Any Tamilians around here?
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Hai dude.\nI am from TN though I live in Maharashtra right now.\nAs far as songs are concerned, I like all the songs provided you sing them. Oh! Don't be startled.\nI was just joking.\nI like the title song of the movie BOYS.Only songs haaan.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_lanka\n\nPrehistory\nArchaeological evidence suggests that the island now known as Sri Lanka might have been inhabited up to 125,000 years ago. Paleolithic human settlements by 125,000 year-old people using chert and quartz tools have been discovered at excavations in several cave sites in the Western Plains region and the South-western face of the Central Hills region. Paleo-anthropologists have shown that burial rites and certain decorative artifacts exhibit similarities between the first inhabitants of the island and the early inhabitants of southern India. One of the first written references to the island is found in the Indian epic Ramayana. The main written accounts of the country's history are the Buddhist chronicles of Mahavansa and Dipavansa.\n\n[edit]\nAncient history\nHistory of Sri Lanka\nseries \nEarly Sri Lankan History \nEuropean Occupation of Sri Lanka \nSri Lanka Independence Struggle \nIndependence of Sri Lanka \nEthnic conflict in Sri Lanka \nAccording to legend, the written history of the Sinhala people of the island begins with the arrival of an Indian prince named Vijaya and his followers. The story goes that when Vijaya arrived, there were indigeneous people already living in the country. Vijaya made a relationship with the queen of the indegenous people, Kuwani. Kuwani accepted Vijaya because she realized that her people could not successfully fight him. She gave birth to a son and daughter. There are two primary opinions about Vijaya's origins. Some historians believe that he set sail from what is now Orissa, while linguists point out that ancient Sinhala is closer to Sanskrit which is the basis for most Indian languages. Buddhism arrived from the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BC thanks to Arahath Mahinda Thero, missionary of Buddhist Indian Emperor Ashoka, and spread rapidly. Asoka requested his son Mahinda (Mahinda Thero) to spread Buddhism in Sri Lanka as a favour for his best friend King Devanampiyatissa, king of Sri Lanka.\n\nAlthough the country's history is dominated by Sinhalese peoples, some chronicles do mention the presence of Tamil speaking people. There is no clearly established date for the arrival of Dravidian people on the island, but it is thought to have occurred soon after that group reached South India. South Indian kingdoms invaded Sri Lanka on several occasions because of the prosperity of the country, and parts of the island, especially areas close to India, were ruled at times by Dravidian dynasties such as the Cholas, Pandyas, Cheras and Pallavas. The island was also invaded and ruled by Kings of Kalinga (present-day Indian state of Orissa) and Malay Straits. In general, when Sinhalese kings became aware of Tamils' presence in the country they were able to expel them to India; however, Tamils were established on the island by the time the colonial period began.\n\n \nLanding of King Vijaya depicted in a paintingFrom the ancient period date some remarkable archaeological sites including the ruins of Sigiriya, the so-called "Fortress in the Sky", and huge public works. Among the latter are large "tanks" or reservoirs, important for conserving water in a climate that alternates rainy seasons with dry times, and elaborate aqueducts, some with a slope as finely calibrated as one inch to the mile (1:60,000).\n\n[edit]\nColonial rule\nIn 1505 the Portuguese arrived on the island, and colonial rule began. At that point the island consisted of several autonomous kingdoms, such as those of Yarlpanam (Anglicised Jaffna) in the north and Kandy in the central hills. The Dutch arrived in the 17th century. During Portuguese and Dutch rule of coastal areas, the interior, hilly region of the island remained independent, with its capital in Kandy. Great Britain replaced the Dutch in 1796, and the coastal areas became a crown colony in 1802. After the fall of Kandy kingdom in 1815, the British unified it with the 'l
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tamilnaducheifminister@yahoo.com
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I'm an old timer who got interested in Sri Lank forty years ago. I was fascinated by the Kandy Empire, the legend of Adam's peak, the singing shellfish at Lake Batticaloa, the construction of the ancient tanks among many other things. I read a book that I still find interesting called "Jungle Tide". I forget the author's name but he must have written it during the British occupation as he was English. I am sure there are many other fascinating archaeological and educational opportunities in your country, which, I regret, I never did visit. Still, after 40 years, my interest has been retained by what I read. My very best wishes with your project.
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http://balancinglife.blogspot.com/2005/06/of-languages-and-tongues.html  - I hope it helps..\n\nThe Tamil language is a classical language, 4000 years old, with a huge literary tradition on the level of Sanskrit, but Sanskrit is a dead language now. Hindu is related to Sanskrit. Many southern languages relate to classical Tamil.
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Good!! really !!!\n\n well I can use your help!!\n\nwill you help me?\n\nI'm Kamalutheen.A from Tirupur. \n\nPlease  mail me if your interested.
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latest tamil movies you can download for free from this website..\n\nhttp://tamilasia1.sslpowered.com/tamilasia/Forum/viewforum.php?f=23&sid=475106494aeed7ceb16e1e4f34a321fe
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................ YES,  Tamils should learn to live with other people .............
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I am from Punjab. I will give you the information about Punjab and Punjabis. So mail me at anu_sep18@yahoo.co.in
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (Tamil: தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், Thamileela Vidutalaip Pulikal), also known as the Tamil Tigers, is a guerrilla organisation fighting to establish an independent Tamil state, to be called Tamil Eelam, in the north-east of Sri Lanka. The organisation is headed by Velupillai Prabakharan. It currently controls significant portions of northern and eastern Sri Lanka and run civil services in these areas. Civil Administration in these areas include judicial, police, financial, and cultural services, and defence units including army, navy and a recently created air wing.\n\nThe LTTE is believed to have significant support from Sri Lankan Tamils. It claims to be the only legitimate representative of the Tamils in the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict, and is generally seen as being the main body with whom the Sri Lankan government must negotiate. However, its tactics, and particularly its treatment of non-Tamil civilians and Tamil political opponents, have drawn sharp criticism from the international community and led to it being proscribed as a terrorist organisation by several countries.\n\nThe military LTTE\n\nThe LTTE as an organisation is very centred around the personality of Prabhakaran, who has dominated it almost continuously since it was formed. Recruits owe a strong personal loyalty and obedience to him as their leader, which has helped instill a strong sense of discipline in the organisation, and keep it operationally efficient. Recruits are instructed to be prepared to die for the cause, and are issued with a cyanide capsule to be swallowed in the case of capture. The LTTE also has a special squad of suicide troops, called the Black Tigers, which it deploys for critical missions.\n\nThe LTTE advocates equality for women, and has a large number of female recruits. The Women's Wing of the LTTE is known as Suthanthirap Paravaikal (or Freedom Birds). The first woman combatant to die was 2nd Lt. Malathi, on 10 October 1987, in an encounter with the IPKF at Kopai.\n\nThe beginnings of the LTTE\n\nUntil the 1970s, the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka had largely taken the form of a demand for autonomy for the Tamil-speaking regions under an overall federal framework. The lack of results after twenty-five years of negotiations, and the rise of Sinhala nationalism as represented by the 1972 constitution, led to a significant section of young Tamils, particularly in Jaffna, adopting a more radical position which favoured the use of violent means. A large number of militant organisations were set up, one of which was the Tamil New Tigers (TNT), which was formed in 1972 by a small group of young Tamils led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. The TNT's first military operation was the assassination of Alfred Duriappah, the SLFP mayor of Jaffna, in 1975, followed by a few successful bank robberies to fund their activities and the assassination of a number of minor police officials. The success of these early acts gave them confidence, and in 1976 they teamed up with the militants headed by S. Subramanian to form the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In 1979, Anton Balasingham joined the LTTE as their main ideologue. Balasingham added depth to the LTTE's politics. Whereas they had earlier been committed to the single idea of Tamil independence, Balasingham added a new layer of social policies, inspired by Marxism and anti-casteism, which profoundly shaped the LTTE's worldview.\n\nThe LTTE continued the TNT's campaign of low-intensity violence against state agents, particularly policemen, and quickly became the most efficient of the many Tamil militant groups. In 1978, they wiped out a police patrol which had discovered one of their training camps, the first major military victory for a Tamil group. After martial law was imposed in Jaffna in 1979, the LTTE began targeting the military. They were responsible for the attack which provoked the bloody an
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Honestly, We people in Tamilnadu need to realize more about our politicians. Whether Jaya is right or wrong, I am sure that we as a stupid peoples in Tamilnadu, watching the same story since. No one has the guts to appreciate the good areas of the opposite party in country level and we are seeing them migrating here and there only for their financial needs or only to protect their assets. \nIt is true, there must be a backup for their personnel income to our leaders, who are in the right position, before they launch any new scheme in to public. \nThe truth, the politicians are always in one group, but when it come to business just they change the face into different political names to achieve their target and we fools vote for them and we have to vote for them. that's all. \nHow could we expect such a cooperation or relationship between central and state? assume that they started to discuss and cooperate in the right way, sure there is no more buissness, no money. Why should they struggle for nothing?\nNobody can imagine, how possible (VaiKo, Saratkumar, Radhika, Karate Thiyagarajan, Bakyaraj, T. Rajendar & as many)the respected leaders can change them frequently and  showing their face in to public asking to support their new party? \nWe have to vote as they want and they will enjoy the benifits. \nIs it fair? We should change this kind of trend whether we educated or not. Everyone has to think well and decide now rather follow them or follow our own?
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Tamil (தமிழ்) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamils in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. As of 1996, it was the eighteenth most spoken language, with over 74 million speakers worldwide. It is one of the official languages of India, Singapore and Sri Lanka.\n\nTamil is one of the few living classical languages and has an unbroken literary tradition of over two millennia. The high level of diglossia exhibited by Tamil, and the prestige accorded to classical Tamil, have resulted in much of the vocabulary and forms of classical Tamil being preserved in modern literary Tamil, such that the higher registers of literary Tamil tend towards the classical language. The classical language also forms an important part of Tamil-medium education: verses from the Tirukkural, a classical work, are, for example, taught in primary school. The ordinary form of the modern language used in speech and writing, in contrast, has undergone significant changes, to the extent that a person who has not learnt the higher literary form will have difficulty understanding it.\n\nThe name 'Tamil' is an anglicised form of the native name தமிழ். The final letter of the name, usually transcribed as the lowercase l or zh, is a retroflex r. In phonetic transcriptions, it is usually represented by the retroflex approximant.\n\nThe origins of Tamil, like the other Dravidian languages are unknown, but unlike most of the other established literary languages of India, are independent of Sanskrit. Tamil has the oldest literature amongst the Dravidian languages (Hart, 1975), but dating the language and the literature precisely is difficult. Literary works in India or Sri Lanka were preserved either in palm leaf manuscripts (implying repeated copying and recopying) or through oral transmission, making direct dating impossible. External chronological records and internal linguistic evidence, however, indicate that the oldest extant works were probably composed sometime in the 2nd century CE.\n\nThe earliest extant text in Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, a work on poetics and grammar which describes the language of the classical period, the oldest portions of this book may date back to around 200 BCE (Hart, 1975). Apart from these, the earliest examples of Tamil writing we have today are rock inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE, which are written in Tamil-Brahmi, an adapted form of the Brahmi script (Mahadevan, 2003). Linguists categorise Tamil literature and language into three periods: ancient (500 BCE to 700 CE), medieval (700 CE to 1500 CE) and modern (1500 CE to the present). During the medieval period, a number of Sanskrit loan words were absorbed by Tamil, which many 20th century purists, notably Parithimaar Kalaignar and Maraimalai Adigal, later sought to remove. This movement was called thanith thamizh iyakkam (meaning pure Tamil movement). As a result of this, Tamil in formal documents, public speeches and scientific discourses is largely free of Sanskrit loan words.\n\nTamil is the first language of the majority in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and in northern, eastern and northeastern Sri Lanka. The language is also spoken by small groups of minorities in other parts of these two countries, most notably in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra, and in Colombo and the hill country in Sri Lanka.\n\nThere are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from them in Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, and Mauritius. Many people in Guyana, Fiji, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago have Tamil origins, but the language is spoken only by a small number there-.
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you can click this link and can find out..\n\nhttp://www.tamilcinema.com/permanent/default.asp
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I live in South Carolina, USA.  I've know several people from India.  I don't know of anybody that has a problem with people from India.  \nThe only problem is when we call a help line that is out sourced to India.  Then we have a problem understanding the accent, but that's it.  :-)
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Canada \n350,000 tamils live in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa.
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a Tamil psychiatrist or psychologist is difficult but you could try to find an interpretter, good luck