Sarath Lakshman (born 19 September 1989 in Mahé) is an Indian programmer and Linux activist. He works for Couchbase India Pvt Ltd as a Senior Software Engineer.
Born and raised in India, he was a student of Jawaharlal Nehru Government Higher Secondary School in mahe and continued his studies at Model Engineering College, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT).
He is the founder of the Linux distribution, Slynux GNU/Linux, started in 2004, and author of the Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook. He has also written articles in the Linux For You monthly magazine.
Sarath has contributed notably to projects like Pardus Linux, Pitivi, Ubuntu and Google Summer of Code.
Books written
Born and raised in India, he was a student of Jawaharlal Nehru Government Higher Secondary School in mahe and continued his studies at Model Engineering College, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT).
He is the founder of the Linux distribution, Slynux GNU/Linux, started in 2004, and author of the Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook. He has also written articles in the Linux For You monthly magazine.
Sarath has contributed notably to projects like Pardus Linux, Pitivi, Ubuntu and Google Summer of Code.
Books written
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John P. Matthew is an Indian English writer, short story writer, songwriter, poet and blogger. He was born in 1957 into a family of Tharakans, a title given to noble merchants in Kerala, India. However, instead of pursuing a career in merchandising, he took inspiration from a few uncles in his family, who were writers in Malayalam. Born in Kidangannoor, Kerala he was raised since the age of eight in the Chembur suburb of Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India. He studied in Adarsha Vidyalaya in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai. During his childhood Bombay was a city of nearly a million people and had many open spaces which have since disappeared. To maintain contact with the city of his childhood he prefers to call it by its old name - Bombay.
Family
His great, great, great uncle George Mathan wrote the first book of Malayalam Grammar called Malayazhmayude Vyakaranam, his great uncle Mahakavi Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan was a writer and poet and his uncle K M Tharakan was a writer and critic. Though his uncles were writers in Malayalam he writes in his adopted language - English - as he was educated in it. He draws inspiration from expatriate Indian writers such as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Indian resident writers viz. Arundhati Roy. Writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Donald Barthelme and poets viz. Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling, Shel Silverstein, Allen Ginsberg, etc. have had a profound influence on him.
Work
Matthew’s writing centers on the urban ethos in which he was brought up. The multi-ethnic, multi-lingual ethos of Bombay made a deep impression on him and he has striven to express the angst of urban people through his short stories and blog posts. His reading of Malayalam literature also has distinctly influenced his writing, and his short stories are based on characters drawn from all different linguistic communities of India. He can read and speak four Indian languages in addition to English.
He has written and popularized the pidgin English spoken around Mumbai which is called “Mack English.” His poem “Mack English” published in his poetry blog is based on this hybrid form of English. An article "Mack English" has been published in the collaborative blog of the literary forum Caferati. This dialect of English has been used to portray the Mack-English-speaking community of Mumbai who mainly constitute Goans, Anglo-Indians, and East Indians (a community constituting Marathi-speaking Christians living in Mumbai).
He was editor of the magazine Ambit published by the Bombay Management Association . As editor of Ambit he wrote extensively on management and economic subjects. He has served on the Managing Committee of David Sassoon Library and has been felicitated at the Foundation Day of the Library in February 2014.
His short story "Flirting in Short Messages" won a place among the top 28 short stories in a global short story contest organized by publisher Penguin India and sulekha.com, an online literary website.
His short story "PK Koshy's Daily Routine" has been selected for publication in the Grey Oaks Short Story Competition conducted by Grey Oaks, a publishing company based in Bangalore and has since been published.
An essay describing his experiences when he crossed boundary to work in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia Migrants Travails in the Desert Kingdom has been published by the literary journal Sugar Mule.
He read his poems at the Kritya International Poetry Festival held in Kerala, India. The festival was organized by Kritya Foundation and was attended by poets from around the world.
He is working on two books "Mr. Bandookwala, M.B.A., Harvard " a novel about a brilliant Harvard graduate and inventor of a social networking site - Facespook - who fails miserably as a manager in India. Coming back from the U.S. Bandookwala experiences a cultural disconnection with his countrymen. According to Matthew the novel is about the "probability of the improbable." Bandookwala experiences vastly improbable events in his life which disorients him and makes him suicidal: in bizarre incidents he is robbed and thrown out of a Bombay running train, meets with the king of the Bombay underworld, encounters an extremist in a five-star hotel's rest room. The other book is a travelogue to his native Indian state of Kerala, where he was born.
A prolific and early blogger since 2003 (He has logged more than 2000 blog articles). In 2013 he completed ten years of continuous blogging. He has separate blogs (web logs) dedicated to his short stories, book reviews, and poems. His main blog revolves around his thoughts, musings, social and political issues, and everyday happenings in his life.
Song Writing
Inspired by the poet duo of Suman Sridhar and Jeet Thayil of the group S/T he started writing songs and converting some of his poems into songs. His music has been inspired by country western songs and spirituals. Though this is in a very early stage he intends to take it forward and make stage appearances. He accompanies himself on the acoustic guitar.
He lives in New Bombay with his wife, a teacher, and son.
John P. Matthew is an Indian English writer, short story writer, songwriter, poet and blogger. He was born in 1957 into a family of Tharakans, a title given to noble merchants in Kerala, India. However, instead of pursuing a career in merchandising, he took inspiration from a few uncles in his family, who were writers in Malayalam. Born in Kidangannoor, Kerala he was raised since the age of eight in the Chembur suburb of Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India. He studied in Adarsha Vidyalaya in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai. During his childhood Bombay was a city of nearly a million people and had many open spaces which have since disappeared. To maintain contact with the city of his childhood he prefers to call it by its old name - Bombay.
Family
His great, great, great uncle George Mathan wrote the first book of Malayalam Grammar called Malayazhmayude Vyakaranam, his great uncle Mahakavi Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan was a writer and poet and his uncle K M Tharakan was a writer and critic. Though his uncles were writers in Malayalam he writes in his adopted language - English - as he was educated in it. He draws inspiration from expatriate Indian writers such as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Indian resident writers viz. Arundhati Roy. Writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Donald Barthelme and poets viz. Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling, Shel Silverstein, Allen Ginsberg, etc. have had a profound influence on him.
Work
Matthew’s writing centers on the urban ethos in which he was brought up. The multi-ethnic, multi-lingual ethos of Bombay made a deep impression on him and he has striven to express the angst of urban people through his short stories and blog posts. His reading of Malayalam literature also has distinctly influenced his writing, and his short stories are based on characters drawn from all different linguistic communities of India. He can read and speak four Indian languages in addition to English.
He has written and popularized the pidgin English spoken around Mumbai which is called “Mack English.” His poem “Mack English” published in his poetry blog is based on this hybrid form of English. An article "Mack English" has been published in the collaborative blog of the literary forum Caferati. This dialect of English has been used to portray the Mack-English-speaking community of Mumbai who mainly constitute Goans, Anglo-Indians, and East Indians (a community constituting Marathi-speaking Christians living in Mumbai).
He was editor of the magazine Ambit published by the Bombay Management Association . As editor of Ambit he wrote extensively on management and economic subjects. He has served on the Managing Committee of David Sassoon Library and has been felicitated at the Foundation Day of the Library in February 2014.
His short story "Flirting in Short Messages" won a place among the top 28 short stories in a global short story contest organized by publisher Penguin India and sulekha.com, an online literary website.
His short story "PK Koshy's Daily Routine" has been selected for publication in the Grey Oaks Short Story Competition conducted by Grey Oaks, a publishing company based in Bangalore and has since been published.
An essay describing his experiences when he crossed boundary to work in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia Migrants Travails in the Desert Kingdom has been published by the literary journal Sugar Mule.
He read his poems at the Kritya International Poetry Festival held in Kerala, India. The festival was organized by Kritya Foundation and was attended by poets from around the world.
He is working on two books "Mr. Bandookwala, M.B.A., Harvard " a novel about a brilliant Harvard graduate and inventor of a social networking site - Facespook - who fails miserably as a manager in India. Coming back from the U.S. Bandookwala experiences a cultural disconnection with his countrymen. According to Matthew the novel is about the "probability of the improbable." Bandookwala experiences vastly improbable events in his life which disorients him and makes him suicidal: in bizarre incidents he is robbed and thrown out of a Bombay running train, meets with the king of the Bombay underworld, encounters an extremist in a five-star hotel's rest room. The other book is a travelogue to his native Indian state of Kerala, where he was born.
A prolific and early blogger since 2003 (He has logged more than 2000 blog articles). In 2013 he completed ten years of continuous blogging. He has separate blogs (web logs) dedicated to his short stories, book reviews, and poems. His main blog revolves around his thoughts, musings, social and political issues, and everyday happenings in his life.
Song Writing
Inspired by the poet duo of Suman Sridhar and Jeet Thayil of the group S/T he started writing songs and converting some of his poems into songs. His music has been inspired by country western songs and spirituals. Though this is in a very early stage he intends to take it forward and make stage appearances. He accompanies himself on the acoustic guitar.
He lives in New Bombay with his wife, a teacher, and son.
Maia Sethna is a model,blogger and actress best known for her role as the young Lenny in Deepa Mehta's 1998 film, Earth. Maia’s childhood performance in 1947 Earth not only left a lasting impression on her but was the incipience of her desire to set foot into the world of drama, modelling, acting and performance. Her ambition to be a model and actress was complemented with academic development and higher education in Drama and English Literature in the United Kingdom.She has modeled for several English photographers and a popular website in the UK. She also played the lead role in a play ‘Project Runway’ Directed by Armaan Kirmani in London, portraying the journey of a young woman struggling to make an impact in the world of fashion. She is passionate about using performance and drama as a means of reaching out to people in the community,she traveled to Romania to volunteer in projects involving teaching drama to young children while also engaging in social work. Maia has also played a cameo role in the movie ‘Love, Break-up, Zindagi’ starring Dia Mirza and Zayed Khan. Her latest film, Main Aur Mr. Right is soon to release. Maia's eclectic blog Girl Panic www.maiasethna.in is a popular fashion and lifestyle blog.
Non-Muslim view of Husayn ibn Ali is refereed to statements of non-Muslim nobles men in esteem of Husayn ibn Ali who is grandson of Muhammad, prophet of Islam, killed in battle of Karbala.
Husayn ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (; 8 January 626 AD - 10 October 680 AD) (3rd/4th Sha'aban 4 AH - 10th Muharram 61 AH), also spelled as Husain, Hussain or Hussein, was the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (fourth Rashidun Caliph of Sunni Islam, and first Imam of Shia Islam) and Fatimah Zahra (daughter of Muhammad) and the younger brother of Hasan ibn Ali. Husayn is an important figure in Islam, as he is a member of the Ahl al-Bayt (the household of Muhammad) and Ahl al-Kisa, as well as being the third Shia Imam.
Husayn is highly regarded by Shiite Muslims because he refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid I, the Umayyad caliph because he considered the rule of the Umayyads unjust. At Karbala his caravan was intercepted by Yazid I's army. He was killed and beheaded in the battle of Karbala in 680 (61 AH) by Shimr Ibn Thil-Jawshan, along with most of his family and companions. The annual memorial for him, family, children, and companions is called Ashura (tenth day of Muharram) and is a day of mourning for Shiite Muslims. The killings at Karbala fueled the later Shiite movements. Anger at Husayn's death was turned into a rallying cry that helped undermine and ultimately overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate.
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Husayn ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (; 8 January 626 AD - 10 October 680 AD) (3rd/4th Sha'aban 4 AH - 10th Muharram 61 AH), also spelled as Husain, Hussain or Hussein, was the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (fourth Rashidun Caliph of Sunni Islam, and first Imam of Shia Islam) and Fatimah Zahra (daughter of Muhammad) and the younger brother of Hasan ibn Ali. Husayn is an important figure in Islam, as he is a member of the Ahl al-Bayt (the household of Muhammad) and Ahl al-Kisa, as well as being the third Shia Imam.
Husayn is highly regarded by Shiite Muslims because he refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid I, the Umayyad caliph because he considered the rule of the Umayyads unjust. At Karbala his caravan was intercepted by Yazid I's army. He was killed and beheaded in the battle of Karbala in 680 (61 AH) by Shimr Ibn Thil-Jawshan, along with most of his family and companions. The annual memorial for him, family, children, and companions is called Ashura (tenth day of Muharram) and is a day of mourning for Shiite Muslims. The killings at Karbala fueled the later Shiite movements. Anger at Husayn's death was turned into a rallying cry that helped undermine and ultimately overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate.
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