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Kashinath Ghanekar (काशिनाथ घाणेकर)
Kashinath Ghanekar (काशिनाथ घाणेकर) was a Marathi stage and film actor and dentist, remembered as the first superstar of Marathi theater from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
Kashinath Singh
Kashinath Singh (काशीनाथ सिंह), born in 1937, is a Hindi novelist and Banaras Hindu University professor best known for the novel Kashi ka Assi, set in Banaras.
Kashiram Das
Kashiram Das was a Bengali poet of the early 1600s best known for the Kashidasi Mahabharata, a Bengali rendering of Vyasa's Sanskrit epic praised by Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
Kashirskaya power station
The Kashirskaya power station, also known as Kashirskaya GRES, is a thermal power plant in Kashira, Moscow Region, opened in 1922 as one of the first Soviet district power stations.
Kashitarou Itou
Kashitarou Itou (伊東歌詞太郎) is a Japanese singer-songwriter who began as an utaite cover singer on Nico Nico Douga, making his major-label debut with the album 一意専心 in 2014.
Kashiwa
Kashiwa (柏市) is a city in northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan, about 30 km from Tokyo; founded 1954, merged with Shonan Town in 2005, population about 435,000, centered on Kashiwa Station and the Kashiwa-no-ha smart city district.
Kashiwa Reysol (柏レイソル)
Kashiwa Reysol (柏レイソル), the Sun Kings, are a J1 League football club in Kashiwa, Chiba, founded in 1940 as Hitachi's works team. First promoted club to win J1 (2011); stadium capacity 15,098.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (柏崎刈羽原子力発電所)
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (柏崎刈羽原子力発電所) is a seven-reactor, 8,212 MW nuclear plant in Niigata, Japan, operated by TEPCO and described as the world's largest by capacity.
Kashmir (band)
Kashmir is a Pakistani alternative rock band formed in Karachi in 2012, fronted by Bilal Ali; it won Pepsi Battle of the Bands in 2017.
Kashmir (song)
"Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin: an eight-and-a-half-minute song closing side two of Physical Graffiti (1975), credited to Page, Plant, and Bonham, built on a DADGAD riff from a Headley Grange jam and inspired by southern Morocco, not Kashmir.
Kashmir conflict
Kashmir conflict: the India-Pakistan-China dispute over the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir since 1947; Line of Control division, revoked Article 370, insurgency, Indus Waters Treaty, and 2025 Pahalgam crisis and ceasefire.
Kashmir Ki Kali (कश्मीर की कली)
Kashmir Ki Kali (कश्मीर की कली), 1964 Hindi romantic musical by Shakti Samanta starring Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore, music O. P. Nayyar, famous for Taarif Karoon Kya Uski on Dal Lake.
Kashmir papier-mâché
Kashmir papier-mâché, known locally as kar-i-qalamdani, is a handicraft of the Kashmir Valley in which paper-pulp objects are painted with intricate floral designs and lacquered.
Kashmir Shaivism
Kashmir Shaivism, also called the Trika, is a family of non-dual Shaiva tantric traditions that developed in the Kashmir valley from the ninth century, teaching that the individual self is Shiva.
Kashmir shawl
The Kashmir shawl is a finely woven wool garment from the Kashmir valley, decorated with the buta or boteh motif. It dominated European fashion in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Kashmir under Sikh rule
Kashmir under Sikh rule (کشمیر) was a province of the Sikh Empire, annexed from Afghan rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1819 and governed from Lahore until 1846.
Kashmir Valley
Kashmir Valley: intermontane Himalayan basin in northern India, drained by the Jhelum, centered on Srinagar; known for Karewa geology, horticulture (apples), handicrafts, tourism, flood and water stress.
Kashmira Date
Kashmira A. Date is an American physician and epidemiologist who spent over a decade at the CDC leading cholera and typhoid vaccine work, winning a 2014 PECASE award.
Kashmira Irani
Kashmira Irani (born 1986, Pune) is an Indian actress known for Amber Dhara (2007-08), the musical Zangoora at Kingdom of Dreams, Tiger Zinda Hai, and Bharat; married pilot Akshat Saxena in 2024.
Kashmira Pardeshi
Kashmira Pardeshi (born 1997, Pune) is an Indian actress in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, and Kannada cinema; debut Nartanasala (2018), Mission Mangal (2019), and Netflix's Glory (2026) as Bharti; also co-founder of the clothing brand WORTH.
Kashmiri carpets
Kashmiri carpets are hand-knotted pile carpets from the Kashmir Valley of India, woven with Persian-derived knots on wool, silk, and pashmina and legally recognized as the "Kashmiri Hand Knotted Carpet".
Kashmiri cuisine
Kashmiri cuisine, including the wazwan feast (وازِوان), is the rice-based food tradition of the Kashmir Valley, with distinct Muslim and Pandit streams, meat dishes like rogan josh and gushtaba, saffron and yogurt, and kahwa and noon chai teas.
Kashmiri drama
Kashmiri drama is the theatrical tradition of the Kashmir Valley, spanning ancient Sanskrit-stage performance, the centuries-old folk theater Bhand Pather, and modern written drama in Kashmiri beginning in 1938.
Kashmiri dramma coinage
The Kashmiri dramma (द्रम्म) was the standard coin of Kashmir's Hindu kingdoms from roughly the sixth century until 1339, bearing a seated goddess and standing king.
Kashmiri embroidery
Kashmiri embroidery, known as Kashida or Kashidakari, is the hand-embroidery tradition of the Kashmir Valley, worked in wool and silk on pashmina shawls and home furnishings.
Kashmiri language
Kashmiri (Koshur) is a Dardic Indo-Aryan language of the Kashmir valley, about seven million speakers, official in J&K since 2020, written in Perso-Arabic, Devanagari, and historically Sharada.
Kashmiri novel
A Kashmiri novel is a novel written in the Kashmiri language, or, in wider usage, a novel about Kashmir by Kashmiri authors in Urdu or English.
Kashmiri Pandits
Kashmiri Pandits, also called Bhatta, are Saraswat Brahmans of the Kashmir Valley speaking Koshur; about 95% left in the 1990 exodus, with most now in Jammu and Delhi.
Kashmiri Sanskrit poetics
Kashmiri Sanskrit poetics is the school of Sanskrit literary theory that developed in Kashmir between the 8th and 12th centuries, best known for Anandavardhana's theory of dhvani, or suggestion.
Kashmiri Shaiva poetry
Kashmiri Shaiva poetry is mystical vernacular verse tied to Trika Shaivism from the 14th century onward, best known through Lal Ded's vakhs and Nund Rishi's shruks.