Famous People with Name Kamala

Kamala Suraiya            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kamala Suraiya: is a well-known Indian writer who writes in English as well as Malayalam, her native language. She is considered to be one of the outstanding Indian poets writing in English, although her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and auto

Kamala Surayya            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kamala Surayya: a well-known Indian writer who writes in English as well as Malayalam, her native language. She is considered to be one of the outstanding Indian poets writing in English, although her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography. Much of her writing in Malayalam came under the pen name Madhavikkutty. She was born in Malabar in Kerala, India. She is the daughter of V. M. Nair, a former managing editor of the widely-circulated Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi, and Nalappatt Balamani Amma, a renowned Malayali poetess. Kamala Das is probably the first Hindu woman to openly and honestly talk about sexual desires of Indian woman, which made her an iconoclast of her generation.[1]

Kamala Das Gupta            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kamala Das Gupta: was an Indian freedom fighter. She was born in 1907, to a bhadralok Vaidya family of Bikrampur in Dhaka, now in Bangladesh; the family later moved to Calcutta, where she got a Master of Arts degree in history from Bethune College [1], Calcutta University. Nationalist ideas were current among the young people in Calcutta she met at university, and she was filling with a strong desire to take part in the freedom struggle. She tried to quit her studies and enter Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram, but her parents disapproved. Finishing her education, she became friends with some members of the extremist Jugantar Party, and was quickly converted from her original Gandhism to the cult of armed resistance.

Kamala Shankar            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kamala Shankar: a Hindustani classical guitar player. She is married to sitar player Rajeev Janardan, with whom she performs.[1] Shankar is the first woman to have been awarded a doctorate in guitar. [2][3]Kamala was trained in music by her mother from the age of six, and went on to study with khyal singer Channulal Mishra and sitar maestro Bimalendu Mukherjee. She received a doctorate of music (guitar playing) from vichitra-beenkar Gopal Shankar Mishra at Banaras Hindu University, and also holds bachelor's degrees in both vocal music and zoology.[2]

Kamala Markandaya            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kamala Markandaya: was a pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indian novelist and journalist. A native of Mysore, India, Markandaya was a graduate of Madras University, and afterwards published several short stories in Indian newspapers. After India declared its independence, Markandaya moved to Britain, though she still labeled herself an Indian expatriate long afterwards.

Sujeewa Priyantha Kamalasuriya            Origin/Culture/Country: Sri-Lankan

Sujeewa Priyantha Kamalasuriya: was a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer who played with the Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club. Kamalasuriya played two 'Youth Tests' for the Sri Lankan Under-19s, led by Aravinda de Silva, when they toured Australia in 1983/84. He was used as an offspi