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Atul is an industrial village developed due by the company Atul Ltd, located in Valsad district of Gujarat, India. Although a small village, it has good educational and recreational facilities, banks, temples, post office and a railway station.

Demographics[link]

As of the 2001 India census, Atul has a population of 5352.^[1] Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Atul has an average literacy rate of 84%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 55% of the males and 45% of females literate. 10% of the population is under 6 years of age. Atul, located on the bank of the river Par, derives its name from the Lalbhai Group owned Atul Limited.

Transport[link]

Atul is located on Western Railway on Mumbai (Bombay)-Surat segment. It is 187 km from Mumbai Central. It is 76 km from Surat, 205 km from Vadodara (Baroda), 305 km from Ahmedabad. While coming from Mumbai, it is the previous station before Valsad.

The nearest airports are Mumbai on south (200 km) and Surat (around 80 km) & Vadodara (around 215 km) on north.

Atul is located on National Highway no. 8.

Educational Facilities[link]

Although Atul is a small village there are very good schools available in Atul and nearby areas. The main schools are as follows.

Atul Vidyalaya[link]

Atul Vidyalaya, founded in 1991 and sponsored by the Lalbhai Group of Industries, aims to create a centre for education, wherein each child is imparted knowledge that is contemporary and at the same time rooted firmly in our cultural heritage. This is an English medium school, up to 12th standard.The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE), New Delhi. Students of 9 & 10 appear for the ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education). Students of 11 & 12 appear for the ISC (Indian School Certificate).

Kalyani School[link]

This is Gujarati medium, co-educational school, up to Class 12, following GSHEBoard curriculum. It is the first school in the town and one of the great schools. On 15 August 1948 (on 1st anniversary of Indian Independence) Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru (former Prime Minister of India) had given a speech from the podium of Kalyani School, Atul.

Vallabh Ashram School[link]

One more school is located 2.5 km away from Atul. It is English medium school, up to 12th standard, following CBSE curriculum. It has hostel facilities for boys as well as girls. Its full name is 'M.G. M. Amin and V. N. Savani School'.

Atul Ltd.[link]

The village Atul was developed due to the company Atul Ltd which was established around 1950 here. Its chemical complex, located in Atul village, manufactures dyes, agrochemicals, polymers, armatics, bulk chemical, bulk drugs and intermediates. Its manufacturing facilities are divided into East site [original Atul Ltd, manufacturing Agrochemicals, bulk chemicals and dyes and housiung corporate office], West site [Origianl Atic Industries Ltd, manufacturing Dyes] North site, also called PP site [Origianl Cibatul Ltd, manufacturing Polymers and Pharmaceuticals] and South site.

Atul Ltd has very well developed colonies for residence of its employees in Atul Village. The colonies are named as Down Colony, Up Colony, Atic Colony, Suvidha Colony, GJK colony etc. Three Guest Houses belonging to Atul Ltd are also located in the residencial area.

References[link]

1. ^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999. Retrieved 2008-11-01. 

External links[link]

• Atul ltd. website

Coordinates: 20°31′44″N 72°56′28″E / 20.52882°N 72.94116°E / 20.52882; 72.94116

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Rituparna Sengupta
Born	Rituparna Sengupta (1971-11-07) 7 November 1971 (age 40) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Film actress
Years active	1992 - present
Spouse	Sanjay Chakrabarty (1999 - present)
Website
http://www.rituparna.com/

Rituparna Sengupta (Ritupôrna Shengupta; born 7 November 1971) is an Indian actress. She is the leading actress in Bengali Cinema for the last decade in India, and is also currently performing in some well known Hindi Cinema.

Early life[link]

Sengupta was born on 7 November 1971 in Calcutta. She was active in the arts since a young age, learning painting, dancing, singing and handicrafts at a painting school, called Chitrangshu, in childhood. She studied at Mount Carmel school, and later graduated in History from Lady Brabourne College. She began studying for a M.A. at Calcutta University, but had to interrupt studies to concentrate on her career as an actress.

Personal life[link]

Sengupta got married to her childhood sweetheart Sanjay Chakrabarty, founder and CEO of MobiApps on 13 December 1999 in Kolkata and the couple had a daughter in 14 July 2011 . They also have an older son named Ankan. She is actively involved in the cause of children suffering from Thalassaemia. She is also into outdoor sports and plays badminton as a pastime.

Awards and honors[link]

• 1995: Bharat Nirman Award
• 1996: Kalakaar
• 1996: Kazi Nazrul Islam Birth Centenary Award by the Law Society Of Calcutta
• 1997:
• 1998: Silver Lotus for Best Actress, for Dahan (shared with Indrani Haldar, co-star), 42nd National Film Festival of India.
• 2000: Anandalok Ujala for Best Actress for Dahan
• 2000: Anandalok Ujala for Best Supporting Actress for Attiya Sajan
• 2004: BFJA - Best Actress Award, Alo (2004)
• 2006: BFJA - Best Actress Award, Dwitiya Basanta (2006)

Filmography[link]

• Aalaap (2012)
• Jiyo Kaka (2011)
• Aagun Pakhi (2011)
• Bhorer Allo (Cracking of Dawn) Bengali (2011)
• Nacklace (2011)
• Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji (2011)
• Bumm Bumm Bole (2010)
• And Once Again (2010)
• Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon (2010)
• Arohan (2010)
• Mahanagar@Kolkata (2010)
• Rehmat Ali (2010)
• Footpath (2010)
• Main Osama (2010)
• Mittal v/s Mittal (2010)
• Do Knot Disturb (2009)
• Trishna (2009) a copy of the film Jism
• Chaturanga(2008)
• Gauri: The Unborn (2007)
• Chander Bari (2007)
• Anuranan (2006)
• Tapasya
• Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh (2005)
• UNNS (2005)
• Nishijapon (2005)
• Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002)
• Utsab (2000)
• Paromitar Ek Din (2000)
• Aakrosh (1998)
• Dahan (1997) (Winner of Best Actress Award)
• Mohini (1995)
• Teesra Kaun (1994)
• Parichay
• Bhagya Debata
• Swet Pathorer Thala (1989)

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site
• Brief biography/filmography, one interview at Calcuttaweb.com
• Rituparna Sengupta at the Internet Movie Database

Atul Kulkarni
Born	(1965-09-10) September 10, 1965 (age 46) Belgaum, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Actor
Website
www.atulkulkarni.com

Atul Kulkarni (born 10 September 1965) is an Indian actor who has won two National Awards and has attained the superstar status in Marathi film industry after successful movies like Valu and Natarang.

Kulkarni won a National Award for his portrayal of Shriram Abhyankar in the film Hey Ram. Although he started his career in theatre, he has won critical acclaim for his performances in films like Page 3 and the Aamir Khan starrer Rang De Basanti. He has acted in several Marathi movies including Maati Maay (A Gravekeeper's Tale) that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. He has achieved superstar status in Marathi Films with the success of blockbuster movie of year 2009-10 Natarang.

Early life[link]

Kulkarni was born on 10 September 1965 in Belgaum, Karnataka, India. Atul completed his secondary education (10th Standard) from Haribhai Devkaran High School, Solapur, Maharashtra. His father, a businessman, and his mother, a housewife, were settled in Solapur. He completed his Junior College (12th Standard) from Belgaum and was able to secure a seat for electrical engineering at College of Engineering Pune (COEP) . Due to his disinterest in engineering, he quit the college and came back to Solapur to join D. A. V. College, Solapur which was affiliated to Shivaji University. He completed his graduation in English literature.

Acting[link]

Kulkarni's first stint with stage was during his high school days and later during his college days he was actively participating in cultural gatherings. While studying, Atul joined Natya Aradhana, an amateur theatre group from Solapur. Working with this group helped him groom better. After working backstage for two years, finally he got a chance to act. He decided to pursue a career in professional acting.

Atul joined the National School of Drama, New Delhi (1992-1995 batch). His acting skills were given final touches at this institutions which has produced legendary actors of international fame. Atul Kulkarni holds a postgraduate diploma in dramatic arts from National School of Drama, New Delhi.

His most successful performance, both commercially and critically was as Gunawant Kagalkar in the Marathi blockbuster Natarang.^{[citation needed]}

He made his debut in Kannada film Bhoomi Geetha in 1997 and has acted in several Tamil films.^{[citation needed]}

Awards[link]

• Asia Pacific Screen Awards
  • 2010: nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in Natarang
• National Film Awards
  • 2002: won: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Chandni Bar
  • 2000: won: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Hey Ram
• Filmfare Awards
  • 2001: nominated: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award in Hey Ram

Filmography[link]

Theatre[link]

• Samudra
• Gandhi Virudhha Gandhi
• Manoos Navacha Bet
• Aapan Sarech Ghodegaonkar
• Chapha
• Natak
• Zale Mokale Aabhal

External links[link]

• Atul Kulkarni – The official site
• Atul Kulkarni at the Internet Movie Database
• Atul Kulkarni's interview on Rediff
• Interview on Gmagazine.com
• Another Rediff Interview

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Atul Gawande (left) with Jack Cochran, Executive Director of Kaiser Permanente

Atul Gawande (born on November 5, 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American physician and journalist. He is known in the public arena as an expert on reducing error, improving safety, and increasing efficiency in surgery. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate^[1] and is the author of the books Complications, Better, and The Checklist Manifesto.

Early years[link]

Gawande was born in Brooklyn, New York to Indian Maharashtrian immigrants to the United States, both doctors. The family soon moved to Athens, Ohio, where he and his sister grew up. He obtained an undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1987, was a Rhodes scholar (earning a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from Balliol College, Oxford in 1989), and later graduated from Harvard Medical School. He also has a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Political career and medical school[link]

As a student Gawande was a volunteer for Gary Hart's campaign. As a Rhodes Scholar, he spent one year at Oxford University. After graduation, he joined Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. He worked as a health-care researcher for Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN), who was author of a "managed competition" health care proposal for the Conservative Democratic Forum. After two years he left medical school to become Bill Clinton's health care lieutenant during the 1992 campaign and became a senior adviser in the Department of Health and Human Services after Clinton's inauguration. He directed one of the three committees of the Clinton Health Care Task Force, supervising 75 people and defined the benefits packages for Americans and subsidies and requirements for employers. He returned to medical school in 1993 and earned his M.D in 1994.^[2]

Journalism[link]

Soon after he began his residency, his friend Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate, asked him to contribute to the online magazine. His pieces on the life of a surgical resident caught the eye of the New Yorker which published several pieces by him before making him a staff writer in 1998.

A June 2009 New Yorker essay by Gawande^[3] compared the health care of two towns in Texas to show why health care was more expensive in one town compared to the other. Using the town of McAllen, Texas as an example, it argued that a revenue-maximizing businessman-like culture (which can provide substantial amounts of unnecessary care) was an important factor in driving up costs, unlike a culture of low-cost high-quality care as provided by the Mayo Clinic and other efficient health systems.

Ezra Klein of The Washington Post called it "the best article you'll see this year on American health care—why it's so expensive, why it's so poor, [and] what can be done."^[4] The article was cited by President Barack Obama during Obama's attempt to get health care reform legislation passed by the United States Congress. The article "made waves"^[5] and according to Senator Ron Wyden, the article "affected [Obama's] thinking dramatically", and was shown to a group of senators by Obama, who said, "This is what we’ve got to fix."^[6] After reading the New Yorker article, Warren Buffett's long-time business partner Charlie Munger mailed a check to Gawande in the amount of $20,000 as a thank you to Dr. Gawande for providing something so socially useful.^[7] Gawande donated the $20,000 to the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health.^[8]

In addition to his popular writing, Gawande has published studies on topics including military surgery techniques and error in medicine, included in the New England Journal of Medicine. He is also the director of the World Health Organization's Global Patient Safety Challenge. His essays have appeared in The Best American Essays 2003, The Best American Science Writing 2002, and The Best American Science Writing 2009.^[1]

Books[link]

Gawande published his first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, in 2002. It was a National Book Award finalist, and has been published in over one hundred countries.^[9]

His second book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, was released in April 2007. It discusses three virtues that Gawande considers to be most important for success in medicine: diligence, doing right, and ingenuity. Gawande offers examples in the book of people who have embodied these virtues. The book strives to present multiple sides of contentious medical issues, such as malpractice law in the US, physicians' role in capital punishment, and treatment variation between hospitals.^[10]

Gawande released his third book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, in 2009. It discusses the importance of organization and pre-planning (such as thorough checklists) in both medicine and the larger world. The Checklist Manifesto reached the New York Times Hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in 2010.^[11]

Awards and recognition[link]

In 2006 Gawande was named a MacArthur fellow for his work investigating and articulating modern surgical practices and medical ethics.^[12][13] In 2007 he became director of the World Health Organization's effort to reduce surgical deaths,^[14] and in 2009 he was elected a Hastings Center Fellow.^[15]

He was named one of the 20 Most Influential South Asians by Newsweek in 2004.^[16] In the 2010 Time 100 he was included (fifth place) in Thinkers Category.^[17] Also in 2010, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.^[18]

In the medical field, he is an expert on the removal of cancerous endocrine glands.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[link]

Gawande lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife, Kathleen Hobson, and his three children (Walker, Hattie and Hunter).^[19]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gawande's Twitter feed
• Gawande.com
• Atul Gawande's Profile
• Gawande delivering HMS class day speech
• Dr. Gawande's research profile
• Atul Gawande's articles for Slate
• SAJAforum coverage of MacArthur announcement
• SAJAforum 2007 Q&A with Gawande on publication of new book
• Book review of Better at Letters On Pages
• Charlie Rose - interviews 2007-2010
• The Daily Show - guest on February 3, 2010
• Dr. Atul Gawande on Real Healthcare Reform and His New Book, The Checklist Manifesto - video report by Democracy Now!
• Article on Atul Gawande in Harvard Magazine Sep-Oct 2009

Atul Ashok Gogavale, Ajay Ashok Gogavale
Background information
Also known as	Ajay Atul
Born	Atul-11 September 1974 Ajay-21 August 1976 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Genres	Indian Film Music
Occupations	Music Director, Composer, Playback singers
Years active	2000-present
Website	Official Website

Ajay-Atul is the music alias of Indian music directors-composer brother duo of Ajay and Atul Gogavale.^[1] In 2008, Ajay-Atul won the Best Music Direction award at the 56th National Film Awards by the Government of India for contributing music to the Marathi film Jogwa.^[2]

Early life[link]

Atul Gogavale & Ajay Gogavale Maratha family are the sons of Mr. Ashok Gogavale who works in Revenue Department Alandi in Pune. Both were born in Pune and brought up in several villages in western Maharashtra, including Rajgurunagar, Junnar, Shirur, as his father had transferable job . Atul was born on 11 September 1974 and Ajay, his younger brother was born on 21 August 1976 in Pune.

During childhood they were not much attracted towards studies. But instead interest in music was developed during school days. Around this time, they started experimenting with music. During NCC Competition Ajay played different composition than precomposed one, but they won the prize for experimented one & this instance inspired them for there music potential.^{[3][non-primary source needed]} They had sung “Powada" in one occasion where Shivsena supremo Bal Thackeray and Marathi Comedy Actor, Producer Dada Kondke was the Chief Guests.^{[citation needed]}

They came from zero musical background. Although they were not supported by their family directly for music, they were never denied any assistance. As their family could not afford the instruments for their musical endeavors, they started their musical ventures through their school, temples, local bands etc. Although they did not get direct training through this they learn a lot through these ventures. As they couldn't afford any instruments they would befriend the people who owned instruments like Harmonium, Mrudung, Dhol etc.^[4] Later during college they started working with local bands as arrangers. Their father brought them a Keyboard after persuasion by their mother. This proved to be one of their greatest gifts. He said "You have not been given any toys during childhood, now this is your toy.!!". This inspired them & they started experimenting.^[3] Later on they came to Mumbai & started working on International Non-Filmy Music Album "Vishwavinayaka". This proved to be a big break for them & paved for them a way into Indian (mostly Marathi) Music industry. There they worked for lots of commercial jingles, ballets & Advertisements for strengthening their profiles. ^[5]

Man Udhān Vāryāche (मन उधाण वार्‍याचे), Malhāravārī (मल्हारवारी), Kombdī Paḷalī (कोम्बडी पळाली) are some of their notable compositions.^[4] Ajay-Atul composed songs and background score for the Marathi film Naṭarang (नटरंग) (2010). Their composition for Naṭarang was influenced by traditional Marathi folk music forms like Lāvaṇī (लावणी), Phaṭakā (फटका) and Tamāśā (तमाशा). They recently gave music to Hindi film Singham starring Ajay Devgn and directed by Rohit Shetty and Agneepath produced by Karan Johar

Discography[link]

Films[link]

Albums[link]

Serials/Daily Soaps[link]

Plays/Dramas[link]

Awards[link]

References[link]