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Balagangadhara Tilak
Balagangadhara Tilak, full name Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, was a Telugu poet, novelist, and short story writer (1921–1966) whose collection Amrutham Kurisina Ratri won the Kendra Sahitya Academy award in 1971.
Balagha
Balagha (البلاغة, balāgha) is the Arabic discipline of eloquence and rhetoric, covering figures of speech and embellishment used to judge expression, especially in classical poetry and the Qur'an.
Balaji Mohan (பாலாஜி மோகன்)
Balaji Mohan (பாலாஜி மோகன்), born 1987 in Trichy, is a Tamil film director, actor, and lyricist. He debuted with Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012), directed Vaayai Moodi Pesavum, Maari, and Maari 2, created the 2017 Hotstar web series As I'm Suffering From Kadhal, and has 2026 releases #Love and Nayyi Navelli.
Balaji Motion Pictures
Balaji Motion Pictures Limited (BMPL), Mumbai-based film production and distribution arm of Balaji Telefilms founded by Shobha and Ekta Kapoor; Hindi films including Shootout at Lokhandwala, The Dirty Picture, Udta Punjab, and Bhooth Bangla.
Balaji Telefilms
Balaji Telefilms Limited, founded in 1994 by Jeetendra Kapoor and led by Shobha and Ektaa R. Kapoor, is an Indian production house behind Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Balaji Motion Pictures, and the ALTT streaming platform.
Balalaika (балалайка)
Balalaika (балалайка), Russian triangular three-string lute; prima tuned E4-E4-A4, sizes piccolo to contrabass; first recorded 1688, modernized by Vasily Andreyev in the 1880s; distinct from the Balalaika speech corpora.
Balam
Balam (বালাম) is the stage name of Kazi Md. Ali Jahangir, a Bangladeshi singer, guitarist, and composer who fronted the rock band Warfaze before a solo pop-rock career.
Balamory
Balamory: Scottish live-action CBeebies preschool series (2002-2005) by BBC Scotland, set in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull; over 250 episodes, Bafta winner, revived by Lion Television Scotland in April 2026.
Balamory series 5
Balamory series 5 is the first series of the 2026 CBeebies revival of Balamory, continuing the numbering of the original 2002-2005 run: ten 14-minute episodes aired 20 April to 1 May 2026, produced by Lion Television Scotland with returning and new cast.
Balan: The Boy
Balan: The Boy (ബാലൻ: ദി ബോയ്), 2026 Malayalam psychological survival drama directed by Chidambaram, written by Jithu Madhavan, starring Adhisheshan K R and Farzana Palathingal; released 19 June 2026, streaming on Zee 5 from 31 July 2026; distinct from the 1938 Malayalam sound film Balan.
Balance (Van Halen album)
Balance (1995) is Van Halen's tenth studio album, the fourth and final with singer Sammy Hagar. Produced by Bruce Fairbairn, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, went triple Platinum, and was followed by Hagar's 1996 exit.
Balance of Terror
Balance of Terror is a 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series episode, also called the Romulan debut episode, written by Paul Schneider and directed by Vincent McEveety. It introduced the Romulans, cloaking device, and Neutral Zone as a Cold War allegory based on submarine films.
Balanchine ballet premieres
Balanchine ballet premieres are the first performances of the ballets of George Balanchine, who created over 425 works from about 1920 until his death in 1983.
Balaramayana
Balaramayana (Bālarāmāyaṇa) is a ten-act Sanskrit drama by the poet Rājaśekhara, generally regarded as his first play, retelling Rama's story from Valmiki's Ramayana and first staged at Mahendrapāla's court.
Balaton Sound
Balaton Sound, also known as the Balaton Sound Festival, was an electronic music festival held each July on the beach of Zamárdi, Hungary, from 2007 to 2024.
Balbir Bhujhangy
Balbir Bhujhangy, born Balbir Singh Khanpur, is a British Punjabi singer and lead singer of the Bhujhangy Group, credited as the first UK bhangra band.
Balchand
Balchand (بالچند) was a Hindu painter at the Mughal imperial courts from 1595 to about 1650, the brother of painter Payag and a master of portraiture.
Balchanma
Balchanma (बलचनमा) is a 1952 Hindi novel by Nagarjun, narrated in the first person by a poor farm laborer and counted among the foundational Hindi regional novels.
Bald and Bankrupt
Bald and Bankrupt, or Mr. Bald, is the YouTube travel vlog channel of British vlogger Benjamin Rich, started June 2018, focused on post-Soviet states, India, and raw handheld vlogging; about 4.5 million subscribers, detained at Baikonur and banned from Russia in 2022.
Baldachin
Baldachin (baldacchino, baldaquin): ceremonial canopy of fabric, stone, or metal over an altar, throne, or tomb, or carried on poles in procession; named after Baghdad brocade; Bernini's St Peter's bronze baldachin is the famous example.
Baldassare Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) was an Italian diplomat and man of letters whose Book of the Courtier, printed in Venice in 1528, defined the ideal Renaissance courtier.
Balder the Brave
Balder the Brave (Balder Odinson), Marvel Comics' Asgardian God of Light, Thor's half-brother, debuted in Journey Into Mystery #85 (1962); invulnerable via Frigga's enchantment except to mistletoe; his death prophesied to trigger Ragnarok; starred in the 1985 Simonson limited series and was name-checked in Loki season two.
Baldus
Baldus is a mock-epic poem in macaronic Latin hexameters by the Italian poet Teofilo Folengo, writing as Merlin Cocai, regarded as the masterpiece of the macaronic genre.
Baldwin family
Baldwin family: the Massapequa, Long Island acting family of brothers Alec, Daniel, Billy, and Stephen Baldwin, sons of Alexander and Carol Baldwin, known for 30 Rock, The Usual Suspects, and the TLC show The Baldwins.
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen were an Australian ethnographic partnership whose studies of Central Australian Aboriginal peoples produced The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899).
Baleen basketry
Baleen basketry: coiled baskets woven from whale baleen (keratin) with carved walrus ivory finials, developed by Iñupiaq artisans in North Alaska after 1914 and now a collectible Alaska Native art form.
Balenciaga
Balenciaga is a Kering-owned French luxury fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga in San Sebastián in 1917, established in Paris at 10 Avenue George V in 1937, closed 1968, couture revived 2021, now led by Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Balika Vadhu
Balika Vadhu is an Indian Hindi-language soap opera on Colors TV from 2008 to 2016, following Anandi, a child bride in rural Rajasthan, across 2,248 episodes.
Balin (Middle-earth)
Balin, son of Fundin, is a Dwarf of Durin's Folk in Tolkien's Middle-earth: a member of Thorin's Company in The Hobbit, Bilbo's closest Dwarf friend, later Lord of Moria, killed by an Orc arrow in T.A. 2994 and found entombed in the Chamber of Mazarbul by the Fellowship.
Balinese literature
Balinese literature is the body of writing associated with Bali, spanning traditional palm-leaf (lontar) manuscripts in Balinese and Old Javanese, and modern literature in Balinese and Indonesian.