Famous People with Name Anant

Anant Balani            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Anant Balani: was a Bollywood film director and screenwriter.He directed films such as Patthar Ke Phool in 1991 which starred Salman Khan. He also wrote the script for Insaaf: The Justice , released in 2004.He died of a heart attack on August 29 2003 in Mumbai. 2003 had been a strenuous year for him and he had finished three films and was working on a fourth at his time of death. He didn't live to see any of his films of that year released which included Joggers' Park, Mumbai Matinee and Ek Din 24 Ghante.

Anant Raje            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Anant Raje: a well-known Indian architect and intellectual born in Mumbai, India. He studied at the Sir J. J. School of Architecture and later worked with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, where he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania. As Kahn's student, he devoted his life to see the completion of the Indian Institute of Management, which Kahn did not live to see completed. For over thirty years he has taught at the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad. He also taught at the University of New Mexico, in America, and was a visiting professor at many universities in America and Europe. His well known works include the Executive Management Centre at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India, the Forest Management Institute in Bhopal, India and the Institute of Statistics in New Delhi.

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy: a leading contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language and is considered as one of the most important representatives of the Navya movement. Ananthamurthy is counted among the most eminent Indian authors.[1] He is the sixth person among seven recipients of the Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honor conferred in India.[2] In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India.