Akarsh khurana biography of george washington
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George Washington
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On his father's property on Pope's Creek in Westmoreland county, Virginia, George Washington, the most famous person in American history, was born on February 22, 1732. Augustine, his father, was thrice married and was a third-generation English colonist who was well-established in the mittpunkt classes of the gentry of Virginia. Before his first wife, Jane Butler Washington, passed away in 1728, he had two sons, Lawrence and Augustine Jr,in the years 1718 and 1720. George was born the following year after Augustine married Mary Ball (1709-1789) in 1731. After Samuel, Charles, John Augustine, and Mildred, there were fem more kids. In the early 1730s, the Washington family moved from Westmoreland County to Augustine, Sr. Plantation, located on Little Hunting Creek. They continued to reside there until they relocated to a property on the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg.
An Early Career for a Young Washington: Surveying the Land
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Akarsh Khurana: Show delves into college politics, student dynamics
Jugaadistan director on how Sumeet-Parambrata starrer explores the gritty side of college life
Pop culture may have us believe that college life is about young love, designer brands and all things hunky-dory. But director Akarsh Khurana is exploring its gritty side with Jugaadistan. The Lionsgate Play series, starring Sumeet Vyas, Parambrata Chatterjee, Arjun Mathur and Rukshar Dhillon, does away with the rose-tinted glasses through which campus capers are often seen, and instead depicts how college politics and jugaad dominate these years.
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The show is a change of pace for Khurana, who earlier helmed the feel-good Mismatched. “While I have done youth-centric offerings before, this was a different take on it. [It shows] the darker side of our college years, and Delhi like we don’t see it often [on screen]. We delve into an array of issues — college
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Starring Irrfan, Dulquer Salman, Introducing Mithila Palkar
Directed by Akarsh Khurana
Life’s like that. It takes some weird twists and turns to finally put you on the right road. Of course the “right” is often the wrong for some of us.
In a sequence that would have been profoundly amusing if it were not so tragic a beautiful lady looks at two coffins and tells Dulquer, “The right one is your father.”
“So far,” sighs Dulquer, “the right one was the wrong one for me.”
Well, ha ha to that.
Excavating humour from the innards of mortality is never easy. Writer-Director Akarsh Khurana attempts the near-impossible and comes up with a film that never offends, even when it poses some serious problems of pacing.
You know that the film is looking for ways to keep the journey going when there are unnecessary detours on the way. And why not?...