Abir is a dye common in India. It is used during the Holi festival, which is also called the festival of color, when people throw this colorful powder at each other. Abir is typically sold in markets prior to the festival.

Abir is available in synthetic or natural form. Its colors are derived from flower extracts, for instance aparajita, marigold, hibiscus and dopati. The dye is sometimes combined with mica powder to create a sparkling effect.

In Arabic, abir refers to perfume and is a female name. Abir is also a male name in Hebrew, meaning "brave".

Abir in Bengali refers to the reddish color of the sky during dusk. In an open sky during sunset the western edge of the sky forms some color between red and pink. Ancient Bengali scholars named this color as Abir. In this region, Abir is mostly used as a male name.

In classical and modern Bengali songs and poems, the word abir is used very commonly and has a very dignified literature value.

Yehoshua Sofer (יהושע סופר) an Israeli hip hop musician and martial artist. Yehoshua Sofer was born into a Breslover Hasidim family in Jamaica. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1963 where he studied Tang Soo Do, receiving a black belt by 1968, aged ten. He studied Kuk Sool Won from 1974, advancing to 6th dan, and worked as a trainer and bodyguard during the 1970s and 1980s.

He moved to Israel in 1989, and in 1993, he recorded a minor Israeli hip hop hit in Hebrew, חומוס מטמטם Humus Metamtem ("Humus Makes You Stupid"). In 2000, he ran a Kuk Sool Won school at the International Convention, Jerusalem.

In 2002, he founded the Abir Warrior Arts Association of Israel, teaching his own style of "Abir-Abir-Qesheth Hebrew Warrior Arts" (אבי״ר-קשת אומנות לחימה עברית) in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, claiming an unbroken tradition dating to Israelite antiquity preserved by an underground school of "Bani Abir" in Habban, Yemen, and styling himself Aluf Abir אלוף אבי״ר "Grandmaster of Abir". The word אביר abir in Modern Hebrew means "knight", interpreted as an acronym אבי״ר, for אדוננו, בוראנו, יוצרנו, רופאנו ("Our Lord, our Creator, our Maker, our Healer").

Abir Chatterjee (Bengali: আবীর চট্টোপাধ্যায়) (born 18 November 1980) is a popular Bengali film and television actor.He is the son of noted theater personalities Phalguni and Rumki Chatterjee. His father was one of the founders to noted theater group LOKKRISHTI. He started his career with Bengali television and made his debut in Bengali movie in 2009 as a lead with Cross Connection. Before joining television and films he completed his Bachelors from Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration,Calcutta and MBA in finance from ICFAI Business School.

He has acted in many Bengali serials including popular ones like Proloy..asche in Sananda TV,Shomoy in Ruposhi Bangla,Shasuri Zindabad and Khuje Berai Kacher Manush in Zee Bangla, Banhiskikha, Sudhu Tomari Jonno in ETV Bangla, Ek Aakasher Niche, Janmobhumi and many more.

Raima Sen (Bengali: রাইমা সেন; born Raima Dev Varma on 11 November 1979) is an Indian film actress.

She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi was the Maharani of Jaipur. Her paternal great-grandmother Indira was the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda. Raima's maternal great-grandfather Adinath Sen was a prominent Kolkata businessman, whose father Dinanath Sen - a relative of former Union Law Minister Ashoke Kumar Sen- was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura. The sisters are credited on-screen under their mother's maiden name, although their official papers carry the surname Dev Varma.

Sen made her debut in the film Godmother, which was a critically acclaimed success, but her minor role may have been overlooked in favour of the protagonist, played by Shabana Azmi. She then starred in the film Daman playing Raveena Tandon's daughter, where her small performance was appreciated.

Byomkesh Bakshi (or Byomkesh Baksi) (Bengali: ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী) is a fictional detective in Bengali literature created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. He is one of the most successful detective characters in Bengali literature. Bandyopadhyay once said that these stories can be thought as and read as social novels only. In Bengali, Byomkesh means "the sky".

The advocate-turned-littérateur Bandyopadhyay was deeply influenced by Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle, Hercule Poirot of Agatha Christie and Father Brown of G.K.Chesterton as well as the "tales of ratiocination" involving C. Auguste Dupin produced by Edgar Allan Poe. He was, however, concerned with how the Indian and Bengali fictional detectives created between 1890 and 1930 had failed to exist as something other than mere copies of the Western (and particularly English) fictional detectives. The stories of Dinendra Kumar Ray's Robert Blake, Panchkari Dey's Debendra Bijoy Mitra or Swapan Kumar's Deepak Chatterjee were almost always set in London or in Kolkata which was identifiably the British metropolis. It was almost as a postcolonial response that Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay introduced the Bengali "Bhadrolok" (gentleman) sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Bandyopadhyay (Byomkesh's associate and narrator) in Pather Kanta in 1932. He began to write of them as investigating in an Indian metropolis—the capital of British India until 1911—that has had been thoroughly Indianised. Apart from Byomkesh, there are only two other detective characters who can be thought as purely Bengali of that time: Hemendra Kumar Roy's Jayanta [জয়ন্ত] and Nihar Ranjan Gupta’s Kiriti Roy [কিরীটী রায়], though in the view point of complexity and importance of crimes, Byomkesh is much more ahead.