In 2018, he played Guddu Pandit in "Mirzapur". In 2020 he continued his role of Guddu Pandit in "Mirzapur" season 2.
Fazal was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Fazal's family is from Allahbad. His father worked in a firm in the Middle East. His parents separated when he was a child. From then on, he grew up in his maternal grandparents' home with his grandparents and his mother. The couple divorced when Fazal was 18. He studied at La Martiniere College in Lucknow and The Doon School in Dehradun.
In 2004, he participated in school plays and engaged in debates. He was selected for the role of Trinculo, the jester in the play "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. It was a memorable role for him. Fazal went to Mumbai and graduated in economics from St. Xavier's College.
MC Yallah
Yallah Gaudencia Mbidde, known as MC Yallah, is a Kenyan-Ugandan rapper. She has been rapping since the 1990s, when she was inspired by American hip hop and the Ugandan artists Young Vibes. During the 2000s, she was a host on the popular show NewzBeat. MC Yallah is part of the record label Nyege Nyege, and became more popular when Nyege Nyege performed concerts in Europe.
Victor Hernández Cruz
Victor Hernández Cruz is a Puerto Rican poet. He was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. He moved to New York City with his family when he was five years old. He lives in Morocco and Puerto Rico.
Cruz is a member of the Nuyorican poetry movement of Puerto Rican poets who moved to New York City. Nuyorican poets, such as Pedro Pietri, Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero, and Giannina Braschi, write about immigrant life and hybrid latino culture. They multilingual literature. They write in Spanish, English, and Spanglish.
Cruz has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the first Puerto Rican poet to be a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
He writes about New York City, traveling, the Caribbean, Puerto Rican history, and the immigrant experience. Cruz said in a television interview with Bill Moyers, “I write about myself as a Caribbean man, a man within a larger tapestry, and I try to see the connections between everything. Between myself and history, myself a racially mixed person, and all these things that make me up. I explore them in my poetry.”
Cruz published his first book, "Papo Got His Gun! And Other Poems", on a copying machine called the mimeograph. His later books were published by tradition publishing houses. His titles include: "Beneath the Spanish" (2017); "In the Shadow of Al-Andalus" (2011); "The Mountain in the Sea" (2006); "Red Beans" (1991); "Rhythm, Content, and Flavor: New and Selected Poems" (1989); "By Lingual Wholes" (1982); and "Snaps" (1969).
Julia de Burgos
Julia de Burgos (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) was a Puerto Rican poet. She was a Puerto Rican Nationalist. She advocated for civil rights for women, African Americans, and Afro-Caribbean people.
In 1938, at the age of twenty-four, Julia de Burgos published her first book of poems by herself. She traveled around Puerto Rico selling copies. She was raising money to help cover the cost of her mother’s cancer treatments. Her poems discuss themes of feminism, social justice, slavery, and Puerto Rican independence.
She famously wrote, "I Am the Life, the Strength, the Woman."
She influenced the poets of the Nuyorican movement, including Victor Hernández Cruz, Giannina Braschi, and Pedro Pietri.
She died of alcoholism in an East Harlem hospital in New York City.
Today she is called a Puerto Rican icon. She is one of Puerto Rican greatest figures in Puerto Rican poetry.
De Burgos wrote "Poemas exactos a mi misma" (1937), "Poema en veinte surcos" (1938), and "Canción de la verdad sencilla" (1939). Her poem "El mar y tú: otros poemas" (1954) was published after her death.
Her honors include awards from the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico. Many schools, public parks, and cultural centers are named after her, including: the Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center in Cleveland, the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center in New York, and Julia de Burgos Park in Chicago.
The Julia de Burgos postage stamp was issued on September 14, 2010, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the 26th stamp in the United States Literary Arts series.
Spanglish (language)
Spanglish is a hybrid American language that mixes words and other ways of saying things from Spanish and English. It is mostly spoken in the United States.
Spanglish is spoken in American towns and cities that have large numbers of Latino people, for example Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Santa Fe, Newark, and New York. Spanglish is spoken by Spanish-speaking people who have moved to the United States from other countries and immigrants who are are still learning English. Many people born in the United States whose parents came from Spanish-speaking countries also speak Spanglish. An estimated that 40 million people in the United States speak Spanglish.
Spanglish is a source of pride in Latino identity. In "Living in Spanglish", Ed Morales wrote, "Spanglish is what we speak, but it is also who we Latinos are, and how we act, and how we perceive the world."
Latino literature in the United States has things written in Spanglish. Chicano, Nuyorican, and Puerto Rican poets, playwrights, and novelists use Spanglish. Here are some of them:
Many Latino and Latin American musicians use Spanglish in the words to their songs.
Spanglish duets are songs with Spanish and English lyrics. They are a growing trend in the American and Latin American music industry. These duets are sung by a native Spanish speaker and a native English speaker. Shakira and Beyonce, Romeo Santos and Usher, Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee (in Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito”) have made the Billboard Hot 100 charts with Spanglish duets.
Stavans, Ilan, "Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language." (2004)
Quan Chi
Quan Chi is a character from the "Mortal Kombat" franchise.
Quan Chi teamed up with Shang Tsung for their Deadly Alliance.
The character was well-liked, but his Fatalities were mixed.
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is a 2007 action-adventure LEGO video game based on the "Star Wars" original and prequel trilogies.
The game is considered better than the original two due to merged characters and gameplay.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a 2003 action-adventure video game made by Ubisoft.
The Prince can reverse or slow down time with the Dagger of Time after he collects sand.
The Prince has opened the Sands of Time thanks to the Vizier.
The game was well-liked and an influential game of 2003.
Spider-Man (2000 video game)
Spider-Man is an action-adventure video game made by Neversoft. It can be played on the PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo 64. The game is based on the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man. It had a 2001 sequel called "".
Spider-Man can attack enemies with his webs or punches. Once the game is completed, a What-If mode narrated by the Watcher (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) has more humorous content in the walkthrough.
The game was made with the engine for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
The game is considered one of the best Spider-Man games of all time, rivaling Spider-Man 2.
Pan-Ethiopian nationalism