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Nalî (Kurdish: نالی ,Nalî), also known as Mallah Xidir Ehmed Şawaysî Mîkayalî (Kurdish: مەلا خدر (خضر) کوڕی ئەحمەدی شاوەیسی ئاڵی بەگی میکایلی) [2] (1800 Shahrizor - 1856 in Constantinople), was born in Khakoo Khol, a village of Sulaymani province.
Nali may refer to: Nalî (1797–1869), Kurdish poet; Náli, a Dwarf of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium; Nali, a dwarf of Norse mythology; Nali, an alien race in the video game Unreal; Nali language, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea; Mirza Nali (1784–1860), Mughal crown prince; Nali Sauce, Malawian hot sauce made from Bird ...
Lakshmi Holmström MBE (1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016 [1] [2]) was an Indian-British writer, literary critic, and translator of Tamil fiction into English. Her most prominent works were her translations of short stories and novels by contemporary writers in Tamil, such as Mauni, Pudhumaipithan, Ashoka Mitran, Sundara Ramasami, C. S. Lakshmi, Bama, and Imayam.
The Nalidiyar was translated into English by G. U. Pope, F. J. Leeper, and in French [4] by Gnanou Diagou. [5] In 2010, a prose translation was made by S. Krishnaswamy, a professor of law in Chennai. Naladiyar was translated into Russian by N. Gordiychuk in 2016. [6] Naladiyar was translated into Urdu by H. K. Ghazi, an Indian civil servant. [7]
The Travancore royal family follows Marumakkathayam as the rule of succession, which is collateral descent through maternal nephews. [7] The feudatory chiefs persuaded the sons of King Rama Varma, Pappu Thambi and Raman Thambi to claim their father's throne through Makkathayam, which is lineal descent through sons, while Marthanda Varma was the legal heir. [8]
Avvaiyar was a Tamil poet who lived during the period of Kambar and Ottakoothar during the reign of the Chola dynasty in the twelfth century. [1] She is often imagined as an old and intelligent lady by Tamil people. Many poems and the Avvai Kural, comprising 310 kurals in 31 chapters, belong to this period.
The Periya Purāṇam (Tamil: பெரிய புராணம்), that is, the great purana or epic, sometimes called Tiruttontarpuranam ("Tiru-Thondar-Puranam", the Purana of the Holy Devotees), is a Tamil poetic account depicting the lives of the sixty-three Nayanars, the canonical poets of Tamil Shaivism.
In 2003, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his poetry collection Oru Giraamattu Nadhi (lit. River in a Hamlet ). He had earlier won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2001 for his translation of Lalithambika Antharjanam's Agnisakshi into Tamil. He is the current convener of the Akademi's Tamil advisory board.