Kalpana
Kalpana is a Sanskrit word. It means imagination or decree in Malayalam. It also means "creativity" and "imagination" in Hindi, Telugu, Marathi and Nepali. It is also a popular female Hindu name and Hindi for chimera. It may also refer to:
- Kalpana (imagination), a Vedantic view
- Kalpana (supercomputer), at NASA's Ames Research Center
- Kalpana (company), inventor of the first Ethernet network switch
- Kalpana-1, an Indian meteorological satellite
Films and television
- Kalpana (1948 film), a Hindi dance-ballet film by Uday Shankar
- Kalpana (1960 film), a Bollywood film
- Kalpana (1970 film)
- Kalpana (TV series), an Indian television series
- Kalpana (2012 film)
People and fictional characters
Mononym
- Kalpana (Kannada actress) (1943–1979), Indian Kannada film actress
- Kalpana (Malayalam actress) (1965–2016), Indian Malayalam film actress
Surname
- Venkatacher Kalpana (born 1961), Indian cricketer
Given name
- Kalpana Chakma, Bangladeshi indigenous women's rights activist
- Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), Indian American astronaut lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- Kalpana Dash (born 1966), Indian lawyer and mountaineer
- Kalpana Datta (1913–1995), Indian independence movement activist and fighter
- Kalpana Iyer (born c. 1950), Indian beauty pageant contestant and Hindi film actress
- Kalpana Kartik (born 1931), Indian Hindi film actress
- Kalpana Lajmi (1954–2018), Indian film director, producer and screenwriter
- Kalpana Mohan (1946–2012), Indian Hindi film actress
- Kalpana Ramesh Narhire (born 1969), Indian politician from Osmanabad, Maharashtra
- Kalpana Pandit, Indian Hindi actress, model and physician
- Kalpana Raghavendar, Indian playback singer
- Kalpana Saxena, Indian police officer
- Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956), Indian writer and doctor
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