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Bhagat was assistant professor of civil engineering and head of the Heavy Structures Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai for much of the 1960s. In 1970, she and her husband founded their own firm, Bhagat Engineering; they also founded Quadricon, a bridge construction firm specializing in a patented prefabricated modular design.
Shakuntala Bhagat (1933–2012), civil engineer; Shakuntala Banerjee (born 1973), Indian-German television journalist; Shakuntala Barua (born 1947), Indian actress; Shakuntala Devi (disambiguation) Shakuntala Devi (1929–2013), Indian writer and mental calculator; Sakuntla Devi (born 1972), Indian politician; Shakuntla Khatak (born 1968 ...
Shakuntala (Sanskrit: शकुन्तला, romanized: Śakuntalā) is a heroine in ancient Indian literature, best known for her portrayal in the ancient Sanskrit play Abhijnanashakuntalam (The Recognition of Shakuntala), written by the classical poet Kalidasa in the 4th or 5th century CE.
After Shakuntala conceived, Dushyanta promised to take her to his palace and departed. Kanva returned and, perceiving events through divine insight, blessed Shakuntala with a son destined to rule the world. She gave birth to Sarvadamana, whom Kanva raised. At six, he was sent with Shakuntala to Hastinapura. When they arrived, Dushyanta denied ...
Dungan introduced several new techniques to Tamil cinema in this film. The scene where Shakuntala loses her ring was shot in slow motion through a glass tank filled with water. In his autobiography ( A Guide to Adventure: An Autobiography , Dorrance Publishing Company (2002)), Dungan wrote the following about his use of a European dancer for ...
GNU FreeFont (also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts) is a family of free OpenType, TrueType and WOFF vector fonts, implementing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS) as possible, aside from the very large CJK Asian character set. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.
Shakuntala was disapproved of as a text for school and college students in the British Raj in the 19th century, as popular Indian literature was deemed, in the words of Charles Trevelyan, to be "marked with the greatest immorality and impurity", and Indian students were thought by colonial administrators to be insufficiently morally and ...
The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.