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Nirmalananda, born as Tulasi Charan Dutta in Calcutta, was a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, [1] the 19th-century mystic and Hindu saint from India, and took Sanyasa (monastic vows) from Vivekananda along with Brahmananda and others. He was initiated by Sri Ramakrishna, on which fact a few latter-day antagonists tried to cast doubt in the ...
S. Ravishankar (Charles) - Tamil Tiger military intelligence wing leader; Sri Sabaratnam - leader of Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization; T. Sivanesan ( Soosai) - Tamil Tiger Sea Wing leader; P. Sivaparan (Nediyawan) - senior Tamil Tiger member; S. Sivashankar (Pottu Amman) - Tamil Tigers Intelligence Wing leader, was number 2 in the organisation
Annually, Sri Math organizes free Medical Camps, Blood Donation Camps, Cleft Lip & Cleft Palate Camps in collaboration with Rotaplast USA. Sri Mahaswamiji believes in living in harmony with the environment and under this category, Vanasamvardhana Programme is in place, through which five-crore saplings were planted in different parts of the ...
Apart from Vipulananda's knowledge of Tamil he also knew English, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Sinhala. After researching Tamil music and other Indian musical forms and musical instruments for many years, Vipulananda produced the seminal book of scientific research in Tamil called the Yazh Nool, or Book of Stringed Musical Instruments, which was ...
Arumuka Navalar (Tamil: ஆறுமுக நாவலர், romanized: Āṟumuka Nāvalar, lit. 'Arumuka the Orator'; 18 December 1822 – 5 December 1879) was a Sri Lankan Shaivite Tamil language scholar and a religious reformer who was central in reviving native Hindu Tamil traditions in Sri Lanka and India.
Tamil literature was comparatively ahead of its mainland counterpart in modern Tamil Nadu with respect to Dalit issues. After the commencement of the civil war in 1983, a number of poets and fiction writers became active, focussing on issues such as death, destruction and rape. Such writings have no parallels in any previous Tamil literature. [2]
Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...
The press also printed the Sinhala Bibles for the Ceylon Bible Society Auxiliary for many years. The Methodist Church, known for some noted educators, set up many schools in Sri Lanka, including: Richmond College , was started in 1814 as The Galle School – the first Wesleyan Methodist school in Sri Lanka and Asia, and was converted to a High ...