All articles starting with K
16,083 articles
Kaliya Damana
Kaliya Damana (কালীয় দমন, "the subduing of Kaliya") is a one-act devotional play, or Ankiya Nat, by Assamese saint Srimanta Sankaradeva, depicting Krishna subduing the serpent Kaliya in the Yamuna.
Kaliya Nayanar
Kaliya Nayanar (கலிய நாயனார்) is a Nayanar saint, a wealthy oil-monger of Tiruvotriyur near Chennai who kept the temple lamps burning and, when oil failed, tried to fill them with his own blood.
Kaliyugam (கலியுகம்) (2025 film)
Kaliyugam (கலியுகம்), aka Kaliyugam 2064, is a 2025 Tamil-Telugu bilingual post-apocalyptic thriller, Pramodh Sundar's directorial debut, starring Shraddha Srinath and Kishore, set in 2064, released 9 May 2025.
Kaliyugaya
Kaliyugaya (කලියුගය) is a 1957 Sinhala-language novel by Martin Wickramasinghe, second in his trilogy, following Nanda and Piyal as village life gives way to modernity in Sri Lanka.
Kalju
Nõmme Kalju FC, commonly known as Kalju, is an Estonian football club from Tallinn's Nõmme district, founded in 1923 and refounded in 1997, twice Estonian champion.
Kalju Lepik
Kalju Lepik (1920–1999) was an Estonian poet exiled in Stockholm from 1944, one of the best-known Estonian poets of the later 20th century, with work translated into a dozen languages.
Kalka (कालका)
Kalka (कालका) is a municipal council town in Panchkula district, Haryana, at the Shivalik foothills. Known as the lower terminus of the 96.6 km Kalka–Shimla Railway (World Heritage, 1903, 107 tunnels); formerly merged in Panchkula MC, separate council since 2020.
Kalker's contact theory
Kalker's contact theory is a family of mathematical models by Joost J. Kalker for computing tangential forces in rolling contact, most prominently between railway wheels and rails.
Kalki (2019 Malayalam film)
Kalki (2019) is a Malayalam action crime film, Praveen Prabharam's directorial debut, starring Tovino Thomas as SI K fighting the DYP party in fictional Nanchenkotta; released 8 August 2019, distinct from the Telugu Kalki and Kalki 2898 AD.
Kalki (2019 Telugu film)
Kalki (కల్కి) is a 2019 Telugu action thriller directed by Prasanth Varma, starring Rajasekhar as IPS officer Kalki investigating a 1980s murder in Kollapur, Telangana; released June 28, 2019, distinct from the Malayalam Kalki and Kalki 2898 AD.
Kalki (कल्कि)
Kalki (कल्कि) is the prophesied tenth avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, foretold to appear at the end of the Kali Yuga to destroy evil and begin a new golden age.
Kalki 2898 AD
Kalki 2898 AD (Telugu: కల్కి 2898-ఎ.డి) is a 2024 Telugu mythological sci-fi epic directed by Nag Ashwin, starring Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, and Kamal Haasan; released 27 June 2024, it grossed over ₹1,000 crore and won two National Film Awards.
Kalki Koechlin
Kalki Koechlin is an Indian actress and screenwriter of French ethnicity, born in Auroville, known for Dev.D, Margarita with a Straw, Gully Boy and Made in Heaven, plus theatre, podcasting and activism.
Kalki Krishnamurthy
Kalki Krishnamurthy (கல்கி கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி), pen name of R. Krishnamurthy (1899-1954), Tamil novelist, journalist, and freedom fighter; author of Ponniyin Selvan, Sivakamiyin Sapatham, and Alai Osai, and founder of the Kalki weekly.
Kalki Purana (कल्किपुराण)
The Kalki Purana is a Sanskrit Upapurana narrating the future life of Kalki, the tenth avatar of Vishnu, from his birth in Sambhala to his return to Vaikuntha.
Kall
Kall, Eifel municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known for a Roman Buntsandstein quarry (2nd/3rd century AD), over 2,000 medieval iron-ore pits (Pingen), the Roman Eifel water pipeline, and the Frankish Kall-Sistig cemetery.
Kallachirippu
Kallachirippu (கல்லச்சிரிப்பு, Fake Smile) is a 2018 ZEE5 Tamil thriller web series, 8 episodes, produced by Karthik Subbaraj, directed by Rohit Nandakumar, starring Amrutha Srinivasan as Mahati, whose accidental killing of her arranged-marriage husband drives the plot.
Kallakurichi
Kallakurichi (கள்ளக்குறிச்சி) district, Tamil Nadu, created from Viluppuram in November 2019; headquarters at Kallakurichi town on NH 79; agrarian district of 3,530.58 sq km with Kalvarayan Hills.
Kallanai Dam
Kallanai, also known as the Grand Anicut, is an ancient dam across the Kaveri River in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the Chola king Karikala.
Kallanka
A kallanka is a large elongated rectangular hall of Inca architecture, used for administration, collective lodging, or ceremonies and typically built facing a main plaza. Largest examples reach 105 meters, including the hall at Raqchi.
Kallar (caste)
Kallar (கள்ளர்), a Tamil caste of southern Tamil Nadu, part of the Mukkulathor/Thevar formation with Maravar and Agamudaiyar; traditionally kaval policemen, criminalized under British rule, now an OBC community.
Kallata
Kallata (कल्लट), also called Bhatta Kallata, was a 9th-century Shaiva master and disciple of Vasugupta, active around 850, whose Spandavritti is the earliest surviving Spanda commentary.
Kallawaya
The Kallawaya are a Bolivian ethnic group of itinerant herbalist healers based in Bautista Saavedra province north of La Paz, whose ancestral medical practice UNESCO recognized in 2003.
Kalle Anttila
Kalle Anttila (Kaarlo Johan Jalmari Anttila, 1887-1949 or 1975), Finnish wrestler; first wrestler to win Olympic gold in two styles: 1920 freestyle lightweight and 1924 Greco-Roman featherweight, plus 1921-22 world titles.
Kalle Gehring
Kalle Gehring is a Canadian structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at McGill University who uses NMR spectroscopy and crystallography to determine protein and DNA structures, including parkin.
Kalle Jalkanen
Kalle Jalkanen (1907–1941), Finnish cross-country skier of Lahden Hiihtoseura; anchor of Finland's gold-medal 4x10 km relay at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 and 50 km world champion at Lahti 1938; killed by a mine in the Continuation War.
Kalle von Feilitzen
Kalle von Feilitzen is a Swedish bioinformatician who leads IT and bioinformatics for the Human Protein Atlas and is a co-founder and board member of Stockholm proteomics company ProteomEdge AB.
Källén-Lehmann spectral representation
The Källén-Lehmann spectral representation is an exact, nonperturbative formula in quantum field theory expressing a field's propagator as an integral of free propagators weighted by a nonnegative spectral density.
Kallikantzaros
Kallikantzaros (Καλλικάντζαρος), Greek and Balkan Christmas goblin of the Twelve Days; surfaces from the underworld to prank homes and saw the world tree, banished at Epiphany; cognate to karakoncolos.
Kalliroe
Kalliroe (Kallirrhoe, Callirrhoe), ancient thermal springs at 'Ain ez-Zara on the Dead Sea's eastern shore in Jordan; famed resort where Herod the Great sought a cure before his death in 4 BCE.