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                        Republic Day Republic Day honours the date on which the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950 replacing the Government of India Act as the governing document of India.  Wikipedia 2017 Date :  26 January 2017 Observances :  Republic Day Celebrations Type of holiday :  National day Celebrations :  Parades, distribution of sweets in schools, speeches and cultural dances Significance :  Inception of Constitution of India
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                Virginia Woolf Google Doodle celebrates Virginia Woolf's 136th birthday Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer. She is considered one of the foremost modernists of the 20th-century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.  Wikipedia Born :  25 January 1882,  Kensington, London, United Kingdom Died :  28 March 1941,  Lewes, United Kingdom Spouse :  Leonard Woolf  (m. 1912–1941) Movies :  Orlando ,  Mrs. Dalloway ,  To the Lighthouse ,  Golven ,  A Room of One's Own ,  Simple Gifts One of the 20th century's foremost authors, Woolf was a pioneer in the use of stream-of-conscious narrative approach. Virginia  Woolf was a pioneer in the use of the stream-of-conscious narrative approach, harnessing a poetic vision that elevated sometimes mundane settings while examini...
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Sergei Eisenstein Film director Sergei Eisenstein, The Father Of Montage, Is Today's Google Doodle: 5 Facts Sergei Eisenstein Film director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.  Wikipedia Born :  22 January 1898,  Riga, Latvia Died :  11 February 1948,  Moscow, Russia Spouse :  Pera Atasheva  (m. 1934–1948) Books :  Film form ,  The Film Sense ,  Notes of a Film Director ,  MORE Nationality :  Russian, Soviet On  Sergei Eisenstein's 120th birthday,  Google Doodle pays tribute to the iconic Soviet artist and director who pioneered a film technique called cinematic montage. The film strips in today's Google Doodle are "inspired by iconic imagery in some of Eisenstein's films," read a post by Google. He developed five 'methods of montage', namely, na...
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Mahasweta Devi Google doodle honours author-activist Mahasweta Devi on her 92nd birth anniversary Devi was known not just for her writing but also for dedicating her life for the welfare of tribals across India. Google Mahasweta Devi Born :  14 January 1926,  Dhaka, Bangladesh Died :  28 July 2016,  Kolkata Spouse :  Bijon Bhattacharya  (m. ?–1959) Awards :  Jnanpith Award ,  Padma Vibhushan ,  MORE Movies :  Rudaali ,  Gangor ,  Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa ,  Sunghursh ,  A Grave-keeper's Tale ,  Gudia ,  Janani Google on Sunday paid tribute to award-winning author and social activist  Mahasweta Devi  on her 92nd birth anniversary.  Devi was known not just for her writing but also for dedicating her life for the welfare of tribals across India. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Vibhushan, Jnanpith and Magsaysay Award, among several other dist...
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Har Gobind Khorana Tuesday’s Google Doodle honors the pioneering biochemist and Nobel Laureate. Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed how the order of ... Wikipedia Born :  9 January 1922,  Raipur, Pakistan Died :  9 November 2011,  Concord, Massachusetts, United States Awards :  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ,  MORE Parents :  Krishna Devi Khorana ,  Ganpat Rai Education :  University of Liverpool ,  University of Cambridge ,  University of the Punjab Books :  Chemical biology