How To Use Tamil In A Sentence

  • Nasik is one palce suggested by my Indian friend living in India. is the pongal festival related to tamilnadu alone, since it is called '' tamils function '' here by some people? translate (hindi to english) for me please - Jab koi baat bigad jaaye? Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • A range of software, shareware and applications emerge nearly every other day from different corners of the Tamil speaking world.
  • It is phonologically impossible since Tamil has no [z] sound and since the retroflex approximant sometimes romanized < z > cannot appear in initial position.
  • Drought is wreaking havoc in the Thanjavur belt of Tamil Nadu.
  • Besides the majority Sinhala Buddhists, the nation also includes Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of recent Indian origin, Muslims, and Burghers, descendants of intermarriages between Sri Lankans and Europeans.
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  • These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay, spoken in south and southeast Asia.
  • Not to mention that one reason the Tamil situation doesn’t arise much here is that the US has no dog whatever in that fight – no AIPAC pushing for US policy in that arena, no billionaires from the region paying Democrats and Republicans campaign money to push US support for the related countries, no scumbags like SLC arguing for “Hama Rules” on the Tamil Tigers. Matthew Yglesias » Do Critics of Israeli Policy Whine Too Much?
  • The history of Tamil invasions against the only homeland that the Buddhist Sinhalese possess is not just the stuff of ancient history, but a living reality underpinned by latter-day Tamil terrorism. Buddha’s Savage Peace
  • Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions'. The Financial Express
  • But on Wednesday, facing a volley of questions from his fans from different parts of Tamil Nadu might not have been that easy.
  • Our texts use Sanskrit, Pali and Tamil, but we do not know Tamil.
  • A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The gathering participated in the prayer vigil with hymns in English, Sinhalese and Tamil. Asian Tribune
  • Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the armed rebellion organization fighting for the independence of Tamil Eelam. WN.com - Photown News
  • Politicians eagerly seek association with film icons; often stars shift seamlessly into politics, as done most famously by MG Ramachandran in Tamil Nadu.
  • The condition in the interior regions of Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and many other States is worse than that which prevailed five decades back in Kerala.
  • It is nothing less than a thoroughgoing critique of Tamil culture and society.
  • The pro-Tiger Diaspora still dreams of the map of Tamil Eelam which is brandished at all demonstrations and will continue to be for a while. Kottu
  • President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was re-elected last month by a wide margin, largely because of support from the country's Sihanalese majority, said Tamil leaders should not "misguide" people or harbor political ambitions based on ethnicity. CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
  • In my great grandmother's house in Thanjavur, a small town in Tamil Nadu, every meal represented an elaborate ritual. Deepa S. Iyer: The Sacred Act Of Eating: A Hindu Foodie's Daily Ritual
  • Eelam, which is locked in a bloody war with the Sinhalese government over an independent Tamil state. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday questioned the need for "such things in a country which preached equality of all religions. NDTV News - Top Stories
  • How different from the scene in the last century when Subrahmanya Bharati sang of the enchantment of Puduvai, lit by dawn gold streaming across the blue sea, resonant with Vedic chants, steeped in elegant Tamil culture!
  • The traditional Tambram accompaniment to pooris is potatoes in gravy and this combination is called poori-kizhangu in Tamil, kizhangu short for urulaikizhangu, which means potato. Poori Kizhangu
  • The glossy genette [2], the "_Civet_" of Europeans, is common in the northern province, where the Tamils confine it in cages for the sake of its musk, which they collect from the wooden bars on which it rubs itself. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • The user-friendly touchscreen will display details in English, Tamil and Malayalam.
  • Then he, too, was killed on the election trail in Tamil Nadu by a suicide bomber.
  • Chennai, November 5:: Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions'. Latest News Online - The Indian Express
  • There were no Tamil or Muslim candidates representing the country's main ethnic and religious minorities.
  • Asha goes looking for her roots in rural Tamil Nadu and finds that people cut into conversation without so much as a by-your-leave; getting into a bus or train was always a test of Darwin's theory that the fittest alone could survive.
  • The Tigers were fighting for an independent state in the north and eastern parts of Sri Lanka, an area they refer to as Tamil Eelam, until the government declared victory over them in May 2009. CBC | Top Stories News
  • Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted.
  • On the one hand it publishes original fiction and prose by authors in Tamil.
  • The occasion brought together two of the most talented heroes in the Tamil film industry.
  • These are Sinhalese but also Tamils, Burghers and Muslims.
  • Exclusive video Tamil displacement camps timesonline. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a 2004 paper on access to drugs in public health facilities in Tamil Nadu, Leela Visaria of the Gujarat Institute of Development Research mentions that during a survey in Kanchipuram district, several patients she spoke to could identify the drugs by name instead of color. Just What the Doctor Prescribed
  • May be Malayalam is nasal so I didn't figure out and am blank about Tamil. P for PuranpoLi and PuranpoLi for P
  • The next day, the LTTE and other Tamil parties called a hartal [strike and shop closures] throughout the north and east of the island which lasted for four days.
  • My cosmopolitanism, my ability to read ancient Tamil love poetry, my advanced degrees become irrelevant in the face of such appalling culpability.
  • Spencer was going to head for Tiruchchirappalli, in the Tamil Nadu province of southern India. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
  • Militant Tamils, the LTTE, sought the creation of an independent Tamil state, referred to as Tamil Eelam, which would comprise the North and East of the country. Countercurrents.org
  • The user-friendly touch screen will display details in English, Tamil and Malayalam.
  • Just so you know, the capital L sound is found in Malayalam and Tamil as well. P for PuranpoLi and PuranpoLi for P
  • The string puppets of Tamil Nadu are the largest and the heaviest when compared to the string puppets of the other State.
  • Fashion uncover in Tamil Nadu to foster handloom outfits Pearl Academys fashion show with Swiss Embassy
  • I'm really waiting for it because it is one Malayalam film which is likely to have a national release as it is dubbed in Hindi, Telegu and Tamil. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • It is a cheap, effective, broad-spectrum pesticide, said Siva Kumar, a pesticide trader in the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu. India resists efforts to ban pesticide
  • His constant lament was that the Tamil stage had not come of age.
  • Any proposals to grant rights to the Tamils have to get the prior approval of Buddhist monks.
  • He learnt over 10,000 proverbs by memorising them as his father, S. Parasuraman, read out from various Tamil books.
  • Here, a mother's allergy to snakes deprives the daughter of her favourite screw pine flower (thaazhambu in Tamil), forcing her to adopt dilatory tactics in domestic behaviour.
  • Tamil pulp stories were published in weekly magazines, and "households would meticulously collect the stories serialized in these weeklies and have them hard-bound to serve as reading material during the long, hot summer vacations. Tamil pulp
  • Here in Tamil Nadu, the party which governs the state didn't win a single seat.
  • Who is the "STYLISH" Hero as on date in Tamil filmdom? Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Parliament's computerised interpreter system is designed to translate proceedings simultaneously from English to Hindi and vice versa, and from other languages such as Assamese, Kannada or Tamil into Hindi and English. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
  • She has rendered the novel in the simple present to get over the problem of switching tenses which sounds alright in Tamil but clumsy in English.
  • The age old customs and traditions of the Tamils are held in high esteem by Keralites and they are preserved in modern Kerala.
  • Throughout central and southern India there are tribal populations such as Mundas, Oraons and Santals, there are Dravidian groups in southern India such as Tamils and the Malayalam-speaking peoples in Kerala.
  • There was one particular boy who sang songs from Tamil films and rushed away at the stroke of four because he had to help his parents who made a living pulling heavily loaded handcarts.
  • President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was re-elected last month by a wide margin, largely because of support from the country's Sinhalese majority, said Tamil leaders should not "misguide" people or harbour political ambitions based on ethnicity. Zee News : India National
  • As subsidiaries, we have Punjabi, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamil and Bengali.
  • He was portrayed as the savior of the downtrodden and of the victimized heroine, and is the most renowned of all Tamil stars for his screen fights.
  • Formation of the Tamil Eelam is the only solution to the issue, according to the manifesto. Top Stories - Google News
  • Tamil agglutinative phrases
  • And what Kamat calls "Prakrit" actually subsumes various Indo-Aryan languages all over the subcontinent, many of which must have been, by the time of Christ, less mutually intelligible with each other than Tamil was from Kannada at that time. Languagehat.com: HISTORY OF KANNADA.
  • Under this pact the government made some concessions to Tamil demands, including the devolution of power to the provinces.
  • Their poetry were all rendered into Tamil.
  • Tamils traditionally wear the dhoti or loincloth.
  • The other day, the hostess of a popular talk show on a Tamil channel announced on screen that she was sporting a ‘malivu vilai’ saree.
  • With the defeat of King Magha, Theravada bhikshus from Kanchipuram, a Buddhist center within the weakened Chola Kingdom in present-day Tamilnadu, South India, were invited to Sri Lanka in 1236 CE to revive the bhikshu ordination lineage. History of the Theravada Ordination Lineages
  • Sri Lanka, which ended a 25-year internal conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels in May, is one of 16 countries benefiting from an EU deal to enhance so-called generalised system of preferences terms offered to developing countries -- provided sustainable development and good governance conditions are met. LBO-Lanka Business Online
  • The ad campaign is being aired in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya so that it can reach out to the masses. Global Voices in English » Celebrity Power in Indian Elections
  • Tamil poets wrote about the excitement of seeing ships arriving from Rome with merchants seeking to trade gold for pepper. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has said that the sate was the first in the Country to implement inter-linking of rivers to prevent water from flowing into the Bay of Bengal. Latest Stories
  • His routine begins with receiving as many as 40 books meant for both children and adults in English and Tamil from a bookstall at the Anna Bus Stand.
  • ‘It may be all right to have as heroines those who do not know Tamil, but to play the role of comediennes, you need to know the language, the language in which films are made’.
  • May 19th, 2009 CHENNAI - V.olent protests erupted in parts of Tamil Nadu Tuesday following the death of Tamil Tiger chief V. Prabhakaran and other top leaders of the terrorist outfit in Sri Lanka. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • ‘At the risk of sounding immodest, I know that any history of Tamil cinema will be incomplete without at least a few chapters on my work,’ he asserts.
  • All the Tamils do not rely on the Indian goverment anymore for their neglection, we musnt be treated as fools Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • He got the song penned by the well-known Tamil cinema lyrist Vairamuthu and the anthem cassette is played on every Monday and Friday morning.
  • He has authored books in Tamil and distributes them at the medical camps.
  • A voracious reader, he is already into reading Tamil books, magazines and newspapers.
  • I stand on this stage without fear and state that Tamil Eelam will be born only through violent struggle and bloodshed. What more do you want?
  • A Tamil might well be married at 14 and expect to fulfil other manly duties, but it is against the law in Britain to take a wife at that age.
  • For about five decades, he had been the uncrowned monarch of Tamil film music, working with all the leading music directors and lyricists.
  • Around three million Tamils continue to live in the war-torn areas in the north and east of Sri Lanka.
  • Tamil poets wrote about the excitement of seeing ships arriving from Rome with merchants seeking to trade gold for pepper. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ad campaign is being aired in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya so that it can reach out to the masses. Global Voices in English » Celebrity Power in Indian Elections
  • He had only ‘asked Sri Lanka to consider a quasi-federal or confederated setup under a constitutional system that accorded full rights to the Tamils’.
  • He is also the complier of several Tamil dictionaries, among them the quadruple lexicon containing words, synonyms, categories of words, and rhymes; a The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture.
  • Kali and thalagam are a unique combination in Tamil Brahmin cuisine. Thiruvadirai Kali and Thalagam
  • She is the daughter of Aramkumar, an engineer at the thermal power station in Tuticorin, and Annam, who is an engineer at the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board.
  • In northern Kerala it was mainly the bite of the Russell's viper and down here in Tamil Nadu, it is a mixture of the cobra and the krait.
  • * More than 1,500 people flee war zone* Red Cross says conditions getting worse By Ranga SirilalCOLOMBO, March 17 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger separatists counterattacked with a failed suicide bombing in clashes that killed at least 14 rebels and more than 1,500 refugees fled Sri Lanka's war zone, the military said on Tuesday. Undefined
  • The information handbook for the engineering aspirants will be available at 80 select Indian Bank outlets in Tamil Nadu.
  • Earlier, she made a reference to her acting career where she had paired as the leading lady with several actors in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Bhojpuri films. WN.com - Articles related to Celina Jaitley asks people to boycott Bombay Gymkhana
  • The company Haritha Plantations had come up about a decade ago with an aim to grow teaks and mangium in barren lands he bought at Palghat and Thenmala in Kerala and Kuttalam and Pattakurichi in Tamil Nadu.
  • the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war
  • During the war in Gaza, the Sri Lankan government forces overran the last stronghold of the Tamil Tigers -- a group considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government -- at the expense of dozens of civilians. Numbers matter
  • The next U vegetable seems to have a fab following around the world - it is the potato, called Urlagadda in Telugu and Urulaikilangu or just Urulai in Tamil. Archive 2007-06-01
  • COLOMBO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's government troops have captured another airstrip from the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north on Friday, the military said. Top Stories - Google News
  • Unmaiyin Tharisanam 24.04 .09 genocide tamils Tamils in TamilEelam are desperatly fighting for WN.com - Articles related to Bill on child sexual abuse likely in monsoon session: Moily
  • The excitement was paramount in Tamil filmy circles about this news. AndhraCafe.com
  • In the case of Tamil, you have 63 letters and one has to use the shift key quite often because each key has two letters on it.
  • The grammar of the Tamil film song is almost formulaically strict.
  • On this Tamil festival, penitents pierce their bodies, tongues, and cheeks while some march on shoes of nails.
  • Kanarese, Tamil, and Telugu in their literary form owe much to the labours of Jain monks, and the Jain works composed in these languages, such as the Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
  • Over 100 more Tamils were reportedly killed in further reprisals against refugee camps and villages on Aug. 12-14.
  • After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria sold the guns to rebels in Congo, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers and the Hutu militia, which was responsible for the Rwandan genocide.
  • And the 'bhai' would either be speaking Urdu or wearing ankle-high lungi and skull cap and speaking chaste Ramnad Tamil. The Hindu - Front Page
  • Today it gets an annual grant of Rs.20 lakhs from the Tamil Nadu Government, but this is hardly enough.
  • Now, as that government turns its baleful attention to the ethnic Tamils it is holding behind razor wire, will we turn a blind eye? Archive 2009-05-01
  • In all my wanderings looking for indigenous breeds of dogs, I have seen only two specimens, both near Pollachi, Tamil Nadu.
  • A family of Tamil shipwrights were adzing baulks of timber into banana-shaped fishing rafts.
  • Sri Lanka, for example, strongly pressured the UN to try to quash a UN advisory panel on accountability for war crimes committed during its armed conflict with the Tamil Tigers.
  • The age old customs and traditions of the Tamils are held in high esteem by Keralites and they are preserved in modern Kerala.
  • She was happy when she was posted in Tamil Nadu.
  • It is about the survival of the ancient shola forests of Tamil Nadu, with whatever is left of their endemic flora and fauna after the tampering of colonial and independent India.
  • While she previously starred in four English-language films in both England and the United States in addition to her work in Hindi, Bengali and Tamil, Bachchan emphasized she is just being a good actress. Buzzine » Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Interview
  • The Tamils, who appeared to take no joy in choosing between two men who have killed tens of thousands of their neighbours, surprised many observers by turning strongly to Gen. Fonseka in what some describe as a concerted act of revenge for the abuse and segregation meted out by the government after the war. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The alleged incidents come amid growing concern for about 230,000 ethnic Tamil civilians. Times, Sunday Times
  • The producers claim that the 52-episode programme will present a variety of Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil songs befitting a smorgasbord of emotions.
  • Frequent trips to other jheels in the northern districts of Tamil Nadu reveal the same depressing pattern.
  • While the other silk producing states like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir have only 5\% of bivoltine silk in their total production portfolio, in Tamil Nadu it is 25\%. The Financial Express
  • That statement was, indeed, a tribute to the actress, who stole the hearts of Tamil cinema-viewers.
  • True, he presided over the Cauvery River Authority and asked Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu every day.
  • They are also the only places where Sinhalese, Tamils and Burghers meet, for after 1983 the three groups, like many other warring groups from other parts of the world, go their separate ways.
  • Tamils felt deprived of access to government and of their traditional route to advancement, jobs in the civil service.
  • The fusion show will consist of ‘familiar’ ghazals, thumris, khayals and a choice of popular Tamil and Hindi film songs, we are told.
  • Urdu, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Tagalog, Chinese, Malayalam, and other languages are spoken in Dubai by its many foreign residents.
  • It should be noted that when Imperial Britain annexed South India that included Tamil Nadu it did so by the force of arms and not legitimately. Why are South Indians so smart?
  • All the song-laden Tamil films produced during the initial years were film versions of popular plays staged by the drama companies.
  • Discussing the influence of Western life on Indians, especially those in the impressionable age, he pointed out the extent to which some Tamils had become highly westernised in their outlook.
  • They also point to a recent study report from Tamil Nadu that watching soaps, especially the tear-jerking kind, late into night, could result in tearful babies for pregnant women.
  • President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was re-elected last month by a wide margin, largely because of support from the country's Sinhalese majority, said Tamil leaders should not "misguide" people or harbour political ambitions based on ethnicity or region. News
  • The Neem seed has good demand in Tamil Nadu as its oil extract is used in preparation of soaps, pesticides and medicines while its cake is used to raise horticultural crops.
  • However the Sri Lankan army has continued to occupy part of the area claimed by Tamils as their homeland.
  • The Nayaks or Nayakkans, as they were also called, were the feudatory governors appointed by the Vijyayanagar rulers to protect their interests in parts of what are now Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
  • Unmaiyin Tharisanam 28. 04. 09 genocide tamils Tamils in TamilEelam are desperatly fighting for Freedom and libration of NorthEast TamilHomeland since 1981. WN.com - Articles related to Bill on child sexual abuse likely in monsoon session: Moily
  • Similarly in India, the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is fast becoming an aspirer to industrial development and home to more than 62 million people, is now facing drying wells with 95 percent of those in the farming community suffering. Peak Water Has Come and Gone Unnoticed
  • I'm a bit puzzled that THIS of all things should be taken as an example of "inauthenticity"; some of the choreography has been updated to pass the 2008 audience's cringe-test, and the style is undoubtedly inflected with the Tamil cinema over the past decade, but there is nothing un-masala about that. NAACHGAANA
  • Pagodas, for one example, are stylized step-pyramidal forms, while stupas and many Hindu temples (particularly those in Tamil regions) are articulated cone- and mound- forms.
  • Thanks to Tilo for sending me a link to a paper on the ancient Tamil tradition of tauromachy, bull-baiting.
  • Siror at January 21, 2005 04:30 AM i know that kannada got derived from Tamil which is the oldest and originated in india but aryans(sankrits) migrated to india and settled down here. so we should not make any distinction between Tamil and Kannada and we are Dravidians and Indians and get rid out these Arayans(north indians, Brahmins from country) from india who are dominating us and they don't have any patriotism that is the reason why many north Indians and especially Brahmins settled down in foriegn countries like US, UK etc,.. Languagehat.com: HISTORY OF KANNADA.
  • With nearly 33,000 temples, Tamil Nadu is literally a goldmine for epigraphists.
  • A terrestrial orchid of Tamil Nadu, the Golden Vanda, puts out flowers in the sizzling heat of April.
  • Endowed with a good ear for contemporary Tamil, she has used Indian English to convey the liveliness of speech in the southern parts of India.
  • Tamil Brahman women wear a sari that is eighteen cubits long.
  • Personal favourites are the palm-leaf products from Tamil Nadu, showcasing cute little baskets, bags, and drawstring pouches; wooden-handled kalamkari bags in silk and leather, from Karnataka; delicate stoles and dress material in ajrakh print from Gujarat, and jute products from West Bengal. The Hindu - Front Page
  • Tamil Eelam, has used his popularity to change the constitution, eliminating the ban on more than two terms in office, and giving himself final authority over all appointments to the civil service, judiciary and police. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • His unstinted endeavours is the reason behind the birth of a number of institutions in Tamil Nadu Forest Department today.
  • Customers can choose their Regional Language Pack from a total of 8 Packs in Tamil, Telegu, IndiaPRwire - Press/News Releases
  • The children also proved their mettle in reciting popular Tamil poetry.
  • It was brought from India by the fleets of Solomon and Hiram, and was called by the Hebrews koph_, and by the Greeks _kepos, both words being just the Indian Tamil name of the monkey, kapi, i.e., swift, nimble, active. Easton's Bible Dictionary
  • Volleyball (boys 1st round): Karnataka bt Uttarakhand 25-21, 25-21, Tamil Nadu bt Gujarat 25-22, 25-12, Kerala bt Manipur 25-15, 25-19, Tamil Nadu bt Gujarat 25-22, PunjabNewsline News
  • A Tamil might well be married at 14 and expect to fulfil other manly duties, but it is against the law in Britain to take a wife at that age.
  • She was supported by all the left and radical parties including the NSSP as well as all the various bourgeois and petty bourgeois Tamil parties.
  • He would remember himself, and say ‘Salaam, memsahib,’ putting his hands to his forehead, and then take off again, speaking his mixture of Hindi and Tamil, grimacing, gesturing at an invisible audience.
  • Intransitive, transitive, causative forms, past and non-past tenses (there was no future tense in Old Tamil), participal and verbal nouns, adjectival participles and the infinitive are found in the language of the inscriptions.
  • Most edible bananas have pendulous inflorescences (called Vazhapoo in Tamil) and are usually a dull maroon.
  • In Sri Lanka the distinction between Tamils and Sinhalese is barely noticeable to the visitor. The Perils of Partition
  • My informants have been searching for the CD's of new Tamil releases but none has so far hit the markets’.
  • It is their belief that as a constituent fabric of the Indian Union like the Bengalese, Tamils, Punjabis, they can as Gorkhas from Gorkhaland serve Indian Union to their fullest capacity. The Question(s) of Gorkhaland by Barun Roy
  • Tamil cremate or bury the dead, with burial being more common among lower castes.
  • Konkanis are the most multilingual of all Indian ethnic groups, while Hindi-speakers, Tamils and the Bengalis are the most linguistically constrained. The Times of India
  • This school concedes that the Tamils the world over are by the standard definition of the term entitled to nationhood, but their land space for exercising that claim is Tamilnadu - not Sri Lanka. Kottu
  • Such an assessment could be used, for example, to deny point-blank asylum applications from Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka.
  • Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions' … The DMK chief had made similar remarks on certain other Hindu customs earlier and described Hindus as 'robbers'. Seriously Sandeep
  • The Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and the Director of Seed Certification also visited the farm and answered the queries of the ryots.
  • The author spoke briefly about the similarities between Tamil and Japanese languages.
  • Saregama is concentrating on other languges as well - in the recent past, the label produced animated Tamil children's folk songs Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
  • It should also appeal to younger readers who seldom read Tamil books.
  • The actress, who ruled the roost in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films from 1993 to 1997, revealed about the transformation in her life while speaking at a prayer meeting for film artistes organised in Chennai by Jesus Redeems 'ministries founder Bro. WN.com - Articles related to Celina Jaitley asks people to boycott Bombay Gymkhana
  • The Tamil Tigers launched what is known as the Eelam war II. Transcript: Sri Lanka's Pillayan
  • The mainly Sinhala province also has a large population of Indian-origin Tamils working in plantations. In that council, the UPFA won more than two-thirds of the seats, with 72% percent of the vote.
  • A family of Tamil shipwrights were adzing baulks of timber into banana-shaped fishing rafts.
  • Malay is its notional language, but Chinese, English and Tamil are also offical languages.
  • The tamilok, its fans swear, has a fresh clean taste that sends shivers of pleasure down one's alimentary canal.
  • The Tamil paper realises the importance of presenting business news in a simple and lucid style that also synchronises with the paper's overall character.
  • --- So it means the self proclaimed superior intelligence of the Tamil Brahmin is due to the Dravidian genes mixing with them. Why are South Indians so smart?
  • Tamil language has no 'bha' alphabet, it is just 'pa' which is used interchangably with 'ba' - that's why the 'baath' I guess : Traditional Lunch Series - Day 4 (Capsicum baath, Pumpkin Pachidi, Thair Saadam)
  • Through new vistas of business, it was looking at mopping up revenue to become one of the Fortune 500 companies, the Chief Postmaster General of Tamil Nadu circle said.
  • Nanayakkara said the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) made the explosion to distract the attention of the security forces, who are engaging the LTTE in the north.
  • As a result of that, the Burghers left for Australia and the Tamils stayed behind to fight.
  • Tamil superstar Rajinikant is in idyllic Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district for the picturisation of a song-and-dance sequence featuring a flotilla of snake boats for his latest film "Kuselan". Tamil superstar Rajinikant���s film "Kuselan" Shooting in Kuttanad
  • MADURAI: Any lethargy by the State Government on the Mullaperiyar dam row with neighbouring Kerala would certainly ruin the economy in southern districts of Tamil Nadu and also lead to water crisis in Madurai in the near future, said Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) general secretary Vaiko here on Tuesday. The Hindu - Front Page
  • Anton a "discriminated" Tamil from Sri Lanka was lucky enough to get a job in Sri Lanka's HC in London before he nipped out one morning said he was being "genocided" in SL and hey presto get a new passport. MR BEAN AND THE WAR ON TERROR
  • For three weeks before the march, Rajaji undertook a quick tour of Tamil districts, apprising the people on the implication of the forthcoming salt satyagraha.
  • The resounding victory consolidates the Tamil National Alliance's status as an authentic representative of ethnic Tamils in negotiations with Rajapaksa's ethnic majority Sinhalese-controlled government in sharing political power and postwar rehabilitation. Ex-rebel proxies sweep Sri Lanka local elections
  • The Tamil channel has since then undergone a major revamp, like programming mix and so on.
  • Over 100 more Tamils were reportedly killed in further reprisals against refugee camps and villages on Aug. 12-14.
  • Cutting short his pilgrimage, he immediately left for Tamil Nadu to live the life of a singing saint.
  • The population of the Diocese of Kandy, which is made up of various races including Cingalese and Tamils, amounts to 809,506, of whom The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • The whole Indian peninsula south of the Vindhyas, save for a part of Maharashtra (Nasik and Pratishthana) easily accessible from Malwa and already Aryanized, was occupied by Dravidians: Canarese-speakers on the northwest, Telugu-speakers on the east, and Tamil-speakers in the Carnatic. C. South India
  • If theDravidian hypothesis is correct, it might be possible to match wordsfrom the old form of Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu, with the Indus signs.
  • For the last two centuries, since the Tamils started to immigrate to sri Lanka with its Sinhala majority, the two ethnic groups have been in conflict.
  • In his preface to the anthology of short stories written by Sujatha Rangarajan, a major Tamil writer, the author admits that as a subgenre, science fiction has not been widely practised by Tamil writers.
  • Btw - this to vnv - bagara baingan is a completely different and yes, Andhra dish, in a thick strong masala gravy that also uses tamarind, onions, garlic too - the last two very rarely featured in Tamil Brahmin cooking South Indian Baby Eggplant Curry

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