Swami Vivekananda was born in Shimla Pally‚ Calcutta at 6:33 a.m on Monday‚ 12 January 1863‚ and was given the name Narendranath Datta. His father Vishwanath Datta was an attorney of Calcutta High Court. He was considered generous‚ and had a progressive outlook in social and religious matters. His mother Bhuvaneshwari Devi was pious and had practiced austerities and prayed to Vireshwar Shiva ofVaranasi to give her a son. She reportedly had a dream in which Shiva rose from his meditation and said
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Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by RK Narayan‚ a celebrated English novelist from India. RK Narayan started his prolific writing career with this novel Swami and Friends written in 1935. It is full of humor and irony. Narayan started writing this novel with the words “It was Monday morning…” to the auspicious time his grandmother chose for him. Like many of his fictional grandmothers‚ he was close to his grandmother who was well versed with astrology. Despite this it
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TAMIL It is said that “Before the birth of stones and sand‚ brave tamil man was born”. It portrays the heritage of tamil language. It is the oldest Dravidian language ‚along with Chinese‚ Greek‚ Sanskrit and others. It is one of the world’s classical languages. All south indian language belong to single indian group known as the
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Tamil Nadu (/ˈtæmɪl ˈnɑːduː/ tam-il-nah-doo; Tamil pronunciation (help·info); Tamil: தமிழ்நாடு; literally "Tamil Country") is one of the 28 statesof India. Its capital is Chennai (formerly known as Madras)‚ the largest city. Tamil Nadu is a land most known for its monumental ancient Hindu temples and classical form of dance Bharata Natyam.[5] Tamil Nadu[6] lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by theunion territory of Puducherry‚ and the states of Kerala‚ Karnataka
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com/wp/sigiriya/La Bandiera Year 7 Assignment 2014 SRI LANKA Janani Balamanoharan 7J SECTION 1: History of Sri Lanka People from the Tamil region of India emigrated to Ceylon (this was Sri Lanka’s name before 1972) in between 3 BC and 1200 AD. Upon their arrival‚ the Tamil rulers fought the Sinhalese rulers for control of Sri Lanka. This resulted in the Tamils‚ who were mostly Hindus‚ to claim the northern part of Sri Lanka and the Sinhalese‚ who were mostly Buddhists‚ claimed
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Swami and his thoughts….. Swami Vivekananda was born on 12 January‚ 1863 in Calcutta. His family name was Narendranath Dutta. His father Vishwanath Dutta was a learned man who was well- versed in English and Persian. By profession‚ he was a successful Attorney-at-law in the High Court of Calcutta. His mother was a pious lady who influenced Naren since his childhood in the formation of his character. She first taught Naren English lesson‚ and then made him acquainted with Bengali alphabets. Naren
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------------------------------------------------- Tamil Sangams The Tamil Sangams were assemblies of Tamil scholars and poets that‚ according to traditional Tamil accounts‚ occurred in the remote past. Some scholars believe that these assemblies were originally known as kooṭal or gathering.[1][2][3] Three assemblies are described. The legend has it that the first two of which were held in cities since "taken by the sea"‚ and the third of which was held during the 5th century
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The group‚ Tamil Tigers‚ claim themselves to be freedom fighters. This report will show‚ and hopefully convince you‚ that they are not freedom fighters‚ but that they are a terrorist group. The use of boys and girls as young as ten years old for wars‚ suicide missions‚ and the assassinations of famous leaders‚ priests‚ and ministers are a few proofs that Tamil Tigers are terrorist. Tamil Tigers‚ also known as LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)‚ have been using boys and girls as young as ten
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Tamil /ˈtæmɪl/[8] (தமிழ்‚ tamiḻ‚ [t̪ɐmɨɻ] ?) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of South India and North-east Sri Lanka. It has official status in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu‚ Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Tamil is also a national language of Sri Lanka[9] and an official language of Singapore[10] It is legalized as one of the languages of medium of education inMalaysia along with English‚ Malay and Mandarin.[7][11] It is also chiefly spoken in the states
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Swami and friends a first novel written by R. K. Narayan testifies ingeniousness of writer. R. K. Narayan created well known fictional town Malgudi. which provided setting of almost all Narayan’s later Novels. Malgudi is on bank of river Sarayu. Sarayu is a pride of Malgudi. It flows across north like a silver belt. Its sandbanks were the evening resort to people of Malgudi. Swami and friends is a story of boy called Swaminathan. Who hates Monday loves Saturday. Throws away books
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