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Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:

People

• Shankar (name)
  • Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist and composer
  • Shankar (actor), Indian actor
  • Shankar (Tamil militant), Tamil rebel
  • Shankar (cartoonist), Indian cartoonist
  • Shankar (writer), Indian writer
  • Shankar–Ganesh, an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
  • Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
  • Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film Gunda portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty

Places

• Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
• Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

See also

• Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
• Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai
• Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
• Sankar (disambiguation)
• Shankara (disambiguation)
• Sankara (disambiguation)

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