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The Tamils portal Archaeological evidencefrom Tamil Nadu indicates a continuous history of human occupation for more than 3,800 years. In the Sangam period,Tamilakamwas ruled by theThree Crowned Kingsof theCheras,CholasandPandyas.SmallerVelirkings and chieftains ruled certain territories and maintained relationship with the larger kingdoms. Urbanisation and mercantile activity developed along the coasts during the later Sangam period with the Tamilsinfluencingthe regional trade in the Indian Ocean region. Artifacts obtained from excavations indicate the presence of earlytrade relations with the Romans.The major kingdoms to rule the region later were thePallavas(3rd–9th century CE), and theVijayanagara Empire(14th–17th century CE). The island of Sri Lanka often saw attacks from the Indian mainland with the Cholas establishing their influence across the island and across several areas in Southeast Asia in the 10th century CE. This led to the spread of Tamil influence and contributed to thecultural Indianisationof the region. Scripts brought by Tamil traders like theGranthaandPallava scripts,induced the development of many Southeast Asian scripts. TheJaffna Kingdomlater controlled the Tamil territory in the north of the Sri Lanka from 13th to 17th century CE. European colonization began in the 17th century CE, and continued for two centuries until the middle of the 20th century. (Full article...) Selected article - Tamil cinemais the segment ofIndian cinemadedicated to the production ofmotion picturesin theTamil language,the main spoken language in the state ofTamil Nadu.It is nicknamedKollywood,aportmanteauof the namesKodambakkam,a neighbourhood inChennai,andHollywood. The first Tamilsilent film,Keechaka Vadham,was directed byR. Nataraja Mudaliarin 1918. The first Tamiltalkingfeature film,Kalidas,a multilingual directed byH. M. Reddywas released on 31 October 1931, less than seven months after India's first talking motion pictureAlam Ara.Tamil cinema has been noted for its advanced narratives and diverse films, with several productions in the 1990s and early 2000s cutting across ethnic and linguistic barriers. Such films includeRoja(1992),Indian(1996),Sivaji: The Boss(2007),Enthiran(2010). Tamil cinema has since produced some of the most commercially successful actors, directors and films of Indian cinema. (Full article...)General images
Selected biography -Venkatraman Ramakrishnan(born 1952) is a British-Americanstructural biologist.He shared the 2009Nobel Prize in ChemistrywithThomas A. SteitzandAda Yonathfor research on the structure and function ofribosomes. Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at theMedical Research Council(MRC)Laboratory of Molecular Biology(LMB) on theCambridge Biomedical Campus,UK and is a Fellow ofTrinity College, Cambridge.He served asPresident of the Royal Societyfrom 2015 to 2020. (Full article...)Categories Select [►] to view subcategories
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TopicsTamil People Countrywide:India•Sri Lanka•Canada•Malaysia•Singapore•South Africa•England Related Ethnic Groups:Brahui•Gond•Kannadiga•Khonds•Kodava•Oraon•Malayali•Telugus•Tuluvas Related indigenous Groups:Badagas•Toda•Kuruba
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