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  2. Pakeezah - Wikipedia

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    Budget. ₹ 12.5–15 million [4] Box office. est. ₹ 60 million [5] Pakeezah ( Hindustani pronunciation: [ˈpaːkiːzaː]; transl. The Pure One) is a 1972 Indian Urdu -language musical romantic drama written, directed, and produced by Kamal Amrohi. The film stars Meena Kumari as the eponymous lead, alongside Ashok Kumar and Raaj Kumar.

  3. Pure play - Wikipedia

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    Pure play method. In finance, the "pure play method" is an approach used to estimate the cost of equity capital of private companies, which involves examining the beta coefficient of other public and single focused companies. [2] See also Hamada's equation . Here, when estimating a private company A's equity beta coefficient, the equity beta ...

  4. Lila (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Lila (Hinduism) Lila ( Sanskrit: लीला līlā) or leela ( / ˈliːlə /) can be loosely translated as "divine play". The concept of lila is common to both non-dualist and dualist philosophical schools of Indian philosophy, but has a markedly different significance in each. Within non-dualism, lila is a way of describing all reality ...

  5. Hindi theatre - Wikipedia

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    After independence. Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA), The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, was established by the Government of India in 1952, to promote performing arts. Another big change in the realm of Hindi theatre was the establishing of National School of Drama in Delhi in 1959, which had Bharatiya Natya Sangh (BNS) as its precursor.

  6. Kamayani - Wikipedia

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    Kamayani (Hindi : कामायनी) (1936) is a Hindi epic poem ( Mahakavya) by Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937). It is considered one of the greatest literary works written in modern times in Hindi literature. It also signifies the epitome of Chhayavadi school of Hindi poetry which gained popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  7. Soma (drink) - Wikipedia

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    Etymology. Soma is a Vedic Sanskrit word that literally means "distill, extract, sprinkle", often connected in the context of rituals. [9] Soma's Avestan cognate is the haoma. According to Geldner (1951), the word is derived from Indo-Iranian roots *sav- (Sanskrit sav-/su) "to press", i.e. *sau-ma- is the drink prepared by pressing the stalks ...

  8. Hindustan - Wikipedia

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    Hindustan. Hindūstān ( pronunciation ⓘ) is a name for India, broadly referring to the Indian subcontinent. [1] Being the Iranic cognate of the Indic word Sindhu, [2] it originally referred to the land of lower Indus basin (present-day Sindh ). [3] Later, the term referred to the Indo-Gangetic plain, and became the classical name of the ...

  9. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi (Hindi: आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, romanized: Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi (Hindi: हिन्दी, Hindī), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family spoken chiefly in North India, and serves as the lingua franca of the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and ...