Tourism]], [[Government of Madhya Pradesh]].<ref name="businessworld">{{cite news |last1=Ganguly |first1=Rupkatha |title=Young lit fest GIFLIF preps to play major league |url=http://everythingexperiential.businessworld.in/article/Young-lit-fest-GIFLIF-preps-to-play-the-major-league/07-11-2016-107846/ |work=[[BusinessWorld]] |date=November 6, 2016}}</ref><ref name="daily">{{cite news |title=चाहतें जाहिल हैं मेरी, अब भी तेरी आरज़ू करती हैं |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/bhopal/news/latest-bhopal-news-032503-2270247.html |work=Daily Bhaskar |date=July 23, 2018 |language=Hindi}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{portal |Literature|Film|India}}
* [[Literary festival]]
* [[Film festival]]
* [[List of literary festivals in India]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|www.giflif.in}}
{{Film festivals}}

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Sukhavant Singh

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sukhavant Singh
| office = Member of [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency = [[Ramgarh, Rajasthan Assembly constituency|Ramgarh]]
| predecessor = [[Zubair Khan (Indian politician)|Zubair Khan]]
| term_start = 23 November 2024
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| profession = Politician
}}
'''Sukhavant Singh''' is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He is a [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly|member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]] since 2024, representing [[Ramgarh, Rajasthan Assembly constituency|Ramgarh Assembly constituency]] as a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ramgarh Bypoll Election Result 2024 LIVE: Sukhavant Singh of BJP Wins |url=https://www.news18.com/elections/ramgarh-bypoll-election-result-2024-live-leading-winner-mla-9130420.html |website=News18 |access-date=23 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=रामगढ़ में बीजेपी की जीत, कांग्रेस का इमोशनल कार्ड फेल:आर्यन जुबेर ने काउंटिंग से पहले हॉल छोड़ा; सुखवंत बोले- सब कार्यकर्ताओं की मेहनत |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/amp/local/rajasthan/alwar/news/rajasthan-ramgarh-election-results-2024-live-update-sukhwant-singh-vs-aryan-zubair-134004936.html |website=bhaskar.com |access-date=23 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=रामगढ़ विधानसभा उपचुनाव में खिला कमल, BJP के सुखवंत सिंह ने कांग्रेस के आर्यन जुबेर को हराया |url=https://www.aajtak.in/amp/rajasthan/story/ramgarh-assembly-by-election-2024-bjp-sukhwant-singh-defeated-congress-zuber-khan-lcly-strc-2104876-2024-11-23 |website=आज तक |access-date=23 November 2024 |language=hi |date=23 November 2024}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of chief ministers of Rajasthan]]
* [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Indian Open (tennis)

2024-12-18T18:53:34Z

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{{distinguish|WTA Indian Open|Royal Indian Open|1996 India Open}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox tennis tournament
| name = Indian Open
| type = defunct
| founded = 1923
| ended = 1979
| editions =
| event name =
| city = Various
| country = India
| tour = [[Grand Prix tennis circuit|Grand Prix circuit]]
| surface = [[Clay court|Clay]], [[Grass court|Grass]], [[Hard court (tennis)|Hard]]
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The '''Indian Open''' was a men's [[tennis]] tournament founded as the '''India International Championships'''<ref>{{cite news |title=TENNIS IN INDIA: INDIA INTERNATIONAL: British Players Beaten, Local Pairs Success |work=Perth Daily News |publisher=Newspaper Archives |date=29 December 1930 |page=2}}</ref> in 1923. It was played from 1923 until 1979 and the men's event was part of the [[Grand Prix tennis circuit]], 1973 to 1979. From 1947 to 1972 it was known as the '''Indian National Championships''' (though open to international competitors). It was held in various cities across India and was played outdoor on multiple surfaces.

==History==
Tennis was introduced to India in 1880s by British Army and Civilian Officers.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://aitatennis.com/history/ |website=aitatennis |publisher=All India Tennis Association |access-date=11 January 2023 |location=New Delhi, India}}</ref> In 1923 the India International Championships<ref>Béla Kehrling, ed. (January 28, 1931). "Külföldi hírek" [International news] (PDF). Tennisz és Golf (in Hungarian). Vol. III, no. 2. Budapest, Hungary. p. 41.</ref> were established and played at the [[Calcutta South Club]], [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]].

In 1973, the Indian championships with international competitors diverged from the national championships. By the late 1970s the national championships was a minor event for indian born players. The international event was renamed as the Indian Open in 1973.

==Locations and venues==
The [[Calcutta South Club]] was founded in 1920, and also organised the Calcutta Lawn Tennis Championships.That tournament later became known as the East India Lawn Tennis Championships. Its current facilities consist of the six original [[Grass court|grass courts]], In 1985 the Club built six new [[Clay court|clay courts]], and in 2004 it added five asphalt-based rubberized [[Hardcourt|hard courts]].

After the war until the start of the open era, the ''India International Championships'' were predominantly staged in [[Calcutta]], under the tournament name the ''Indian National Championships''. The event was often held over Christmas and new year and on a few occasions two events were held in a single year in January and December (sometimes winners are described as winning in a year in which an event started in late December, other times in the year the event finished in early January). In a few years, the event was also held in other cities such as [[New Delhi]] and [[Allahabad]].

==Finals==
===Men's singles===
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|1923<ref name=":ind1923">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1923|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=24696|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Sunao Okamoto]]|| ||
|-
|1924<ref name=":ind1924">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1924|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=24697|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Sunao Okamoto]] (2)|| ||
|-
|1925<ref name=":ind1925">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1925|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=24698|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>|||Calcutta||{{flagicon|British India}} [[Syed Anwar Yusoof]]|| ||
|-
|1926<ref name=":ind1926">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1926|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=24699|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|GBR}} J. Robson|| ||
|-
|1927<ref name=":ind1927">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1927|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=18126|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Sunao Okamoto]] (3)||{{flagicon|British India}} Pershotam Lal Mehta||5–7, 6–4, 6–4
|-
|1928<ref name=":ind1928">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1928|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=18134|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|British India}} [[Atri-Madan Mohan]]||{{flagicon|British India}} Pershotam Lal Mehta||3–6, 6–3, 6–1, 8–6
|-
|1929<ref name=":ind1929">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1929|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=18167|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|British India}} [[Edward Vivian Bobb]]||{{flagicon|British India}} [[Mohammed Sleem]]||3–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4
|-
|1930<ref name=":ind1930">{{cite news|date=30 December 1930|title=Austin Beats Andrews|newspaper=The Star (Christchurch)|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19301230.2.96|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Bunny Austin]]||{{flagicon|NZL}} [[Buster Andrews|Eskell 'Buster' Andrews]]|| 6–2, 7–5, 6–1
|-
|1931<ref name=":ind1931">{{cite news|date=31 December 1931|title=Japan Shines in Indian Tennis|newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242895876|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Jiro Fujikura]]||{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Ryuki Miki]]||3–6, 3–6, 6–1, 7–5, 6–0
|-
|1932<ref name=":ind1932">{{cite news|date=15 March 1933|title=World Sport Topics|newspaper=Referee (Sydney)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135313655|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giorgio de Stefani]]||{{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Dip Narain Kapoor]]||7–5, 6–4, 6–2
|-
|1933<ref name=":ind1933">{{cite news|date=18 January 1934|title=Lawn Tennis|newspaper=The West Australian (Perth)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32777225|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Atri-Madan Mohan]] (2)||{{flagicon|British India}} Edward Vivian Bobb||10–8, 6–3, 6–3
|-
|1934<ref name=":ind1934">{{cite web|title=India International Championships 1934|website=Tennis Archives|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=1002|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|YUG}} [[Josip Palada]]||{{flagicon|YUG}} [[Franjo Punčec]]||9–7, 6–4, 6–3
|-
|colspan=5 align=center |''All India Championships''
|-
|1935<ref>{{cite web|last1=Archives|first1=Tennis|title=All India Championships 1935|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=957|via=www.tennisarchives.com|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Allahabad|| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Josip Palada]] (2)|| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Franjo Punčec]]|| 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–2
|-
|1936<ref>{{cite news|title=LAWN TENNIS ABROAD|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17336781?searchTerm=All%20India%20Tennis%20Championships&searchLimits=|accessdate=16 October 2017|work=Sydney Morning Herald|date=1 April 1936|pages=17}}</ref>||Calcutta|| {{flagicon|First Czechoslovak Republic}} [[Ladislav Hecht]] || {{flagicon|First Czechoslovak Republic}} [[Roderich Menzel]] || 2–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 5–5 ret.
|-
|1937<ref>{{cite web|last1=Archives|first1=Tennis|title=All India Championships 1937|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=3303|via=www.tennisarchives.com|publisher=Lawn tennis and badminton 1937|accessdate=12 November 2024|language=en}}</ref>||Allahabad|| {{flagicon|India|British}} [[Edward Vivian Bobb]] (2)|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} Dip Narain Kapoor || 6–4, 7–5, 6–3
|-
|1938<ref>{{cite web|last1=Archives|first1=Tennis|title=All India Championships 1938|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=1697|via=www.tennisarchives.com|publisher=American Lawn Tennis 1938|accessdate=12 November 2024|language=en}}</ref>||Allahabad|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Dip Narain Kapoor]] || {{flagicon|India|1931}} Islam Ahmad || 8–6, 6–4, 6–4
|-
|1939<ref>{{cite web|last1=Archives|first1=Tennis|title=All India Championships 1939|url=https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=1994|via=www.tennisarchives.com|publisher=American Lawn Tennis 1939|accessdate=12 November 2024|language=en}}</ref>||Bombay|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Ghaus Mohammad]] ||{{flagicon|India|1931}} Tenkasi K. Ramanathan || 6–1, 6–2
|-
|1940<ref>{{cite news|title=TENNIS.|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42225822?searchTerm=All%20India%20Championships%20tennis&searchLimits=|accessdate=16 October 2017|work=Cairns Post|location=Qld.|date=19 February 1940|pages=4}}</ref>||Calcutta|| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Franjo Punčec]] || {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Yudishtra Singh]]|| 11-9. 6–4, 7–5
|-
|1941<ref name=":ind1941">{{cite news|date=12 January 1941|title=Ghaus Mohamed Beats Iftikhar Ahmed|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TM0-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9&article_id=3367,4837092|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Baroda|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Ghaus Mohammad]] (2)|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Iftikhar Ahmed Khan]] || 6–0, 6–3, 7–5
|-
|1942<ref name=":ind1942">{{cite news|date=9 March 1942|title=Mrs. Massey Beats Leeia Row|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5K0-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5&article_id=5124,5786833|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Lahore|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Subba L.R. Sawhney]]|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} Prem Lal Pandhi || 6–1, 6–1, 6–0
|-
|1943<ref name=":ind1943">{{cite news|date=17 January 1943|title=Ghaus to Meet Iftikhar In Indore Tennis Final|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Grw-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA18&article_id=2339,2659640|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Indore|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Ghaus Mohammad]] (3)|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} Iftikhar Ahmed Khan || 6–2, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3
|-
|1944<ref name=":ind1944">{{cite news|date=8 February 1944|title=Hal Surface Beats Ghaus Mohammad|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J74-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3&article_id=5022,1554808|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Allahabad||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Hal Surface]]|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Ghaus Mohammad]] || 6–2, 6–4, 6–0
|-
|1945<ref name=":ind1945">{{cite news|date=May 1970|title=25 Years Ago|magazine=World Tennis|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_tennis-illustrated_1970-05_17_12/page/n77/mode/2up|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Madras||{{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Sumant Misra]] || {{flagicon|India|1931}} B.R. Kapinipathy || 9–7, 9–7, 5–7, 6–0
|-
|1946<ref name=":ind1946">{{cite news|date=2 January 1946|title=Gaus Mohamed Regains Title|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3k-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5&article_id=6012,151575|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta || {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Ghaus Mohammad]] (4)|| {{flagicon|India|1931}} [[Dilip Bose]] ||7–5, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3
|-
|colspan=5 align=center |''India National Championships''
|-
|1947<ref name=":ind1947">{{cite news|date=3 January 1947|title=Indian tennis champion|newspaper=The Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kb0UAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6&article_id=4913,185759|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sumant Misra]] (2)|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Man-Mohan Bhandari]]||4–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–0
|-
|1948<ref name=":ind1948">{{cite news|date=2 January 1948|title=Bergelin beats Sumant Misra in singles final|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsU-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&article_id=1241,188164|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Lennart Bergelin]]||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sumant Misra]]||8–6, 6–1, 6–4
|-
|1949<ref name=":ind1949">{{cite news|date=3 January 1949|title=Dilip Bose becomes national tennis champion of India|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQBFAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6&article_id=3204,309373|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Dilip Bose]]||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sumant Misra]]||3–6, 6–3, 6–3, 8–6
|-
|1950<ref name=":ind1950">{{cite news|date=10 January 1950|title=Ampon annexes singles and doubles|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8c-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&article_id=4615,1015012|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Allahabad||{{flagicon|PHI}} [[Felicisimo Ampon]]||{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Pedro Masip]]||5–7, 8–6, 8–6, 6–1
|-
|1951<ref name=":ind1951">{{cite news|date=2 January 1951|title=Beat Drobny|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxBVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9&article_id=3278,153510|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Sven Davidson]]||{{flagicon|TCH}} [[Jaroslav Drobný]]|| 6–3, 6–3 7–5
|-
|1952<ref name=":ind1952">{{cite news|date=30 December 1951|title=Davidsson retains singles title|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwRFAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA11&article_id=6755,7472405|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Sven Davidson]] (2)||{{flagicon|PAK}} [[Khan-Iftikhar Ahmed]]|| 6–3, 6–4, 8–6
|-
|1953<ref name=":Robertson1974">
{{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Max|author-link=Max Robertson|title=The Encyclopedia of Tennis|year=1974|publisher=Viking Press|location=New York|page=264}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sumant Misra]] (3)||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Naresh Kumar (tennis)|Naresh Kumar]]|| 6–8, 2–6, 6–3, 9–7, 6–3
|-
|1954<ref name=":ind1954">{{cite news|date=5 January 1954|title=Krishnan Wins National Title in Straight Sets|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYZlAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8&article_id=838,3358638|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]]||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Jack Arkinstall]]||6–2, 6–3, 7–5
|-
|1955<ref name=":ind1955">{{cite news|date=3 January 1955|title=Aussie Tops Indian|newspaper=[[The Spokesman Review]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NUjAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA18&article_id=3254,964698|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Jack Arkinstall]]||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]]||3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–2, 6–3
|-
|1956<ref name=":ind1956">{{cite news|date=19 December 1955|title=Indian Tennis Titles|newspaper=[[The Glasgow Herald]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oGhAAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&article_id=6562,5878197|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Sven Davidson]] (3)||{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Kurt Nielsen]]||6–4, 6–1, 15–17, 6–4
|-
|1957<ref name=":ind1957">{{cite news|date=2 January 1957|title=Krishan Beats Kumar In Straight Sets|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J49lAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8&article_id=138,249863|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]] (2)||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Naresh Kumar (tennis)|Naresh Kumar]]|| 6–4, 6–0, 8–6
|-
|1958<ref name=":ind1958">{{cite news|date=2 January 1958|title=From Here And There|newspaper=[[The Calgary Herald]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QV9kAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA38&article_id=5663,212820|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Ulf Schmidt]]||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]]|| 6–2, 6–2, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3
|-
|1959<ref name=":ind1959">{{cite news|date=2 January 1959|title=Wins Indian Title|newspaper=[[Reading Eagle]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vA4rAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA14&article_id=5925,460552|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]] (3)||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Naresh Kumar (tennis)|Naresh Kumar]]||6–2, 6–2, 6–1
|-
|1960<ref name=":ind1960">{{cite news|date=11 January 1960|title=Ulf Schmidt Beaten|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QdJaAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA10&article_id=7164,1526096|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]] (4)||{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Ulf Schmidt]]|| 6–3, 6–3 6–1
|-
|1961<ref name=":ind1961">{{cite news|date=3 January 1961|title=Krishnan Keeps National Title|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYtlAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9&article_id=282,832413|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]] (5)|| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Carlos Fernandes (tennis)|Carlos Fernandes]]|| 6–2, 6–2, 3–6, 7–5
|-
|colspan=5 align=center |''India National and Northern India Championships''
|-
|1962<ref name=":ind1962">{{cite news|date=19 February 1962|title=Tennis|newspaper=Youngstown Vindicator|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qi9AAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA11&article_id=6266,898780|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Roy Emerson]]|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]]||6–4, 6–4, 6–3
|-
|1963<ref name=":ind1963">{{cite news|date=25 February 1963|title=Krishnan Scores Another Facile Title Victory Over Mukherjea|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19630225&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]] (6)|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Jaidip Mukerjea]]||6–4, 6–0, 6–3
|-
|1964<ref name=":ind1964">{{cite news|date=23 February 1964|title=Krishnan crushes Mills in 65 minutes|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4FlAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8&article_id=2748,2351772|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]] (7)|| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Alan Mills (tennis)|Alan Mills]]||6–1, 6–3, 6–4
|-
|1965<ref name=":ind1965">{{cite news|date=April 1965|title=Around the world|magazine=World Tennis|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_tennis-illustrated_1965-04_12_11/page/68/mode/2up|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]] (8)||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Martin Mulligan]]||w.o.
|-
|1966<ref name=":ind1966">{{cite news|date=March 1966|title=Results|magazine=World Tennis|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_tennis-illustrated_1966-03_13_10/page/82/mode/2up|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Jaidip Mukerjea]] || {{flagicon|IND}} [[Premjit Lall]] ||4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–0
|-
|1967<ref name=":ind1967">{{cite news|date=9 January 1967|title=Injuries halt final|newspaper=The Leader Post|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cONUAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA26&article_id=4419,1203895|accessdate=10 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Premjit Lall]]<ref name=":ind19672">{{cite news|date=March 1967|title=Results|magazine=World Tennis|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_tennis-illustrated_1967-03_14_10/page/86/mode/2up|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]]||3–6, 7–5, 5–7, 2–1 rtd.
|-
|colspan=5 align=center |''India International Championships''
|-
|1968||Calcutta||{{flagicon|Romania|1965}} [[Ion Țiriac]] || {{flagicon|IND}} [[Jaidip Mukerjea]] ||6–4, 4–6, 6–2, 5–7, 6–4
|-
| colspan="5" align="center" | ↓  Open era  ↓
|-
|colspan=5 align=center |''India National Championships''
|-
|1969<ref name=":ind1969">{{cite news|date=March 1969|title=Results|magazine=World Tennis|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_tennis-illustrated_1969-03_16_10/page/80/mode/2up|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|ROM}} [[Ilie Năstase]]||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Premjit Lall]]|| 6–4, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4
|-
|1970<ref name=":ind1970">{{cite news|date=March 1970|title=Results|magazine=World Tennis|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_tennis-illustrated_1970-03_17_10/page/90/mode/2up|accessdate=12 November 2024}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Premjit Lall]] (2)||{{flagicon|USSR}} [[Alex Metreveli]]||9–7, 6–0, 5–7 6–3
|-
|1971<ref name=":Robertson1974" />||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Jaidip Mukerjea]] (2)||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Premjit Lall]] ||7-5, 6-3, 6-3
|-
|1972<ref name=":Robertson1974" />||Calcutta||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Gaurav Misra]]||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Ramanathan Krishnan]]||4–6, 6–4, 8–10, 7–5, 6–2
|-
|colspan=5 align=center |''Indian Open''
|-
|[[1973 Indian Open|1973]]<ref>{{cite web|title=New Delhi Results 1973|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/archive/new-delhi/2045/1973/results|website=ATP World Tour|publisher=ATP|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>||New Delhi||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Vijay Amritraj]]||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Mal Anderson]]|| 6–4, 5–7, 7–9, 6–3, 11-9
|-
|[[1974 Indian Open|1974]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Bombay Results 1974|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/archive/bombay/1729/1974/results|website=ATP World Tour|publisher=ATP|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>||Bombay|| {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Onny Parun]] ||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Tony Roche]] || 6–3, 6–3, 7–6
|-
|[[1975 Indian Open|1975]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Calcutta Results 1975|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/archive/calcutta/680/1975/results|website=ATP World Tour|publisher=ATP|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>||Calcutta|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Vijay Amritraj]] (2)||{{flagicon|ESP|1945}} [[Manuel Orantes]] || 7–5, 6–3
|-
|[[1976 Indian Open|1976]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangalore Results 1976|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/archive/bangalore/2017/1976/results|website=ATP World Tour|publisher=ATP|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>||Bangalore|| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Kim Warwick]] ||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Sashi Menon]] || 6–1, 6–2
|-
|[[1977 Indian Open|1977]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Bombay Results 1977|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/archive/bombay/1729/1977/results|website=ATP World Tour|publisher=ATP|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>||Bombay||{{flagicon|IND}} [[Vijay Amritraj]] (3)||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Terry Moor]]|| 7–6, 6–4
|-
|[[1978 Indian Open|1978]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Calcutta Results 1978|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/archive/calcutta/680/1978/results|website=ATP World Tour|publisher=ATP|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>||Calcutta||{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Yannick Noah]] |||{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Pascal Portes]] || 6–3, 6–2
|-
|[[1979 Indian Open|1979]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Bombay Results 1979|url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/archive/bombay/1729/1979/results|website=ATP World Tour|publisher=ATP|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>||Bombay|| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Vijay Amritraj]] (4)||{{flagicon|GER}} [[Peter Elter]]|| 6–1, 7–5
|}

===Men's doubles===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:40px"|Year
!style="width:200px"|Champions
!style="width:200px"|Runners-up
!style="width:170px" class="unsortable"|Score
|-
|1973 || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jim McManus (tennis)|Jim McManus]] {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Raúl Ramírez]] || {{flagicon|IND}} [[Anand Amritraj]] {{flagicon|IND}} [[Vijay Amritraj]] || 6–2, 6–4
|-
|1974 || {{flagicon|IND}} [[Anand Amritraj]] {{flagicon|IND}} [[Vijay Amritraj]] || {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Dick Crealy]] {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Onny Parun]] || 6–4, 7–6
|-
|1975 || {{flagicon|ESP|1945}} [[Juan Gisbert]] {{flagicon|ESP|1945}} [[Manuel Orantes]] || {{flagicon|IND}} [[Anand Amritraj]] {{flagicon|IND}} [[Vijay Amritraj]] || 1–6, 6–4, 6–3
|-
|1976 || {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Bob Carmichael]] {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Ray Ruffels]] || {{flagicon|IND}} [[Chiradip Mukerjea]] {{flagicon|IND}} [[Bhanu Nunna]] || 6–2, 7–6
|-
|1977 || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Mike Cahill (tennis)|Mike Cahill]] {{flagicon|USA}} [[Terry Moor]] || {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Marcello Lara]] {{flagicon|IND}} [[Jasjit Singh (tennis)|Jasjit Singh]] || 6–7, 6–4, 6–4
|-
|1978 || {{flagicon|IND}} [[Sashi Menon]] {{flagicon|USA}} [[Sherwood Stewart]] || {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Gilles Moretton]] {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Yannick Noah]] || 7–6, 6–4
|-
|1979 || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Chris Delaney]] {{flagicon|USA}} [[James Delaney (tennis)|James Delaney]] || {{flagicon|GER}} [[Thomas Fürst]] {{flagicon|GER}} [[Wolfgang Popp]] || 7–6, 6–2
|}

==See also==
* [[All India Hard Court Championships]]
* [[National Lawn Tennis Championships of India]]
* [[:Category:National and multi-national tennis tournaments]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite book|last1=Majumdar|first1=Boria|last2=Mangan|first2=J. A.|title=Sport in South Asian Society: Past and Present|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317998945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWfdAAAAQBAJ&q=All+India+Championships+tennis&pg=PA118|language=en}}
*[http://www.tennisarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=261 http://www.tennisarchives.com/All India Championships 1910–1956]

==External links==
* [http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/results-archive ATP World Tour archive]
* [http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentSearch.asp ITF – Indian Open]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212204958/http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentSearch.asp |date=12 February 2010 }}.

{{Indian Open tournaments}}
{{ATP seasons|state=collapsed}}

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[[Category:Defunct tennis tournaments in India]]
[[Category:Defunct sports competitions in India]]
[[Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1923]]
[[Category:Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1979]]
[[Category:1923 establishments in India]]
[[Category:1979 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:National and multi-national tennis tournaments]]