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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or. Her father, instead of following the family tradition of becoming a temple priest, chose to work in a circus as a trapeze artist, lion tamer, tightrope walker and magician. Nov 04, 2019 shakuntala devi was born on 4 november 1929, in bengaluru, karnataka, to an orthodox kannada brahmin family. Shakuntala devi was a talented mathematician, an astrologer and a writer of various books on cooking, numbers, puzzles and novels. Shakuntala devi quotes author of super memory it can be. Bnet bazaar online book store for bengali and english book. A complex issue over rights to property left by the mathematical genius, shakuntala devi has emerged, seven months after hers death on april 21, 20. Shakuntala devi, popularly known as the human computer. And in the matter of section 391 of the companies act, 1956.
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