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  Gwalior
Legend has it that King Suraj Pal, said to be the founder of Gwalior fort, was cured of leprosy upon bathing here.
Also in the fort is a tomb to Tansen, the musician who adorned the court of Akbar.
Several Jain sculptures dating back to the 15th century CE adorn the slopes of the hill.
www.templenet.com /Madhya/gwalior.html   (423 words)

  
 UNESCO Quarterly Bulletin
Ram, a young man from Tansen, a hill station in the western part of Nepal, is the winner of the first computer drawing competition that was held in the Community Multimedia Centre there, that houses a pilot project for marginalised people under UNESCO's programmed "Putting ICTs in the Hands of the Poor".
The Tansen initiative in Nepal is a pilot for innovating media alternatives for marginalized people and caste groups.
It focuses on the youth from these groups, who need platforms to express themselves and find information that is relevant to their lives.
unescodelhi.nic.in /newsletter/ci.htm   (10184 words)

  
 Bollywood Confidential by Suketu Mehta
There was not a single fire extinguisher around, and the workers put the lamp out by stamping on it with their feet.
I couldn't help thinking of the great classical singer Tansen, who, in medieval times, caused lamps to light spontaneously with the power of his singing "Raga Deepak," "the Raga of Lamps."
But for the most part, as I met the movie people firsthand, they seemed smaller than life.
www.suketumehta.com /nytm.html   (3023 words)

  
 Motive of British Raj and Christian Missionaries
Millions of Europeans have visited India and have praised the Indian architecture.
The fact is that the melody of Indian classical music is world famous, and the most renowned historical musician, Tansen, of Akbar's court was the disciple of Swami Haridas.
But see what the English people wrote in their encyclopedia,
www.salagram.net /MotiveBritishRajMissionaries.html   (1295 words)

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