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Kali (name)
Kali is an Indian given name and surname of Sanskrit origins from the name Kālá. It is also a Finnish masculine given name that is a form of Kalle. Notable people with this name include the following: Mononym *Kali. Hindu goddess, destroyer of evil forces * Kali (Bulgarian singer), professional name of Galina Dimitrova Ivanova (born 1975), Bulgarian singer *Kali (demon), Hindu mortal demon, source of all evil * Kali (footballer), nickname of Carlos Manuel Gonçalves Alonso, (born 1978), Angolan former footballer * Kali (painter), nickname of Hanna Weynerowska (1918–1998), Polish painter *Kali (French singer), stage name of Jean-Marc Monnerville (born 1959), French musician ‘ *Kali Meehan, nickname of Kalivati Gerald Meehan (born 1970), New Zealand-born boxer * Kali Mirza, stagename of Kalidas Chattopadhyay, Indian composer *Kali Mountford, nickname of Carol Jean Mountford (born 1954), British politician *Kali Muscle, stagename of Chuck Kirkendall (born 1975), American bodybu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Languages Of South Asia
South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. It is home to the third most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; and the sixth most spoken language, Bengali. The languages in the region mostly comprise Indo-Iranic and Dravidian languages, and further members of other language families like Austroasiatic, Turkic, and Tibeto-Burman languages. South Asian English is considered the international lingua franca of the South Asian countries. Afghanistan The official languages of Afghanistan are Pashto and Dari, both of which are Iranic languages. Dari, an Afghan standardized register of the Persian language, is considered the lingua franca of Afghanistan and used to write Afghan literature. Tajik is spoken by people closer to Tajikistan, although officially the language is regarded same as Dari. A few Turkic languages like Uzbek and Turkmen are also spoken nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Mutsa
Kali Mutsa is the name of a singer and band from Santiago, Chile. The members consist of French-Chilean actress Celine Reymond and Chilean producer/keyboardist Cristobal Montes who perform respectively under the Kali Mutsa and Sandoje Catiri alter-egos. Their music is an original mix of Andean, gypsy, Bhangra (Bollywood) and electronic sounds, along with lyrics in Romani (gipsy) and Spanish. History According to their website, the character Kali was born sometime in 1920 in the Valley of Pachacuti to Gitano parents whom she lost in an accident that left her orphaned at a young age. She was then rescued and raised by an Aymara chief and his princess wife, and at 15 began her artistic journey as a belly dancer, singer and actress. This led her to be discovered by the musical composer and film director of Amazonian origin, Sandoje Catiri. Together, their art gained Kali Mutsa fame throughout Latin America, which leads her to eventually become the representative for her region a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Flanagan
Kali Dora Flanagan (born September 19, 1995) is an American ice hockey player for the American national team and the Boston Pride of the PHF. She also serves as an assistant coach for the Northern Cyclones, the first female coach in USPHL history. Career Flanagan was originally a figure skater before switching to hockey. In high school, she served as captain for the girls hockey team at the National Sports Academy (Lake Placid, New York). Across 157 games in the NCAA, she put up 72 points. With Boston College, she won Hockey East championships in 2016 and 2017, as well as Beanpot championships in 2016 and 2017. She took a leave for the 2017-18 season so she could train for the US Olympic team. When she returned for her final season with the college, she served as team co-captain and was named a 2018-19 Hockey East Third Team All-Star. She was drafted 5th overall by the Boston Pride in the 2018 NWHL Draft. In May 2019, she joined the newly formed Professional Women's Hocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Ranjan Deb
Kali Ranjan Deb is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Assam. He has been elected in Assam Legislative Assembly The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam. It is housed in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, geographically situated in present Western Assam region. The Legislative Assembly comprises 126 Me ... election in 1991, 1996 and 2001 from Katigorah constituency. He was one of the first politicians from BJP-Assam to have been nominated thrice consecutively. References Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Assam Assam MLAs 1991–1996 Assam MLAs 1996–2001 Assam MLAs 2001–2006 People from Cachar district Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Assam-BJP-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Davis-White
Kali Davis-White (born October 27, 1994) is a sprint athlete, who specializes in the 60 meters, 100 meters, and 200 meters. She competes for the Tennessee Volunteers. Career College Kali Davis-White started her college career at Florida State University in the 2014 season. After her sophomore year at Florida State, she transferred to Tennessee where she competed in 2016. Professional Davis-White was born and competed for the United States as a Junior athlete. She qualified for the 2012 World Junior Championships in the 200 meters for the United States. Both of her parents were born in Jamaica allowing her to compete for either the U.S. or Jamaica. She qualified for Jamaica at the 2016 Olympics in the 200 meters with a time of 22.94 seconds. See also *Jamaica at the 2016 Summer Olympics Jamaica competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from August 5 to 21, 2016. This marked its sixteenth Summer Olympic appearance as an independent nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Christ
Kali Christ (born November 9, 1991) is a Canadian speed skater. She primarily skates in the middle distances of 1000 m, 1500m, as well as the mass start event. Christ represented Canada in both these events at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as well as the team pursuit event. Career 2018 Winter Olympics Christ qualified to compete for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics Canada competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9 to 25, 2018. It was the nation's 23rd appearance at the Winter Olympics, having competed at every Games since their inception in 1924. Canada competed in all .... References External links * * 1991 births Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan Canadian female speed skaters Living people Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters of Canada World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists 21st-century Canadian women {{Canada-speed-sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Prasad Baskota
Kali Prasad Baskota ( ne, काली प्रसाद बास्कोटा) is a Nepali singer, musician and lyricist. Baskota has also judged in first three season of Nepali Reality show Nepal Idol. Career He started his music career since 2007/8, as a lyricist and composer for the song ''Chahana Sakiyo Bahana Sakiyo'' sung by Sashi Rawal. Some of his earlier hits are ''Laija Re'' sung by Hemant Rana, ''Bida nai deu baru'' sung by Azad Dhungana. His 2017 song called Saili sung by Hemant Rana was trending worldwide on No. 14 on YouTube after the first week of its release. In feature films he gave songs like ''Jaalma'', ''Nira'', ''Lappan Chappan'', ''Panchi'', ''Daiba Hey''. Kali did his singing debut from song ''Jaalma'' from the movie ''Resham filili'' which is of the biggest hit songs in Nepali movie industry. In recent times, his song "Thamel Bazaar" from the movie ''Loot 2'' (a sequel to the highly successful movie '' Loot'' and directed by Nischal Basnet) is one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali S
Kali (; sa, काली, ), also referred to as Mahakali, Bhadrakali, and Kalika ( sa, कालिका), is a Hinduism, Hindu goddess who is considered to be the goddess of ultimate power, time, destruction and change in Shaktism. In this tradition, she is considered as a ferocious form of goddess Mahadevi, the supreme of all powers, or the ultimate reality. She is the first of the ten Mahavidyas in the Hindu Tantras (Hinduism), tantric tradition. Kali's earliest appearance is when she emerged from Shiva. She is regarded as the ultimate manifestation of Shakti, and the mother of all living beings. The goddess is stated to destroy evil in order to protect the innocent. Over time, Kali has been worshipped by devotional movements and Tàntric sects variously as the Divine Mother, Mother of the Universe, Principal energy Adi Shakti. Shaktism, Shakta Hindu and Tantra, Tantric sects additionally worship her as the ultimate reality or ''Brahman''. She is also seen as the divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Charan Banerjee
Kali Charan Banerjee (1847–1907), spelt also as Kalicharan Banerji or K.C. Banerjea or K.C. Banurji, was a Bengali convert to Christianity through the Free Church of Scotland, the founder of ''Calcutta Christo Samaj'', a Calcutta lawyer, and a founding member of the Indian National Congress. Biography Banerjee was born into a Bengali Khulin Brahmin family at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh while his father was on a work assignment. Wishing to send his son to a prestigious English-medium college, Banerji's father sent him to the Free Church of Scotland college in Calcutta(''present'' Kolkata) in 1860 where Alexander Duff was principal. Through the encouragement of his teachers in the college and fellow Bengali students, Banerjee began studying the Bible and seeking instruction in the Christian faith. One of the major influences in his spiritual journey was Lal Behari Dey. Upon his decision to become a follower of Christ, Banerjee traveled to his native village and informed his r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Banerjee
Kali Banerjee (20 November 1920 – 5 July 1993) was an Indian actor, who worked in the 1950s–1970s in Bengali cinema. He is best known for his work with film directors like Satyajit Ray in ''Parash Pathar'' (1958) and Ritwik Ghatak in ''Nagarik'' (1952) and ''Ajantrik'' (1958). Career Starring in many commercial ventures in the 1960s, his association with the serious film-makers is what has given the actor an imperishable place in the history of Bengali cinema. He starred first in the movie named '''Tatinir Bichar''' and Barmar Pathe''' (On the way to Burma). Further he brought out a convincing portrayal of a young Chinese vendor Lu Wang in the street of Kolkata in time of India's freedom struggle in Mrinal Sen's ''Neel Akasher Neechey'' (1959). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Charan Bahl
Kali Charan Bahl is an associate professor emeritus in two departments: South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He specialized in Hindi and related languages or dialects. Bahl has published more than half a dozen books, in both Hindi and English, about the grammar, semantics, and dialectology of Hindi. He also did research in the 1960s on Korwa, a Munda language. Upon retirement, he made a large donation of his personal collection of books and documents to Regenstein Library The Joseph Regenstein Library, commonly known as "The Reg" is the main library of the University of Chicago, named after industrialist and philanthropist Joseph Regenstein. It is one of the largest repositories of books in the world and is noted f .... Works * Norman H. Zide, Colin P. Masica, Kalicharan Bahl and Anoop C. Chandola, Editors. ''A Premchand Reader''. Honolulu: East-West Center Press. 1962. * 1963. ''Korwa Vocabulary''. Mimeo., Chicago. * ''Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali Arulpragasam
Kali Arulpragasam is a jewellery designer and artist based in London. She is the founder and creative director of the artistic jewellery label "Super Fertile," founded in 2006. She is the sister of musician M.I.A. Super Fertile Arulpragasam's designs with Super Fertile are politically conscious in form, influenced by social realism, the environment and nations torn by war. Her latest line "Tourism (Terrorism affects Tourism)" features signature oversized silver- and gold-plated necklaces, shaped like murals, using countries such as Haiti, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Sudan as themes. This collection features a series of breastplate necklaces that hang below the navel and celebrate positive aspects of war-torn nations. Iraq's shows fruit, a mosque, and a tower at Samarra, Sudan's shows cows and fishermen, Sri Lanka's depicts a boat, palm trees and a peacock, whilst Israel's shows horses, temples and laughing men and women. The ornaments, hand-cut, were made "to be huge, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
