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Rahul Gandhi born on June 19, 1970)is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress. Rahul is a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family, the most prominent political family in India. He is the son of current Italian-born Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, the grandson of the late Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, and the great-grandson of the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

In 1991, he lost his father, Rajiv Gandhi (also a former prime minister), who was assassinated by the Tamil Tigers. His mother, Sonia Gandhi, took over as the president of the Indian National Congress in 1998 but Rahul stayed away from politics until 2004. He worked in London with the strategy consultancy firm Monitor Group, before returning to India in late 2002 to run an engineering and technology outsourcing firm in Mumbai.

Rahul Gandhi attended Modern School, New Delhi before entering the The Doon School.

He won a seat in the 2004 parliamentary election from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 300,500 votes. Incidentally, he is the same age as his late uncle Sanjay Gandhi was when he won the elections from Amethi years ago. His sister, Priyanka Gandhi, helped supervise his campaign.

  

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Lu shun, the famous chinese writer,was a contemporary of Munshi Prem Chand, the great litreary personality and as a writer, stands a fair comparison with him both took up the case of weaker and exploited sections of society and tried to remove the cowebs of hypocrisy and superstitions . Both knew intimately the stark realities of the rural life in their respective countries .

Again , like Prem chand Lu Shun was also a writer of people in true sense of the word . He opposed the fedual system and championed the cause of peoples rights. He expressed deep sympathy with the exploited people living under semi- feudal society of china and all his life for their liberation. Lu Shun also took part in political activities and organised the chinese youth against the repressive measures of the kuomintang government. Somf famous literary works of Lu Shun are : Diary of a mad man , Warm air , medicine, My old house and workship of the New year.

Lu Shun was born on 25th september,1881, in shao shing (china). At the age of 18, he went to nanking for studies and in 1902 to Japan for completing a course in medicine. he took admission in a provincial college but leaving his studies he came to Tokyo.

In Tokyo with the cooperation of some enthusiastic Chinese youth he triedto start a literary magazine but failed for lack of cooperation. On his return from Japan in 1908 , Lu shun inspired the Chinese youths for revolutionary activities. This progressive writer who was a champion of the downtrodden breathed his last on 19th october, 1936 at the young age of 55.

  

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Sakshi Tanwar The popular onscreen `bhabhi or `sister-in-law` Sakshi Tanwar aka Parvati has carved out a special niche for herself in the hearts of young and old alike for her character portrayal. This extremely talented actress is born on 12th of January in the village of Alwar in Rajasthan .

Sakshi Tanwar was then seen acting in soaps like Ehsaas, Dastoor, Bhanwar, X-Zone before she got her big break of playing the central role in Rajdhani. After this her life changed for better. The major turning point of her career came when she was offered the role of Parvati in Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki. She got this role by sheer coincidence. She was shooting for a pilot of a serial under Balaji Productions. Suddenly Ekta Kapoor walked in the sets and offered her the role of Parvati. At first she was apprehensive about the role but after hearing the script she agreed to enact the character and the rest is history. In fact this is the role, which made her rewarded with some of the most special awards in her acting career including the `Best Actress Award`. According to this actress for playing any character she needs to get into the character for sometime. She owes the credit to portray the role of Parvati so well on screen.

It was because of that lady who was so similar to Parvati that she was able to do justice to the character. To work on the character she takes a lot of help from the director. She prefers to be a director`s actress rather than being an actor`s actor. It helps her to bring out her performance well and also enhance her performance level. Once she also had to work on her voice while playing the character of Sher Bano in the soap titled Dastoor. Her favorite character remains to be that of a social worker in the serial Bhanwar. Portraying the character here was much more challenging than any other role because over here she was fighting for a 16-year old rape victim. This spontaneous actress would like to take up any roles, which would be challenging enough. For taking up a new script she would obviously look for the range of emotions she has to portray and then the comfort level to portray the role. Acting to her means portraying the character with 100% conviction. In her personal life also she is not bonded by any commitments and is free from the shackles of family life.

she completed her graduation from Delhi. After her graduations she was preparing for the entrance tests to the administrative services and mass communications when a close friend of her suggested that she should go and audition for the national broadcaster Doordarshan`s film songs based program `Albela Sur Mela`. To her surprise she was selected and from there begins her journey towards tellydom. On the other hand her traditional career graph had come to a standstill as she failed to clear both the tests. But she did not stop there. Acting was not a new experience for this Delhi lass. During her college days she was the secretary and president of the dramatic society and had her fair share of stage. Facing the camera however was altogether a different experience for her. But she was encouraged to pursue her acting career after her experience in anchoring. Initially the acting bug smote her mainly for the money and popularity. She used to pick serials that did not require much commitment but gradually she excelled her acting skills and developed into a fine actress.

  

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The immortal and universal fame of Arthur conan Doyle rests on his creation of sherlock holmes and his ingenous companion Dr.waston the most wonderful and fascinating characters in the western detective fiction. Sherlock Holmes appears to the reader as a quiet and intelligent character who is so life-like that readers forget that they are reading about a fictitious character. Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s story A Study in Scarlet that was published as a serial in the strand magazine .

A better Holmes appeared in The Sign of Four (1889), a long series of short stories collected as Adventures (1891) and The Hound of the Baskervilles(1902). A large number of stories that centre around sherlock holmes are collected in adventures of sherlock holmes running into five volumes. In one of these books doyle killed homes off but resurrected on the demands of the public. so far more than 175 films have been made on Doyle’s immortal character of sherlock homes.

Sir Arthur conan Doyle was born in 1859 in edinburgh. He was a doctor by profession. During the famous Boer war he was a senior physician of a feild hospital in south africa. He wrote The Great Boer War in 1900 and was knighted in 1902. Later he turned to writing detective fiction and became a prolific writer of fiction .

Doyle was also interested in spiritualism and belived in invoking the spirits of the dead.He was also a good player of cricket and played in the first class matches as a member of the M.C.C.

  

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Raju was born in Kanpur in a middle class Kyastha family. Since childhood, Raju always nursed the dream of becoming a comedian because he was a very good mimic. In his school time he use to imitate his teachers. Initially he copied Amitabh Bachchan. However, later cleared himself getting label of Amitabh Bachchan, through varied performances. He agreed that when he was a college student he was influenced by Amitabh, who unknowingly was imitated by him. With dreams in his eyes, Raju landed in the concrete jungle to fulfill his dreams. But he realized that life was not a bed of roses for struggling aspirants. But he had confidence and determination in him and continued to meet people who mattered. One fine day he was thrilled when the Rajshri people signed him to play a small role in Maine Pyar Kiya.

Raju Srivastav, a talented artist, with a flair for comedy, has done stage shows with Kalyanji Anandji, Bappi Lahiri and Nitin Mukesh in India and abroad. He has also worked in many films and serials and gave magnificent performance. His audio jokes cassette “Hasna Mana Hai” is hilarious all the way.

His gags spare no one – from MPs to Laloo Prasad Yadav and film folk to precocious kids, ha – ha! Man Raju Srivastav takes on everyone in his stand – up acts. He creates a riot on live shows and has audiences aching with laughter.

He was also noticed by Jhony Lever when he used to do stage shows before joining the film industry. Raju’s mimicry was liked and applauded by the masses and he was an important person in Jhony Lever’s troupe.

“The Great Indian Laughter Challenge” gave him the coveted title “The King of Comedy”, but he has worked his way up to his present status slowly and steadily. He started his career from the stage where he mastered the art of mimicry. There seems to be nobody in the film industry who Raju cannot mimic to perfection. His popularity on stage first got him roles in films like “Maine Pyar Kiya”, “Baazigar” etc. where he kept his audience in splits. He has done a number of films since then but he has never let his stage performance take a back seat.

Raju is against the loud and vulgar comedy. His ideals in the comedy are Kishore Kumar in films and Jhony Lever on stage and his favourite actor is Amitabh Bachchan.

Currently he is performing in a new comedy show “Raju Hazir ho” on NDTV Imagine.

  

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Edward Alexander Crowley was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, England, on 12 October 1875.His father, Edward Crowley, once maintained a lucrative family brewery business and was retired at the time of Aleister’s birth. His mother, Emily Bertha Bishop, drew roots from a Devon and Somerset family.

In response, Crowley created his own philosophical system, Occult Sciences — a synthesis of various Eastern mystical systems (including Hinduism, Buddhism, Tantra, the predecessor to Western sex magick, Zoroastrianism and the many systems of Yoga) fused with the Western occult sciences of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the many reformed rituals of Freemasonry he later reformulated within the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O). This system is founded in scientific skepticism. His undergraduate studies in chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge helped forge the scientific skepticism that later culminated in the many-volumed and unparalleled occult publication, The Equinox

Involved as a young adult in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he first studied mysticism with and made enemies of William Butler Yeats and Arthur Edward Waite. Like many in occult circles of the time, Crowley voiced the view that Waite was a pretentious bore, through searing critiques of Waite’s writings and editorials of other authors’ writings.

He said that a mystical experience in 1904 while on vacation in Cairo, Egypt, led to his founding of the religious philosophy known as Thelema. Aleister’s wife Rose started to behave in an odd way, and this led him to think that some entity had made contact with her. At her instructions, he performed an invocation of the Egyptian god Horus on March 20 with (he wrote) “great success”. According to Crowley, the god told him that a new magical Aeon had begun, and that A.C. would serve as its prophet. Rose continued to give information, telling Crowley in detailed terms to await a further revelation. On 8 April and for the following two days at exactly noon he heard a voice, dictating the words of the text, Liber AL vel Legis, or The Book of the Law, which Crowley transcribed. The voice claimed to be that of Aiwass (or Aiwaz “the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat,” or Horus, the god of force and fire, child of Isis and Osiris) and self-appointed conquering lord of the New Aeon, announced through his chosen scribe “the prince-priest the Beast”.

Aleister Crowley died of a respiratory infection in a Hastings boarding house on December 1, 1947, at the age of 72. According to some accounts he died on December 5, 1947. He was penniless and addicted to heroin, which had been prescribed for his asthma and bronchitis, at the time.

His last words have been reported as, “I am perplexed.”, though he did not die alone and the only other person with him, Patricia MacAlpine, the mother of his son, denied this. According to MacAlpine, Crowley remained bedridden for the last few days of his life, but was in light spirits and conversational. She claims he died in silence next to an open window. Readings at the cremation service in nearby Brighton included one of his own works, Hymn to Pan, and newspapers referred to the service as a black mass. Brighton council subsequently resolved to take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again.