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2. Bhisham Sahni - Wikipedia

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   Bhisham Sahni. Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness, Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, [1] and Sahitya Akademi ...

3. Tamas (film) - Wikipedia

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   Tamas (lit. Darkness) is a 1988 period television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani. It is based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni (1974), which won the author the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975. Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the ...

4. List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi - Wikipedia

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   Makhanlal Chaturvedi was the first winner of this award. Krishna Sobti was the first woman winner of this award. Daya Prakash Sinha is the recent winner of this award. Year. Author. Work. Type of Work. 1955. Makhanlal Chaturvedi.

5. Tamas (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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   Tamas ( Sanskrit: तमस् tamas, lit. 'darkness') is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] The other two qualities are rajas (passion and activity) and sattva (purity, goodness). Tamas is the quality of inertia ...

6. Guṇa - Wikipedia

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   Guṇa ( Sanskrit: गुण) is a concept in Hinduism, which can be translated as "quality, peculiarity, attribute, property". [1] [2] The concept is originally notable as a feature of Samkhya philosophy. [3] The guṇas are now a key concept in nearly all schools of Hindu philosophy. [4] There are three guṇas ( triguṇa ), according to ...

7. Tamasha (2015 film) - Wikipedia

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   Box office. est. ₹ 136.63 crore [2] Tamasha ( transl. Spectacle/Drama) [3] is a 2015 Indian psychological coming-of-age romantic drama film [1] written and directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala from his studio, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. It stars Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone.

8. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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   Hindi literature (Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa like Awadhi, and Marwari languages.

9. Rajas - Wikipedia

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   Rajas. Rajas ( Sanskrit: रजस्) is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] [2] The other two qualities are sattva (goodness, balance) and tamas (lethargy, violence, disorder). Rajas is innate tendency or quality that ...