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He also edited Mahatma Gandhi's newspaper Young India. [4] In 1951, Rajaji wrote an abridged retelling of the Mahabharata in English, followed by one of the Ramayana in 1957. [citation needed] Earlier, in 1955, he had translated Kambar's Tamil Ramayana into English. In 1965, he translated the Thirukkural into English.
From the pages of The Hindu—The Last 200 Days of Mahatma Gandhi; The Hindu (Tamil) – Tamil language daily; Kamadenu – Weekly Tamil Magazine; NDTV Hindu – Chennai based English and Tamil news channel (now stopped) RoofandFloor.com - a Chennai-focussed real-estate portal [2]
A close disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, [7] [8] Varadachari, along with Undam Baker, authored the work "Kairattu" (meaning "spinning wheel"), which was translated into English as "Hand Spinning and Weaving". [9] This book was published in 1926. [9] Varadachari was appointed as the editor of Young India, a newspaper run by Mahatma Gandhi. [9] [10]
Swadesamitran published a Who's Who in Tamil Nadu in 1980-1981 (edited by Philip Thomas born 18 July 1960 died 9 May 2006) and the publication was released in Madurai by Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi during the celebrations marking the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Thiruvalluvar, the great Tamil poet and author of Thirukural.
Gandhi Memorial Museum, established in 1959, is a memorial museum for Mahatma Gandhi located in the city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. Known as Gandhi Museum, it is now one of the five Gandhi Sanghralayas (Gandhi Museums) in the country. It includes a part of the blood-stained garment worn by Gandhi when he was assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
When Gandhi's choice of salt was not welcomed by his peers, C. Rajagopalachari ably supported the idea and took part in the Salt March, which was organised on 12 March 1930. [2] A month later, Rajagopalachari was unanimously elected as the president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) at the conference held in Vellore. [3] T. S. S.
But the newspaper which played a major part in the history of the Indian independence movement in Tamil Nadu was the English-language The Hindu which was started by Indian independence activists G. Subramania Iyer, M. Veeraraghavachariar and N. Subba Rao Pantulu in 1878 in support of the candidature of T. Muthuswamy Iyer as the first Indian ...
A. K. Chettiar (3 November 1911 – 10 September 1983) was an Indian travelogue writer, journalist and documentary film maker from Tamil Nadu, India. He is most notable for pioneering travelogue writing in Tamil and for his documentary on Mahatma Gandhi. [1]