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  • Watch Chennai Maadham (Chennai Month) Festival Live from Oct 8

    Wednesday, October 05, 2022 11:33 PM IST, Chennai

    Watch the month-long Chennai Maadham (Chennai Festival) live on Youtube, Facebook and Internet Radio by accessing the links given below with effect from 1830 hrs IST on October 8, 2022. Brought by chennai2000plus.com and Chennai Culture magazine

  • பல லட்ச ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னரே சென்னையில் ஆதிமனிதன் வாழ்ந்திருக்கிறான்

    Sunday, October 03, 2021 10:37 PM IST, Chennai

    சென்னை 2000 ப்ளஸ் அறக்கட்டளை கொண்டாடும் இந்த சென்னை மாதத்தில் தினந்தோறும் ஒரு செய்தி, ஒரு அறிக்கை வெளியிடப்படும். வாருங்கள், தொன்மையான சென்னையின் உண்மையான வரலாற்றைத் தெரிந்து கொள்வோம். உற்றார் உறவினர்களுடன் பகிர்ந்துகொள்ளுங்கள்)

  • Sthalapuranam of Vengeeswarar Temple confirms Kodambakkam, Chennai are ancient

    Thursday, October 15, 2020 07:46 PM IST, Chennai

    Puliyur is an ancient and historical place as recorded by the Sthalapuranam of the Vengeeswarar and Bharathvajeswarar Temple (Sri Vaaleeswaram) at Puliyur. Puliyur Kottam is the ancient name for Chennai. Inscriptions in Puliyur temples confirm that Chennai is ancient

  • Real name of Kodambakkam is Kodalambakkam

    Thursday, October 15, 2020 07:16 PM IST, Chennai

    The real name of Kodambakkam is Kodalambakkam (Kodal + pakkam)). Kodal is the name of a flower that grew in these parts, as recorded in ancient Tamil literature. The sthalapuranam of the Vengeeswarar temple in Kodambakkam (ancient name Puliyur) provides details of Kodalambakkam, and of Tamil scholars Vageesa Munivar and his guru Paramanandha Munivar, both of whom lived in Kodalambakkam. This showed that Kodambakkam and other parts of Chennai were ancient.

  • P K Muthusamy, writer-lyricist in centenary year -- did not want to be a burden to mankind

    Sunday, October 04, 2020 12:43 AM IST, Chennai

    P K Muthusamy died at the age of 100 as a poor man, living all alone at his village near Rasipuram. He wrote about 60 Tamil film songs but also created a sensation by making a plagiarism charge against his former chief minister and film-world colleague M Karunanidhi

  • Va Ve Su Ithihaasa Paathirangal lecture on Viswamitrar

    Sunday, April 26, 2020 07:57 PM IST, Chennai

    Tamil scholar Dr Va Ve Su presented a lecture on sage Viswamitrar as part of the Ithihaasa Paathirangal lecture series organized by Chennai 2000 Plus Trust and Vivekananda Cultural Centre at Vivekananda House, Chennai, on November 25, 2018.

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