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Kaveh Golestan
Kaveh Golestan (کاوه گلستان) was an Iranian documentary photographer who covered the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and both Gulf Wars, winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1979.
Kaveh Madani
Kaveh Madani (کاوه مدنی) is an Iranian environmental scientist known for applying game theory to water management, coining "water bankruptcy", and winning the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize.
Kaveri (actress)
Kaveri (കാവേരി), also Kalyani, born Kaveri Muralidharan (Thiruvalla, Kerala), is a South Indian actress who began as a child artist in Ammaanamkili (1986), debuted as heroine in Udhyanapalakan, and won the Nandi Award for Avunu Valliddaru Ishtapaddaru (2002).
Kaveri (காவேரி)
Kaveri (காவேரி, Cauvery) is a major South Indian river rising at Talakaveri, Karnataka, flowing to the Bay of Bengal; home of the 2nd-century Kallanai, KRS and Mettur dams, and the Karnataka–Tamil Nadu water-sharing dispute.
Kaveri River water dispute
The Kaveri River water dispute, also spelled Cauvery, is a long-running disagreement between the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over sharing the Kaveri River's water.
Kavi Bhushan
Kavi Bhushan (भूषण) was a 17th-century Hindi poet writing in Braj, whose patrons were Shivaji and Chhatrasal and whose main work is the Shivarajabhushan of 1673.
Kavi Kant
Kavi Kant (કવિ કાન્ત), born Manishankar Ratnji Bhatt, was a Gujarati poet and playwright of British India, born in 1867, whose 1923 collection Purvalap is a landmark of Gujarati poetry.
Kavi Kumar Azad
Kavi Kumar Azad (कवि कुमार आज़ाद), born Harpal, Indian actor (1972–2018) who played Dr. Hansraj Hathi in Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah; also in Mela, Jodhaa Akbar; died of cardiac arrest in Mumbai.
Kavi Manch
Kavi Manch (कवि मंच, "the poet's stage") is the platform, live or online, where Hindi poets recite to an audience; its best-known form is the kavi sammelan.
Kavi sammelan
A kavi sammelan (कवि सम्मेलन) is an Indian gathering where poets recite their own verse to an audience, found across Indian languages, most prominently in Hindi and Marathi.
Kavigan
Kavigan (কবিগান) is a Bengali folk-song genre in which two teams of singer-poets duel through improvised verse, popular in Calcutta in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Kavijivan
Kavijivan (કવિજીવન) is an 1887 Gujarati biography of the poet and reformer Narmad, written by his contemporary Navalram Pandya a year after Narmad's death in 1886.
Kavikankan Chandi
Kavikankan Chandi (কবিকঙ্কণ চণ্ডী), also known as Kabikankan Chandi or Abhayamangal, is a 16th-century Bengali epic poem on the goddess Chandi, composed by Mukundaram Chakrabarti in West Bengal.
Kavikanthabharana
Kavikanthabharana (कविकण्ठाभरणम्, "Necklace of the Poet's Throat") is an 11th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics in five chapters by the Kashmirian poet Kshemendra, a practical manual that carries his doctrine of auchitya, or propriety.
Kavilok
Kavilok (કવિલોક) is a Gujarati poetry institution and the first bimonthly poetry journal in the language, founded after 1955 by Rajendra Shah and published in Ahmedabad.
Kavin (கவின்) (actor)
Kavin Raj (கவின்), born 1990 in Tiruchirappalli, is a Tamil actor known for the serial Saravanan Meenatchi, Bigg Boss Tamil season 3, and films Dada, Star, Bloody Beggar, Mask, and Hi with Nayanthara.
Kavin Ammigan
Kavin Ammigan is a materials engineer at Fermilab who develops beam-intercepting materials like high-entropy alloys for high-power accelerators, winning a 2022 DOE Early Career award and a 2025 PECASE.
Kavin Bharti Mittal
Kavin Bharti Mittal is an Indian technology entrepreneur who founded Hike, the messaging app that reached a $1.4 billion valuation before shutting down in 2021.
Kavindra Paramananda
Kavindra Paramananda (कवींद्र परमानंद) was a 17th-century Sanskrit poet at the Maratha court of Shivaji, whose Sivabharata, composed during the king's lifetime, is the first biography of Shivaji.
Kavindra Parameshwar
Kavindra Parameshwar (কবীন্দ্র পরমেশ্বর), born Parameshwar Das, was a Bengali poet who wrote the earliest Mahabharata in Bangla, an abridged verse version composed around 1515 to 1519.
Kavindrarimathana
Kavindrarimathana was the architect of the Khmer king Rajendravarman at Angkor, the only Angkorian architect known by name, who built East Mebon, Pre Rup, and Srah Srang.
Kavinsky
Kavinsky was the stage name of Vincent Belorgey (1975-2026), the French DJ and producer behind the synthwave hit Nightcall, featured in Drive and performed at the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony; his albums were OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022).
Kavir & Lut Deserts
Kavir & Lut Deserts: Iran's two great interior deserts, Dasht-e Kavir (Great Salt Desert, ~77,000 km²) and Dasht-e Lut (~51,800 km²), endorheic basins on the Iranian Plateau, with the Lut holding record land-surface temperatures of 70.7–80.8°C and World Heritage kalut yardangs.
Kavir Biosphere Reserve
Kavir Biosphere Reserve, Iran, UNESCO MAB site designated 1976 near Dasht-e Kavir; desert reserve of about 691,163 ha with Kavir National Park, endemic plants, and locally extinct Persian onager.
Kaviraja Shyamaldas
Kaviraja Shyamaldas (कविराज श्यामलदास) was a Charan poet, historian, and administrator who served Maharana Sajjan Singh at Udaipur and wrote the Vir Vinod, a nearly 2,800-page history of Mewar.
Kavirajamarga
Kavirajamarga (ಕವಿರಾಜಮಾರ್ಗ) is the earliest extant work in Kannada, a ninth-century treatise on poetics written by the court poet Srivijaya for the Rashtrakuta emperor Amoghavarsha I.
Kavishri
Kavishri (ਕਵੀਸ਼ਰੀ, also written Kavishari) is a form of Punjabi poetry from the Malwa region of Punjab, sung loudly and fast without instruments, attributed to Guru Gobind Singh.
Kavita
Kavita (कविता) is the word for poetry in modern Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi and Marathi, derived from the Sanskrit root behind kavi (poet) and kāvya.
Kavita Arora
Kavita Shah Arora is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and bioethicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who researches contraception disparities and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.
Kavita Kaushik
Kavita Kaushik (कविता कौशिक), born 1981 in Delhi, is an Indian actress famous as Inspector Chandramukhi Chautala in SAB TV's F.I.R. (2006–2015, 1,341 episodes); also films, Bigg Boss 14 wild card, and Goa-based Ayurveda business.