Leela may refer to:

Business

The Leela Group The Leela Group is an Indian business conglomerate founded by Chittarath Poovakkatt Krishnan Nair in 1981, and named after his wife. The hotel division, The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, is its most well known. It describes itself as invol ...

, an Indian business conglomerate *

The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts is an Indian luxury hotel chain founded in 1986 by C. P. Krishnan Nair and currently owned by Brookfield Asset Management. History The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts were founded as part of The Leel ...

, an Indian luxury hotel group

Fictional characters

* Leela (''Doctor Who''), on the British science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' * Leela (''Futurama''), on the animated television series ''Futurama'' *

Leela Lomax ''Hollyoaks'' is a British television soap opera that was first broadcast on 23 October 1995. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the serial in 2013, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by the sho ...

, on the British soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' * Leela, a human character on ''Sesame Street'' * Leela, granddaughter of Akela in Rudyard Kipling's ''

The Jungle Book ''The Jungle Book'' is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who ...

Film

* ''Leela'' (2002 film), a drama directed by Somnath Sen * ''Leela'' (2016 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Ranjith * ''

Ek Paheli Leela ''Ek Paheli Leela'' () is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language Romance film, romantic thriller film, thriller drama film, directed and co-written by Bobby Khan and produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar. It stars Sunny Leone in the titular lead ro ...

'' (''Leela: A Mystery''), a 2015 Indian thriller film

People

* Leela (name), including a list of people with the given name or surname *

Dadi Leela Dadi Leela (born Leelavati Harchandani; 20 December 1916 14 September 2017; sometimes spelled Dadi Leelan) was a Pakistani educationist, music teacher, philanthropist, and a former member of Sindh provincial assembly known for her advocacy of ...

(1916–2017), Pakistani educationist, music teacher, philanthropist and politician born Leelavati Harchandani

Other uses

Leela (game) Leela or Lila is a board game with origins in ancient India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countri ...

, a board game with origins in ancient India *

Leela (software) Leela is a computer Go software developed by Belgian programmer Gian-Carlo Pascutto, the author of chess engine Sjeng. It won the third place for 19x19 board Go and the second place for 9x9 board Go at the Computer Olympiad in 2008, and won the ...

, computer Go software *

Leela Chess Zero Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source chess engine and volunteer computing project based on Google's AlphaZero engine. It was spearheaded by Gary Linscott, a developer for the Stockfish chess engine, and adapted ...

, an open-source chess-playing program *

Lila (Hinduism) Lila ( ') or leela () can be loosely translated as "divine play". The concept of lila asserts that creation, instead of being an objective for achieving any purpose, is rather an outcome of the playful nature of the divine. As the divine is perfect ...

, an alternate transliteration for the Hindu cosmological concept * ''Leela'', a 1999 book of poetry by

Navtej Bharati Navtej Bharati () is one of the most well-known Punjabi poets living in Canada. Born and brought up in Rode village near Moga in Punjab, India, he moved to Canada in 1960s. He now lives in London, Ontario with his wife Surinder Kaur. They have ...

and

Ajmer Rode Ajmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction ''Vishva Di Nuhar'' on Albert Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's ''Republic''. Published by the Punjabi University ...

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