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unusual facts about Sangam


Sangam, Srikakulam

Sangam is a village and a pilgrimage site in Vangara mandal in Srikakulam district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.


Amar Nath

Besides devoutly following Amir Khan's style, teaching and demonstrating the style, Amar Nath also served at All India Radio for eight years, and later as Director of Kala Sangam in Delhi, and also provided music for the 1955 film Garam Coat and for a documentary on Mirza Ghalib.

Bardhaman

Bardhaman Raj was founded in 1657 by Sangam Rai, of a Hindu Khatri family of Kotli in Lahore, Punjab, whose descendants served in turn the Mughal Emperors and the British government.

Business cluster

In the late 1990s, the Seoul Metropolitan Government in South Korea developed the Digital Media City (DMC), a 135 acre complex, four miles outside of the city's central business district in the Sangam-dong district.

Govardhana sila

The only other God who shows a twig with a gunja seed on his upturned right hand palm to indicate the divya ksehtra’s superiority over Kashi (Varanasi) is Lord Narasimha, in the Gunja Narasimha Swamy temple locaterd at T.Narsipur in Mysore district in Karnataka on the bank of the Kaveri - Kapila - Spatika Sarovar sangam (confluence).

Jai Akash

In 2009, Jai Akash filed a complaint to the Nadigar Sangam against actress Sunaina following allegations from her which claimed that she was not a part of the intimate scenes in the film, Madan and that Jai Akash as director had used a double.

Killivalavan

Except the longer epics Cilappatikaram and Manimekalai, which by common consent belong to the age later than the Sangam age, the poems have reached us in the forms of systematic anthologies.

Krishnaism

Friedhelm Hardy in his "Viraha-bhakti" analyses the history of Krishnaism, specifically all pre-11th-century sources starting with the stories of Krishna and the gopi, and Mayon mysticism of the Vaishnava Tamil saints, Sangam Tamil literature and Alvars' Krishna-centered devotion in the rasa of the emotional union and the dating and history of the Bhagavata Purana.

Malayamān

The Malayamān family dynasty of the Velir royal house were chiefs (Araiyars) who ruled Miladu Naadu (Tirukkoyilur) of Tamilakkam during the Sangam period and worked closely with the early Cholas of the Chola Dynasty and the Chera Dynasty.

Nagavali River

The Suvarnamukhi river takes its birth in the hills of Salur mandal and takes an eastern direction and finally join the Nagavali at Sangam village in Vangara mandal of Srikakulam District.

Nalankilli

The only source available to us on Nalankilli is the mentions in Sangam poetry and Manimekalai.

Narasimhavarman I

Narasimhavarman I is claimed to be one of the nine Indian kings who never lost on the battlefield to their enemies, the others being Ajatashatru, Chandragupta Maurya, Karikala Chola, cheran senguttuvan of the Sangam age, Samudragupta, Rajaraja Chola I, his great warrior son Rajendra Chola and Rana Kumbha of Mewar.

R. Kesava Aiyangar

He served as the president of the Tamil sangam in Triplicane for over three years.

Radha Ka Sangam

Radha Ka Sangam is a 1992 Hindi romance film directed and produced by Kirti Kumar.

Ravali

During the making of Nagalingam, Ravali was not paid by the producers and she took action by reporting the case to the Nadigar Sangam, which their chief Vijayakanth helped settle.

Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu

Statewide Road Blockade Agitations were launched by Vanniar Sangam (Parent Body of Pattali Makkal Katchi) demanding 20% reservations in State Government and 2% Reservations in Central Government exclusively for Vanniyar Caste.

Shivaranjani

Shivaranjani was a favourite of the legendary composers Shankar-Jaikishan (in fact, to be more precise, that of both Shankar and Jaikishan), in addition to the aforementioned song from Mera Naam Joker they also used it for O basanti pavan paagal ("O bewitching spring breeze") in Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai and O mere sanam ("O my love") in Sangam Mere naina Saon Vhado.

V. Kanakasabhai

Dedicated to Sir S. Subramania Iyer, the book was made up of sixteen chapters, each of which examined the life, culture, geography, trade, religion and philosophy of the ancient Tamil country based on the descriptions in two ancient Sangam epics, the Silappatikaram and the Manimekalai.

Vikram Akula

Inspired by the Grameen model of Muhammad Yunus he started the SKS Microfinance (SKS stands for Swayam Krishi Sangam) to eradicate poverty and with an approach to profitability.


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