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Sripuram Golden Mahalaxmi Temple
Golden Temple - when uttered this word, immediately people thinks of Amritsar and the Highest Body of the Sikh's pride Golden Temple.
Monday, October 29, 2007
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Rajaraja Cholan, The Great Chola King
Rajarajan constructed the Great Bragtheeswarar Temple at Thanjavur, his capital, remembering the pious religious works of his ancestor Parantaka I. The temple is a stupendous monument of the religious instinct of the sovereign. The king was ardent devotee of Lord Siva and was highly tolerant in matters of religion. Everybody received equal favour at his hands. he also granted large endowments to the Cudamani Vihara in Nagapattinam built by Sailendra...
'Chaste women of Madurai
Heroine of the story by Ilango Adigal' Cilapathikaram, the story of Jewelled Anklets, is rooted in the ordinary lives of the early Tamils of the Pandyan Kingdom in the first century A.D. ''Kovalan, the son of a wealthy merchant in Kavirippattinam, married Kannagi, the lovely daughter of another merchant. For some time they lived together happily, until, at a festival at the royal court, Kovalan met the dancer Madavi and fell in love with her. He...
STILL HE IS A YOUNG MAN
Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabhudin Adbul Kalam, was born on the 15th October, 1931, at Rameshwaram in TamilNadu. He did his B.Sc. at the St. Joseph's College, Tiruchi, and DMIT in Aeronautical Engineering at the MIT, Madras, during 1954-57. He joined the DRDO in 1958. During 1963-82, he served the ISRO in various capacities. As Project Director, SLV-3, he was responsible for carrying out design, development, qualification and flight testing of 44 major...
Kodi Kaththa Kumaran - Kumaran who saved the Flag.
Tiruppur Kumaran (1904 - 1932) was an Indian revolutionary, who participated in the Indian independence movement. Kumaran was born in a small village in the Tamil Nadu region of south India. Kumaran died from injuries sustained from a Police assault during a protest march against the British colonial government. Kumaran died holding the flag of the Indian Nationalists, which had been banned by the British.Kumaran is revered as a martyr in Tamil Nadu...
DR. SARVAPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN
r. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was born on 5 September, 1888 in Tirutani, a well-known religious center in the Madras State. He was the second son of Veera Samayya, a tehsildar in a zamindari. It was a middle-class, respectable Hindu Brahmin family. Indeed, the place, the time and the family were most suitable, from every point of view, for the advent of a new philosopher-statesman, so directly needed in those turbulent days of the awakening of a very...
Sri Ramanuja and the Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya
When the religion of the Vedas became weakened due to the influence of less intelligent men who blindly performed ritualistic ceremonies and wantonly killed animals in the name of Vedic injunctions, Buddha appeared on the scene as a great reformer. Totally rejecting the Vedic literatures and substituting his rational, atheistic views, Buddha advocated the path of ahimsa —nonviolence and nirvana —the negation of reality as we know it— as the ultimate...
C. Rajagopalachari -rajaji
A leader gifted with amazing intellectual brilliance, a multifaceted personality, popularly known as ‘Rajaji’ was born in Thorapalli, an interior village near Hosur in Krishnagiri district. He held the position of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu during the pre and post Independent periods. He had the distinction of being the first Indian to occupy the position of Viceroy and he was also the last Governor General of India. An eloquent speaker and...
Founder of Swadeshi Shipping industry
V.O. Chidambaram Pillai (VOC) was born on September 5,1872 in a Vellala family of old time pleaders as the son of Lokanatha Pillai and Paramay Amma, in Ottapitaram in Tirunelveli (present Tuticorn ) district of Tamilnadu. Drawing inspiration from Ramakrishnanada , a disciple of Swami Vivekananda, VOC broke the monopoly of British shipping in costal trade with Ceylon. On October 16,1906 he formed the “Swedesi Steam Navigation Company Ltd”. VOC...
Legends from the South: Veerapandiya Kattabomman
The struggle for freedom from the British, saw the emergence of many patriots who fought, made sacrifices and even lost their lives defending the country. Exhibiting great courage, Tamils were among those who sowed the seeds for the freedom movement. One such pioneer was Veerapandiya Kattabomman. Eighteen kilometres north west of Tirunelveli lies the hamlet of Panchalankurichi, a place of historical significance. The chieftains ruling Panchalankurichi...
M.S.Subbulakshmi
Born on September 16, 1916, in Madurai to Subramania Iyer and Shanmukhavadivu, Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, her brother Saktivel and sister Vadivambal grew up surrounded by classical music. Her grandmother Akkammal played the violin and her mother was a veena artist.
M.S., as she came to be known, was initiated to music young, learning her first lessons from her mother. She appeared on stage when she was just 13. By the time she moved...
Srinivasa Ramanujam
One of the most creative mathematicians of all time was Srinivasa Ramanujam, who was born in Tamil Nadu, India, on December 22,1887. He died at a regrettably young age, on April 26, 1920. By that time, however, he had come up with a remarkable number of mathematical discoveries. This creative genius often neglected to provide long, logical proofs for what he did. Often, he said, the solutions to problems came to him in his dreams, revealed as part...
Gangai Konda Cholapuram
" Gangaikondacholapuram, now in the Udaiyarpalayam taluk of Tiruchi district, in Tamilnadu, was erected as the capital of the Cholas by Rajendra I, the son and successor of Rajaraja I, the great Chola who conquered a large area in South India at the beginning of the 11th century A.D. It occupies an important place in the history of India. As the capital of the Cholas from about 1025 A.D. for about 250 years, the city controlled the affairs of entire...
Friday, October 26, 2007
MAHABALIPURAM (Mamallapuram)
The Dravidians founded the beautiful State of Tamil Nadu 5,000 years ago. Today it is home to some of the most magnificent sculptures and architectural wonders of the world. About 350 years ago, Tamil Nadu's capital city Chennai was created by the East India Company. The last king of the vanishing Vijayanagar Empire, Rajah of Chandragiri offered Francis Day, an East India Company trader, a three-mile long strip of land. In july 1639 Francis Day and...
BHARATHI
sadagobanMahakavi Subramania Bharathiyar is is celebrated as one of India’s greatest poets, with many of his composed poems and songs in the Dravidian language Tamil, being popularised in schools, movies and households across India over the years. He is a renowned poet of Tamil Nadu, South India, and his literature is popular among Carnatic musicians. As a person, Bharathiyar was a simple man, interested in his writing alone. His wife would leave...
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
CHITHAMBARAM TEMPLE
Temples of Tamil Nadu, IndiaThe site India Travel Destinations offers you tour booking and online reservation for tours to the temples of Tamil Nadu in South India.Tamil Nadu is known as the temple town of the south as there are quite a few amazing architectural marvels here that were built by the several rulers who reigned in this region in the ancient times. Most of the temples located in the State of Tamil Nadu are dedicated to the Hindu deities...
Airavateeswara temple
The vimanam of the Airavateeswara temple at Darasuram, near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India. Chola architecture of the 12th Century AD. A UNESCO protected heritage siteThe old district of Thanjvur in Tamil Nadu has hundreds of temples of varied antiquity. The temples at Thanjavur, Gangai konda Cholpuram, Darasuram and Thibhuvanam were built during the reigns of the Cholas- Raja Raja Cholan I (985-1014AD), Rajendra Cholan (1014-1044AD), Raja Raja Cholan...
Shore Temple
This is the famous Shore Temple that was build very close to the beach at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu India (just south of Chennai). This ancient Hindu temple was damaged during the tsunamis of 2004 (the blue tarp visible on one side is where some repair work is being done)....
