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23 unusual facts about Tamil people


Angelo Mathews

Born in Colombo, to Tamil father Tyronne Mathews and Burgher Sinhalese mother Monica Mathews, he captained the Sri Lankan cricket team in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.

Assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali

The investigation carried out by Sri Lanka Police and Scotland Yard separately concluded that the assassination was carried out by a Tamil youth named Appiah Balakrishnan alias Ragunathan, who was affiliated to LTTE.

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011

He also had threatened to boycott the 2013 CHOGM summit, scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka, if allegations of human rights abuses against the country's Tamil minority were not investigated.

Cross Street

The Tamils called it palkadei sadakku, or "street of the milk shops", while the Malays called it kampong susu or "milk village".

Guillaume Le Gentil

One of his interesting findings was that the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 was predicted by a Tamil astronomer, based on the computation of the size and extent of the earth-shadow (going back to Aryabhata, 5th century), and was found short by 41 seconds, whereas the charts of Tobias Mayer were long by 68 seconds.

Hindu Higher Secondary School

The schools roots are in two boys' schools in the Triplicane area of Madras, the Dravida Pathasala (Pathasala means school in Sanskrit) for Tamil boys and the Hindu Balura Pathsala for Telugu boys.

Human shield

According to a Human Rights Watch report published on February 19, 2009, the LTTE had been preventing Tamil civilians from fleeing out of rebel held area and using them as human shields against a Sri Lankan Army offensive.

Humphrey Hawksley

In 1986, Hawksley was expelled from Sri Lanka where he had reported on a number of government atrocities in its conflict with Tamil separatists.

Jean Law de Lauriston

Jean Law de Lauriston, then Governor General set to rebuild the town on the old foundations and after five months 200 European and 2000 Tamil houses had been erected.

Kottarakkulam Sree Mahaganapathy Kovil

The main priest-hold of this temple is run by Tamil Brahmin community of Kollam Corporation,consisting of 270 families.

Nationality

This meaning of nationality is not defined by political borders or passport ownership and includes nations that lack an independent state (such as the Scots, Welsh, English, Basques, Kurds, Tamils, Hmong, Inuit and Māori).

Nihal Silva

The character was a stereotypical Tamil Hindu with a bald head, small moustache, police suit and Vibhuti, three lines of ash, on his forehead.

No Fire Zone

The documentary covers the period from September 2008 until the end of the war in 2009 in which thousands of Tamil people were killed by shelling and extrajudicial executions by the Sri Lankan Army including Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of the slain Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.

People of Tamil origin

A person of Tamil origin is usually a person of Tamil Nadu or Sri Lankan Tamil origin who have settled in many parts of the rest of India and Sri Lanka, or in other regions, particularly Malaysia, Singapore, the Middle East, Réunion, South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, French Caribbean islands, Europe, Australia and North America.

Plashet School

However, there are also students from various other backgrounds such as Tamils, white, Chinese and others.

Pon Arunachalam

Arunachalam(பொன்.அருணாசலம் ) is an eminent and versatile Tamil writer from Tuticorin.

Pushpavalli

Pentapadu Pushpavalli better known as Pushpavalli is a Tamil and Telugu film actress.

Rathika Sitsabaiesan

She is the first person of Tamil-origin to be elected to federal parliament in Canada and the first female and first person of colour to be elected as Member of Parliament in Scarborough—Rouge River.

South Bridge Road

The Tamils refer to it as "kalapithi kadei sadakku" களப்பத்துக் கடை சடக்கு or Cawker's Shop Street.

Suchindra Bali

His mother is of Tamil origin while his father Dr. Bali is a north Indian.

Thanjavur Marathi dialect

The people's eventual assimilation into the Tamil community resulted in a unique culture which retains elements of both cultures and religious beliefs.

Thrikkakara Temple

The temple houses lithic records of historic significance, and it finds mention in many of the hymns sung by the Tamil Vaishnavite Alwars, particularly Nammalvar of the 7th-9th century CE.

Yankin Township

The township has a large Tamil community, and a rich collection of Hindu temples, (most of which are dedicated to Kali and Ganesh) as well as a large Chinese temple called Fushan Si Temple, believed to be the largest in Yangon.


Autofiction

In India, autofiction has been associated with the works of postmodernTamil writer Charu Nivedita.

Dimapur

Besides the dominant Naga tribes who comprise about 50% of the city's population, other prominent groups include Dimasas, Bengalis, Assamese, Oriyas, Nepalese, Biharis, Marwaris, Punjabis and also Tamils and Keralites.

Ernest Forrester Paton

He was the co-founder of Christukula Ashram, the first Protestant Christian Ashram in India, along with S. Jesudasan, a fellow missionary and Tamilian convert to Christianity, at Tirupattur of North Arcot, Tamilnadu—part of then-Madras Presidency in South India.

Hikayat Seri Rama

Nevertheless, the Ramayana came to Southeast Asia by means of Tamil

Hinduism in China

However, there previously existed a Tamil Hindu community in the city who, in the late 13th century, built a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.

Irunkōvēl

Irunkōvēl also Irungkōvēl, Irukkuvēl, Ilangōvēlar was a title of the Irunkōvēl line of Tamil Velir kings.

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.

Maran

People in Southern Part of India and predominantly Tamil people who are fond of this language's taste use to name their descendants with this name, for instance, Dayanidhi Maran, Tamil Maran, ManiMaran, Marudhamaran, ElaMaran, Murasoli Maran etc.

Maravar

Maravar (also known as Maravan and Marava) are a Tamil community of the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India, and are one of the three branches of the Mukkulathor confederacy.

S. P. Narasimhalu Naidu

Salem Pagadala Narasimhalu Naidu (or Pagadala Narasimhalu Nayadu) (12 April 1854 - 22 January 1922) was a Tamil Congressman, social worker, publisher and the first person to have written travelogues in Tamil.

Sambandar

He is one of the most prominent of the sixty-three Nayanars, Tamil Saiva bhakti saints who lived between the sixth and the tenth centuries CE.

Samrajyam

A sequel to Samrajyam is announced under the title would be Samrajyam II: Son of Alexander with renowned Tamil director Perarasu directing the movie.

Sri Lankan Chetties

It should be noted that Pulle is a Sinhalese version of the common Tamil and Malayali title Pillai.

Srivaikuntanathan Permual Temple

On the 6th day of Tamil month Chittirai(April), the Sun rays fall on the main deity as a token of worship.

Thillaiaadi Valliammai

Thillaiyadi Valliammai (22 February 1898 - 22 February 1914) was a South African Tamil woman who worked with Mahatma Gandhi in her early years when she developed her nonviolent methods in South Africa fighting its apartheid regime.

Vendore

Vendore is also known as Alagappa Nagar, named for Tamil businessman Alagappa Chettiar.