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Subahu (Sanskrit: सुबाहु Supāhu, Tamil: சுபாகு Cupāku, Thai: Sawahu) is a rakshasa character in the Ramayana. He and his mother, Tataka, took immense pleasure in harassing the munis of the jungle, especially Vishvamitra, by disrupting their yajnas with rains of flesh and blood.

Vishvamitra approached Dasharatha for help in getting rid of these pestilences. Dasharatha obliged by sending two of his sons, Rama and Lakshmana, to the forest with Vishvamitra, charging them to protect both the sage and his sacrificial fires. When Subahu and Tataka again attempted to rain flesh and blood on the sage's yajna, they were both killed by Rama.

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Amanda Lamb
Born	(1972-07-19) 19 July 1972 (age 39) Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Height	5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m)[1]
Hair colour	brown
Eye colour	Green
Measurements	34B[2]-26-36
Dress size	10-12 (UK); 36-38 (EU); 6-8 (US)
Website
https://twitter.com/#!/missamandalamb

Amanda Lamb (born 19 July 1972 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is an English television presenter and former model.

Biography[link]

Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth^[3] and now lives in London. She worked as an estate agent and part-time as a barmaid for five years before becoming a model and is currently a television presenter.

Modelling[link]

In 1994 she took over the role of the "Scottish Widow"^[4] in a long-running series of advertisements for the investment company, Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society. Lamb was once asked by David Bailey to glide across the screen wearing roller skates in a scene which never made it to the final cut.^[5] Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", this contract lasted ten years.^[5]

In June 1998 she appeared in a silver bikini in FHM.

In 2008 Lamb was picked by Ortak [1] to model their autumn jewellery collection.

Television career[link]

In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4 programme A Place in the Sun. She also presented "Hot Shots", an Epson funded programme shown on Discovery Real Time on digital photography which was notable as being the last television appearance of photographer Patrick Lichfield. She competed in the reality television show The Games in March 2006. Lamb then returned to filming A Place in the Sun, in which she still appears. She co-hosted the cookery programme Market Kitchen (on Good Food) and regularly appears on The Wright Stuff (Five), also on Family Super Cooks (on Watch). In March 2012 she began presenting You Deserve This House, a new Channel 4 daytime show in which the homes of 'community heroes' are secretly refurbished.

Personal life[link]

Lamb was previously married but divorced in 2003. Lamb is now engaged to cameraman Sean McGuinness and they have a daughter, Willow Rose, who was born in February 2009.^[6]

In 2007, Lamb bought herself an apartment in the medieval town of Nardò in the Apulia region, southern Italy.^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official A Place in the Sun website
• Amanda Lamb at the Internet Movie Database
• Bio at Channel 4 Homes

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Zain Bhikha
Zain Bhikha in 2008
Background information
Born	(1974-08-09) August 9, 1974 (age 37) Pretoria, South Africa
Origin	South African
Genres	Islamic Nasheed
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, Musician
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Jamal Records/Mountain of Light
Associated acts	Yusuf Islam, Dawud Wharnsby
Website	zainbhikha.com

Zain Bhikha (Hindi: ज़ैन भिखा, Urdu: زین بھکھا; born August 9, 1974) is an South African singer-songwriter, who has achieved success as a performer of Islamic nasheed songs. Associated with other Muslim musicians, including Yusuf Islam and Dawud Wharnsby, Bhikha has collaborated on albums and also released several solo albums. He has written several religious albums concerning Islam.^{[citation needed]}

Bhikha sometimes performs with a drummer and several backup vocalists who were the African singers in the Disney cartoon movie The Lion King.^[1] Bhikha did not himself contribute to that film.

Bhikha's music almost exclusively follows Islamic themes, with only voice and drums being used, since the use of musical instruments other than the voice and the drum is an area of debate in Muslim jurisprudence, considered harām, or "unlawful" by a portion of the Muslim community.^{[citation needed]}

Current work[link]

Bhikha is currently involved in educational projects in his native South Africa as well as international initiatives to educate through song.^[2] He is also working with Indian Islamic Channel, Peace TV.^{[citation needed]}

On April 24, 2008, Bhikha participated in an international annual singing competition on the Prophet Muhammad's birthday, named the Al Mahabbah Awards Festival, in Abu Dhabi. Bhikha was accompanied by the aforementioned drummer and backing singers. One song they performed was "Peace Train", composed by Yusuf Islam.^[1]

Discography[link]

• 1996 - READ ALL ABOUT IT
• 1999 - BABY
• 2000 - Children of Heaven
• 2001 - Faith
• 2002 - Our World
• 2005 - Mountains of Makkah
• 2006 - Allah Knows
• 2009 - 1415: The Beginning
• 2010 - First We Need The Love
• 2010 - A Way of Life
• 2011 - HOPE
• 2011 - Better Day

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Myspace.com

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Ramanand Sagar (29 December 1917 – 12 December 2005) (born Chandramauli Chopra)^[1] was an Indian film director. He is most famous for making the extremely popular Ramayan television series, a 78-part TV adaptation of the ancient Hindu epic of the same name, starring Arun Govil as Lord Ram and Deepika Chikhalia as Sita.^[2]

Early life[link]

Ramanand Sagar was born at Asal Guru Ke near Lahore. His great-grandfather, Lala Shankar Das Chopra, migrated from Peshawar to Kashmir. Ramanand was adopted by his childless maternal grandmother and, although his original name was "Chandramauli," it was changed to "Ramanand" by his adoptive family.^[3] Sagar worked as a peon, truck cleaner, soap vendor, goldsmith apprentice etc. during the day and studied for his degree at night.

He was a gold medalist in Sanskrit and Persian from the University of Punjab in 1942. He was also editor of newspaper Daily Milap. He wrote many short stories, novels, poems, plays, etc. under names like "Ramanand Chopra", "Ramanand Bedi" and "Ramanand Kashmiri".^[3] In 1942 when he caught tuberculosis he wrote a subjective column “Diary of a T.B. patient” about his fight. The column was published in series in the magazine Adab-e-Mashriq in Lahore.^[3]

Career[link]

In 1932, Sagar started his film career as a clapper boy in a silent film, Raiders of the Rail Road.^[4] He then shifted to Bombay in 1949 after India's partition.

In 1940's, Ramanand Sagar started out as an assistant stage manager in Prithvi Theatres of Prithviraj Kapoor. Also, directed a few plays under the fatherly guidance of Kapoor. ^[5]

Along with other films that Sagar himself directed, he wrote the story and screenplay for Raj Kapoor's superhit Barsaat. He founded the film and television production company known as Sagar Films (Pvt. Ltd.) a.k.a. Sagar Arts in 1950. He produced and directed many successful films. He won the 1960 Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Paigham which was directed by S. S. Vasan and starred Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Raaj Kumar in lead roles. In 1968 he won the Filmfare Best Director Award for Ankhen. Ankhen was a spy-thriller starring Dharmendra and Mala Sinha. It was declared a "block buster" and was amongst the Top 10 Hindi films of 1960s.^[6]

In 1985 Sagar turned towards television. His Sagar Arts began producing serials based on Hindu mythology. His most popular Ramayan aired its first episode on January 25, 1987. The series became instantly popular amongst the Indian masses^[7] and won numerous national and international awards and felicitations.^[8] His next mythological tele-serials Krishna and Luv Kush also received good responses. Apart from mythology, he made fantasy dramas like Vikram Aur Betaal and Alif Laila.

Based on his experiences of Indo-Pak partition, Sagar published a Hindi-Urdu book Aur Insaan Mar Gaya (English: And Humanity Died) in 1948.^[9]

The government honored Sagar with the Padma Shri in 2000.

Awards[link]

Won[link]

• 1960 - Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Paigham
• 1969 - Filmfare Best Director Award for Aankhen

Nominated[link]

• 1966 - Filmfare Award for Best Story for Arzoo
• 1966 - Filmfare Award for Best Director for Arzoo
• 1969 - Filmfare Award for Best Story for Aankhen

Filmography[link]

References[link]

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