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  2. Pitha - Wikipedia

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    Pitha can be sweet or savoury, and usually made from a dough or batter, which is then steamed, fried or griddled. Very few varieties are oven-baked or boiled, and most are unleavened and cooked on a stovetop (or equivalent). Some versions may have a filling, garnish, or sauce. Few may be set or shaped after cooking.

  3. Mahadevi Varma - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Mahadevi Varma. Mahadevi Verma born (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi -language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [ a ] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [ 1 ] She has been also addressed as the Modern ...

  4. Manoj Muntashir - Wikipedia

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    Shukla was born on 27 February 1976 into a Brahmin family in Gauriganj, Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India, where he attended a HAL School Korwa [clarification needed]. [2] [3] After graduating from Allahabad University in 1999, he moved to Mumbai to seek work, and subsequently entered the TV and film scene following an opportunity to write for Kaun Banega Crorepati.

  5. Durga - Wikipedia

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    The day of Durga's victory is celebrated as Vijayadashami (Bijoya in Bengali), Dashain (Nepali) or Dussehra (in Hindi) – these words literally mean "the victory on the Tenth (day)". [ 90 ] This festival is an old tradition of Hinduism, though it is unclear how and in which century the festival began.

  6. Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh - Wikipedia

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    He is today considered a bridge between the Progressive movement in Hindi poetry and the Nayi Kavita (Modern poetry) movement. [ 2 ] Muktibodh made a name for himself in the field of criticism as well, with his strong views on the upper caste influence on the disintegration of Bhakti movement in India, which he viewed a lower caste uprising ...

  7. Mridula Garg - Wikipedia

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    Notable awards. Sahitya Akademi Award (2013) Mridula Garg (born 1938) is an Indian writer who writes in Hindi and English languages. [1][2] She has published over 30 books in Hindi – novels, short story collections, plays and collections of essays – including several translated into English. [3] She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi ...

  8. Tulsidas - Wikipedia

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    Ramcharitmanas 1.30 (ka). Most authors identify the Varaha Kshetra referred to by Tulsidas with the Sookarkshetra is the Soron Varaha Kshetra in modern-day Kasganj , [ 30 ] Tulsidas further mentions in the Ramcharitmanas that his guru repeatedly narrated the Ramayana to him, which led him to understand it somewhat.

  9. Shiv Kumar Batalvi - Wikipedia

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    Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born on 23 July 1936 (though a few documents related to him state 8 October 1937) in the village Bara Pind Lohtian in the Shakargarh Tehsil of Gurdaspur District (now in Narowal District of Punjab, Pakistan) into a Punjabi Hindu Brahmin family to father, Pandit Krishan Gopal Sharma, the village tehsildar in the revenue department, and mother, Shanti Devi, a housewife.