Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, popularly known by his initials or as P. L. Deshpande, was a Marathi writer and humorist from Maharashtra. He was also an accomplished film and stage actor, script writer, author, composer, musician, singer and orator. He was often referred to as "Maharashtra's beloved personality".
Vile Parle (IPA:[ʋilepaːɾle], also known as Parla), is a suburb and also the name of the railway station in the Western suburb of Mumbai. Vile Parle has a significantly strong base of Marathi population. It serves as the location of the first Parle factory which ceased operations in the year 2016. It also houses Terminal 2 (T2) of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
Jagannath ShankarshethMurkute popularly known as Nana Shankarsheth was an Indian Philanthropist and educationalist. He was born in the wealthy Murkute family in Murbad,Thane. So high was his credit that Arabs, Afghans and other foreign merchants chose to place their treasures in his custody rather than with banks. He soon acquired a large fortune, much of which he donated to the public. He was one of few founding members of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway along with Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and David Sasson.
Campion School is a private Catholic primary and secondary school for boys located at 13 Cooperage Road, Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra, India. Established in 1943 by Jesuit Fr. Joseph Savall, the school is named in honour of Saint Edmund Campion, a 16th-century English Roman Catholic martyr.
Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Association is an educational institution in Vile Parle, Mumbai, India. It consists of five schools - the PTV English Medium School, the PTV Marathi Medium Secondary School, the PTV Marathi Medium Primary School, Paranjape Vidyalaya and the Parle Tilak School ICSE. It is renowned for its cricket team.The school participates in various sports. It has completed over 100 years in the year 2021.
Sir Parashurambhau College is an Autonomous college in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Established in 1916 as New Poona College at the hands of the British Governor Lord Willingdon, the college was renamed as Sir Parashurambhau College as a mark of gratitude towards the then ruler of Jamkhandi State who donated ₹2,00,000 in the memory of his father, Parashurambhau Patwardhan. The college is governed by Shikshan Prasarak Mandali, a private education society in Maharashtra. S. P. College provides a platform for cultural activities and promotes students to cultivate their skills. The present site of the college was leased to the Shikshan Prasarak Mandali by Shri Sardar Jagannath Maharaj Pandit at the request of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. SP College also offering many platforms to overall personality development of students.
The Shikshan Prasarak Mandali, Pune, is one of the private educational societies in Maharashtra. It was established in 1883 with the aim of imparting western education in Marathi language but without any help from the then British government. The Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya (NuMaVi) was established by this society in the same year in the memory of Marathi writer and scholar Vishnushastri Chiplunkar. In 1916 it went on to establish the New Poona College for arts.
Christianity is a minority religion in Maharashtra, a state of India. Approximately 79.8% of the population of Maharashtra are Hindus, with Christian adherents being 1.0% of the population. The Roman Catholic archdiocese whose seat is in Maharashtra is the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay. There are two different Christian ethnic communities in Maharashtra: the Bombay East Indians, who are predominantly Roman Catholic, and the Marathi Christians, who are predominantly Protestant with a small Roman Catholic population.
Lokmanya Tilak High School, is an English medium school located in Tilak Nagar, Chembur in Mumbai, India. It began operating in 1967, drawing its students mainly from middle-class families in the area around Tilak Nagar. A semi-government School, it is owned by Tilak Nagar Education Society and managed by the Government of Maharashtra and it is affiliated to Maharashtra SSC Board. The school is named after Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920).
Fr. Agnel Multipurpose School and Jr. College also known as 'Agnels', is a private school in Juhunagar, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, India. Fr. Agnel Multipurpose School was established in the year 1982 in Juhunagar, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, with the objective of providing comprehensive education to students up to Higher Secondary Certificate Examination. The school is affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Education. The school is consistently ranked amongst the best schools in Mumbai.
Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Marathi Medium Secondary School is a school situated in Vile Parle (East), a suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The school was founded in 1921 by the Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Association, and is the oldest of the schools run by the organisation.
Wamanrao Muranjan Madhyamik Vidyalaya & Junior College is a co-educational day school in Mulund East, Mumbai, located near city boundary. It takes 20 minutes to reach the college from Mulund station. With origins from 1955, it was one of the most prestigious Marathi medium schools in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai. Presently, there are five different schools with a mix of private and government-aided status. The alumni consists of a number University rank holders, scholars, artists and activists. In spite of it being a Marathi medium school, a considerable number of alumni have gone abroad for studies and work, mainly in the US, UK and the Middle East.
St. Xavier's High School & Junior College, formerly called St. Xavier's High School, is a Catholic school located in the Mumbai Suburban district in Vile Parle West.
Sathaye College is a college in Vile Parle (E), Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra, India. It used to be known as Parle College. It was founded in 1959 by Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Association (PTVA). It is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
M. L. Dahanukar College of Commerce is a commerce stream college in suburban Mumbai, India. The college is affiliated to the University of Mumbai and was founded by the Parle Tilak Vidyalaya Association in 1960. As of 2011, the college had an NAAC accreditation of B+ and enrolled over 5,200 students.
Abhinava Vidyalaya English Medium School, or Abhinava, is a private, co-educational day school located in Erandwane in Pune, India. The institution is a part of the Adarsh Shikshan Mandali. Adarsh Shikshan Mandali (ASM) was founded in 1943 by Krishnaji Bhaskar Virkar alias Tatya Virkar. Adarsha Shikshan Mandali has a school named Abhinav Vidyalaya for Marathi medium as well. Krishnaji Bhaskar Virkar was the first Maharashtrian in Pune to start an English Medium School. He is also renowned for his English into Marathi and Marathi into English dictionaries.
Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School (A.D.H.S) and Jr. College of Commerce (A.D.H.S.J.C.C) is a semi-private Government, Boys, day school located at Dadar in Mumbai, India. The institution was established in 1851 by Dr Antonio Da Silva and Reverend John Braz Fernandees under the name St. Johna high school. The school caters to pupils from kindergarten up to class 12. The medium of instruction is English. The school houses more than 6,000 pupils aged 3 to 18.
