Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Devika Rotawan, survivor of the 2008 Mumbai attacks; Judah Reuben, cricket umpire; Pinky Rajgarhia, child psychologist and beauty queen; Ashish Rajadhyaksha, film scholar; Rajesh Pullarwar, artist; Bapsybanoo Pavry, socialite and aristocrat; Sheela Patel, activist and academic involved with people living in slums and shanty towns; J.B ...
The name Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई) originated from Mumbā or Mahā-Ambā—the name of the patron Hindu goddess (Kula Devata) Mumbadevi of the native Koli community [40] —and from ā'ī, meaning "mother" in the Marathi language, which is the mother tongue of the Koli people and the official language of Maharashtra.
In 1996, the newly elected Shiv Sena-led government renamed the city of Bombay to the native name Mumbai, after the Koli native Marathi people Goddess Mumbadevi. [ 185 ] [ 186 ] Soon colonial British names were shed to assert or reassert local names, [ 187 ] such as Victoria Terminus being renamed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on 4 March 1996 ...
S. Sachin Pilgaonkar; Mallika Sagar; Sandra Samuel; David Sassoon (treasurer) Neela Satyanarayanan; Abhijeet Sawant; Ameen Sayani; Anne-Marie Schwirtlich; Ronnie Screwvala
Urmila Matondkar Sonali Bendre. Alka Kubal; Aditi Govitrikar; Ashwini Bhave; Bhavana; Durga Khote; Genelia Deshmukh; Isha Koppikar; Jayshree Gadkar; Lalita Pawar ...
This page was last edited on 18 November 2020, at 21:57 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
This is a list of notable Marathi people an ethnolinguistic group that speaks Marathi, ... Dadasaheb Phalke - Maker of India's first full-length feature Raja ...
Marathi people use various suffixes and prefixes with names. Most of these are intended as honourific when addressing older people, or people with authority. The common suffixes include bai, and sometimes tai for women, rao, and saheb for men. [ 196 ]