Brijmohan Mishra popularly known as Pandit Birju Maharaj ( born February 4, 1938 ) is currently the leading exponent of the Lucknow Kalka-Bindadin gharana of Kathak dance in India.

* Pandit Birju Maharaj ( Official Website )

Modern School has hosted SPIC MACAY events, featuring Indian Classical Music and classical Indian dance exponents such as Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Sonal Mansingh, Sitara Devi, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Birju Maharaj.

Some of these prominent artistes are Pandit Mangal Patasar ( Sitar ), Shivannad Maharaj ( Violin, Harmonium, vocals ), Dexter Raghunanan ( Tabla ).

Presently, Pandit Briju Maharaj ( son of Achchan Maharajji ) is considered the chief representative of this gharana.

The Maharaja invited many luminaries of Kathak ( as well as famous percussionists ) to his court, including Kalka Prasad ( the father of Acchan, Lacchu and Shambhu Maharaj ) and his sons, and Pandit Jailal from Jaipur gharana.

Although Sukuna was an indigenous Fijian, his father enrolled him at the Wairuku Indian School in Ra, founded in 1898 by Pandit Badri Maharaj, who later served from 1917 to 1929 as the first Indo-Fijian member of Fiji's Legislative Council ( the forerunner to the present Parliament.

Maharaj Krishna Raina was born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Maharaj completed his college in Srinagar and then moved to NSD in delhi on a state scholarship. Raina, born into a Kashmiri Pandit family, comes from a family background of doctors & engineers.

It was built in 1920 by the late Pandit Sirikishan Maharaj in a North Indian style.

Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan at a concert accompanied by the great Tabla maestro of the Benaras Gharana Pandit Kishan Maharaj

Kathak Yoga is a technique common in Kathak that was named by Pandit Chitresh Das.

This Antaragni had many unparalleled performances by dancer Astad Deboo, Grammy-winner Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Padm Shri Dr Nerla Venumadhav, a noted mimicry artist.

His father, Motilal Nehru ( 1861-1931 ), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.

See the sacrifice of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadar who on the final desperate and heart-rending pleas of the Kashmiri Pandit, agreed to put up a fight for their right to practise their religion in which he was executed so another religion besides his own could have the freedom to practice there religion against the tyrant moghul empire who were forcing people to accept Islam.

Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920 ), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar.

Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE ( born Krishna Pandit Bhanji ; Gujarati: ક ૃ ષ ્ ણ ા પ ં ડ િ ત ભ ા ણજ ી; 31 December 1943 ) is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career.

* Korla Pandit, an African-American pianist / organist who pretended to be from India.

The existence of the text was revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josyer, according to whom it is due to one Pandit Subbaraya Shastry, who dictated it in 1918-1923.

The finals of the 1991 season will be remembered for the number of international cricketers who were part of the match with Kapil Dev, Chetan Sharma, Ajay Jadeja and Vijay Yadav turning up for Haryana and Bombay cricket team represented by Sanjay Manjrekar, Vinod Kambli, Sachin Tendulkar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Chandrakant Pandit, Salil Ankola and Abey Kuruvilla.

* Kashmiri Pandit, a person who belongs to a sect of Hindu Brahmins originating from Kashmir

Pandit Nain Singh Rawat ( Hindi: न ै न स िं ह र ा वत ) was one of the first of the pundits who explored the Himalayas for the British.

Born in 1903 in Sriramachandrapur village under Satyabadi block, Chintamani Das is the only writer who has written biographies on all the five ' Pancha Sakhas ' of Satyabadi namely Pandit Gopabandhu Das, Acharya Harihara, Nilakantha Das, Krupasindhu Mishra and Pandit Godabarisha.

It was he, who pleased with their intelligence, gave them the surname Pandit. The Mughals rule was followed by that of Afghans.

The movie revolves around Pandit Hari Prasad, a blind flutist ( played by Sarvadaman Banerjee ), and a painter ( Suhasini ) who is mute.

This was done following a request from the first Indian Adjutant General, Major General Hira Lal Atal, who in turn had been entrusted with the responsibility of coming up with an Indian equivalent of the Victoria Cross by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the Indian Union.

His close associate Pandit Nobin Chandra Roy who had joined the new institution of " Railways " in 1860 as its " Paymaster " for Upper India was tasked to spread Brahmoism there.

Through her mother's side, she descends from Sardar Melgiri Pandit of the Maratha Empire who battled the invading Mongol hordes at the Siege of Bijapur ( 1685 – 86 ) in the War of 27 years.

All the prominent leaders of Indian National Congress visited there frequently to meet Pandit Yadunandan ( Jadunandan ) Sharma, the leader of Kisan Andolan who resided in the ashram set up by Swamiji.

Around the same time he did what was considered unusual and unacceptable in conservative Kashmiri society-he married his childhood sweetheart, Santosh, who was a Kashmiri Pandit, and also assumed her name.

Although it remained a relatively small political party, the Mahasabha's members at various times included pre-eminent Indian political leaders such as famous Indian freedom fighter Dr. B. S. Moonje, who was the All India President of the Hindu Mahasabha in 1927 and was one of the patriarchs of the organization, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar, who was president of Hindu Mahasabha held at Jabalpur in 1928 and at Delhi in 1932, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of the Benaras Hindu University ; Dr. K. B. Hedgewar, founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) and the former chief minister of the Central Provinces and Berar ; Syama Prasad Mookerjee of Bengal, who served as Central Minister in Nehru's cabinet ; and Narayan Bhaskar Khare, who served as the Mahasabha's president from 1949 to 1951.

Raaj Kumar, born Kulbushan Pandit ( 8 October 1926 – 3 July 1996 ), was an Hindi film actor.

Mani Kaul ( 25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011 ) was a Kashmiri Pandit film director of Hindi films.

Durga made a film, Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj in 2009 and directed her first Marathi film, Aai Tuzha Aashirwad, in 2010, in which her husband and Lata Mangeshkar sang in Marathi.

In 1974, a film crew and anthropologist Trilokinath Pandit attempted friendly contact by leaving a tethered pig, some pots and pans, some fruit and toys on the beach at North Sentinel Island.

Gulzar's 1975 film, Khushboo is majorly inspired by his work entitled Pandit Mashay.

* Sankoch ( 1976 film ), directed by Arun Ganuly, starring Sulakshana Pandit.

16 / 1 / 1982 ), David Ben-Gurion ( The Light ), Napoleon Bonaparte ( The Man on the Rock ), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Roger Casement ( Heart of Darkness 1992 ), and on one occasion a film commissioned by Thames Television on the story of the Three Wise Men of the New Testament, A Famous Journey ( ITV tx.

Maachis () is a 1996 Indian Hindi film directed by Gulzar and produced by R. V. Pandit.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

* 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

Other authors have suggested a higher figure for the exodus, ranging from the entire population of over 150, 000, to 190, 000 of a total Pandit population of 200, 000, to a number as high as 300, 000.

* P. L. Deshpande was the first interviewer to interview Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, for the then newly founded Doordarshan.

* Pt., an abbreviation for Pandit, a Hindu honorific applied to certain scholars of law, religion, philosophy or music

Following the suicide of his friend Arshile Gorky in 1948 and a failed romantic relationship with Nayantara Pandit, the niece of Indian nationalist Jawaharlal Nehru, Noguchi applied for a Bollingen Fellowship to travel the world, proposing to study public space as research for a book about the " environment of leisure.

* Vijay Arya and Naveen Garg and Rohit Khandekar and Adam Meyerson and Kamesh Munagala and Vinayaka Pandit, ( 2004 ): Local Search Heuristics for k-Median and Facility Location Problems, Siam Journal of Computing 33 ( 3 ).

Organised by expatriate social and political activist Pandit Shyamji, India House was a thriving centre for student political activities.

Other authors have suggested a higher figure for the exodus, ranging from the entire population of over 150, 000, to 190, 000 of a total Pandit population of 200, 000, to a number as high as 300, 000.

The Udyan Pandit Award is given for excellence in fruit cultivation in India.

Tenzer's compositions for chamber, solo and orchestral media have been performed in North America, Europe, and Asia, featuring performers such as Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri ( tabla ), Alex Klein ( oboe ) and Evan Ziporyn ( clarinet ).

She was awarded the prestigious " SaMaPa Vitasta Award 2006 " in Delhi by SaMaPa-" Sopori Academy of Music And Performing Arts " by Music Legend Pandit Bhajan Sopori for her lifetime contribution and service to Indian culture and Dance.

Later, he switched to playing the flute under the tutelage of Pandit Bholanath Prasanna of Varanasi for eight years.

Along with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma he composed music for

The music for the movie Sirivennela is composed by K. V. Mahadevan which revolves around the role of Pandit Hari Prasad, a blind flautist played by Sarvadaman Banerjee and flute renditions by Hariprasad Chaurasia.

During his time as a delegate for the United Nations, Cooper had met Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and established a cordial working relationship with the Indian delegation, including Nehru's sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

Mukesh Khanna plays the role of Shaktimaan and his alter-ego Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri, a photographer for the newspaper Aaj Ki Aawaz.

Pandit Ravi Shankar, Indian pop star Usha Uthup, were among those interviewed for " London Sounds Eastern ", launched on BBC Radio London in 1976 and produced by Keith Yeomans.

Joshi sang for several films, including Basant Bahar ( 1956 ) with Manna Dey, Birbal My Brother ( 1973 ) with Pandit Jasraj, and Kannada films like Sandhya Raaga and Nodi Swami Naavu Irodhu Heege.