Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud is the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and an eminent jurist in India.

Early life and education

Born on 11 November 1959. His father Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India. His mother Prabha was a classical musician and trained with Kishori Amonkar, one of India's foremost classical musicians.After attending Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai and St. Columba's School, Delhi, he graduated in honours with Economics and Mathematics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi in 1979. He topped the Honours' list of the University of Delhi in his final year. He obtained his LL.B. degree from Delhi University in 1982 and an LL.M. degree from Harvard University in 1983. At Harvard, he received the Joseph H Beale prize.He also did his Doctorate of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.), from Harvard University in 1986. His thesis was on Affirmative Action and considered the law in a comparative framework. He was conferred with an Honoris Causa LL.D by Lucknow University, India in 2015.

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Daye, Hubei

Daye (Chinese: 大冶; pinyin: Dàyě) is a city of eastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Administratively, it is a county-level city of Huangshi City.

Before the adoption of the Hanyu Pinyin, the name of the city was often transcribed in English as Tayeh.

As it is usually the case with county-level cities, Daye includes both an urban core and a fair amount of rural land in all directions, with smaller townships (zhen) such as Dajipu (大箕铺). According to the Fifth Population Census of China (2000), the entire county-level city of Daye had 813,600 residents, with a population density of 558 people per square kilometer.

The Daye Lake south of Daye's urban core is surrounded by parks and fishing ponds, and is a popular place for recreation.

For a traveler who goes on G316 from Wuhan toward the south-east, Daye appears as a border between the more urban and more rural parts of the province. Daye sits on the south-eastern border of the heavily industrialized Wuhan/Ezhou/Huangshi metropolitan area; south of it, the much more rural Yangxin County begins.

Yu the Great

Yu the Great (Chinese: 大禹; pinyin: Dà Yǔ, c. 2200 – 2100 BC) was a legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by founding the Xia Dynasty, and for his upright moral character.

The dates proposed for Yu's reign precede the oldest known written records in China, the oracle bones of the late Shang dynasty, by nearly a millennium. No inscriptions on artifacts from the supposed era of Yu, nor the later oracle bones, make any mention of Yu; he does not appear in inscription until vessels dating to the Western Zhou period (c. 1045–771 BC). The lack of anything remotely close to contemporary documentary evidence has led to some controversy over the historicity of Yu. Proponents of the historicity of Yu theorise that stories about his life and reign were transmitted orally in various areas of China until they were recorded in the Zhou dynasty, while opponents believe the figure existed in legend in a different form - as a god or mythical animal - in the Xia dynasty, and morphed into a human figure by the start of the Zhou dynasty. Many of the stories about Yu were collected in Sima Qian's famous Records of the Grand Historian. Yu and other "sage-kings" of Ancient China were lauded for their virtues and morals by Confucius and other Chinese teachers.