User:Amarrg

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This user lives in India.

This user assists in maintaining Portal:Karnataka

This user has written or expanded a number of articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

I am Amar and a native of the state of Karnataka, India. I am an Engineering Graduate in Computer Science and currently working in one of the IT companies in Bangalore. My main areas of interest in Wikipedia are articles related to Kannada and Karnataka.

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Barnstars and Medals

This editor is a Yeoman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge
Awarded to Amarrg for contributions to DYK, particularly Karnataka articles. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I, P.K.Niyogi, hereby award you with The 25 DYK Medal, in recognition of your over 25 contributions to the Did you know? section, as featured on the Main Page. Great job, go ahead to 100! Thank you for your contributions to the project.
For your fine effort in
Shivamogga District pages.Dineshkannambadi
13:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Presented to Amarrg for a great collection of DYKs!! Looking forward to many more. -- P.K.Niyogi 01:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Amarrg, this one for your invaluable contributions to Karnataka related articles. Thank you! Sarvagnya 21:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Amar, you've been awesome in articles related to Karnataka. Keep up the good work. Gnanapiti 17:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I second that also. Your contribution to Karnataka is doing the state proud. Keep up the great work ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 09:31, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
The DYK Medal
Amar, this medal is well deserved by you and comes to you for all your DYK contributions so far. Much much appreciated, mate! Keep up the wonderful job you are doing. Thank you!!! - KNM ^Talk 16:59, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
I User:DaGizza, award Amarrg with the Special Barnstar for his almost instantaneous efforts in maintaining the referencing quality of the FA Karnataka. Gizza^Discuss ^© 12:06, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Awarded to Amarrg for his long term efforts at improving Karnataka articles and coverage -particularly DYK'S and the recent FA article Mysore (sounds really painful -perhaps you could lend some
Talk?
19:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
The India Star
I have decided to award you this for your contributions to India related articles especially Karnataka state . -Tinucherian (talk) 11:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

FA contributions
Karnataka Mysore

FL contributions
List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar

DYK creations (count = 65)

Did you know...
...that the pen-name of the Kannada poet, Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu, was derived from his full name "Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa", Kuppalli being his native place? -- 19 March 2007 Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India? -- 29 March 2007 ...that the city of Mysore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, has been called the "Cultural Capital of Karnataka"? -- 9 April 2007 ...that Ninasam, a cultural organization in Karnataka, India, had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States? -- 18 April 2007 ...that alternative Nobel Prize, for showing how tribal culture can help secure the basic rights and needs of indigenous people? -- 21 April 2007 ...that Kayyara Kinyanna Rai published his first journal, Susheela, at the age of 12? -- 22 April 2007 ...that the Kannada language? -- 25 April 2007 ...that the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them? -- 26 April 2007 ...that the town of Channapatna in India is known as the "toy-town of Karnataka" due to the popularity of the wooden toys manufactured there? -- 26 April 2007 ...that Chitrakala Parishat, an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore, was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city? -- 29 April 2007 ...that in 1843 the Kannada language? -- 6 May 2007 ...that Indian state of Karnataka include a species of ant newly discovered on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science? -- 11 May 2007 ...that in the Indian Gaarudi Gombe ceremonial dance, dancers are required to wear full-body doll-suits made of bamboo sticks? -- 18 May 2007 ...that the biggest walk-through Karanji Lake in Mysore? -- 20 May 2007 Neo Gothic style drawing inspiration from the Cologne Cathedral in Germany? -- 27 May 2007 ...that Saalumarada Thimmakka was awarded the National Citizen's award for planting and nurturing 284 banyan trees along an Indian highway? -- 28 May 2007 ...that Trivikrama Mahadeva has organized the funerals of over 42,000 people? -- 3 June 2007 ...that Malnad region in Karnataka, India? -- 4 June 2007 ...that in a few of the international cricket matches played by India in the 1990s, more than half of the players in the Indian team belonged to the state of Karnataka? -- 9 June 2007 ...that the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore, Karnataka? -- 12 June 2007 ..that telemedicine service for free? -- 17 June 2007 ...that Vishvakannada.com was the first dynamic fonts? -- 19 June 2007 ...that the Ashden Award? -- 28 June 2007 ...that one of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka, India? -- 30 June 2007 ...that the Shanti is one of just a few narrative films with only a single actor? -- 4 July 2007 ...that the poet Dinakara Desai is known as Chutuka Brahma (creator of chutukas) because he invented a four-line limerick form of Kannada poetry known as chutuka? -- 4 July 2007 ...that blind Indian to qualify as a doctor? -- 9 July 2007 ...that the undivided families in the world? -- 14 July 2007 ...that Byadgi chilli is used in making nail polish and lipstick? -- 29 July 2007 ...that Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, king of Mysore, set up a factory to manufacture Mysore Sandal Soap because World War I prevented any export of sandalwood? -- 6 August 2007 ...that Hutti Gold Mines Limited, located in the state of Karnataka, is the only company in India that produces gold by mining and extracting it from its ore? -- 6 August 2007 ...that the motorcycle racing couple of Jagat and Anita Nanjappa once completed a rally in which Anita sat on the bike's petrol tank to reduce the weight on the flat rear tyre? -- 10 August 2007 ...that the Best Indian Film of 1971? -- 12 August 2007 ...that Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha, in the city of Hubli, is the only unit in India authorised to manufacture and supply the national flag? -- 14 August 2007 ...that fairytale, Cinderella over 1000 times since 1977 and that few artists have acted in each of those performances? -- 16 August 2007 ...that Vasanta Habba, an annual cultural event organised by Nrityagram in Bangalore, is considered to be the classical Woodstock of India? -- 17 August 2007 ...that Indian state of Karnataka? -- 21 August 2007 ...that 62 people died in a fire on the sets of the The Sword of Tipu Sultan in Mysore, India? -- 21 August 2007 ...that while liturgical language for many Indian religions, only one daily newspaper, the Sudharma, uses it? -- 21 August 2007 ...the oldest stud farm in India, Kunigal stud farm, was used by Tipu Sultan for breeding horses for cavalry regiments to fight the British? -- 26 August 2007 ...that the Markonahalli Dam across the River Shimsha in India had to be partly demolished in order to prevent excess water from flooding the villages? -- 30 August 2007 ...that though the Tungabhadra? -- 1 September 2007 ...that Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada? -- 6 September 2007 ...that Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali was the first Yakshagana artist in India to receive the Rashtrapati Award? -- 11 September 2007 ...that the Plaza film theatre in Bangalore, India was modeled after the Piccadilly Circus in London? -- 16 September 2007 ...that fraudulent voting? -- 21 September 2007 ...that the bandit Veerappan, while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India? -- 25 September 2007 ...that Mysore kingdom in India, was also a collector and an inventor of board games? -- 13 October 2007 ...that one of the first discoveries of atmospheric neutrinos was made at India's Kolar Gold Fields? -- 16 October 2007 ...that before the ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala? -- 21 October 2007 ...that nine workers died at Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten steel? -- 26 October 2007 ...that the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five? -- 1 December 2007 ...that Vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University in India, is the son-in-law of the Kannada playwright Kuvempu, the university's namesake? -- 3 December 2007 ...that Indian state of Karnataka, created a junior world record for maximum runs scored in a single day of a cricket match when he scored 400 runs in a day? -- 28 January 2008 ...that the Bangalore Royal Challengers, an Indian Premier League cricket team, after his liquor brand? -- 25 February 2008 ...that the turntable, so that it could start its return journey? -- 25 February 2008 ...that the Kannada writer Kirtinath Kurtakoti died of cardiac arrest just hours after his wife's death? -- 10 March 2008 ...that Kodagu? -- 12 March 2008 ...that Benjamin L. Rice, contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the Old Mysore region of India? -- 12 March 2008 ...that Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti? -- 16 March 2008 ...that rock Mauryan Empire? -- 19 March 2008 ...that the discovery of Indo-Aryan migration? -- 21 March 2008 ...that a Indian State of Karnataka in 1915, was the first one to refer him by the name Asoka? -- 25 March 2008 ...that the discovery of Copper Hoard culture being found in South India? -- 25 March 2008 ... that inscriptions found on a stone pillar in the village of Talagunda in India describe the rise of the Kadamba dynasty? -- 7 May 2008

DYK expansions (count = 12)

Did you know...
...that the creation of Mysore Kingdom? -- 4 May 2007 ...that King Cobras? -- 22 May 2007 *...that Batasio sharavatiensis, a* Sharavathi river in which it was found? -- 26 May 2007 ...that the state of Karnataka, particularly the region belonging to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, is known as the cradle of banking in India? -- 24 June 2007 ...that Gubbi Veeranna's theatre company was the first one in the state of Karnataka, India to employ female artists to portray female characters on the stage? -- 24 June 2007 ...that the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest field hockey tournaments in the world? -- 25 June 2007 ...that the Rolling Stones and Deep Purple? -- 2 July 2007 public interest litigation case to be heard in the Karnataka High Court (pictured) in India was to prevent the demolition of the very building from which it was functioning? -- 14 September 2007 Legislative Council of Mysore State in India was held in the Jaganmohan Palace (pictured) in July 1907? -- 26 September 2007 ...that 04 November 2007 ...that the 05 November 2007 ...that the 02 March 2008

DYK nominations (count = 5)

Did you know...
...that in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore? -- 20 June 2007 ...that the world's first Karnataka, India? -- 27 June 2007 ...that repertory in India that is sponsored by the government? -- 17 August 2007 ...that G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary? -- 27 October 2007 ...that in the year 2004, both the 03 November 2007