Or pronounce it like Pamela. I originally thought Kamala was an affirmative action name that rhymes with Pamela. But it's apparently an Indian name. But why doe she say that Kama should be pronounced like "comma" but the a in the la at the end pronounced like a different vowel sound? But are the first and second a both pronounced the same? The o in comma is pronounced differently than the a. Probably it's pronounced in whatever Indian language it's in like a is pronounced in transliterated Hebrew.