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Kalā means performing art in Sanskrit.
Kala or Kalah may refer to:
(, ) ( kaalam or kaala) is a word used in Sanskrit to mean " time". The Tamil word kaalam refers to duration (an interval) in time. It is also the name of a deity in which sense it is not always distinguishable from meaning "black". It is often used as one of the various names or forms of Yama.
KALA (88.5 FM) is a 10,000 watt public format, non-profit radio station in Davenport, Iowa, one of the Quad Cities. The station licensee, St. Ambrose University is authorized by the Federal Communications Commission. KALA also has a translator, K288CY Bettendorf, Iowa at 105.5 FM and KALA-HD2 at 106.1 FM.
KALA's format includes news, information and entertainment from National Public Radio and from Public Radio International. The station's jazz and variety musical lineup includes several styles of music. Catering to specialty/niche audiences, this lineup includes: mainstream and fusion jazz, blues, roots, gospel, Latin, classic rock, oldies, indie rock, and alternative music.The station also plays "New World" eclectic international pop music, urban contemporary, and classic R & B.
During the week, KALA features public service programming (both syndicated and locally produced); there are also local, state, and national news. The station also features live radio programs, St. Ambrose University campus news, a local calendar of events, daily weather updates, and student-run music shows. A mainstay of the station's commitment to the University community is its live home/remote coverage of St. Ambrose University sports events. This includes SAU's Fighting Bees/Queen Bees basketball, football, and baseball
The KALA webpage has information about the station, and allows periodic webcast of events and programming. It also features live streaming of its air signal, and Associated Press Video network news.
KALA also features an online station by students for students. "The Stinger" plays Top 40 hits, country, alternative, and rock music, along with music and talk shows hosted by student DJs.
Kala is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, and in the Walt Disney-produced animated movie Tarzan based on it.
Kala is the second studio album by English-Sri Lankan recording artist M.I.A., released on 8 August 2007 by XL Recordings. The album features musical styles including dance music and makes extensive use of South Asian music such as that of the urumee, a drum used in gaana music native to Tamil Nadu, India. It was mainly written and produced by M.I.A. and Switch, and features contributions from Timbaland, Diplo, Afrikan Boy and The Wilcannia Mob.
M.I.A. named the album after her mother, in contrast to her first album Arular, which was named after her father, and stated that her mother's struggles in life are a major theme of the recording. She began recording the album in early 2006 and worked on the tracks in various locations around the world, including India, Jamaica, Australia, Liberia and Trinidad. Planned sessions in the United States failed to occur, after M.I.A. was refused a long-term work visa to enter the country.
Kala was ranked as one of the best albums of the year by several publications. It reached number eighteen on the Billboard 200 chart and topped the magazine's Top Electronic Albums chart. In the United Kingdom it reached number thirty-nine on the UK Albums Chart. Kala spawned the singles " Bird Flu", " Boyz", " Jimmy" and " Paper Planes". As of 2013 the album had sold over 500,000 copies in the US.
Kala is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Kala Alexander (born 1969), American surfer and actor
- Käla Mandrake (born 1976), American photographer, author and producer
- Kala Ramnath (born 1967), Indian violinist
- Kala Venkata Rao (1900–1959), Indian freedom fighter and politician
- Kala Nath Shastry (born 1936), Indian Sanskrit scholar
Surname:
- Hemlata Kala (born 1975), Indian cricketer
- Hüseyin Kala (born 1987), Turkish footballer
- Minna Mäki-Kala, Finnish beauty pageant titleholder
Usage examples of "kala".
King Danube will find his strength in Duke Kalas and in the others who have been his supporters since before Jilseponie, since before the demon dactyl and the misery that has festered in the kingdom and in the Abellican Church.
Keener than his keen eyes was that marvelously trained sense of scent that had first been developed in him during infancy under the tutorage of his foster mother, Kala, the she-ape, and further sharpened in the grim jungles by that master teacher--the instinct of self-preservation.
On the morning of the fourth day after the Acknowledgers had settled at Salpa Kala three hjjks appeared without warning, as though they had risen from the earth, and went unhesitatingly to Zechtior Lukin as he was supervising the raising of a tent.
And better, then, if I return to lead both spiritually and secularly in your absence than to have King Danube appoint one such as Duke Kalas, or Duke Tetrafel, as baron.
Though it was warm, Kalas had a small fire burning, a single log, the glow backlighting him, making him look even more intense, sitting there, hardly blinking, his strong hands folded before him, his face resting against them.
Duke Kalas assures me that there is no more able man in all the kingdom at handling the movements of a fleet.
But the fleet, like the waters they sailed, were more fluid in all of this, and Aydrian understood that the duke of the Mirianic could bring a powerful allying force to Prince Midalis as easily as Duke Kalas had brought the ground forces to Aydrian!
With Aydrian gone and Kalas involved in the control and complete subjugation of the southland, the monk was, in effect, the absolute ruler of Palmaris.
Kalas in short order, and he will sweep out to the west, securing all the land.
For Kalas controlled the Allheart Knights, and they, in turn, controlled the general army of Ursal, a force that could sweep aside any resistance in the southland.
Dasamuka attacks him and forces him to fight, Kala Marica then transforms himself into a Golden Deer to lure Rama and Lesmana away from Sinta so that Dasamuka can kidnap Sinta.
The competitors formed into three ranks of seven or eight before the royal pavilion, with Duke Kalas centering the front line.
Aydrian would be pitted not against Duke Kalas but against another Allheart knight, the largest of the competitors by far and a man who had won his group with ease.
Queen Jilseponie stared at Aydrian with a look of sheerest confusion, and Duke Kalas stared at him with a look of sheerest contempt.
On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village, on the south face of Kala Agar ridge, that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater, and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road, when, approaching a pile of rocks, I suddenly felt there was danger ahead.