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unusual facts about Tamilnadu



1981 Meenakshipuram conversion

1981 Meenakshipuram conversion was a 1981 Indian controversy regarding the conversion of hundreds of Hindu Pallars to Islam in the village of Meenakshipuram in Tamilnadu state.

A. R. Lakshmanan

He hails from the Nagarathar community and his native is Devakottai, Tamilnadu.

Chennai Central–Bangalore City line

The Chennai Central–Bangalore City line (popularly known as Chennai-Bangalore line) connects the main railway stations in two of the larger cities in India - Chennai Central in Tamilnadu and Bangalore City in Karnataka.

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.

With consultations from then-prominent Indian leaders like Gandhi and Rajaji, Ernest and Jesudasan established the Christukula Ashram(also Christu-Kula Ashram), family of Christ Ashram, in 1921 at Tirupattur in North Arcot, Tamilnadu—South India.

Lotus News

Lotus News (Tamil: லோடஸ் ந்யூஸ்) is satellite TV's relay on OCTOBER 11, 2012 headquartered at Coimbatore in Tamilnadu and has been successfully broadcasting all its events acquiring a huge local and international Tamil population as its regular viewers.

Malyavat Mountains

It is identified as the part of the mountain ranges in the east coast of India (Eastern Ghats) that falls in the northern Tamilnadu and southern Andhra Pradesh.

Organisation of Development, Action and Maintenance

The central location of ODAM is in Tiruchuli; the organization's work is spread across 205 villages in Tiruchuli, Narikudi, Kariyapatti, Aruppukottair and Watrap blocks of Virudhunagar district, and Kamuthi block in Ramnad district, of Tamilnadu, India.

Pallikaranai

Recent reports of the appearance of the White-spotted garden skink, for the first time in Tamilnadu, and Russell’s viper, the largest and the most widespread among Asian vipers, confirm its invaluable ecological status.

Perianayagi Madha Shrine

It is said to have been the first place of worship he erected and when it was completed he went to Madras and asked the Bishop of Mylapore to procure for him a statue from Manilla, an image of the Virgin in the native dress of Tamilnadu and bearing the child Jesus in her arms, fashioned after a model he had made.

Sacred Heart Matriculation School

Sacred Heart Matriculation School (SHMS) is a matriculation institution in Gudalur, Nilgiris - Tamilnadu.


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