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Sadak 2

Sadak 2 (सड़क २), 2020 Hindi drama sequel to Sadak (1991), directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Sanjay Dutt, Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur, Pooja Bhatt; streamed on Disney+ Hotstar 28 August 2020 to strongly negative reviews.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (サダコと千羽鶴) is Eleanor Coerr's 1977 children's novel about Sadako Sasaki, a Hiroshima bombing survivor who died of leukemia at 12 while folding paper cranes for peace.

Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 祯子)

Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 祯子, 1943–1955), Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor who developed leukemia at 12 and folded paper cranes; her story inspired the Children's Peace Monument and made the crane a global peace symbol.

Sadako vs. Kayako

Sadako vs. Kayako (貞子vs伽椰子) is a 2016 Japanese supernatural horror film, directed by Koji Shiraishi, pitting the Ring series' Sadako against the Ju-on series' Kayako.

Sadako Yamamura (山村貞子)

Sadako Yamamura (山村貞子), renamed Samara in the American remake, is the vengeful psychic of Koji Suzuki's Ring (1991) whose cursed videotape kills viewers a week after watching; icon of Ringu (1998) and the Ring franchise.

Sadala Misra

Sadala Misra (सदल मिश्र) was an early Hindi prose writer from Bihar, born around 1767, who translated Sanskrit works into Khari Boli at Fort William College, Calcutta.

Sadam Ali

Sadam Ali, "World Kid" (born 1988), Brooklyn-born American boxer of Yemeni descent; 2008 US Olympic lightweight and WBO junior middleweight champion who beat Miguel Cotto in Cotto's 2017 farewell fight.

Sadamichi Maekawa

Sadamichi Maekawa (前川 禎通) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist who works on strongly correlated electron systems and spintronics, winning the 2012 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal.

Sadanand Rege

Sadanand Rege (सदानंद रेगे, 1923–1982) was a Marathi poet, short-story writer, and translator who won the Maharashtra state award and the Soviet Land Nehru Award.

Sadanand Saraswati

Sadanand Saraswati is a Hindu monastic leader anointed in 2022 as Shankaracharya of the Dwarka Sharada Peeth in Gujarat, after serving as its Dandi Swami.

Sadanand Shet Tanavade

Sadanand Shet Tanavade, born 1967, is an Indian BJP politician who represents Goa in the Rajya Sabha for the 2023–2029 term, after serving as Goa party president and Tivim MLA.

Sadananda (Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath)

Sadananda (श्री सदानन्द) is the traditionally recorded 39th Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, the northern peetha of Advaita Vedanta, said to have held office from 1706 to 1716 CE.

Sadanga kvatha curna

Sadanga kvatha curna (Ṣaḍaṅga kvātha cūrṇa) is a six-ingredient Ayurvedic decoction powder, AFI entry 4:32 from the Astangahrdaya, used for nausea, thirst, and fever with bitterness; AFI dose 48 g.

Sadao Nakajima

Sadao Nakajima (中嶋貞雄) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Nagoya and Tokyo universities, known for the Nakajima–Zwanzig equation in statistical mechanics and for founding the ISQM symposium in 1983.

Sadar Bazaar, Delhi

Sadar Bazaar (सदर बज़ार), Old Delhi wholesale district near Chandni Chowk and Khari Baoli; Delhi's largest wholesale market for household items, toys, cosmetics and festive goods, with sub-markets like Swadeshi and Pratap Market, closed Sundays.

Sadar-us-Sudur

The Sadar-us-Sudur (صدر الصدور) was the chief ecclesiastical officer of the Delhi Sultanate and later the Mughal Empire, distributing stipends and maintenance grants to religious persons.

Sadara

Sadara Chemical Company is a Saudi petrochemical joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow, established in 2011 in Jubail with over $20 billion invested and 26 integrated plants.

Sadarang

Sadarang (صدرنگ) was the pen name of Ni'mat Khan, a dhrupad singer and khayal composer who served as chief musician at Emperor Muhammad Shah's Mughal court in Delhi.

Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Sadashiv Amrapurkar (सदाशिव अमरापूरकर, 1950–2014) was an Indian actor in Marathi and Hindi films; best known as Rama Shetty in Ardh Satya and Maharani in Sadak, the first Filmfare Best Villain winner.

Sadashiva Nayaka

Sadashiva Nayaka (ಸದಾಶಿವ ನಾಯಕ) was a sixteenth-century ruler of the Keladi (Ikkeri) Nayaka dynasty in western Karnataka, who served the Vijayanagara Empire as a military commander.

Sadashivrao Bhau

Sadashivrao Bhau (सदाशिवराव भाऊ), 1730–1761, Maratha commander and Poona finance administrator, victor of Udgir 1760, who led the North India expedition and died at the Third Battle of Panipat.

Sadasiva Brahmendra

Sadasiva Brahmendra (सदाशिव ब्रह्मेन्द्र) was a South Indian Advaita renunciate, Sanskrit philosopher, and Carnatic composer of the 17th and 18th centuries whose samadhi at Nerur on the Kaveri is still honored.

Sadasiva Raya

Sadasiva Raya (सदाशिव राय) was the last Tuluva emperor of Vijayanagara, reigning nominally from 1542 as a minor while his minister Rama Raya held effective power.

Sadbindu Taila

Sadbindu (Shadbindu, Ṣaḍbindu) Taila, a classical Ayurvedic nasya oil from Bhaishajya Ratnavali 49–51, made of processed sesame oil, Eclipta alba juice, goat milk, and nine herbs; used for head and nasal disorders, standardized by HPTLC kaempferol assay.

Sadd el-Kafara

Sadd el-Kafara is the ruin of an Old Kingdom Egyptian dam in the Wadi el-Garawi, one of the world's oldest known large dams, built around 2700 to 2600 BC.

Sadda Haq (TV series)

Sadda Haq – My Life, My Choice, Indian youth TV series on Channel V India (25 November 2013 to June 2016), created by Anand Sivakumaran, starring Harshita Gaur and Param Singh; about Sanyukta Aggarwal fighting gender bias to become a mechanical engineer. Distinct from the 2013 Punjabi film Sadda Haq.

Saddam Hussein (صدام حسين)

Saddam Hussein (صدام حسين), 1937-2006, president of Iraq 1979-2003: led the Iran-Iraq War, invaded Kuwait in 1990, conducted the Anfal campaign and Halabja chemical attack, was overthrown in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and executed in 2006 for the Dujail killings.

Saddam Salim

Saddam Salim, born in Bangladesh in 1990, is an American Democratic politician elected to the Virginia Senate's 37th district in 2023, defeating incumbent Chap Petersen.

Saddamism

Saddamism: the personalist Iraqi variant of Ba'athism under Saddam Hussein (1979–2003), blending pan-Arab socialism, Iraqi patriotism, and a leadership cult, shifting from fortress secularism to the 1993–2003 Faith Campaign before collapsing in 2003.

Saddharma Alankaraya

Saddharma Alankaraya (සද්ධර්මාලංකාරය, "Ornament of the Good Law") is a Sinhala prose compendium of Buddhist stories written in the Gampola period by the monk Devarakshita Jayabahu Dharmakirti.