In the history of Bharat’s fight against the British rule, Freedom Fighter Alagumuthu Kone (1728 – 1757) may be called the first freedom fighter and martyr of Tamil Nadu who boldly opposed the rule of the foreigners and vehemently denied subjugation to the British orders by refusing to pay any […]
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“சென்னிமலைக்கும், சிவன்மலைக்கும் இடையில் ஒரு சின்னமலை பிறந்ததாக மைசூர் மன்னர் ஹைதரலியிடம் சொல்,” என்று கர்ஜித்தான் அந்த இளைஞன். அன்றிலிருந்து அவன் தீரன் சின்னமலை என்று அழைக்கப்பட்டான்! ஈரோடு காங்கேயம் அருகே மேலப்பாளையத்தில் 1756 ஏப்ரல் 17ம் தேதி இரத்தினசாமி கவுண்டர் – பெரியாத்தாவுக்கு ஒரு மகன் பிறந்தான். அவனுக்கு தீர்த்தகிரி என பெயரிட்டனர். வசதியான செல்வாக்கு மிக்க குடும்பம், பழைய கோட்டை பட்டக்காரர்கள் வம்சாவழியைச் சேர்ந்த கவுண்டர் தம்பதி, […]
People from across the walks of life have contributed their might to the cause of our country’s freedom. In addition to kings, chieftains and intellectuals, poets and stage artistes also contributed and sacrificed. One such stage artist was S S Viswanatha Das. Born in 1886 CE in Sivakasi (TN), he […]
It was a hymn (song) which brought together, all the people from Afghanistan to Myanmar and Kashmir to Trincomalee, shedding their selfishness to work for a common cause that is breaking the shackles of their mother – free their motherland. It was the Mantra on the lips of the freedom […]
Dheerar ( Hero) S. Satyamurthy , 19/081887 -28/03/1943, was one of the leading lights of the swarajists who laid the foundation for parliamentary democracy in India, the others being Chitaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru. Born in Thirumayam, in Pudhukkottai, a princely state , in the then Madras, Presidency. He had his […]
Maaveeran Azhaghu Muthu Kone was one of the early revolutionaries, who resisted the British imperialism and stood the ground against them. Azhaghu Muthu Kone was born in Kattalankulam (Tirunelvelu district) in the year 1710 CE. His father was the king of Kattalankulam. After his father’s demise in the Anumanthakudi war, […]
This day 79 years before, that is, on August 17, 1942 Devakottai, then Ramanathapuram district (now Sivagangai district) southern Tamilnadu witnessed a blood bath- blood shed by freedom fighters – death of 75 persons (including 14 women) and over 300 persons were injured (many grievously). Devakottai is situated on Tiruchirappalli-Rameswaram […]
Here is the untold story of the barefoot Bengalis who beat a British football team to become national icons way before the Non-Cooperation Movement! How many of us know of a football match in which an Indian team shattered the arrogance of the British Raj? In a story that is […]
Chidambaram – a Panchabhoota sthalam is the only temple where Lord Shiva is represented by an anthropomorphic idol rather than Lingam. Lord Shiva is worshipped in His formless form. This ancient temple has the practice of hoisting our national flag at the 152-height pole of Eastern Gopuram since the time […]
In the aftermath of the Second World War, post-colonial regimes in Africa and Asia hauled down imperial iconography, in an effort to sweep away remnants of their colonial heritage. The removal of British imperial statues from India’s public spaces was more widespread after the tricolour was unfurled. But Madras perhaps […]