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Dasara (film)

Dasara (దసరా) is a 2023 Telugu action drama, Srikanth Odela's directorial debut starring Nani, Keerthy Suresh, and Dheekshith Shetty, set in 1990s Veerlapally near the Singareni coal mines, released 30 March 2023 in five languages.

Dasarathi Satakamu

Dasarathi Satakamu (దాశరథీ శతకము) is a 17th-century Telugu devotional shataka in praise of Rama, composed by Kancherla Gopanna, the saint-poet known as Bhakta Ramadasu of Bhadrachalam.

Dasari Arun Kumar (దాసరి అరుణ్ కుమార్)

Dasari Arun Kumar (దాసరి అరుణ్ కుమార్) is a Telugu film actor, son of director Dasari Narayana Rao; debuted in Greeku Veerudu (1998), later villain and supporting roles.

Dasari Narayana Rao

Dasari Narayana Rao (దాసరి నారాయణ రావు), Darsaka Ratna, Telugu film director, producer, writer and politician; directed a record ~148-151 films, founded Udayam daily, Rajya Sabha MP 2000-2012 and Union Minister of State for Coal and Mines 2004-2008; died 30 May 2017.

Daśarūpaka

Dasharupaka (Daśarūpaka, दशरूपक), a 10th-century Sanskrit treatise on dramaturgy by Dhanañjaya, condenses Bharata's Natyashastra into four chapters describing the ten principal forms of classical Sanskrit drama.

Dasavathaaram (தசாவதாரம்)

Dasavathaaram (தசாவதாரம்) is a 2008 Tamil sci-fi action film directed by K.S. Ravikumar, starring Kamal Haasan in ten roles, with Asin and Mallika Sherawat; released 13 June 2008 on about 1,000 prints and among 2008's top grossers.

Dascha Polanco

Dascha Polanco, Dominican American actress, plays Dayanara "Daya" Diaz on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black; credits include Joy, Samaritan, and In the Heights; Lupe Award 2015.

Dash (boutique)

Dash (DASH), the boutique chain founded in 2006 by Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé Kardashian in Calabasas, expanded to Miami and New York, featured on their reality shows, and closed in 2018.

Dash (rapper)

Da$H (Darien Corey Dash Jr., born 1992) is an American rapper from Hackensack, New Jersey, nephew of Damon Dash, A$AP Mob affiliate, H'z Global member with RetcH, known for V.I.C.E.S. (2013) and Fetti.

Dash & Lily

Dash & Lily is a 2020 Netflix holiday romantic comedy series, 8 episodes, created by Joe Tracz from Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's novel, starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis; canceled after one season in October 2021.

Dash Berlin

Dash Berlin: Dutch trance project from The Hague formed by producers Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn with DJ Jeffrey Sutorius; hit "Till the Sky Falls Down", DJ Mag #7 in 2012, later a trademark split into competing lineups.

Dash Dolls

Dash Dolls is an E! reality series, a Keeping Up with the Kardashians spin-off premiering September 20, 2015, following employees of the Kardashian sisters' DASH boutique, co-managed by twins Malika Haqq and Khadijah Haqq McCray.

Dash Mihok

Dash Mihok (Dashiell Raymond Mihok, born 1974) is an American character actor, Bunchy Donovan on Ray Donovan (2013–2020), Tourette syndrome advocate, TAA board member, and founder of the virtual production company Sigmatic.

Dash Snow

Dash Snow (Dashiell A. Snow) was an American photographer and collage artist who documented New York's downtown scene; he died of a drug overdose in 2009, aged 27.

Dasha (singer)

Dasha (Anna Dasha Novotny, born 2000, San Luis Obispo) is an American country-pop singer-songwriter whose viral TikTok line-dance hit "Austin (Boots Stop Workin')" (2023) led to a Warner Records deal, the album What Happens Now?, and a billion-stream milestone.

Dasha Nekrasova

Dasha Nekrasova (Дарья Дмитриевна Некрасова, born 1991, Minsk) is a Belarusian-American actress, director, and Red Scare podcast co-host; 'Sailor Socialism' meme, Comfrey on Succession, GWFF Best First Feature at Berlinale 2021.

Dasha Rush

Dasha Rush, real name Dasha Ptitsyna Van Celst, is a Russian-born techno producer and DJ based in Berlin who runs Fullpanda Records and its sub-label Hunger to Create.

Dashakumaracharita

The Dashakumaracharita (Daśakumāracarita) is a Sanskrit prose romance (gadyakāvya) by Dandin, dated to the late seventh or early eighth century, telling how ten young men separated by fate reunite and recount their adventures.

Dasham Skandh

Dasham Skandh (દશમ સ્કંધ) is the tenth canto of the Shrimad Bhagavata Purana, narrating Krishna's birth and childhood, retold in verse by Bhalan and Premānand.

Dasharatham (ദശരഥം)

Dasharatham (ദശരഥം), 1989 Malayalam drama by Sibi Malayil, written by A. K. Lohithadas, starring Mohanlal as Rajiv Menon; first Malayalam film on surrogacy, released 19 October 1989, later a cult film.

Dashavatar (दशावतार) (2025 film)

Dashavatar (दशावतार) is a 2025 Marathi suspense thriller directed by Subodh Khanolkar, starring Dilip Prabhavalkar as Konkan folk theatre artist Babuli Mestri; released 12 September 2025, it grossed Rs 29 crore, the top Marathi film of 2025.

Dashboard Confessional

Dashboard Confessional is an American emo band formed in Florida in 2000 by Chris Carrabba. The Swiss Army Romance (2000) and hits like Screaming Infidelities and Hands Down made it the commercial face of early-2000s emo, with two Billboard 200 number-2 albums.

DashCon

DashCon (formerly Tumbl-Con USA) was a fan-run convention for Tumblr users held July 11-13, 2014 in Schaumburg, Illinois, infamous for a $17,000 emergency cash appeal, unpaid guests, and the 'extra hour in the ball pit' meme.

DashCon 2

DashCon 2 (DashCon Two) is a fan-run arts, culture, and internet history convention in Toronto, Canada, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the failed 2014 Tumblr convention DashCon. First held July 5, 2025 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre; the 2026 edition ran August 1-2, themed Vive la Révolution, with a licensed Bucharest spinoff.

Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj

Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj (Дашдоржийн Нацагдорж; 1906–1937) was a Mongolian poet and writer regarded as one of the founders of modern Mongolian literature, known for the poem "My Homeland" and the musical drama Three Fateful Hills.

Dashi (出汁)

Dashi (出汁, だし) is Japanese soup stock made by extracting umami from kombu, katsuobushi, niboshi, or dried shiitake. Key facts: glutamate-inosinate synergy, ichiban and niban dashi, Ikeda's 1908 umami discovery.

Dashiki

Dashiki: a loose, brightly colored West African pullover tunic (Yoruba dàńṣíkí, from Hausa dan ciki). Popularized in the US from the 1960s by New Breed Clothing of Harlem as a Black pride symbol.

Dashing Youth (少年白马醉春风)

Dashing Youth (少年白马醉春风, The Young Brewmaster's Adventure) is Zhou Munan's wuxia novel and its adaptations: a 2022 Mango TV/Youku animation and a 2024 Youku live-action drama starring Hou Minghao, a prequel to The Blood of Youth set twenty years earlier.

Dassler brothers feud

Dassler brothers feud: quarrel between Adolf (Adi) and Rudolf (Rudi) Dassler of Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, that split Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik and produced rival firms Adidas and Puma, divided the town, and lasted until a 2009 reconciliation match.

Dast-e-Saba

Dast-e-Saba (دستِ صبا) is the second poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, published in 1952 and written largely during his imprisonment in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.