Kala Dandekar

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Relatives

Sanyam Dandekar (Father)
Priya Gupta (Mother)
Daya Dandekar (Sister)
Rani Gupta (Aunt)
Vijay Singh (Uncle)
Chandi Gupta and Kiran Singh (Cousins)
Angelica Turing (Sensate Mother)
Will Gorski, Riley Blue, Bak Sun-hee, Nomi Marks, Capheus Onyango, Wolfgang Bogdanow, and Lito Rodriguez (Clustermates)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Doctorate Degree (Pharmacology)
(University of Mumbai)

## Physical Description

### Kala Dandekar: 1988 - 2006

Kala is the eldest child of Sanyam Dandekar and his wife Priya Gupta. Kala was raised in a home built above her father's successful restaurant. Though she lived in a progressive community and encouraged to embrace modern conventions over traditions by her father, Kala became a particularly devout follower of Hinduism.

While Kala owes much of her religious foundation to her mother, Kala would credit much of her faith to a childhood encounter during a Ganesh Chaturthi parade where she lost her mother's hand in a crowd of revelers. Bumped and jostled by the packed crowd ignorant of the scared girl in their midst, Kala was in danger of being trampled. That is when Kala's hand was then taken by a young boy, roughly her age, who would lead her to safety by bringing her inside the giant parade float of Ganesha. Kala was dazzled by the spectacle of it and when she commented on it to the boy, Kala found he was gone with no trace of him ever having been there.

Kala would spend much her childhood and teenage years helping her family with her father's business, waiting tables and washing dishes. Though this gave Kala little time to make friends, she developed close bonds with her younger sister and her cousins who would often stay with her family for long periods of time while their parents traveled the world. Not having friends and being kept busy suited Kala just fine, as she found it easier to study and excel in school when she was not being distracted by childish behavior and antics. In spite of this, Kala did allow herself to enjoy two delights: movies and dance.

### Kala Dandekar: 2006 - 2013

Kala's studious mindset and remarkable intelligence helped secure her placement in the University of Mumbai. Though her father had expected her to study finance and accounting to spare him the mathematical end of business management, Kala decided to switch her major during her second year and began studying chemistry and pharmacology. Despite his initial disappointment and confusion, Kala's father supported her academic pursuits.

As she became a scientist, Kala found a way to make sense of her religious faith and her love of science. Kala found no small amount of comfort in the miraculous aspects of quantum physics that defied explanation. This, coupled by the growth of documented metahuman and paranormal phenomena, gave her the willingness to endure the criticism from the faithful who shunned science and the irreligious who proclaimed that pursuits in science could not be balanced with devotion.

### Kala Dandekar: 2013 - 2015

Graduating, Kala found employment as a pharmacist at Rasal Pharmaceuticals, as a chemical researcher. It was here that she caught the attention of Rajan Rasal, the son of her employer: Manendra Rasal. Unfortunately for Rajan, Kala did not take much notice of him. Kala never had an interest in exploring her sexuality and had little ability to pick up on the social cues of romantic interest. Being so oblivious, Kala unintentionally spurred Rajan's interest in her more — prompting him to flood her apartment with flowers to make his interest clear and score a first date.

The two dated for a year before Rajan asked her parents for Kala's hand in marriage. Seeing the joy in her parents' eyes at accepting the proposal, Kala felt unable to decline the marriage. For months, Kala grew deeply concerned about her impending nuptials but did not what to do — other than make offerings to Ganesha for guidance.

Shortly before the wedding, while ending a late-night movie marathon with her cousin, Kala received what she thought to be a vision of a blonde woman standing in her living room. This would be the first of many strange sensations and experiences that awaited Kala during her sensate awakening.

Many of her early sensate encounters would be shared with Wolfgang Bogdanow, who Kala originally believed to be a demon come to stop her wedding and later began to believe might be her soulmate, sent by Ganesha himself.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Psionic Metahuman Physiology:** Kala belongs to a sub-class of psychic known as a sensate. Due to the presence of high concentration of positivity charged intrinsic energy in her aura, in addition to the more common neutral Odic energy, it is possible that Kala's psionic ability may stem from an Endless, Fable, or other Vorpal Entity ancestor.
	+ ***Astral Visitation:*** Kala can project a portion of her consciousness in the vicinity of another sensate (whether one belonging to her cluster or one with which she had has physical contact previously). This projection is turned to the senses of sensates.
	+ ***Bestial Speech:*** Kala can understand animals and is understood by them. In addition to this, Kala is almost always seen as a friend by non-predatory creatures. Even predators will often only antagonize her when they perceive her as a threat.
	+ ***Biokinesis:*** Kala has the ability to act as a conduit, transforming psychic energy into intrinsic energy keyed to the Red. Through this manner, Kala can promote cellular growth and influence the biology of other humans, as well as animals. Using this ability, Kala can cause a creature to immediately fall asleep or heal at a rapid rate — in addition to other similar effects.
	+ ***Sensory Empathy:*** Kala can share her senses, emotions, thoughts, and memories with other sensates — particularly those that belong to her sensate cluster.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Kala is able to see hear, and interact with beings on the astral plane — particularly sensates, but also ephemeral entities, and invisible spirits such as ghosts. She is also sensitive to intrinsic and psychic phenomena.
	+ ***Telepathic Sharing:*** Kala can share her knowledge, languages, skills, talents, and even her psychic abilities with sensates from her cluster (see Riley Blue, Will Gorski, Nomi Marks, Bak Sun-hee, Wolfgang Bogdanow, Capheus Onyango, and Lito Rodriguez for a list of skills accessible to Kala) For the transfer of skills, talents, and psychic abilities, Kala must possess the receiving sensate or allow herself to be possessed by the projecting sensate while they are visiting.
* **Pharmacist:** Kala is an expert pharmacist with exceptional intelligence and talent for her craft
	+ ***Chemistry:*** Kala is an expert chemist and biochemist. Don't let her quiet and soft appearance fool you, she has proven herself able to fashion devastating chemical deterrents and even improvise explosive devices.
	+ ***Education:*** Kala is well-educated and knows a good deal about a wide-variety of subjects. She is skilled in research and retains information well through study.
	+ ***Medicine:*** Though her specialty is in medication, rather than medicine, Kala is still a capable diagnostician, holistic physician, and field surgeon.
	+ ***STEM:*** Kala has an advanced understanding of the principles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
* **Belief in Better Reality:** Kala's optimism and positive outlook is likely attributed to her devout spiritual faith. Some supernatural creatures will be repelled by her mere presence, though others will seek her out specifically.
* **Geek:** Kala is a savvy in popular culture, particularly movies.

### Weaknesses

* **Awkward:** Kala is not the best in social situations.
* **Burden Bearing:** When a clustermate is overwhelmed with intense pain, the excess pain may flood over the rest of the cluster, resulting in excruciating phantom pain.
* **Indecisiveness:** Kala often suffers from analysis paralysis over determining the best course of action when prompted to make any important decision for which she hasn't already considered or planned.
* **Migraines:** Kala, like most psionics, suffers from severe migraines.
* **Vulnerability — Electricity:** Kala reacts poorly to electrical stimulation. Electric shock overstimulates the psycellium nervous system of most sensates and induces severe pain and seizures — often with violent coughing of blood and bloody noses.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 3 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 49
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Kala is the religiously devout daughter of a chef and restaurateur. In her personal life, Kala has always prided herself balancing her loves of science and her faith. Kala's own genius and her father's adherence to her success allowed her to excel to land a prestigious job at a pharmaceutical development firm. It was there that she caught the eye of the firm's son. At the time of her sensate rebirth, Kala is preparing for her upcoming wedding.
* She doesn't love Rajan.

### Notes

* Kala Dandekar is a character from the Netflix series *Sense8*.
* Kala's appearance is based on the actress Tina Desai, who portrayed her in the series.

## Gallery

Kala Dandekar.jpgKala DandekarSponsorship Needed - Female.pngKala Dandekar (Variant)
## Network Files

Network Files Kala Dandekar 1.jpgNetwork Files: Kala Dandekar 1

## Links and References

* Appearances of Kala Dandekar

1. ↑ Network Files: Kala Dandekar 1
2. ↑ Roy Reimagines... Sense8
3. ↑ VOX Box: Behind the 8 Ball - Kala 1