state covers an area of 307‚731 km2 (118‚816 sq mi) or 9.84% of the total geographical area of India. Mumbai‚ the capital city of the state‚ is India’s largest city and the financial capital of the nation. Nagpur is the second capital of the state. Marathi is the official language. Maharashtra is the world’s second most populous first-level administrative country sub-division. Were it a nation in its own right‚ Maharashtra would be the world’s tenth most populous country ahead of Mexico. In the 17th
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Indian literature Article Free Pass * Introduction * Related * Contributors & Bibliography Indian literature‚ writings of the Indian subcontinent‚ produced there in a variety of languages‚ including Sanskrit‚ Prākrit‚ Pāli‚ Bengali‚ Bihārī‚ Gujarati‚ Hindi‚ Kannada‚ Kashmiri‚ Malayalam‚ Oriya‚ Punjabi‚ Rajāsthānī‚ Tamil‚ Telugu‚ Urdu‚ and Sindhi. A brief treatment of Indian literature follows. For full treatment‚ see South Asian Arts: Literature. The earliest Indian literature
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two years ago he was not known to us. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932 –2004) was a poet from Maharashtra‚ wrote in both Marathi and English. Radically experimental in nature‚ his poems are oblique‚ whimsical‚ mysterious‚ baffling and at the same time dark‚ sinister‚ and sarcastic and funny. His poetry represents the quintessence of modernism and left profound influence modern Marathi poets. Despite his inspiring and profound creativity it is ironical that his greatness has not been adequately acknowledged
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novels in Marathi and has translated Richard Burton’s Arabian Nights. Gauri Deshpande’s poetry deals mostly with everyday life and she writes often to release the tensions which keep building in her and demand utterance‚ the experience being “transmitted in terms of imagery‚ rhythm and nuances of words”. In the words of C.P. Singh her poems “show an artist in making‚ a struggling towards the happy blending between deep experiences and a congruent poetic form that makes a gem of art out of the raw
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paani te ho sakda hai. Is layi mainu unha nu hawa wich udana painda hai cure karan waste (there are some people who cannot be cured on land or on water‚ therefore‚ I tell them to take a trip by air so I can cure them in air). Asi mahapurushan da mood hunda hai. Sanu pata hai keda best time hai tuhanu bless karan da. Je main 11 baje tuhanu bless karna hai te tusi 10 baje uth khade ho ke kaho ki asi hun jaana hai ta tusi meri blessings miss kar jaonge. Fir saadi mauj 5 saal nu aaye ya 50 saal nu‚ asi keh
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Temple in Bhingar. In 2001‚ the total population was 7620 people out of which 51% were males and 49% females. At the time‚ the literacy rate was 73% ‚ which was higher than the national average of 59.5%. The language spoken in this town Bhingar is Marathi. Ahmednagar is the largest district in the state of Maharashtra. The district is famous of the town of Shirdi associated with Sai Baba. In olden days it was part of Bombay presidency until India’s independence in 1947 when it became part of Bombay
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Shivaji Bhosle (Marathi: शिवाजी भोसले; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680)‚ with the royal title Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (Marathi: छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज) was a Maratha king [5] from the Bhosle dynasty who founded the Maratha empire.[6][7] Shivaji led a resistance to free the Marathas from Sultanate of Bijapur‚ and establish the rule of the Hindus ("Hindavi Swarajya"). He created an independent Maratha kingdom with Raigad as its capital‚[7] and fought against the Mughals to defend his kingdom successfully
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Regional Chauvinism And Political Parties In India; Case Study Of MNS In Maharashtra Mohit Mehta Roll No. 43/13 Political Science I Submitted To Dr. Maheshwar Singh NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY‚ DELHI. INDEX SR. NO. SUBJECTS PG. NO. 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Questions 1.2 Research Objectives 1.3 Hypothesis 1.4 Methodology 3 2 Meaning 5 3 Regionalism In the context of India 3.1 DMK in south India 3.2 The shiv sena in Maharashtra 3.3
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of popular music as singers and composers. Lata recorded her first song Naachu yaa gade khelu saari for a Marathi film ‘Kiti hasaal’(1942) and in ‘Aap ki seva mein’ (1947)‚ she made her playback singing debut for Hindi films with the song Paa laagun kar jori. Even though she has sung in excess of 7500 songs in many different languages‚ her maximum output and best works are in Hindi‚ Marathi and Bengali. As a singer‚ her main body of work comprises of film songs. Simplicity and easy accessibility
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Page 1 of 6 Writing Devanagari words using Baraha transliteration scheme is as easy as writing our names in English. मेरा भारत महान can be written as merA bhArat mahAn. Devanagari script used for Sanskrit‚ Hindi‚ and Marathi languages are supported in Baraha. Other languages such as Konkani‚ Sindhi and Nepali that use devanagari script‚ can also be used. The transliteration rules are shown below with examples. See: Transliteration Examples Vowel: अ = a‚ आ = A‚aa‚ इ = i‚ ई = I‚ee‚ उ =
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