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Where a Muslim poet finds a place with Lord Muruga and his consorts at Melakodumalur

The Hindu 18 Apr 2024

The statue of Javathu Pulavar (1745-1808), an 18th Century Tamil ...

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Maa. Aranganathan Memorial Awards for two Tamil scholars

The Hindu 09 Apr 2024

The awards were instituted in the memory of Maa. Aranganathan, a writer who ran the literary magazine Mundril and authored 90 short stories, two novels, and a lot of articles on literature and language ....

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Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan and Indo-Tibet linkages

International Business Times 08 Apr 2024

Rahul Sankrityayan is called the Father of Hindi Travel Literature, and was one of the most widely-travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on exploration away from his home.

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Ancient civilisation casting a shadow on modern politics

Hindustan Times 05 Apr 2024

More importantly, it prompted some scholars and politicians to say that Tamils descended from the Indus Valley civilisation, and that the civilisation at Keeladi had little interaction with Vedic culture.

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The Biopolitics of the Genocide of the Kurds in Saddam's Iraq

Tamil Guardian 25 Mar 2024

I join you not only as an international relations scholar and a representative of World Tamil Co-ordinating Committee, but also as a survivor of Tamil genocide perpetrated by the Sri Lankan state ... We the Tamils are also like you.

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CM launches 100 books on Karunanidhi

The Times of India 09 Mar 2024

... written by 100 different Tamil scholars.

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Indian women beyond borders - a formidable force in world politics

Suryaa 08 Mar 2024

Born in 1967 in Nova Scotia to a Punjabi mother and a Tamil father, both physicians, Anita -- having worked as a scholar, lawyer and researcher -- was first elected as the MP for Oakville in 2019.

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British MPs urge Sri Lanka to decriminalise Tamil self-determination

Tamil Guardian 07 Mar 2024

International scholars and activists also expressed their solidarity with the Tamil struggle for an independent state at the event ... Tamils have nowhere to go." ... British Parliamentarians urge for formal recognition of Tamil Genocide.

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As Thalapathy Vijay heads for political debut, a look at why cinema, politics make a compelling script in Tamil Nadu

Financial Express 06 Feb 2024

... the cinema-politics intersection in the state, most notably Robert L Hardgrave, and his contemporary Karthigesu Sivathamby, a distinguished Sri Lankan Tamil scholar from the University of Jaffna.

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J Sai Deepak writes: Why 'caste' is a Western construct

Indian Express 01 Feb 2024

... the importance of Dubois\u2019 work and eulogised him as a \u201cman singularly free from prejudice\u201d and \u201ca scholar with sufficient knowledge, if not of Sanskrit, yet of Tamil\u201d.

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How Ramayana became popular from east Asia to the Caribbean

Indian Express 21 Jan 2024

... more similarity to the Tamil epic Kamban Ramayana. The late scholar AK Ramanujan wrote, \u201c It has been convincingly shown that the eighteenth-century Thai Ramakien owes much to the Tamil epic.

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PM Modi Gets Gift For Ayodhya Ram Mandir From Srirangam Temple, Listens To Tamil Ramayana

Zeenews 20 Jan 2024

PM Modi then listened to a scholar who recited verses from the ‘Kambaramayanam’, a 12th-century Tamil epic written by poet Kambar. ‘Kambaramayanam’ is one of the oldest versions of the Ramayana ... .

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PM Modi to offer prayers at Srirangam, Rameswaram temples today

Deccan Herald 20 Jan 2024

At Srirangam, the PM will listen to various scholars reciting verses from the Kamba Ramayanam.</p>.PM Modi holds ...

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PM Modi seeks blessings from elephant at Tamil Nadu temple

Live Mint 20 Jan 2024

Vaikuntam is the eternal abode of Lord Vishnu.PM Modi dedicates 15,000 houses to rag pickers, other beneficiaries in SolapurThe Prime Minister arrived here on Saturday from Chennai and on his way to ...

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