Akshay Kumar entered the film industry as an action hero, but proved his mettle at comic as well as romantic roles. Akshay Kumar does his own stunts and is very hard working and determined. Known for his affairs, the playboy Akshay married Twinkle Khanna in 2001. Akshay Kumar was honored with the Padmashri award in 2009 for his contribution to cinema
Latest on Akshay Kumar&&&Come summers and Meerut’s youngsters make a beeline for the showrooms selling sunglasses and flea markets selling cheap knockoffs.Director Karan Johar, who has been one of the powerhouses of mainstream Hindi cinema, is disappointed with the lack of interest independent and intelligent filmmakers show in him.While the buzz around Piku gets Deepika Padukone the top spot, Mr X gets Emraan Hashmi and Amyra Dastur a place in the top 12, in Times Celebex powered by zoOm! for the month of April 2015Actor Sidharth Malhotra had his elder brother Harshad's company at the trailer launch of his upcoming film 'Brothers'.Brothers is the first collaboration between lead actor Akshay Kumar and producer Karan Johar, and the filmmaker says the "wait" has been worth it.The filmmaker, who turned an actor with Bombay Velvet, was at the receiving end when Akshay Kumar took a dig at him at the trailer launch of Brothers, reports IANS.Actor Akshay Kumar took potshots at Karan Johar's role in the Anurag Kashyap directorial Bombay Velvet at the trailer launch of Dharma Productions' Brothers.Students of GH Raisoni College of Engineering (GHRCE) made the city proud by filing 70 patents of their research that included many public-utility ones.The response to the trailer of Brothers, which has received over a million YouTube views within a day of its release, has left filmmaker Karan Johar feeling overwhelmed.Actors Sidharth Malhotra and Akshay Kumar will be seen locking horns in Karan Johar's production Brothers, directed by Karan Malhotra.PAGES&&Come summers and Meerut’s youngsters make a beeline for the showrooms selling sunglasses and flea markets selling cheap knockoffs.Director Karan Johar, who has been one of the powerhouses of mainstream Hindi cinema, is disappointed with the lack of interest independent and intelligent filmmakers show in him.While the buzz around Piku gets Deepika Padukone the top spot, Mr X gets Emraan Hashmi and Amyra Dastur a place in the top 12, in Times Celebex powered by zoOm! for the month of April 2015Come summers and Meerut’s youngsters make a beeline for the showrooms selling sunglasses and flea markets selling cheap knockoffs.Director Karan Johar, who has been one of the powerhouses of mainstream Hindi cinema, is disappointed with the lack of interest independent and intelligent filmmakers show in him.While the buzz around Piku gets Deepika Padukone the top spot, Mr X gets Emraan Hashmi and Amyra Dastur a place in the top 12, in Times Celebex powered by zoOm! for the month of April 2015Actor Sidharth Malhotra had his elder brother Harshad's company at the trailer launch of his upcoming film 'Brothers'.Brothers is the first collaboration between lead actor Akshay Kumar and producer Karan Johar, and the filmmaker says the "wait" has been worth it.The filmmaker, who turned an actor with Bombay Velvet, was at the receiving end when Akshay Kumar took a dig at him at the trailer launch of Brothers, reports IANS.Actor Akshay Kumar took potshots at Karan Johar's role in the Anurag Kashyap directorial Bombay Velvet at the trailer launch of Dharma Productions' Brothers.Students of GH Raisoni College of Engineering (GHRCE) made the city proud by filing 70 patents of their research that included many public-utility ones.The response to the trailer of Brothers, which has received over a million YouTube views within a day of its release, has left filmmaker Karan Johar feeling overwhelmed.Actors Sidharth Malhotra and Akshay Kumar will be seen locking horns in Karan Johar's production Brothers, directed by Karan Malhotra.PAGES&&Come summers and Meerut’s youngsters make a beeline for the showrooms selling sunglasses and flea markets selling cheap knockoffs.Director Karan Johar, who has been one of the powerhouses of mainstream Hindi cinema, is disappointed with the lack of interest independent and intelligent filmmakers show in him.While the buzz around Piku gets Deepika Padukone the top spot, Mr X gets Emraan Hashmi and Amyra Dastur a place in the top 12, in Times Celebex powered by zoOm! for the month of April 2015Actor Sidharth Malhotra had his elder brother Harshad's company at the trailer launch of his upcoming film 'Brothers'.Brothers is the first collaboration between lead actor Akshay Kumar and producer Karan Johar, and the filmmaker says the "wait" has been worth it.The filmmaker, who turned an actor with Bombay Velvet, was at the receiving end when Akshay Kumar took a dig at him at the trailer launch of Brothers, reports IANS.Actor Akshay Kumar took potshots at Karan Johar's role in the Anurag Kashyap directorial Bombay Velvet at the trailer launch of Dharma Productions' Brothers.Students of GH Raisoni College of Engineering (GHRCE) made the city proud by filing 70 patents of their research that included many public-utility ones.The response to the trailer of Brothers, which has received over a million YouTube views within a day of its release, has left filmmaker Karan Johar feeling overwhelmed.Actors Sidharth Malhotra and Akshay Kumar will be seen locking horns in Karan Johar's production Brothers, directed by Karan Malhotra.PAGES&&Come summers and Meerut’s youngsters make a beeline for the showrooms selling sunglasses and flea markets selling cheap knockoffs.Director Karan Johar, who has been one of the powerhouses of mainstream Hindi cinema, is disappointed with the lack of interest independent and intelligent filmmakers show in him.While the buzz around Piku gets Deepika Padukone the top spot, Mr X gets Emraan Hashmi and Amyra Dastur a place in the top 12, in Times Celebex powered by zoOm! for the month of April 2015Actor Sidharth Malhotra had his elder brother Harshad's company at the trailer launch of his upcoming film 'Brothers'.Brothers is the first collaboration between lead actor Akshay Kumar and producer Karan Johar, and the filmmaker says the "wait" has been worth it.The filmmaker, who turned an actor with Bombay Velvet, was at the receiving end when Akshay Kumar took a dig at him at the trailer launch of Brothers, reports IANS.Actor Akshay Kumar took potshots at Karan Johar's role in the Anurag Kashyap directorial Bombay Velvet at the trailer launch of Dharma Productions' Brothers.Students of GH Raisoni College of Engineering (GHRCE) made the city proud by filing 70 patents of their research that included many public-utility ones.The response to the trailer of Brothers, which has received over a million YouTube views within a day of its release, has left filmmaker Karan Johar feeling overwhelmed.Actors Sidharth Malhotra and Akshay Kumar will be seen locking horns in Karan Johar's production Brothers, directed by Karan Malhotra.PAGES&&Belongs ToTrending Topics |
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Satish Kumar (b. 9 August 1936) is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a , nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of
magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the
international centre for ecological studies, and of . His most notable accomplishment is a
with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a trip of over 8,000 miles. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate. Defending criticism that his goals are unrealistic, he has said,
Look at what
have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me "unrealistic" to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.
Kumar was born in , , India. At the age of 9, he left his family and became a Jain monk. At 18, after reading a book by , he ran away from the
order, to become a student of , an eminent disciple of Gandhi and his
Inspired by 's
against the , in 1962 Kumar and his friend E P Menon decided to dedicate themselves to undertaking a
from India to the four capitals of the nuclear world: Moscow, Paris, London and Washington D.C. and decided to carry no money on their trip. They called it a 'Pilgrimage for peace'.
gave the young men two 'gifts'. One was to be
wherever they walked. The other was to be vegetarian. They first travelled through , where they met great kindness from a country with a huge historic conflict and antipathy towards India. They continued through Afghanistan, Iran, , Georgia, the , and the . They visited Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C.. Travelling by foot and carrying no money, Kumar and his companion would stay with anyone who offered them food or shelter.
While on their way to Moscow they met two women outside a tea factory. After explaining what they were doing one of the women gave them four tea of tea, one to be delivered to each of the leaders of the four nuclear powers and to also deliver a message, "when you think you need to press the button, stop for a minute and have a fresh cup of tea". This further inspired their journey and became in part the reason for it. They eventually delivered 'peace tea' to the leaders of four of the . The journey is chronicled in Kumar's book, .
Kumar is editor of
(combining the former Resurgence magazine, which had been described as the artistic and spiritual flagship of the green movement, with ). He contributed an essay to
entitled "Focus on Food". He has also been a contributor to the 's "" strand on the
programme, and also appeared on . Kumar was interviewed by Richard Dawkins in his 'Slaves to Superstition' episode investigating the prevalence of unscientific beliefs in modern society. He also made a film, Earth Pilgrim for BBC2's Natural History Series.
Kumar was one of the contributors for writing the book, We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples, released in October 2009. The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. It contains a collection of statements from tribal people, photographs, and essays from international authors, campaigners, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, journalists, anthropologists, environmentalists and photojournalists. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organisation, .
Kumar settled in England in 1973. He lives a
in , with his partner June Mitchell, their son Mukti Kumar Mitchell, and their daughter Maya Kumar Mitchell.
No Destination: Autobiography of a Pilgrim (2014) [2004] [1978], Green Books,
You Are, Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence (2002), Green Books,
Images of Earth and Spirit: A Resurgence anthology Edited by John Lane and Satish Kumar (2003), Green Books,
The Intimate and the Ultimate Vinoba Bhave, Edited by Satish Kumar (2004), Green Books,
The Buddha and the Terrorist: The Story of
(2006), Algonquin Books,
Spiritual Compass: The Three Qualities of Life (2008), Green Books/Finch Publishing,
Earth Pilgrim in conversation with Echann Deravy and Maya Kumar Mitchell (2009), Green Books,
Soul, Soil, Society: a new trinity for our time (2013), Leaping Hare Press,
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At the University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar studies the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.
Why you should listen
At the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, at the University of Pennsylvania, flying quadrotor robots move together in eerie formation, tightening themselves into perfect battalions, even filling in the gap when one of their own drops out. You might have seen viral videos of the quads zipping around the netting-draped GRASP Lab (they juggle! they fly through a hula hoop!). Vijay Kumar headed this lab from ; he's now the Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where he continues his work in robotics, blending computer science and mechanical engineering to create the next generation of robotic wonders.
Vijay Kumar’s TED talk
November 20, 2013
In 1998, aircraft designer Paul MacCready gave a live demo of his two-ounce unmanned surveillance drone on the TED stage in Monterey. “You see what it sees. Imagine you’re a fly,” he told the assembled audience, who watched the drone’s footage projected onto the screen in front of them. (The moment is captured in the […]
March 22, 2013
Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week. First, happy (late) World Poetry Day! Celebrate the occasion with 8 talks from spoken-word poets. Just when you thought Vijay Kumar’s robots that fly and cooperate were creepy enough, he and his team have developed a drone that can […]
Technology
October 1, 2012
Everything is a remix, Kirby Ferguson told us at TEDGlobal 2012, explaining that the essence of creativity is the welding together of others’ ideas to form something new. We couldn’t help but think of this when we saw an article
about researchers at Zhejiang Univeristy’s CCNT lab who have combined brainwave technology and airborne robotics […]