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Pramod Kumar Satapathy was an assistant commandment in the Orissa Police. He laid down his life in the process of fighting armed naxalites on 15 February 2008 and has been awarded with the Ashoka Chakra posthumously.^[1][2]

Satapathy was training in charge of the Special Operation Group of Orissa State Armed Police at Chandaka. He had rushed to Nayagarh along with 20 available men on motorcycles soon after hearing the news that heavily armed Naxalites had attacked police establishments and looted a huge cache of arms at 10.30 pm on February 15.

On receiving information about the movement of the militants, Satapathy quickly made out a plan and with available forces of SOG, OSAP and CRPF followed the Naxalites into the jungle.

There were about 200-300 Naxalites in an elevated location and they were about to escape. Satapathy mounted assault on the Naxalites. The Naxalites in turn unleashed a heavy fire on the police team.

In this encounter that continued for about two hours, the police party had to retreat. Satapathy fought bravely till his last breath and laid down his life in fighting the militants. A large quantity of arms and ammunitions was recovered from the site.

On getting information of hide-out of Naxalites, Satpathy along with two SOG teams chased and continued firing about four hours for which the rebels could not be able to escape. It was the courageous fight for which a huge amount of arms and ammunition were recovered from the ultras and later he fell to bullet injuries.

Family members of the 43-year-old Satpathy, who hailed from Jajpur district of Orissa state and was son of a retired deputy commandant in Orissa police, were inconsolable. While three brothers, including him were serving for the State police. He is survived by wife and two children.

He was the first Ashok Chakra recipient from Orissa state and the first officer to receive the Ashoka Chakra (posthumous) in an anti-Naxal operation.

The following is the citations for Satapathy posthumous Ashok Chakras President Pratibha Patil awarded on the occasion of Republic Day 26 January 2009.

Assistant Commandant Pramod Kumar Satapathy (Training in charge, Special Operation Group Orissa State Armed Police - posthumous): In the night of 15 February 2008 about 500 heavily armed Naxalites carried out simultaneous attacks on police at various locations in and around Bhubaneswar looting many weapons and killing several police personnel. Thereafter, they hid in nearby jungles.

Assistant Commandant Shri Pramod Kumar Satapathy training in charge of the Special Operation Group along with a mere 20 police personnel reached the elevated position taken by the naxalites inside the jungle and immediately mounted an assault on them. The Naxalites retaliated with heavy fire on the police team and in a fierce encounter lasting for about two hours. Shri Satapathy led the operations with exemplary courage before making the supreme sacrifice.

Shri Pramod Kumar Satapathy displayed highest degree of bravery and dedication to duty in the fight against Naxalites.

He was on 26 January 2009 awarded posthumously. The Ashoka Chakra- a reorganization of his courage which - is awarded to any individual, uniformed or civilian, for the most conspicuous bravery, or some act of daring, or pre-eminent act of valour, or self-sacrifice, otherwise than in the face of the enemy.

References[link]

1. ^ "-Satapathy-awarded-Ashoka-Chakra". http://www.kalingatimes.com/orissa_news/news3/20080815-Pramod-Satapathy-awarded-Ashoka-Chakra.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-26. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Profile: Pramod Kumar Satapathy". http://www.zeenews.com/nation/2009-01-26/501821news.html. Retrieved 2009-01-26. 

Virendra Razdan (c. 1950 – June 13, 2003) was an Indian film and television actor. He may be best known for his portrayal of Maulana Azad, a leading figure of the Indian independence movement, in the 1982 biographical film, Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough.^[1] He also appeared in the Indian television series, Mahabharat, playing the role of Vidura.^[1]

Razdan's father was a Sufi musician.^[1] He studied acting and theater at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, where he was a student of Ibrahim Alkazi.^[1]

Virendra Razdan died in Mumbai, India, on June 13, 2003, at the age of 53.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Virendra Razdan at the Internet Movie Database

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Mahabharat is a successful Indian television series based on the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. The 94-episode series originally ran from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990.^[1] It was produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra. The music was composed by critically acclaimed music director Rajkamal. Each episode was approximately 45 minutes long. It followed the highly successful Ramayan broadcast in 1987–1988.

It was shown in the UK by the BBC, where it achieved audience figures of 5 million, unheard of for a subtitled series being aired in the afternoon.^[2] It was also the first programme broadcast on BBC2 after its 1991 revamp,^[3] but was also shown late at night on BBC 1 the previous year ^[4]

According to production team member Kishore Malhotra, the total cost of producing the series was Rs. 90,000,000.^[5]

Cast[link]

• Harish Bhimani as Samay (Time) (voice)
• Rajesh Vivek as Vyasa (author of the Mahabharata)

Participating in war[link]

in favour of (Pandavas)

• Gajendra Chouhan as Yudhishthira , Sonu as young Yudhishthira
• Praveen Kumar as Bheema , Malik as young Bheema
• Arjun as Arjuna, Ankur Javeri as young Arjuna
• Sameer as Nakula
• Sanjeev as Sahadeva
• Nitish Bharadwaj as Krishna, Shampa Gopikrishan as child Krishna, Kewal Shah as adolescent Krishna
• Razak Khan as Ghatotkacha
• Paintal as Shikhandi
• Arun Bakshi as Dhrishtadyumna (Draupadi's Brother)
• Mayur as Abhimanyu

in favour of (Kauravas)

• Puneet Issar as Duryodhana
• Vinod Kapoor as Dushasana
• Pankaj Dheer as Karna
• Gufi Paintal as Shakuni
• Mukesh Khanna as Bhishma
• Surendra Pal as Dronacharya
• Dharmesh Tiwari as Kripacharya
• Pradeep Rawat as Ashwatthama
• Ashok Banthia as Kritavarma
• Kapil Kumar as Shalya

Other cast[link]

• Raj Babbar as Bharat (forefather of Kauravas and Pandavas)
• Ashalata as Shakuntala (mother of Emperor Bharata and the wife of Dushyanta who was the founder of the Paurava Dynasty)
• Kiran Juneja as Ganga (Goddess of the river)
• Rishabh Shukla as Shantanu (Bhishma's Father)
• Debashree Roy as Satyavati (queen of the Kuru king Shantanu)
• Sudesh Berry as Vichitraveerya, Shantanu's third son
• Vishnu Sharma as Vasudeva (Krishna's Father)
• Sheela Sharma as Devaki (Krishna's Mother)
• Kshama Raj as Rohini (Balarama's Mother)
• Ramlal Gupta as Ugrasena (Kans's father)
• Goga Kapoor as Kans (Krishna's Maternal Uncle, evil ruler of Mathura)
• Rasik Dave as Nanda
• Manju Vyas as Yashoda
• Sagar Salunke as Balarama (Krishna's Elder Brother)
• Ajay Sinha as Akroora (Kans's Minister)
• Devidas as Kans's Minister
• Girija Shankar as Dhritrashtra (Kauravas's Father)
• Renuka Israni as Gandhari (Kauravas's Mother)
• Virendra Razdan as Vidura (half-brother to the kings Dhritarashtra and Pandu, student of Bhishma)
• Tarakesh as Pandu (Pandavas's Father])
• Nazneen as Kunti (mother of Yudishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, and Karna, wife of Pandu, maternal aunt of Krishna)
• Roma Manik as Madri, Pandu's Second Wife
• Roopa Ganguly as Draupadi (wife of Five Pandavas)
• Channa Ruparel as Rukmini (Krishna's Wife)
• Varsha Usgaonkar as Uttaraa (Abhimanyu's Wife)
• Sameer Rajda as Uttar (Uttaraa's brother)
• Chandni Sharma as Sudeshna (Uttaraa's mother/Queen of Virat)
• Lalit Tiwari as Sanjay
• Dara Singh as Hanuman (one episode)
• Sumeet Raghavan as Young Sudama
• Chetan Hansraj as Young Balarama
• Parijat as Radha
• Ram Mohan as Head Priest
• Rafique Mukkadam as Minister
• Shivendra Mahal as Parashurama and Lord Shiva (Parashurama was the guru of Bhishma,Dronacharya and Karna)
• Rana Jung Bahadur as Jarasandha
• Karunakar Pathak as Shishupala
• Sharat Saxena as Kichaka
• Gopi Krishna as Chitrasena (Arjuna's dance teacher in heaven)

Episode Structure[link]

The opening credits are shown over a backdrop of illustrations from ISKCON's edition of the Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is. The Society and its founder, Swami Prabhupada, are credited for these illustrations. The sung verses at the end of the credit sequence are Verses 7 and 8 of Chapter 4 of the Gītā: "Whenever and wherever a decline of righteousness and a predominance of unrighteousness prevails, at that time I (Krishna) manifest myself personally, O descendant of Bhārata; for the protection of the devotees and the annihilation of the miscreants and to fully establish righteousness, I appear millenium after millenium."

The voice of Time (Samay in Hindi, voiced by Harish Bhimani) narrates the series. At or near the beginning of each episode, Time reviews relevant events that have gone before and sets the stage of the action happening in the present episode. During these sequences, a backdrop of stars and planets is shown overlaid with a transparent image of a statue's head and/or a slowly turning wheel. Time often speaks of perceiving or revealing patterns in the epic that only it can know from its cosmic perspective. Time also occasionally provides a narration while human-scale action is shown.

Each episode ends with a sung verse either summarizing the physical or emotional state of the episode's main characters, or a moral lesson that can be drawn from the action. The title song has been sung by Mahendra Kapoor, the Indian playback singer.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mahabharat at the Internet Movie Database
• Mahabharat TV series online
• Watch 94 Mahabharat Episodes Online

Arun Bakshi (Hindi: अरुण बख्शी, Urdu: ارون بخشی) is an Indian film and television actor and also a singer. He has acted as a character actor ^[1] in over 100 Hindi films, and as a playback singer has also sung 298 songs.^[2] He has also worked in Punjabi ^[3] and Bhojpuri cinema. ^[2]

Biography[link]

He was born and brought up in Ludhiana, Punjab, where he graduated from Arya College. He worked with the Punjab Agricultural University for a while, before moving to Mumbai, to start his acting career in 1981, first in television and later films. ^[2]

References[link]

1. ↑ "Character actor, Arun Bakshi is playing Ahmad Shah Abdali,...". The Times of India. Jun 6, 2011. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/Character-actor-Arun-Bakshi-is-playing-Ahmad-Shah-Abdali-the-negative-lead-in-a-filmcommissioned-by-the-cultural-affairs-department-of-Punjab-on-the-great-Holocausts-of-Sikhs-in-1762-/articleshow/8747816.cms?. Retrieved August 28, 2012. 
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} "'Next superstar would be from Ludhiana'". The Times of India. Apr 22, 2011. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-22/ludhiana/29466719_1_cricketer-ludhiana-movies. Retrieved August 28, 2012. 
3. ↑ "By Air Mail". Indian Express. Dec 01, 2008. http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/by-air-mail/392515/. Retrieved August 28, 2012. 

External links[link]

• Arun Bakshi at the Internet Movie Database
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