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Sydenham College
Motto	Labor Omnia Vincit (Work conquers all)
Established	1913
Type	Education
Principal	Dr. (Mrs.) M. V. Kagalkar
Location	Churchgate, Mumbai, Maharashtra,  India
Campus	South Mumbai
Website	http://www.sydenham.edu

Sydenham College or Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics is the first college of commerce in Asia.

It is an institute in Mumbai (previously Bombay), affiliated to the University of Bombay, and offering undergraduate degrees in commerce and undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in management. The college's motto is "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") and in Sanskrit, "samudyogo hi vishvajita" {Diligent Efforts Conquer the World} . The college is operated by the government of Maharshtra.

History[link]

Sydenham College, "the first college of commerce in Asia," was established in October 1913. It was named after the then-governor of Bombay, Lord Sydenham of Combe, who was instrumental in making the undergraduate degree of Bachelor of Commerce possible in Mumbai. This makes Sydenham College the oldest degree-awarding institution in commerce. K.S. Aiyar acted as first honorary principal of the college. It was only in 1941, twenty-eight years after the establishment of Sydenham College, that any other institute started offering courses in the subject.

On the college's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988, the Indian Post Office issued a commemorative stamp. In 1990, TIME rated Sydenham College as the "Best Commerce College this side of the Suez."

Location[link]

• 1955 onward: Since 1955, Sydenham College has been on "B Road" at Churchgate, very near the terminus of the Western Railway section of the Mumbai suburban railway. It is close to the Marine Drive sea front on the Arabian Sea.
• 1922–1955: The college was on the premises of the present-day Sir J. J. School of Architecture in Fort, opposite the Victoria Terminus railway station. It was then known as the Indo-British Institute.
• 1914–1922: The college moved to the Whiteway Laidlaw Building on Hornby Road, near the present-day Handloom House in Fort.
• 1913: The college was run from the Elphinstone College premises in Fort.

Courses offered[link]

• Bachelor of Commerce (since 1913)
• Master of Commerce (since 1925)
• Masters in Management Studies and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (since 1983; under "Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education" SIMSREE)
• Bachelor of Management Studies
• Bachelor of Commerce (Banking and Insurance) (since 2003)
• Bachelor of Smartness

Student activities[link]

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As part of educating the whole human, Sydenham College students participate in programs beyond the classroom setting. They are encouraged to be involved in student-organized events, community service, and a wide range of cultural, recreational, and social activities. Sydenham offers many opportunities for students to learn new skills and improve on existing ones through our creative and eclectic clubs and societies. The college festival “Brouhaha” and the magazine A-Mag are such great examples of student-managed endeavor.

• The Annual Magazine Committee (A-Mag): As the name suggests, A-Mag (as popularly known) publishes the college annual magazine at the end of each year. In addition to the annual magazine, A-Mag explores the realm of journalism with a well-received periodical, a newspaper called Speak. Sydenham has won many awards for the best college magazine.
• The Book Circle (BC): Aims at promoting reading habits amongst the students. Runs an informal library in the common room and organizes other literary events.
• Dramatics Society (DS): Aims at promoting theatre by organizing various plays. Also helps potentials with valuable on-stage experience and professional breaks.
• Hindi Sahitya Mandal (H.S.M.): Promotes traditional Indian culture and Hindi as a national language. Also organizes other popular events and programmes.
• Marathi Wangmaya Mandal (M.W.M.): Promotes Marathi, the state language both culturally and literally.
• Nature Club (N.C.): Promotes love for nature and environment awareness. Organizes awareness drives and outdoor trips.
• Performing Arts Society (P.A.S.): Discovers and encourages potential talent in dance and music. Organizes stage events, musical programmes, talent parades and fashion shows.
• Planning Forum: Creates awareness about various aspects of business and commerce through their workshops and seminars.
• Public Speaking and Debating Society( P.S.D.S.): Promote literary thinking and analytical ability. Organizes competitions, quizzes and debates.
• Poor Students' Education Relief Fund (P.S.E.R.F.): Aids financially underprivileged students in completing their studies by providing textbooks and funds.
• Rapport News Media: India's only college news media publishes newspapers, an annual issue, handles two daily bulletin boards — the Wallpaper and Happenings — and organizes workshops and competitions related to creative media.
• Social Service League (S.S.L. - N.S.S.): A programme initiated by the government and launched by Sydenham College. Organizes blood donation drives, health and AIDS awareness and adult education programmes. Adopts villages to bring about rural upliftment by building schools and such infrastructure. Serving members are granted 10 grace marks by the university.
• Sydenham Auditorium Committee (S.A.C.): Maintains the college auditorium and allocates it for society events. Also handles the security arrangements for such events.
• Sydenham Audio Visual Education Society (SAVES): Promotes education and entertainment through audio visual means like laser disc shows and slides.
• Sydenham College Co-operative Stores (Co-ops): A co-operative company solely managed by students. Promotes hardcore business skills among students. Its three divisions include an on-campus retail outlet, C3 - the Computer Centre and La Pub - a publicity agency.
• Sydenham College Gymkhana (Gym): Coordinates all sporting activities in college and maintains the sport infrastructure.
• Sydenham College Students' Council: Regarded as the apex body of students, the Council represents the student community to the management and serves as a channel of communication between the two.
• Sydenham Computer Centre (SCC): Manages the computer lab in college besides organizing programmes related to information technology and provide internet service to the students of the college, as well as manage website of the college.
• Sydenham Photographic Society (SPS): Promotes photography as an art, science and a profession. Also provides a Platform for amateur photographers and models through competitions, Workshops and exhibitions
• Sydenham Foreign Trade Association (SFTA): The Sydenham Foreign Trade Association is the representative council of the foreign trade course in the college. Its conducts Annual Workshops and Summer Training.
• Sydenham Advertising & Event Management Organisation (SAEMO): SAEMO, the newest entrant in college was formed in 2003. It is a non-profit organization which solely caters to the benefit of the students. SAEMO hosts intercollegiate events and fests.
• Sydenham Banking and Insurance Society (SBIS): It is a society that works for the students of banking and insurance and acquaints them with the various developments in the field of banking and insurance.

Notable alumni[link]

There are a number of alumni from Sydenham who hold senior positions in corporations large and small. There are also celebrities who have graduated from Sydenham.

• Sanjiv Mehta, owner, East India Company London^{[1] [2]}
• Deepak Parekh, chairman HDFC
• Uday S Kotak, chairman Kotak Mahindra
• Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, trader and investor, Rare Enterprises
• Girish Paranjpe, joint CEO Wipro Technologies
• Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati, eminent economist and professor of economics at Columbia University
• Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Vikram Birla Group of companies
• Indranil Deb, Investment Banker-Principal, Mobius Strip Capital Advisors,
• Ronnie Screwvala, chairman, UTV
• Vinod Khanna, Indian film actor
• Juhi Chawla, Indian film actress
• Rahul Bose, an Indian actor
• Fazila Allana, notable TV producer, founder and MD of Sol
• Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
• Akshaye Khanna, Indian film actor, son of Vinod Khanna
• Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Indian pop-singer and actress
• Gita Johar, Meyer Feldberg Professor of Marketing, Columbia University
• Gayatri Joshi, Indian actress known for her role in Hindi film Swades
• Uday Chopra, Indian actor
• Sanjay Gupta, film director
• Atul Agnihotri, director and actor in Hindi films
• Shiamak Davar, dancer and singer
• Aditya Chopra, film director and producer
• Sameera Reddy, Indian film actress
• Sheetal Mallar, Indian supermodel
• Shamita Shetty, Indian film actress
• Omar Abdullah, politician
• Milind Deora, politician
• Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
• Indu Shahani, principal of HR College and present sheriff of Mumbai
• Meera Sanyal, country head, ABN AMRO
• Vijay Merchant, cricketer
• Praful Patel, notable politician
• Zeenat Aman, Indian film actress
• Swapnil Joshi, TV actor-comedian
• Nimesh Kampani, chairman, JM Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.
• Sanaya Irani, Television Actress
• Karanvir Bohra, Television Actor

See also[link]

• Government Colleges Hostel

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sydenham College Website
• Sydenham Alumni Website

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Sydenham
Sydenham  Sydenham shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ352714
London borough	Lewisham
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	SE26
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Lewisham West and Penge
London Assembly	Greenwich and Lewisham
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Sydenham ( /ˈsɪdnəm/) is an area and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham; although some streets towards Crystal Palace Park, Forest Hill and Penge are outside the ward and in the London Borough of Bromley, and some streets off Sydenham Hill are in the London Borough of Southwark. Sydenham was in Kent until 1889 when the County of London was created. The population of the Sydenham ward in 2007 was 14,650, Upper Sydenham is included in Forest Hill ward.^[1]

Sydenham is most famous as the location where the Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition was relocated. Famous people who have lived here include Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer; George Grove of musical dictionary fame; John Logie Baird, the television inventor; Jason Statham, an actor; the comics and film historian Denis Gifford; and Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement.

Brief history[link]

Sydenham started out as a small settlement, a few cottages among the woods, whose inhabitants grazed their animals and collected wood.

In the 1640s, springs of water in what is now Wells Park were discovered to have medicinal properties, attracting crowds of people to the area. Sydenham grew rapidly in the 19th century after the introduction of the canal in 1801. Potential gas companies began to consider the Sydenham area in the 1840s after the opening of the railway.

In 1851 the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park was housed in an immense glass building, called the Crystal Palace. In 1854 the building was bought by a private company, dismantled and re-erected in Sydenham Park (Now called Crystal Palace Park). Exhibitions, concerts, conferences and sporting events were held at the Crystal Palace (until it burned down in 1936), and Sydenham became a fashionable area; many new houses were built. They could be supplied with gas from the Crystal Palace and District Gas Company's works at Bell Green, which continued in production until 1969. A large Sainsburys store now occupies part of the site.

Sydenham today is a bustling town centre with an active and engaged community, excellent public transport, schools, parks, shops and restaurants. The town centre is home to 185 small and medium-sized businesses, many independently owned and offering a wide range of goods. The town centre has a very community and villagey feel making Sydenham a well connected location where there are many independent run businesses as opposed to a more vast and informal environment with branded chain stores that neighbouring Croydon, Bromley and Lewisham home.

Drinking fountain erected to commemorate the 1897 Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Notable buildings and structures[link]

• Sydenham is the home of St Bartholomew's church, (1827–1832), at the end of Lawrie Park Avenue, featured in Camille Pissarro's painting of 1871. The building was designed by Lewis Vulliamy.
• Park Court Sydenham, (1936), by Frederick Gibberd, pioneering modernist development of residential flats on the estate on Lawrie Park Road adjacent to the famous Crystal Palace Park.
• Six Pillars, (1934–35), by Berthold Lubetkin, on Crescent Wood Road, a villa strongly in the spirit of Le Corbusier with eponymous six pillars at street level.
• Cobbs Corner, takes its name from a draper’s shop at 291-307 Kirkdale run by Walter Cobb. The shop grew into a large department store catering to the gentry of the area. Interesting imposing dome where you can find the date on the building.
• 180 and 182 Kirkdale, built in the 1850s in Gothic style, with Tudor doorcases.
• 168–178 Kirkdale, three pairs of Italianate houses built around 1862. Number 174 was briefly the home of the conductor August Manns.
• Memorial to Queen Victoria, (1897) baroque-style memorial celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Restored for Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee and designed by Alexander Hennell, a Sydenham resident and architect.
• Jews Walk, it is believed that a wealthy Jewish resident planted a row of trees to define the boundary of his walk from the Common. Numbers 2,4 and 6 are classical villas dating from the 1840s. Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor lived on Jews Walk. On 9 September 2008 a blue English Heritage plaque was placed on the house to commemorate this fact.
• Halifax Street, beautifully preserved street with houses dating from the 1840s. Of notice are in particular the closeness of the houses, the length of the street and the size of the gardens.
• The Kirkdale Building, previously the Sydenham Public Lecture Hall, it was built in 1861 by Sydenham resident Henry Dawson.
• Mayow Park, originally named Sydenham Recreation Ground, this is the borough’s oldest municipal park. The park is home to the Mayow Park Bowls Club, has two tennis courts and a refurbished children’s playground.

Beast of Sydenham[link]

The Beast of Sydenham, as of 25 March 2005, is a large, panther-like black animal which has been spotted around the area, and attacked a man. The beast was said to be 6 ft in length and 3 ft in height.^[2][3]

Sydenham Children's Hospital[link]

Although this was it's popular name, the hospital's correct name was The Children's Hospital, Sydenham. It was open from 1872 until 1991, it's services are now part of Lewisham Hospital.^[4]

Education[link]

Sydenham contains two secondary schools, Sydenham High School - a private school - and Sydenham School. Both of these schools are exclusively girls' schools.

Primary schools in Sydenham are four non-religious schools (Adamsrill Primary School, Eliot Bank Primary, Haseltine School and Kelvin Grove Primary School) and three religious schools (St. Michael's Primary School, St Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary School) and St. Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School. The former includes children of other faiths.

Nearby to Sydenham are secondary schools which include residents of Sydenham in their catchment area. These include Forest Hill, Harris, Cator Park School for Girls and Sedgehill Schools.

Famous residents[link]

• John Logie Baird — the inventor of the television
• Thomas Campbell — poet
• Connie Fisher — singer and actress, winner of the BBC TV program "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?"
• Denis Gifford — comics and film historian
• Wilfrid de Glehn — painter, was born in Sydenham
• W. G. Grace — England's greatest cricketer
• George Grove — of musical dictionary fame
• Rolf Harris — was a key figure in the Sydenham Society
• Norman Hunter — writer and creator of Professor Branestawm
• Shivani Kapoor — Indian model, cousin of famous Bollywood sister actresses Karisma & Kareena Kapoor
• Linda Ludgrove — Commonwealth gold medallist swimmer
• Eleanor Marx — daughter of Karl Marx
• John Scott Russell — naval architect who built the SS Great Eastern
• Dame Cicely Saunders — founder of the modern hospice movement
• Ernest Shackleton — the Antarctic explorer
• Jason Statham — film actor
• David Wiffen — Canadian singer/songwriter was born in Sydenham in 1942
• Bill Wyman — member of The Rolling Stones, grew up in Sydenham
• Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi — Opera singer, she first came to public notice as a member of the world-famous opera band Amici Forever
• Lionel Logue CVO, an Australian speech therapist and stage actor who successfully treated, among others, King George VI. He lived in a villa named Beechgrove from 1933-1940

Geography[link]

Sydenham

Sydenham is the over all area but the central part is just referred as Sydenham. The central area includes Sydenham Road or Sydenham High Street by locals and is the main shopping area. The main railway station is called Sydenham which links to Croydon, Penge, Forest Hill, New Cross, Shoreditch, Dalston and the major terminii London Bridge and London Victoria. Sydenham is served by bus routes 75, 122, 176, 194, 197, 202 & 450. Sydenham is also home to a Co-operative, formally Somerfield supermarket on Sydenham Road.

Sydenham Hill

Sydenham Hill is to the north of Sydenham and there is also road called Sydenham Hill. It includes three postcodes (SE26, SE23 and SE21) and is partly in the London Borough of Southwark and the London Borough of Lewisham. The London Borough of Southwark area is part of the "College ward". Sydenham Hill has direct links to Herne Hill, London Victoria, Bromley and Orpington. The area is served by bus routes 202, 356, 363 and the 450. Local amenities include Dulwich and Sydenham Hill Golf Club and Sydenham Woods.

Upper Sydenham

Upper Sydenham is North West of Sydenham. It has the same postcode of SE26 and in the London Borough of Lewisham, but is included in the Forest Hill ward. Upper Sydenham is served by bus routes 122, 176, 197, 202 & 356. Local Parks are Wells Park and Baxters field. A Tesco Express Store opened in June 2009 on Kirkdale. There was a former station in the area called Upper Sydenham railway station.

Lower Sydenham

Lower Sydenham is in the East of the area. It has the same postcode and is in the London Borough of Lewisham and a small part in the London Borough of Bromley. The Crystal Palace District Gas Company was founded in Lower Sydenham in 1854, supplied with coal by newly opened railway. The Company supplied gas to the relocated Crystal Palace and defined Lower Sydenham as a working class area. Gas production stopped in 1969, but the South Eastern Gas Board continued to be based there and gas holders still remain. Most of the site was redeveloped in 1996 as a Savacentre (as this was its original name) by locals, Sainsburys 'Sydenham' is one of the largest Sainsbury's store in the UK. Lower Sydenham has its own railway station Lower Sydenham which links to Hayes, Lewisham, Catford, London Bridge and Charing Cross. It also has Home Park which boasts an Adventure playground and is situated next to Sydenham Library, funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1904. Further down towards Bell Green is The Old Bathhouse (now an antiques reclamation yard). The area is served by bus routes 181, 194, 202, 352, 356 & 450.

The future[link]

• The High Street Plans for TfL to fund major improvements to the high street are available at ^[5]

Nearest places[link]

• Penge
• Crystal Palace
• Dulwich
• Bellingham
• Forest Hill
• Brockley
• Crofton Park
• Catford
• Beckenham
• Bromley

Nearest railway stations[link]

• Penge East railway station
• Sydenham railway station (London)
• Sydenham Hill railway station
• Lower Sydenham railway station
• Upper Sydenham railway station (closed in 1958)
• Penge West railway station
• Forest Hill railway station
• New Beckenham railway station
• Kent House railway station

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sydenham.org.uk Community website and forum.
• Sydenham Society Local community group.
• Virtual Sydenham
• Historical images of Sydenham

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Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan at Mumbai Police Show Umang in 2011
Born	(1974-01-10) 10 January 1974 (age 38) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980–1986 (child artist) 2000–present
Spouse	Suzanne Khan (2000 – present)
Children	2

Hrithik Roshan ([ˈrɪt̪ʰɪk ˈroːʃən]; born 10 January 1974)^[1] is an Indian film actor. Having appeared as a child actor in several films throughout the 1980s, Roshan made his film debut in a leading role in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai in 2000. His performance in the film earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Debut. He followed it with leading roles in Fiza and Mission Kashmir (both 2000) and a supporting part in the blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), which was India's highest-grossing film in the overseas market up to then.^[2]

Following through with several unnoticed performances from 2002 to 2003, he starred in the blockbusters Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) and its sequel Krrish (2006), both of which won him numerous Best Actor awards.^[3] Roshan received his third Filmfare Award for Best Actor in 2006 for his performance in the action film Dhoom 2, his biggest commercial success to date, and his fourth for Jodhaa Akbar,^[4] for which he was also awarded at the Golden Minbar International Film Festival. These accomplishments have established him as one of the leading contemporary actors of Hindi cinema.^[5] He later received further acclaim for his work in Guzaarish (2010), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) and Agneepath (2012).

Biography[link]

Early career, until 1999[link]

Roshan's first movie role was as a child artist when he was six years old in the 1980s movie Aasha, where he appeared in a dance sequence as an extra. Roshan went on to play minor roles in Aap Ke Deewane (1980) and Bhagwan Dada (1986) both of which starred his father Rakesh Roshan in the leading role. He then became an assistant director assisting in the production of his father's films Karan Arjun (1995) and Koyla (1997).

Breakthrough, 2000–2002[link]

In 2000, Roshan made his film debut as the leading man in the film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai opposite another debutante actress Amisha Patel. The film, which was directed by his father and saw him playing a double role, proved to be very successful at the box office and was declared a blockbuster,^[6] it also became the highest grossing film of 2000^[7] and winner of the Filmfare Best Movie Award. Roshan's performance was well-received, and the film made him an overnight star.^[8][9][10] He eventually received both the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award and the Filmfare Best Actor Award for the role. The film entered the Limca Book of Records in 2003 for the most number of awards won by a Bollywood film – 102 awards.^[11]

Later that year, Roshan starred in Khalid Mohammed's Fiza. Although the film did poorly at the box office, his performance was praised, earning him another nomination for Best Actor at the Filmfare ceremony. Taran Adarsh from indiaFM noted, "The mainstay of the film is undoubtedly Hrithik Roshan. His body language, his diction, his expressions, his overall persona deserves great praise. With this film, Hrithik proves that there is more to him than just being a fashionable rage, a Mills & Boon lover-boy and a sex symbol. His talent comes to the fore in several scenes, especially those with Karisma. All said and done, the show belongs to Hrithik, who saves Fiza to a major extent. A brilliant performance undoubtedly!"^[12]

Roshan's last release of the year, Mission Kashmir, became the third highest grossing film of the year.^[7] His performance was once again acclaimed with one critic praising him, "Hrithik once again cuts a splendid performance as a youngster sucked in the vortex of terrorism. He is portrayed as anti-government in the early part of the film-- a bold role to play for even a seasoned actor, leave alone a budding superstar." All these achievements promoted him as one of the biggest stars in the industry.^[13]

Subhash Ghai's Yaadein was his first release in 2001. This was followed by Karan Johar's melodramatic Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, which did extremely well at the box office, becoming the second-highest grossing film of 2001 and the biggest hit overseas.^[14][15] Roshan's performance was well received and his performance earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at various award ceremonies.

Roshan had an unsuccessful year in 2002 when all three of his releases – Mujhse Dosti Karoge!, Na Tum Jaano Na Hum and Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage – failed to make an impact the box office and were declared flops.^[16]

Success, 2003–present[link]

In 2003, he made a comeback with the science-fiction film Koi... Mil Gaya, which saw him playing a mentally disabled young man.^[10] The film was the highest grosser of the year and won him many awards, including his second Filmfare Award for Best Actor and his first Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor.^[17] Taran Adarsh noted, "Hrithik Roshan dominates the show and packs in a power-packed performance. The role of a mentally challenged person is no cakewalk, but the actor takes to it like a fish takes to water. He manages to pull off the zero to hero routine exceptionally well. As an actor, he scales dizzier heights with this splendid performance."^[18] His performance was later included in the 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances" by Filmfare.^[19]

Hritik Roshan with his wax statue at Madame Tussauds

Farhan Akhtar's Lakshya was Roshan's only release in 2004; the film was critically acclaimed but did not do well at the box office.^[20] His performance was praised by critics.^[21] and again, was included in the 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances" by Filmfare.^[22]

Roshan took a two-year break from acting before resurfacing with the superhero film Krrish opposite Priyanka Chopra. A sequel to his 2003 film Koi... Mil Gaya, the film was a major box office success and became the second highest grosser of 2006.^[23] His performance as a superhero was praised, earning him many Best Actor awards at various award ceremonies, including Star Screen and the International Indian Film Academy.^[3] IndiaFM wrote, "To state that Hrithik is the soul of Krrish would be an understatement. If the actor walked away with all noteworthy awards in Koi... Mil Gaya, it's going to be an encore with Krrish. You cannot imagine any other actor enacting the role of a gifted child with aplomb. If his mask and robe look is splendid, watch his makeup, gait and mannerisms as the aged father and you had to agree, he's one of the finest talents on the Indian screen today. Krrish is yet another ground-breaking film in his dazzling repertoire!"^[24]

His next film that year was Dhoom 2, a sequel to the 2004 Dhoom. Featured opposite Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Roshan's performance in the movie not only earned him widespread critical acclaim,^[3][25] but also his third Filmfare Best Actor Award. The film went on to become the highest grossing film of 2006, as well as one of the most successful films of Bollywood.^[23][26]

In 2008, Roshan featured in Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar opposite Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. He played the historical role of Akbar the Great. The movie did very good business, both in India and abroad.^[15][27] His performance in the movie was widely appreciated by critics,^[3] earning him his fourth Filmfare Best Actor Award as well as his first international award for Best Actor at the Golden Minbar International Film Festival in Kazan, Russia.^[4]

Roshan then appeared in Zoya Akhtar's Luck by Chance (2009), in which he made a guest appearance. The following year, he was seen in Anurag Basu's Kites along with Mexican actress Bárbara Mori and Kangna Ranaut. The film failed to do well at the box office after taking a huge start and was eventually declared a flop. He next acted in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish opposite Aishwarya Rai. Upon release, the film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and Roshan's portrayal of Ethan Mascarenhas, a quadriplegic patient earned him several Best Actor nominations at various award ceremonies.

In July 2011, he appeared in Zoya Akhtar's Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara alongside Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin. The film opened to positive reviews, and Roshan's portrayal was praised. According to Rajeev Masand, "Hrithik Roshan once again brings real depth to his character with a spectacular performance. He’s shy and restrained, then lets go with such fantastic intensity that you make the inward journey with his character".^[28] The film was declared as "super-hit" in both in India and Overseas.^[29] In the same year Roshan featured as a judge for the dance competition reality show, Just Dance along with Farah Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant.^[30][31] The show got the highest opening (a cumulative TRP of 4.7) for a reality show that year for which he was voted as the best TV host by a poll conducted by Ormax Media.^[32] In 2012, he then appeared in Agneepath in which he reprise the role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan opposite Priyanka Chopra. The film has taken a historic opening and has broken all opening-day records.^[33]

Besides acting, Roshan made his debut as a singer in Kites, and has also sung in the films Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Guzaarish.^[34]

A life-size wax figure was installed at London's Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on 20 January 2011, making him the fifth Indian actor to have been replicated as a wax statue in the museum.^[35]

Personal life[link]

Hrithik, with his wife Suzanne

Roshan was born in Mumbai to a Hindu family of cinema personalities. His father, film director Rakesh Roshan, is the son of music director Roshan, while his mother, Pinky, is the daughter of producer and director J. Om Prakash. Hrithik has an elder sister, Sunaina. His uncle Rajesh Roshan is a famous music director. As a child, Roshan attended the Bombay Scottish School.^[36] He later attended Sydenham College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Commerce.^[37]

During an interview he revealed that his childhood was traumatized because of stammering, a defect that surfaced when he was around six years old and plagues him even today. "For oral tests at school, I used to bunk school, I used to fall sick, I used to break my hand, I used to get a sprain" the actor said. He however said that things improved for him gradually, after he started practicing speech therapies on a daily basis.^[38]

Roshan is married to Suzanne (Khan) Roshan, owner of Suzanne Roshan's House of Design and daughter of actor Sanjay Khan. Hrithik got married to Suzanne on 20 December 2000. The couple have two sons, Hrehaan, born in 2006 and Hridhaan born in 2008.^[39][40] Roshan has two thumbs on his right hand.^[41] Although it is usually hidden in his films, it was not hidden in Koi... Mil Gaya, and was even used as a minor plot point, as Jaadoo the alien was also designed to have two thumbs.^[42]

Filmography[link]

See also[link]

Bollywood portal

• List of Indian Actors

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hrithik Roshan

• Hrithik Roshan at the Internet Movie Database

Sameera Reddy
Born	14 December 1982 (1982-12-14) (age 29)[1] Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2002-present
Parents	Chintapoli Reddy Nakshatra Reddy
Relatives	Meghna Reddy (sister) Sushma Reddy (sister)

Sameera Reddy (Telugu: సమీరా రెడ్డి, Samīrā Reḍḍi ^?; born 14 December 1982 is an Indian actress who primarily appears in Bollywood and Kollywood films. Apart from Hindi and Tamil, she has also appeared in a number of Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam films.

Early life[link]

Reddy was born in eletipadu near tanuku , Andhra Pradesh. Her father Chintapoli (C. P.) Reddy, a Telugu, is a businessman,^[2][3] while her mother Nakshatra, a Goud Saraswat Brahmin,^[4] referred to as Niki by her daughters and in the media, was a microbiologist and worked with an NGO.^[5][6] She has two siblings, Meghna Reddy, a former VJ and supermodel,^[7] and Sushma Reddy, herself a Bollywood actress and model,^[8] both elder to her.^[9] She did her schooling at Bombay Scottish School in Mahim, Mumbai and graduated from Sydenham College.

Sameera described herself as a "Tomboy" and "the ugly duckling in the family", while citing: "I was plump, had glasses and my glam quotient was rather low till I was 19".^[9] She also claimed that she had always been "the calm one" and "most diplomatic" among the sisters and was pampered since she was the youngest in the family.^[5]

Career[link]

Reddy first appeared in ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas's "Aur Aahista" music video in 1996, when she was a graduate.^[10] She caught the attention of Bollywood and was cast in a pivotal role in the 2002 Hindi film Maine Dil Tujhko Diya. In 2004, she appeared in Musafir.

Reddy appeared in the Tamil film Vaaranam Aayiram directed by Gautham Menon, opposite Surya Sivakumar, which was a blockbuster. Reddy's acting and modest portrayal of a confident and down-to-earth girl earned her rave reviews.

Personal life[link]

Reddy is a big fan of American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey. She met Oprah during the former's visit to India at the welcome party hosted by Parmeshwar Godrej. As the television celebrity was reportedly impressed by Sameera's saree, she was presented a similar saree as a gift by the actress before she left India.^[11]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sameera Reddy

• Sameera Reddy at the Internet Movie Database

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The Right Honourable The Lord Sydenham PC
Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
In office 1839–1841
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir George Arthur
Succeeded by	John Clitherow
Governor General of the Province of Canada
In office 1839–1841
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	The Earl of Durham
Succeeded by	Sir Charles Bagot
President of the Board of Trade
In office 5 June – 14 November 1834
Monarch	William IV
Prime Minister	The Earl Grey The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by	The Lord Auckland
Succeeded by	Alexander Baring
In office 8 April 1835 – 29 August 1839
Monarch	William IV Victoria
Prime Minister	The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by	Alexander Baring
Succeeded by	Henry Labouchere
Personal details
Born	13 September 1799 (1799-09-13) Waverley Abbey, Farnham, Surrey
Died	19 September 1841(1841-09-19) (aged 42) Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	British
Political party	Whig
Alma mater	None

Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham PC (13 September 1799 – 19 September 1841) was a British politician and the first Governor of the united Province of Canada.

Background[link]

Born at Waverley Abbey, near Farnham, Surrey, Thomson was the son of John Buncombe Poulett Thomson, a London merchant, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of John Jacob. His father was the head of J. Thomson, T. Bonar and Company, a successful trading firm that had dealings with Russia. After attending private schools until age 16, Thomson entered the family firm at Saint Petersburg. In 1817 he came home due to poor health and embarked on a prolonged tour of southern Europe. He returned to Russia in 1821 and over the next three years travelled extensively in eastern Europe. He established permanent residence in London in 1824 but frequently visited the Continent, especially Paris.

Political career[link]

Thomson was returned to the House of Commons for Dover in 1826. In 1830 he joined Lord Grey's ministry as Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy, an office he held until 1834. He was then President of the Board of Trade under Lord Melbourne in 1834 and again between 1835 and 1839. A free-trader and an expert in financial matters he was elected MP for Manchester in 1832, a seat which he occupied until 1839. He was continuously occupied with negotiations affecting international commerce until 1839, when he accepted the Governorship of Canada.

Canada[link]

Sydenham succeeded Lord Durham as Governor of Canada in 1839. He was responsible for implementing the Union Act in 1840, uniting Upper Canada and Lower Canada as the Province of Canada and moving the seat of government to Kingston. Later that year, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sydenham, of Sydenham in the County of Kent and of Toronto in Canada. Upper Canadians were given a choice in the matter of union, which they accepted; Lower Canada had no say, and as a result many French Canadians were opposed to both the union and Sydenham himself. Sydenham was just as anti-French as Durham had been, and he encouraged British immigration to make the French Canadian population less significant. French Canadians referred to him as le poulet, "the chicken." Realizing he had almost no support in Lower Canada (at this time Canada East), he reorganized ridings to give the English population more votes, and in areas where that was infeasible, he allowed English mobs to beat up French candidates. Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine was one such candidate who suffered from Sydenham's influence; Lafontaine eventually left Canada East to work with Robert Baldwin in creating a fairer union for both sides.

Sydenham also settled the Protestant land dispute in Upper Canada (at this time Canada West), which the Family Compact had interpreted to refer only to the Anglican Church. Sydenham declared that half of the land set aside for Protestant churches would be shared between Anglicans and Presbyterians, and the other half would be shared between the other Protestant denominations. Sydenham wanted to make Canada more financially independent, so that there would less danger of annexation by the United States. He had been working on this policy throughout the 1830s, when he was President of the Board of Trade in Britain, though he had little time to implement any economic reforms once he had arrived in Canada. After less than two years as Governor-General, Sydenham died in 1841.

Legacy[link]

Sydenham Public School, Kingston, Ontario which has operated as an educational facility since its construction in 1853 as the Kingston County Grammar School, was renamed in the 1890s for Lord Sydenham, governor general of British North America from 1839 to 1841.^[1]

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Buckner, Phillip. "Thomson, Charles Edward Poulett, 1st Baron Sydenham", in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, Université Laval and University of Toronto, 2000
• Knaplund, Paul, ed. (1973). Letters from Lord Sydenham, Governor-General of Canada, 1839–1841, to Lord John Russell, New York: A. M. Kelley, 180 p.
• Shortt, Adam (1908). Lord Sydenham, Toronto: Morang & co., limited, 367 p. (online)
• Scrope, George Poulett and Charles Edward Poulett Thomson Sydenham (1844) Memoir of the Life of the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Sydenham, G. C. B.: With a Narrative of His Administration in Canada, London: John Murray, 403 p. (online)
• Portraits of Charles Poulett-Thomson, Baron Sydenham at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source?][better source needed]}
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs ^{[self-published source?][better source needed]}

External links[link]

• "Biography" (in French). Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours. National Assembly of Quebec. http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/patrimoine/anciens-parlementaires/thomson-charles-edward-poulett-425.html. 
•  "Thomson, Charles Edward Poulett". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Poulett Thomson