Arts and culture

Dastan

Dastan (داستان) is a genre of oral and prose romance narrative that developed in Persian and spread to Urdu, telling of adventure, magic, and warfare.

Dastan-e-Amir Hamza

Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (داستانِ امیر حمزہ) is an epic Urdu tale of fantasy and adventure built loosely around Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dastar (also pagg, pagri) is the Sikh turban, a daily-wrapped cloth covering the kesh (uncut hair), mandatory for initiated Sikhs since Guru Gobind Singh's 1699 Khalsa; styles include Dumalla, Patiala Shahi, and the Akali-Nihang Dastar Bunga warrior turban.

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, also known as Stop the Pigeon, is a 1969 Hanna-Barbera CBS Saturday morning cartoon, a Wacky Races spin-off in which Dick Dastardly, Muttley, and the Vulture Squadron fail to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon across 17 episodes.

Dasvi (दसवीं)

Dasvi (दसवीं) is a 2022 Hindi social-comedy directed by Tushar Jalota, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Nimrat Kaur, and Yami Gautam, released on Netflix and Jio Cinema on 7 April 2022 about a jailed chief minister studying for his class 10 exam.

Sep 23, 2026

Daswanth

Daswanth was a Hindu painter at Akbar's Mughal court, active from the mid-1560s until his death in 1584, remembered as a leading master of early Mughal painting.

Đất nước

Đất nước is a Vietnamese lyric-epic poem by Nguyễn Đình Thi, begun in 1948 during the resistance war against France and celebrated for its closing lines.

Đất rừng phương Nam

Đất rừng phương Nam ("The Land and Forest of the South") is a Vietnamese children's novel by Đoàn Giỏi, first published in 1957, following the boy An through southern Vietnam.

Data (Star Trek)

Data (Star Trek): Soong-type android with a positronic brain, created by Dr. Noonian Soong, activated 2335 at Omicron Theta; portrayed by Brent Spiner in TNG and films; sought humanity, won personhood in "The Measure of a Man," died in Nemesis, returned in Picard.

Oct 15, 2026

Data Protection Day

Data Protection Day, also known as Privacy Day or Data Privacy Day, is an annual observance on 28 January established by the Council of Europe in 2006.

Data Tutashkhia

Data Tutashkhia (დათა თუთაშხია) is a novel by the Georgian writer Chabua Amirejibi, his most famous work, set in Georgia at the turn of the 20th century.

Datalore

Datalore is a first-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode broadcast January 18, 1988, introducing Lore, Data's evil twin, played by Brent Spiner; it was Gene Roddenberry's last written episode.

Datang Sanzang Qujing Shihua

Datang Sanzang Qujing Shihua (大唐三藏取經詩話), also titled Xindiao Datang Sanzang Fashi Qujing Ji, is an anonymous Song-era verse-and-prose narrative of Xuanzang's westward journey to fetch Buddhist scriptures.

Datastanagirk of Mkhitar Gosh

The Datastanagirk, or Book of Laws, is the Armenian lawcode compiled by Mkhitar Gosh around 1184, the first to cover secular as well as church law.

Date A Live (デート・ア・ライブ)

Date A Live (デート・ア・ライブ) is a Japanese light novel series by Koushi Tachibana and Tsunako, 22 volumes 2011–2020, about Shido Itsuka sealing Spirits by dating them; adapted into five anime seasons, manga, and Yen Press English editions.

Date Movie

Date Movie is a 2006 American parody film that spoofs romantic comedy clichés, starring Alyson Hannigan and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer after their Scary Movie work.

Date Night

Date Night (2010) is an American action comedy directed by Shawn Levy, written by Josh Klausner, starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey as the Fosters; $152.3 million worldwide on a $55 million budget.

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC is NBC News's primetime newsmagazine, premiered March 31, 1992 with Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips; longest-running NBC primetime series, known for To Catch a Predator, true crime, and podcasts.

Dating Naked

Dating Naked is a VH1 reality dating series (2014-2016, 3 seasons, 33 episodes) in which contestants date nude, hosted by Amy Paffrath and Rocsi Diaz; the format was revived as Dating Naked UK on Paramount+ in 2024 with host Rylan Clark and a £50,000 prize.

Dating Naked UK

Dating Naked UK is a Paramount+ and MTV British reality dating series (2024–) hosted by Rylan Clark, in which ten singles date nude in a tropical villa for a £50,000 prize, shown unblurred unlike the US version.

Dau (film)

Dau (DAU) is Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 2026 experimental drama, the culminating film of the DAU project about Soviet physicist Lev Landau. 195 minutes, 35mm, Venice 2026 Silver Lion for Best Director, starring Teodor Currentzis.

Đau thương

Đau thương (Thơ Điên) is a 1938 poetry collection by the Vietnamese poet Hàn Mặc Tử, unpublished in his lifetime, a central work of the Thơ mới movement.

Daud (film)

Daud (दौड़), also Daud: Fun on the Run, is a 1997 Hindi road adventure comedy directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Sanjay Dutt, Urmila Matondkar, and Paresh Rawal, with A. R. Rahman's music; a remake of Kshana Kshanam and a box office flop.

Daughter (band)

Daughter is a London indie folk trio formed in 2010 by Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli, and Remi Aguilella, distinct from other acts named Daughter. Known for "Youth", the albums If You Leave, Not to Disappear, and Stereo Mind Game, and the Life Is Strange: Before the Storm soundtrack on 4AD.

Daughter from Another Mother

Daughter from Another Mother (Madre solo hay dos) is a Mexican Netflix comedy-drama created by Carolina Rivera and Fernando Sariñana, about two women raising babies switched at birth; three seasons, 27 episodes, 2021-2022.

Daughter from Hell

Daughter from Hell is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams, released through Interscope Records on July 17, 2026, and her first number 1 album.

Daughter of the Empire

Daughter of the Empire (1987) by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts, book one of the Empire Trilogy set on Kelewan in the Riftwar universe, follows seventeen-year-old Mara of the Acoma as Ruling Lady surviving the Game of the Council against the Minwanabi.

Daughter of the Nile (尼罗河女儿)

Daughter of the Nile (尼羅河女兒) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1987 Taiwanese drama, also released in Japan as ナイルの娘, about Taipei teenager Lin Hsiao-yang, her criminal brother, and the Chieko Hosokawa manga she escapes into; 93 minutes, Golden Horse Best Original Score, 4K-restored for Berlinale Classics 2016.

Daughter of The Secret Tycoon

Daughter of The Secret Tycoon: 2025 Hindi vertical microdrama (45 episodes, 110M+ views) on Kuku TV, with a Bangla localisation and a Kuku FM audio variant; secret-identity billionaire romance, not a Malayalam or Kannada serial.