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1 day ago · At the time, the most significant market for Indian films was the Soviet Union, gaining considerable success and occasionally leading to Indian-Soviet co-productions. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Indian film industry also expanded in China and East Africa , which, after the Soviet Union, accounted for some of the largest shares of overseas revenues.
4 hours ago · Hare Krishnas (ISKCON devotees) soon became known for their public presence in the United States, as they gathered in airports, parks, and on street corners in their traditional Hindu dress, chanting the māhāmantra and passing out scriptures (most of which are productions of ISKCON itself) to passersby in exchange for small donations. This practice raised the profile for ISKCON in the North American public sphere while it raised money for the organization and spread the teachings of ...
4 hours ago · Alpers, “Defining the African Diaspora,” Paper presented to the Center for Comparative Social Analysis Workshop (Los Angeles: University of California, October 25, 2001), 19; S. De Silva Jayasuriya and R. Pankhurst, “On the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean,” in The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean, ed. S. De Silva Jayasuriya and R. Pankhurst (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003), 1–17; and I. Hofmeyr, “The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean: Forging New Paradigms of ...
4 hours ago · Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā, ⓘ), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal (Bangladesh and India's West Bengal) of South Asia (Indian sub continent).
4 hours ago · The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes.
1 day ago · Biggest box-office bombs. The following is a partial list of films that lost the most money, based on documented losses or estimated by expert analysis of various financial factors such as the production budget, marketing and distribution costs, gross box-office receipts and other ancillary revenues.
4 hours ago · Baton Rouge (/ ˌ b æ t ən ˈ r uː ʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it had a population of 227,470 as of 2020; it is the seat of Louisiana's most populous parish (county-equivalent), East Baton Rouge Parish, and the center of Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area and city, Greater Baton Rouge.
