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Blue Mountains: Three Sisters - Tamil names?

Introduction: I recently had an opportunity to visit the Blue Mountains, 86 km away from Sydney. That was our (I & my wife) second visit to a place outside the Sydney city. At first, we reached Katoomba town and then a few places in and around the mountain area.  Our mode of transport was Train, which took roughly 2 hours and 30 minutes to reach the Katoomba station. Blue Mountains Explorer: We purchased one day unlimited Scenic World ride tickets and hop-on-hop-off pass (3 days unlimited rides) for A$99. We were greeted in தமிழ் (Tamil) by the bus driver Mr. Jimmy. He enquired us about the origin and the mother tongue, for which we replied as India & Tamizh. Initially, I thought these questions were related to some data collection, statistics, and analysis.  During the journey, Mr. Jimmy announced that "We have two friends from India and they speak Tamizh" and surprised us by saying "Vanakkam Guys" in typical English ascent. We all...

77/1892, South Indian Inscriptions “madalam” 4 , No: 524

Line no : 30 Location : Southern wall of the main deity’s shrine at Brihadeeswara temple in Gangai Konda Cholapuram Ruling period of :  King Aidavarman Sundarapandiyan IV (1303-1325) Ruling years : 2 Period : 1305 C.E DESCRIPTION : This city had existed( was formed)  under the geographical classification of “Vikramacholavalanaattu mannaikonda cholavalanaatu ponparappi”. In this significant temple, King Gangaikonda Choleeswaramudaiya Naayanaar had conceived a special puja ritual and an auspicious day named as “Sundarapandiyan sandhi”. He also donated and contributed taxes received from many cities under his rule for religious practices and worshipping rituals of the lord in the temple. The geographical limits of those cities have been specified as Vembukkudi vaasal, Rajendra Cholan thirumadhil, Thiruvaasal Naaraasam, Pathu theru, Suthamalli Naaraasam periyeri(Ponneri in today’s times). Moreover, revenue and tax income from land limits within “Utpadai veett...

Tamil Dictionary App

Here is my first ever fully functional Tamil Dictionary app using  # Flutter (second app in Flutter) This App takes Tamil words as input and gives meaning to that word if it is valid. Built using: *  # Dart  language * Flutter Framework *  # BLoC  &  # Provider * Automation unit testing implemented *  # Firebase  real-time database *  # SEMBAST  no SQL DB Credits: * Lots of help from Flutter community. * YouTube tutorials *  # Udacity  Flutter course *  Pawan Kumar 's MTech Viral videos *  Felix Angelov 's BLoC library * SEMBAST Why was this built? * To introduce more  # Tamil  words to the public. * Educate next generation Tamil speakers. * Memorise more words. * Avoid English words while speaking in Tamil. * Learn and Play. Since Phase I is successful, I’m currently focusing on Phase II which is influenced by Scrabble Game. The name of the game is “SorK...