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Dholavira
Dholavira, also known as Dholaveera, is a Harappan city on Khadir island in the Great Rann of Kachchh, Gujarat, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2021.
Dholavira reservoirs
The Dholavira reservoirs are a series of about sixteen rock-cut and masonry water tanks built by the Harappan civilization at Dholavira, Gujarat, between about 3000 and 1500 BCE.
Dhole
Dhole (Cuon alpinus), Asiatic wild dog: endangered social canid of South and Southeast Asia, 949–2,215 adults, hypercarnivorous pack hunter, threatened by prey depletion, persecution, and dog-borne disease.
Dhondia Wagh
Dhondia Wagh (धोंडिया वाघ) was a Maratha cavalry leader who, after Tipu Sultan's fall, led an anti-British rising in southern India until killed in 1800.
Dhondo Keshav Karve (धोंडो केशव कर्वे)
Dhondo Keshav Karve (धोंडो केशव कर्वे), Maharshi Karve, Anna (1858–1962), Indian social reformer and educator for women's welfare. Founded the Anath Balikashram at Hingne (1896) and India's first women's university (1916, now SNDT); married a widow in 1893; Bharat Ratna 1958.
Dhoni (film)
Dhoni (தோனி) is Prakash Raj's 2012 Tamil-Telugu bilingual sports drama, a remake of the Marathi Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho, about a father who wants his son to study MBA while the boy dreams of cricket like M.S. Dhoni.
Dhool (தூள்)
Dhool (தூள்) is a 2003 Tamil masala film directed by Dharani, starring Vikram, Jyothika, and Reema Sen, produced by A.M. Rathnam with Vidyasagar's music; a villager petitions a corrupt minister over factory pollution, and the film became 2003's Pongal hit.
Dhoolpet Police Station
Dhoolpet Police Station (தூள்பேட் போலீஸ் ஸ்டேஷன்) is a 2025 Tamil Aha crime-thriller web series about ACPs investigating decapitation murders in Chennai's Dhoolpet; distinct from a Telugu Hyderabad comedy of the same name.
Dhoom
Dhoom (धूम) is a 2004 Yash Raj Films Hindi action thriller directed by Sanjay Gadhvi, starring Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, and Uday Chopra; it launched the Dhoom franchise with Dhoom 2 (2006) and Dhoom 3 (2013).
Dhoom (music)
Dhoom (धूम) is the soundtrack album of the 2004 Hindi film Dhoom, composed by Pritam, whose hit title song "Dhoom Machale" became a rage in 2004.
Dhoom (धूम) (franchise)
Dhoom (धूम) is Yash Raj Films' three-film Hindi action franchise (2004, 2006, 2013) pairing cops Jai Dixit and Ali against star thieves played by John Abraham, Hrithik Roshan, and Aamir Khan; it grossed about $122 million worldwide.
Dhoom 2 (soundtrack)
Dhoom 2 soundtrack: 2006 Hindi film album by composer Pritam with lyricist Sameer, released by Yash Raj Music on 19 October 2006; six songs, 28 minutes, including the English-language title track "Dhoom Again".
Dhoom 2 (धूम 2)
Dhoom 2 (धूम २), also Dhoom:2, is a 2006 Hindi action heist film by Yash Raj Films, directed by Sanjay Gadhvi, starring Hrithik Roshan as thief Mr. A opposite Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai; highest-grossing Hindi film of 2006.
Dhoom 3
Dhoom 3 (धूम 3) is a 2013 Hindi action thriller, third in Yash Raj Films' Dhoom series, directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, starring Aamir Khan as circus-thief Sahir; first Hindi IMAX film and 2013's highest-grossing foreign-language film worldwide.
Dhoom Dhaam (2025 film)
Dhoom Dhaam (धूम धाम) is a 2025 Hindi action comedy on Netflix, directed by Rishab Seth, starring Yami Gautam Dhar and Pratik Gandhi as newlyweds chased while searching for "Charlie"; distinct from the 2024 Telugu film of the same name.
Dhoop Ki Deewar
Dhoop Ki Deewar (دھوپ کی دیوار) is a 2021 Pakistani Urdu web series by Umera Ahmed, directed by Haseeb Hasan, starring Sajal Aly and Ahad Raza Mir as Sara and Vishal, from military families on opposite sides of the India-Pakistan conflict, released on ZEE5's Zindagi and later YouTube.
Dhootha (దూత)
Dhootha (దూత) is a 2023 Telugu supernatural thriller web series on Prime Video, directed by Vikram K Kumar, starring Naga Chaitanya as journalist Sagar Varma Avuduri; 8 episodes, renewed for a 2026 second season with Chaitanya as producer.
Dhorani Corona
Dhorani Corona, a 200-km-wide corona on Venus at 8°S, 243°E, IAU-named in 1997 for a Thai earth and love goddess; a corona-nova joint structure with young arcuate graben and flows interbedded with Atete Corona.
Dhoti
Dhoti: an unstitched South Asian men's lower garment of rectangular cloth wrapped at the waist, passed between the legs and tucked at the back. Also called veshti, mundu, panche, dhotar, or dhuti; formal and ceremonial, distinct from the casual sewn lungi, with roots in ancient Indian draped dress.
Dhow
A dhow, known in Arabic as dāw, is a lateen-rigged sailing vessel of the Indian Ocean, used for fishing and coastal trade along Arabian, African, and Indian coasts.
Dhow Countries Music Academy
The Dhow Countries Music Academy is a nonprofit music school in Stone Town, Zanzibar, founded in 2002 as Zanzibar's first music school and dedicated to teaching taarab.
Dhrishtadyumna (धृष्टद्युम्न)
Dhrishtadyumna (धृष्टद्युम्न, Dhṛṣṭadyumna), also called Droṇahantā, is the Mahabharata prince of Panchala, twin brother of Draupadi, born from a sacrificial fire to kill Drona, whom he beheaded as Pandava commander-in-chief before being killed by Ashvatthama.
Dhritaka (提多迦)
Dhritaka (提多迦) is the fifth Indian patriarch in the Chan/Zen list of twenty-eight teachers, successor to Upagupta and teacher of Miccaka, known almost entirely through Chan transmission hagiography.
Dhritarashtra
Dhritarashtra (धृतराष्ट्र, Dhṛtarāṣṭra) is the blind king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata, father of the hundred Kauravas by Gandhari, denied the throne for blindness, and the addressee of Sanjaya's narration of the Bhagavad Gita.
Dhruba K. Chattoraj
Dhruba K. Chattoraj is a molecular geneticist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies bacterial DNA replication, proposing handcuffing to control P1 plasmid copy number and studying the Vibrio cholerae initiator RctB.
Dhrubajyoti Bora
Dhrubajyoti Bora (ধ্ৰুৱজ্যোতি বৰা), born 1955, is an Assamese writer and medical doctor who won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Katha Ratnakar and served as president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
Dhrupad
Dhrupad (ध्रुपद, from dhruvapada, "fixed or firm verse") is an ancient, prestigious genre of Hindustani classical vocal music emphasizing purity of raga, enunciation of notes, and articulation of words.
Dhruv (singer)
dhruv (Dhruv Sharma) is a London-born, Singapore-raised pop/R&B singer-songwriter-producer; viral 2021 TikTok hit "Double Take"; EP rapunzel (2022), RCA-signed; debut album Private Blizzard (2024).
Dhruv Batra
Dhruv Batra is a computer scientist working in computer vision and embodied AI, formerly a Georgia Tech professor and Meta FAIR Embodied AI leader, now co-founder of Yutori.
Dhruv Gupta
Dhruv Gupta is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Orange Health Labs, a Bengaluru rapid diagnostics company, in 2020 with Tarun Bhambra after building Practo's consumer health business.