Varah
Britishnoun
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Executive director and co-chief executive Kate Varah said the theatre faced significant capital and modernisation needs, as did many other major cultural buildings in the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Set up by an Anglican vicar, Edward “Chad” Varah, it provided an emergency number – similar to 999 – for anyone contemplating suicide.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024
Rubasingham will also become the company’s joint chief executive alongside Kate Varah, who is currently executive director of the theater.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
The first crisis hotline was born in 1953, when an English vicar named Chad Varah launched the Samaritans, a phone-based counseling service designed to meet people wherever they happened to be when they needed help.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2015
Graha, is that which seizes; Grahapati is Mangala, so called for its malevolence, Varah is Vrihaspati or Jupiter, who is the counterself of Sukra or Venus.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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