Michael Fred Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985)^[6] is an American competition swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 23 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (19, more than twice that of the second-highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record away from fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz (7) for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row.^[7]
Phelps is the long course world record holder in the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley as well as the former long course world record holder in the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter individual medley. He has won a total of 77 medals in major international long-course competition, totalling 62 gold, 13 silver, and 3 bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Phelps's international titles and record-breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award seven times and American Swimmer of the Year Award nine times as well as the FINA Swimmer of the Year Award in 2012. His unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Phelps Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award.
After the 2008 Summer Olympics, Phelps started the Michael Phelps Foundation, which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles. He continued to work with his foundation after the 2012 Olympics, which he had said would be his last. In April 2014, Phelps came out of retirement,^[8] and he qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,^[9] his fifth Olympics. Phelps was chosen to be the flag bearer of the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations.

Mohenjo daro

 

Mohenjo-daro (Sindhi: موئن جو دڙو‎, Urdu: موئن جو دڑو‎, IPA: [muˑənⁱ dʑoˑ d̪əɽoˑ], lit. Mound of the Dead Men;^[2] English pronunciation: /moʊˌhɛn.dʒoʊ ˈdɑː.roʊ/) is an archeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2500 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minoa (Crete), and Norte Chico. Mohenjo-daro was abandoned in the 19th century BCE as the Indus Valley Civilization declined, and the site was not rediscovered until the 1920s. Significant excavation has since been conducted at the site of the city, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.^[3] The site is currently threatened by erosion and improper restoration.^[4]

 

Etymology

Mohenjo-daro, the modern name for the site, has been variously interpreted as "Mound of the Dead Men" in Sindhi, and as "Mound of Mohan" (where Mohan is Krishna).^[2][5] The city's original name is unknown. Based on his analysis of a Mohenjo-daro seal, Iravatham Mahadevan speculates that the city's ancient name could have been Kukkutarma ("the city [-rma] of the cockerel [kukkuta]").^[6] Cock-fighting may have had ritual and religious significance for the city, with domesticated chickens bred there for sacred purposes, rather than as a food source.^[7] Mohenjo-daro may furthermore have been a point of diffusion for the eventual worldwide domestication of chickens.^{[citation needed]}

Location

Map showing the major sites and theorised extent of the Indus Valley Civilisation, including the location of the Mohenjo-daro site.

Mohenjo-daro is located west of the Indus River in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan, in a central position between the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra River. It is sited on a Pleistocene ridge in the middle of the flood plain of the Indus River Valley, around 28 kilometres (17 mi) from the town of Larkana.^[8] The ridge was prominent during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization, allowing the city to stand above the surrounding flood, but subsequent flooding has since buried most of the ridge in silt deposits. The Indus still flows east of the site, but the Ghaggar-Hakra riverbed on the western side is now dry.^[9]

Historical context

Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th century BCE.^[10] It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization,^[11] which developed around 3000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture. At its height, the Indus Civilization spanned much of what is now Pakistan and North India, extending westwards to the Iranian border, south to Gujarat in India and northwards to an outpost in Bactria, with major urban centers at Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Lothal, Kalibangan, Dholavira and Rakhigarhi. Mohenjo-daro was the most advanced city of its time, with remarkably sophisticated civil engineering and urban planning.^[12] When the Indus civilization went into sudden decline around 1900 BCE, Mohenjo-daro was abandoned.^[10][13]

Rediscovery and excavation

The ruins of the city remained undocumented for around 3,700 years until R. D. Banerji, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India, visited the site in 1919–20, identifying the Buddhist stupa (150–500 CE) known to be there and finding a flint scraper which convinced him of the site's antiquity. This led to large-scale excavations of Mohenjo-daro led by Kashinath Narayan Dikshit in 1924–25, and John Marshall in 1925–26.^[14] In the 1930s, major excavations were conducted at the site under the leadership of Marshall, D. K. Dikshitar and Ernest Mackay. Further excavations were carried out in 1945 by Ahmad Hasan Dani and Mortimer Wheeler. The last major series of excavations were conducted in 1964 and 1965 by Dr. George F. Dales. After 1965 excavations were banned due to weathering damage to the exposed structures, and the only projects allowed at the site since have been salvage excavations, surface surveys, and conservation projects. However, in the 1980s, German and Italian survey groups led by Dr. Michael Jansen and Dr. Maurizio Tosi used less invasive archeological techniques, such as architectural documentation, surface surveys, and localized probing, to gather further information about Mohenjo-daro.^[3] A dry core drilling conducted in 2015 by Pakistan's National Fund for Mohenjo-daro revealed that the site is larger than the unearthed area.^[15]

Kriti Sanon

Kriti Sanon

born 27 July 1990
Indian model and film actress.
After beginning with modelling, she made her acting debut with Sukumar's Telugu psychological thriller
film 1: Nenokkadine.
Her first Bollywood film was Sabbir Khan's romantic action drama Heropanti, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
In 2015, Sanon starred in the romantic action comedy Dilwale, one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time.

Career

Sanon made her acting debut in 2014, with Sukumar's Telugu film 1: Nenokkadine, a psychological thriller, in which she played the role of Sameera.^[13] The film generated mixed reviews from critics.^[14][15] The Times of India critics stated Sanon "looks pretty" and "acts well".^[16] while the reviewer at Sify.com stated that Sanon "looks gorgeous", though her performance is "okay".^[17]
Later that year, Sanon made her Hindi cinema debut with Sabbir Khan's action-romance film Heropanti. Despite the fact that the film received mixed reviews from most critics, Box Office India called it a commercial success at the Indian box office.^[18] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama said she "looks gorgeous and handles her part with certainty and confidence" and that she "has the trappings of a star",^[19] whereas Rajeev Masand said she "looks lovely and makes an impression despite her harebrained role".^[20] Srijana Das of The Times of India, criticised her emoting, calling it "more cheesy than sharp."^[21] For her performance, Sanon won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.^[22]
Sanon had her second Telugu release entitled Dohchay directed by Sudheer Varma in 2015.^[23] Sanon subsequently appeared in Rohit Shetty's Dilwale in which she starred alongside Varun Dhawan, Shahrukh Khan and Kajol.^[24] The film received mixed reviews from critics, though emerged a major commercial success at the box office, grossing more than ₹394 crore (US$59 million) worldwide.^[9] While Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama praised Sanon's work and said she "is camera-friendly and confident to the T",^[25] Anupama Chopra noted that Sanon, along with Dhawan, "work as bait, meant to bring in the critical youth segment".^[26]
As of February 2016, Sanon has been signed on by Dinesh Vijan for his directorial debut, Raabta, opposite Sushant Singh Rajput.

Irom Chanu Sharmila

Irom Chanu Sharmila

Irom Chanu Sharmila (born 14 March 1972),^[1] also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Mengoubi" ("the fair one")^[2] is a civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. On 2 November 2000,^[3] she began a hunger strike which she decided to end on August 9, 2016,after 16 years of fasting. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker".^[4] On International Women’s Day, 2014 she was voted the top woman icon of India by MSN Poll.^[5][6]

In 2014 two parties asked her to stand in the national election, but she declined. She was then denied the right to vote as a person confined in jail cannot vote according to law.^[7][8][9]On 19 August 2014 a court ordered her release from custody, subject to there being no other grounds for detention. She was re-arrested on 22 August 2014 on similar charges to those for which she was acquitted, and remanded in judicial custody for 15 days.^[10]Amnesty International has declared her a prisoner of conscience.

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Amazon India's subscription service comes with a 60-day free trial and if you 

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The Rs. 499 price is only valid for a limited time though and after 

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Prime members in the US like Amazon Video and Amazon Music - 

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