Kalpana

Kalpana is a Sanskrit word that 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 (born 1954), 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 Saxena, Indian police officer
• Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956), Indian writer and doctor
• Kalpana Raghavendar, Indian Playback singer