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Tamil Nadu

• Tamil Nadu is the 11th biggest, sixth most
  populous, and fourteenth most literate state of
  the 28 states of the democratic Republic of
  India.
• Tamil Nadu has the second largest economy in
  India with a GSDP of ?9767 billion (US150
  billion) in 201415 and fourth biggest
  contributor to the country's tax revenue.
  According to the 2011 Census, Tamil Nadu is the
  most urbanised state in India (49), accounting
  for 9.6 of the urban population while only
  comprising 6 of India's total population. It is
  the second most industrialised state next to
  Maharastra.
• Capital of Tamil nadu and largest city is
  Chennai (formerly known as Madras)
• Tamil Nadu,Indian state
• Area 130,058 km
• Capital Chennai
• Population 67.86 million (2012)

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• Tamil Nadu is home to many natural resources,
  classical arts, classical music, classical
  literature, Hindu temples of Dravidian
  architecture, hill stations, beach resorts,
  multi-religious pilgrimage sites
• Airports
• Tamil Nadu has 4 international airports at
  Chennai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli and Madurai.
  Chennai's Anna International Airport is a major
  international airport that is connected with 19
  countries with more than 169 direct flights every
  week. This is the third largest airport in India
• Seaport
• Tamil Nadu has three major seaports located at
  Chennai, Ennore and Tuticorin, as well as seven
  other minor ports including Cuddalore and
  Nagapattinam
• Energy
• Tamil Nadu has the third largest established
  power generation capacity in the country. The
  Kalpakkam Nuclear Power Plant, Ennore Thermal
  Plant, Neyveli Lignite Power Plant

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Rivers of Tamilnadu

• The important rivers in tamilnadu are
• Bavani
• Kaveri
• Cheiyar
• Palar
• Thamirabarani
• Chittar
• Vaigai

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River map of Tamil nadu
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Chennai

• According to the list by Lonely Planet Chennai
  has been named the 9th best city in the list of
  2015s top 10 cosmopolitan cities in the world.
• Marina beach which is located in Chennai is the
  second longest urban beach in Chennai, a distance
  of 13 km .

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Dance forms of Tamil Nadu

• Tamil Nadu has a rich history of art of
  entertainment. The three modes of entertainment
  classified as Iyal (Literature), Isai (Music) and
  Nadagam (Drama) had their roots in the rural folk
  theatre like Theru Koothu (Street play).some of
  the dances are
• 1 Bagavatha Nadanam
• 2 Bommalattam or puppet show
• 3 Chakkai Attam
• 4 Devaraattam
• 5 Kamandi or Kaman Pandigai
• 6 Kali Attam or Kolattam
• 7 Karagattam
• 8 Kavadi Aattam
• 9 Kazhai Kothu
• 10 Kolattam
• Official dance of tamil nadu is bhartanatyam

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Sports

• Kabbadi, a team contact sport originated in Tamil
  Nadu and is recognised as the state game. The
  traditional sport of Tamil Nadu include Silambam,
  a Tamil martial arts played with a long bamboo
  staff.
• Five time World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand
  hails from Tamil Nadu
• Jallikattu is a bull taming sport played in Tamil
  Nadu as a part of Pongal celebrations on Mattu
  Pongal day(festivals).

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Culture

• Religion
• In Tamil Nadus population 88 are
  Hindus, 6 are Muslims, and 5.5 are
  Christians. The Christians are mostly Roman
  Catholics.
• Dress
• Veshti is the traditional men's garment
  in Tamil Nadu. It is a rectangular piece of
  unstitched cloth, usually around 7 yards long,
  wrapped around the waist and the legs, and
  knotted at the waist. This is the traditional
  men's garment in India.
• A sari is a female garment in the Indian
  subcontinent. A sari is a strip of
  unstitched cloth, ranging from four to nine
  meters in length that is draped over the body in
  various styles. The Madisar is the style in which
  the sari is worn by communities in Tamil Nadu,
  India.

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Veshti
Sari
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Food

• Each geographical area where Tamils live has
  developed its own distinct variant of the common
  dishes plus a few dishes distinctly native to
  itself. The Chettinad region, comprising of
  Karaikudi and adjoining areas, is known for both
  traditional vegetarian dishes, like appam,
  uthappam, paal paniyaram, and non-vegetarian
  dishes, made primarily using chicken. Rice, the
  major staple food in most of Tamil, is usually
  steamed and served with about two to six
  accompanying items, which typically include
  sambar, dry curry, rasam, kootu, and thayir
  (curd) or moru (whey or buttermilk). Ghee
  Clarified butter called neyyi in Tamil, is used
  to flavor the rice when eaten with dhal or
  sambar, but not with curds or buttermilk.
  Morkulambu, a dish which can be spiced with moru,
  is also popular with steamed rice.

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Tamil festivals

• The most important Tamil festivals are Pongal, a
  harvest festival that occurs in midJanuary, and
  Varudapirappu, the Tamil New Year, which occurs
  around mid-April. Both are celebrated by almost
  all Tamils, regardless of religion. The Hindu
  festival Deepavali is celebrated with fanfare
  other local Hindu festivals include

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Language
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• We Tamilians are very proud of our language and
  heritage
• (?????, tami?) also spelt Thamizh is a Dravidian
  language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of
  Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It has official status
  in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian
  Union Territory of Puducherry.
• Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical
  languages in the world.
• The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam
  literature, is dated from ca. 300 BC AD 300. It
  has the oldest extant literature amongst other
  Dravidian languages
• Some of the evidence shows that tamil is the
  world first language

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Countries Where Tamil is an Official Language

• Singapore
• The Tamil king Chola ruled the Singapore in the
  historical times and currently Tamil is the one
  of the official language of Singapore.
• Sri Lanka
• The Sri Lanka was the part of ancient Tamilagam
  (Tamil country) and Sri Lankan Tamil dialect is
  considered to be more closer to the old Tamil.
• Malaysia, Mauritius, France and reunion, Canada.

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ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
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Tamil Nadu Heritage Sites

• Padmanabhapuram Palace An Ancient Architectural
  Magic of South India
• The Brihadeeswarar Temple - located in Thanjavur
• Monuments at Mahabalipuram

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Padmanabhapuram Palace

• Padmanabhapuram Palace is India Heritage site and
  it is also listed on tentative list of UNESCO
  World Heritage sites.Padmanabhapuram Palace is a
  miraculous 16 Century wood palace of former
  Maharajas of Travancore (1550 to 1750).It is
  located in the Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu,
  India.

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Brihadeeswara Temple
Built by emperor Raja Raja Chola I which was
completed in 1010 AD
The Kumbam the apex or the bulbous structure on
the top of the temple is carved out of a single
rock and it weighs around 80 tons. A big statue
ofNandi is amazingly carved out of a single rock
and measures about 16 feet long and 13 feet high.
This shows that it is a distinctive example of
architecture inside the temple.
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The monuments of Mahabalipuram

• The monuments of Mahabalipuram are popularly
  known for its rock carvings and monolithic
  sculptures. These monuments illustrate the
  intricate sculptures and carvings which are true
  evidence to the artisans creativity and
  craftsmanship.

• Rock cut cave temple

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THIRUVALLUVAR
Thiruvalluvar wrote Thirukural (tamil
bible) Tirukku?a? has been translated to more
than 37 languages across the world by various
authors The Thiruvalluvar Statue is a 133 feet
(40.6 m) tall stone sculpture The combined
height of the statue and pedestal is 133 feet,
denoting the 133 chapters in the Thirukkural.
It has a total weight of 7000 tons. It is
siutuated in Kanyakumari.

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Angkor wat

• Angkor Wat ( "Capital Temple") is a temple
  complex in Cambodia and the largest religious
  monument in the world. It was originally founded
  as a Hindu temple for the Khmer Empire, gradually
  transforming into a Buddhist temple toward the
  end of the 12th century. It was built by the
  Khmer King Suryavarman in the early 12th century
  in Yasodharapura.
• Suryavarman is a tamil king and he built the
  great temple.

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Bodhidharma(King of Martial arts)
Bodhidharma as "the third son of a Pallavan king
from Kanchipuram
Bodhidharma was a Tamil prince born in
Kancheepuram the Pallava capital in 440 AD. After
learning Buddhism he travelled to China to spread
the true Buddhist way of life.
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Mathur Aqueduct

• The Aqueduct is built across the Pahrali river, a
  small river that originates in the Mahendragiri
  Hills of the Western Ghats.
• Mathur Aqueduct is a concrete structure held up
  by 28 huge pillars, the maximum height of the
  pillars reaching 115 ft.
• And a length of one kilometre. And considered as
  asia longest aqueduct.

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Prides of Tamil nadu
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A.P.J Abdul kalam

• Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen "A. P. J." Abdul Kalam
  was the 11th President of India from 2002 to
  2007.
• Former President of India
• Born October 15, 1931, Rameswaram, India.
• Died July 27, 2015, Shillong, India.
• Profession Professor, Author, Scientist.
• A fish species has been named after him
  (Horaglanis abdulkalami)
• Achievement Agni missile
• so he is called as Missile Man
• APJ Abdul Kalam who dead in Shillong, collapsing
  in the middle of what he loved doing most --
  talking to students. In this case, the students
  of the Indian Institute of Management. He was 83.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian
  philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice
  President of India and the second President of
  India from 1962 to 1967.
• Born September 5, 1888, Thiruttani,
  India.(celebrated as teachers day)
• Died April 17, 1975, Chennai, India
• Succeeded by Zakir Husain
• Previous office President of India (19621967)
• Children Sarvepalli Gopal

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A.R Rahman

• 1. List of Indians who won Oscars are only 3
• In that Rahman won 2 Oscars for best original
  song and best original score in the film slum dog
  millionaire.
• A street was named in his honour in Markham,
  Ontario, Canada in November 2013.
• When he received the award he said ella pugazhum
  iraivanukkey (tamil) which means all praise to
  god

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Not only Art and culture, also the Techno

• Half of the world is ruled by Indians.
• CEO of both Microsoft and Google are Indians.
• CEO of Microsoft is Satya Nadella,who is from
  Hyderabad.
• CEO of Google is Sundar Pichai,who is a Tamilan.
• Email which we use, was discovered by Shiva
  Ayyadurai who is also a Tamilan.

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Tamil Geniuses

• 1.Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
• (7 November 1888 21 November 1970) was
  an Indian physicist, born in the former Madras
  Province, whose ground breaking work in the field
  of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel
  Prize for Physics. He discovered that, when light
  traverses a transparent material, some of the
  deflected light changes in wavelength. This
  phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is
  the result of the Raman effect.
• 2. Ramanujam
• who was born in tamilnadu is one of the
  greatest mathematician of all time . He is known
  for his mock theta functions

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