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Kāḷa-Khemaka
Kāḷa-Khemaka (काळखेमक), "dark Khemaka," was a Sakyan of Kapilavatthu remembered in the Pali commentaries as a patron of the Buddhist Order who built a monastery at Nigrodhārāma, near Kapilavatthu.
Kalaari Capital
Kalaari Capital is a Bengaluru-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in Indian technology startups at the seed and Series A stages, led by managing director Vani Kola.
Kalabagh Dam (کالاباغ ڈیم)
The Kalabagh Dam (کالاباغ ڈیم), also known as Kala Bagh, is a proposed dam on the Indus River in Punjab, Pakistan, first proposed in 1953 but never built.
Kalabari Kingdom
The Kalabari Kingdom, also called Elem Kalabari or New Calabar, was an Ijaw trading state in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a major Atlantic slave and palm oil trade power.
Kalaben Delkar
Kalaben Delkar is a Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Lok Sabha, representing Dadra and Nagar Haveli since a 2021 by-election, first elected as a Shiv Sena candidate.
Kalabhavan Mani
Kalabhavan Mani (Mani Raman, 1971–2016) was a Malayalam actor and folk singer from Chalakudy, Kerala, who rose from Kalabhavan mimicry to about 200 South Indian films, won a National special jury award for Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum, and popularized nadan pattu folk music.
Kalabhra interregnum
The Kalabhra interregnum (कलभ्र आक्रमण) is the period of Tamil history, from about 250 to 600 CE, when the Kalabhras overturned the Chera, Chola, and Pandya kingdoms.
Kalabule
Kalabule is a Ghanaian term for the hoarding, black-market dealing, and overpricing that flourished in the 1970s, when price controls and shortages created wide gaps between official and market prices.
Kalaburagi
Kalaburagi, formerly Gulbarga, is the administrative headquarters of its district in northern Karnataka. This major city served as the first capital of the Bahmani Sultanate.
Kalachakra
Kalachakra, or Kalachakra Tantra, is a Buddhist tantric system and scripture known as the "wheel of time", the latest of the Highest Yoga Tantras to appear in India.
Kalachi, Kazakhstan
Kalachi (Қалашы), a village in Yessil district, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, near the abandoned Krasnogorsk uranium mine; site of the 2012–2015 'sleep syndrome' (Sleepy Hollow) episodes, officially attributed to modified air from flooded mine workings.
Kalachuri dynasty of Kalyana
The Kalachuri dynasty of Kalyana (कल्याणी कलचुरि) was an Indian dynasty that ruled from Kalyana after Bijjala II usurped the Western Chalukya throne in 1156.
Kalachuri dynasty of Tripuri
The Kalachuri dynasty of Tripuri (त्रिपुरी कलचुरि) was a royal house of central India based at Tripuri, near Jabalpur, ruling the Chedi country from about the 8th century.
Kalachuri era
The Kalachuri era (चेदि संवत्, Chedi samvat) is a Hindu year-numbering system beginning in 248 or 249 CE, used for centuries in western and central Indian inscriptions.
Kalachuri interregnum
The Kalachuri interregnum (ಬಿಜ್ಜಳ ದ್ವಿತೀಯ) was the period when Bijjala II of the Kalachuri dynasty held power at Kalyani in place of the Western Chalukyas, usurping their throne.
Kalachuri rise under Krishnaraja
The Kalachuri rise under Krishnaraja was the founding of an independent Kalachuri kingdom around 550 to 575 CE, with its capital at Mahishmati in central India.
Kalachuri usurpation of Kalyani
The Kalachuri usurpation of Kalyani was the seizure of the Western Chalukya capital at Kalyani by Bijjala II, a Kalachuri feudatory who assumed imperial titles in 1157 and displaced Tailapa III by 1162.
Kalachuvadu
Kalachuvadu (காலச்சுவடு, "Time's footprints") is a Tamil literary and political-cultural monthly magazine founded by writer Sundara Ramaswamy in the late 1980s and published from Nagercoil.
Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project
The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project is an Indian-funded corridor linking Kolkata to India's Northeast by sea to Sittwe Port and up Myanmar's Kaladan River, bypassing Bangladesh.
Kalafina (カラフィナ)
Kalafina (カラフィナ), Japanese female vocal trio formed by composer Yuki Kajiura in 2007-2008 for the Kara no Kyoukai film themes; members Wakana, Keiko, Hikaru; disbanded 2019, reunited 2025 without Kajiura.
Kalaga Thalaivan
Kalaga Thalaivan (கலகத் தலைவன்), also spelled Kalagathalaivan, is a 2022 Tamil action thriller directed by Magizh Thirumeni, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Nidhhi Agerwal, released 18 November 2022 by Red Giant Movies and streaming on Netflix.
Kalagon/Galacum
Kalagon/Galacum, also Calacum, a conjectural Roman place name for a fort in the Lune valley, attached to Overborough in RIB and debated between Burrow-in-Lonsdale, Lancaster, and the Wyre estuary.
Kalah
Kalah (Kalaha), the two-row mancala variant sold as "Mancala" in the US, invented 1940 by William Julius Champion Jr., patented 1955; six pits per side plus stores, extra turns and cross-captures; solved 2000, first-player win by 10.
Kalahandi
Kalahandi (Odia: କଳାହାଣ୍ଡି) is a district in Odisha, India, with headquarters at Bhawanipatna. Once the "rice bowl" of Odisha, it became a byword for drought and deprivation after 1980s starvation deaths.
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a 520,000 km² semi-arid sandy savanna basin in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, east of the Namib; a fossil desert of fixed dunes with 100–250 mm rainfall and San occupation over 30,000 years.
Kalahom
Kalahom (Thai: กระทรวงกลาโหม, Krasuang Kalahom) is Thailand's Ministry of Defence, descended from a pre-modern Siamese office that served as Ayutthaya's ministry of warfare and governed the south.
Kalaimamani (கலைமாமணி)
Kalaimamani (கலைமாமணி, Jewel of Arts) is the Tamil Nadu state arts award, conferred since 1954 by the Tamil Nadu Eyal Isai Nataka Manram to artists in literature, music, dance, drama, cinema, folk arts, and television; 1,924 recipients so far.
Kalaipahoa Linea
Kalaipahoa Linea is a 2,400-km-wide linea (linear tectonic feature) on Venus at 60.5S, 336.5E in quadrangle V-61, named for a Hawaiian war goddess, IAU-approved in 1991, a rift zone outlining the Lada swell.
Kalaivani Rajaratnam
Kalaivani Rajaratnam (Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, Dhanu), 1968-1991, Sri Lankan Tamil LTTE suicide bomber who killed former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi with a belt bomb at Sriperumbudur on 21 May 1991, dying in the blast.
Kalaiyarasan
Kalaiyarasan (கலையரசன்), born Kalaiyarasan Harikrishnan in 1986, is a Tamil film actor known for Madras (2014), Kabali, Sarpatta Parambarai and Vaazhai; distinct from Kalaiyarasan Rajendren (actor) and the MIDS scholar Kalaiyarasan A.