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Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) (translation: National Mission for Secondary Education) is a centrally sponsored scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, for the development of secondary education in public schools throughout India. It was launched in March 2009.
Incidentally, the Tamil typewriter used for the project, with a keyboard developed by Yost of the American Mission, was the first to be ever used in an office in India. [4] When Chandler retired in 1922 at the age of 80, about 81,000 words had been compiled. Few more words were added soon, and in 1924 the Lexicon went to press.
A word search. A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or ...
Pongal is the first day of Uttarayana and coincides with the beginning of the Tamil month of Thai. Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festivals of Tamil Nadu. Pongal occurs in mid January each year and marks the beginning of Uttarayana (sun's journey northwards). The Pongal festival lasts for four days.
Peacock, a type of bird; from Old English pawa, the earlier etymology is uncertain, but one possible source is Tamil tokei (தோகை) "peacock feather", via Latin or Greek [37] Sambal, a spicy condiment; from Malay, which may have borrowed the word from a Dravidian language [38] such as Tamil (சம்பல்) or Telugu (సంబల్).
The word "festival" was originally used as an adjective from the late fourteenth century, deriving from Latin via Old French. [6] In Middle English, a "festival dai" was a religious holiday. [7] The first recorded used of the word "festival" as a noun was in 1589 (as "Festifall"). [6]
'Utsava' is the Sanskrit word for Hindu festivals, meaning 'to cause to grow 'upward'. [citation needed] Hindus observe sacred occasions by festive observances. All festivals in Hinduism are predominantly religious in character and significance. Many festival are seasonal. Some celebrate harvest and the birth of gods or heroes.
The word three is in itself an evil, and a flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and is injurious to a country. In an essay titled "Drifting and Drafting" published in Bunch of Thoughts , Golwalkar lamented the choice of the Tricolor as the National Flag and compared it to an intellectual vacuum/void.