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Ashoka Mitran
  • Ashoka Mitran (born September 22, 1931) is one of
    the most influential figures in post-independent
    Tamil literature.

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Ashoka Mitran
  • Ashoka Mitran (born September 22, 1931) is one of
    the most influential figures in post-independent
    Tamil literature.
  • He began his literary career with the prize
    winning play "Anbin Parisu", followed by many
    short stories and novels.
  • A distinguished essayist and critic, he is the
    editor of the literary journal "Kanaiyaazhi".
  • He has written over 200 short stories, eight
    novels, some 15 novels besides other prose
    writings.
  • Most of his works have also been translated into
    English.

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  • He worked for more than a decade at the Gemini
    Studios.
  • His experiences here and his interaction with
    people from the Tamil filmdom later took the form
    of his book "My Years with Boss".
  • It was from 1966 that he became a full-time
    writer and he took up the pseudonym of
    "Ashokamitran" .
  • In the 1980s most of his works were translated
    into English and he and his works became
    well-known all over India.
  • Some of his works were translated into other
    European languages and most Indian languages as
    well.

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Pancake
  • Pancake was the brand name of the make up
    material that Gemini Studios brought in Truck
    loads.

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Gemini Studios
  • Gemini Studios was launched when
    Thiruthuraipoondi Subramanian Srinivasan (aka.
    S.S.Vasan) (1903-1969) bought a film distribution
    concern at an auction and renamed it as Gemini
    Pictures also known as Gemini Studios.
  • Gemini Studios served as a breeding ground for
    innumerable artists and technicians for the South
    Indian film Industry.
  • The Gemini twins became a household symbol and
    the Gemini flyover was named after the original
    studio at that junction.

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Miss Gohar
  • Date of Birth
  • 1910, Lahore, British India now in Pakistan
    more
  • Date of Death
  • 28 September 1985 more
  • Alternate Names
  • Gohar Karnataki

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Greta Garbo
  • Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 15 April 1990)
    was a Swedish actress during Holloywoods silent
    film period and part of its Golden Age.
  • Regarded as one of the greatest and most
    inscrutable movie stars ever produced by
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio
    system, Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Academy
    Award "for her unforgettable screen
    performancesand in 1999 was ranked as the fifth
    greatest female star of all time by the American
    Film Institute.

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Vyjayanthimala Bali
  • Vyjayanthimala Bali (born on August 13, 1936, in
    Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India) is an Indian actress of
    the 1950s and 60s, who won a large number of
    awards for her acting and classical dancing
    achievements. Following her cinema career, she
    entered Indian politics, and became a Member of
    Parliament.

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Rati Agnihotri
  • Rati Agnihotri was born on December 10, 1960 to
    a Punjabi family in Mumbai, Maharastra,India.She
    is a veteran Indian actress. Her portfolio mainly
    includes films in Hindi-Urdu,Tamil,Telugu,Telugu
    and Kannada.

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Robert Clive
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Robert Clive
  • Robert Clive was one of the Most flamboyant
    personalities in the history of British India.
  • He was only 19 when he began his career as a
    clerk for the East India Company at Fort St
    George.
  • Soon tiring of Paper Work, he became a soldier
    and fought many successful battles including the
    Carnatic wars, which established the company's
    rule in the South India.
  • Clive was given the Stewardship of Fort St
    George and later become Governor of Bengal.
  • The wealth he amassed in India led to his trial,
    in England, on charges of corruption.
  • Clive committed suicide in 1774.

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Kothamangalam Subbu
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Kothamangalam Subbu
  • Kothamangalam Subbu (November 10, 1910 - February
    15, 1974), was a noted Padmashri-award winning
    poet,lyricist,writer,actor and director
    fromTamilnadu who authored the cult classic of
    Tamil novelThillana Mohanambal, later made into
    an enchanted movie.
  • According to novelist Ashokamitran's memoirs,
    Subbu functioned as the No.2 of the giant Gemini
    Studios of Chennai (formerly Madras), South India
    for over three decades and was a close associate
    of movie mogul SS Vasan, who also published the
    popular Tamil weekly Ananda Vikatan and
    established the Gemini Studios in Chennai.

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Thillana Mohanambal
  • Director
  • A.P. Nagarajan
  • Writer
  • Kothamangalam Subbu (novel)
  • A classical bharathanatyam dancer and a
    nathaswaram player fall in love against the
    wishes of her family.This movie is about how they
    try to work things out and the hardships that
    they have to endure. Dance and music are used as
    an integral part of the story rather than a
    pastime.

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Thillana mohanambal
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Thillana mohanambal
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S.D.S.Yogiar
  • S.D.S.Yogiar was a freedom fighter and a National
    Poet. His patriotic songs have won Gold Medals
    and the Government has nationalized his writings.

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Krishnasastri
  • Devulapalli Krishnasastri is a Telugu poet and
    was born in East Godavari district.He was
    brought up in family of court-poets and he
    started writing poetry from a very young age.
  • Krishnasastri's works changed significantly after
    he met Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at
    Santiniketan in 1929.
  • Krishnasastri joined All India Radio in 1945 and
    has written number of plays for it.Andhra
    University has conferred the title Kalaprapoorna
    (The complete artist) on him in 1975.
  • He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award too. He
    was given the Padma Bhushan in 1976.

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Sangu Subramanian
  • He was a tamil poet.

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Haridranath Chatopadhyaya
  • Harindranath Chattopadhyay (April 2, 1898 - June
    23, 1990, Mumbai) was a Bengali Indian English
    poet. He was the brother of Sarojini Naidu.

21
Frank Buchman
  • Frank Buchman (June 4, 1878 August 7, 1961) was
    a Protestant Christian evangelist who founded the
    Moral Re-Armament from 1938 until 2001.

22
MRA spreads its anti Communist ideas in South
India
  • Moral Rearmament Army believed that Communism was
    evil and therefore wanted to wipe it out of the
    world. This group of 200 men and women from
    twenty different nations spread anti communist
    messages with the help of their stage
    performances such as dramas.

23
S.S.Vasan
  • S.S.Vasan (10 March 1903 26 August 1969) was a
    famous Indian film producer, director, writer,
    journalist and entrepreneur.

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Vasan played into the hands of the MRA
  • There is no clear indication that Vasan, the
    owner of the Gemini Studios, was a Communist or
    not yet there are very clear hints that he was a
    prominent Communist of Chennai. The MRA spread
    its anti-Communist messages through their stage
    programmes and made the poets and writers of the
    South India hate Communism which was a great
    achievement. Vasan, who knew nothing of their
    intentions, was indeed fooled by MRA at his cost.
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25
William Wordsworth
  • William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 23 April 1850)
    was a major English Romantic poet who, with
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the
    Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798
    joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

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Alfred Tennyson
  • Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6
    August 1809 6 October 1892), much better known
    as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," was Poet Laureate of
    the United Kingdom during much of Queen
    Victoria's reign and remains one of the most
    popular poets in the English language.

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John Keats
  • John Keats (31 October 1795 23 February 1821)
    was an English poet, who became one of the key
    figures of the Romantic movement. The poetry of
    Keats was characterised by elaborate word choice
    and sensual imagery, most notably in a series of
    odes which remain among the most popular poems in
    English literature.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 8 July
    1822 was one of the major English Romantic poets
    and is critically regarded among the finest lyric
    poets in the English language. He is most famous
    for such classic anthology verse works as
    Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark,
    and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the
    most popular and critically acclaimed poems in
    the English language.

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Lord Byron
  • Lord Byron (22 January 1788 19 April 1824) was
    an English poet. Amongst Byron's best-known works
    are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We
    Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in
    addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's
    Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
  • He is regarded as one of the greatest British
    poets and remains widely read and influential,
    both in the English-speaking world and beyond.

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T.S.Eliot
  • Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 18884
    January 1965), was a poet, playwright, and
    literary critic.
  • He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in
    1948.
  • Among his most famous writings are The Love Song
    of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, "The
    Hollow Men", Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Murder
    in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party and "Old
    Possum's Book of Practical Cats".

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The God That Failed
  • The God That Failed is a 1949 book which collects
    together six essays with the testimonies of a
    number of famous ex-Communists, who were writers
    and journalists.
  • The common theme of the essays is the authors'
    disillusionment with and abandonment of
    Communism.
  • The promotional byline to the book is "Six famous
    men tell how they changed their minds about
    Communism."
  • The six contributors were Louis Fischer, André
    Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen
    Spender, and Richard Wright.

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Louis Fischer
  • Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 15 January
    1970) was a Jewish-American journalist
  • . Among his works were a contribution to the
    ex-Communist treatise The God that Failed, as
    well as a biography of Mahatma Gandhi entitled
    The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • This book was used as the basis for the Academy
    Award-winning film Gandhi. Fischer's wife,
    Markoosha Fischer, was also a writer.

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André Gide
  • André Gide (22 November 186919 February 1951)
    was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize
    in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from
    its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the
    advent of anticolonialism between the two World
    Wars.

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Arthur Koestler
  • Arthur Koestler (5 September 1905, 1 March 1983,
    London) was a prolific writer of essays, novels
    and autobiographies.
  • He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in
    Budapest but, apart from his early school years,
    was educated in Austria. His early career was in
    journalism.
  • In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany
    but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938
    and in 1940 published a devastating
    anti-Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which
    propelled him to instant international fame.

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Ignazio Silone
  • Ignazio Silone (May 1, 1900 - August 22, 1978)
    was the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an
    Italian author.He was born in the town of Pescina
    in the Abruzzo region and lost many family
    members, including his mother, in the 1915
    Avezzano earthquake. His father had died in 1911.
    Silone joined the Young Socialists group of the
    Italian Socialist Party (PSI), rising to be their
    leader.

36
Richard Wright
  • Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 November 28,
    1960) was an African-American author. Wright, the
    grandson of former slaves, was born on the Rucker
    plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, in Franklin
    County, just outside of Natchez .

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Stephen Spender
  • Stephen Spender (28 February 1909 16 July 1995)
    was an English poet, novelist and essayist who
    concentrated on themes of social injustice and
    the class struggle in his work. He was appointed
    the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in
    Poetry to the United States Library of Congress
    in 1965 .

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Stephen Spenders speech
  • Stephen Spender was specially invited to the
    Gemini Studios to enlighten the staff there with
    communist ideas. When Spender began his speech he
    was amazed to see the way he was being listened
    to. But soon, when he realized that his audience
    didn't follow him the least due to his accent,
    Spender's amazement turned to utter shock and
    embarrassment and he stopped his speech in the
    middle.

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Stephen Spender Communism
  • Stephen Spender was called to the Gemini Studios
    to talk to the staff there about Communism but
    what he spoke was of his struggles as a poet.
    Whatever he spoke, his talk was not followed by
    practically anyone. When Spender realized that
    his audience didnt follow his talk, he stopped
    in utter shame to have made a talk to a deaf
    audience while the Gemini staff got dispersed in
    great humiliation because Spenders accent failed
    them.

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The failure of the book
  • The God That Failed was written by six eminent
    writers who were attracted to Communism and
    abandoned it because they hated it later on.
    Communism was in its beginning, a God because it
    stood for equality and removal of class systems
    and poverty. While the Gods or incarnations
    before it achieved their goals, Communism failed
    in attaining its goals as it was a failure in
    itself.
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