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The Day of Silence has been held each year in April since 1996. Since 2011, the event has been held on the second Friday of April, except in 2018, when it was observed on Friday, April 27, [ 1 ] 2020, when it was observed on Friday, April 24, [ 2 ] 2021, when it was observed on Friday, April 23, [ 3 ] and 2022, when it was observed on Friday ...
Maaveerar Naal. Maaveerar Naal ( Great Heroes' Day; Tamil: மாவீரர் நாள் Māvīrar Nāḷ) is a remembrance day observed by Sri Lankan Tamils to remember the deaths of militants who fought with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to achieve an independent Tamil homeland. [ 1] It is held each year on 27 November, the ...
Kartika Deepam ( Tamil: கார்த்திகை தீபம், romanized: Kārtikai tīpam) is a festival of lights that is observed mainly by Hindu Tamils, and also by adherents in the regions of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Sri Lanka. Celebrated in Tamilakam and Sri Lanka since the ancient period, [ 1] the ...
The Vedaranyam March (also called the Vedaranyam Satyagraha) was a framework of the nonviolent civil disobedience movement in British India. Modeled on the lines of Dandi March, which was led by Mahatma Gandhi on the western coast of India the month before, it was organised to protest the salt tax imposed by the British Raj in the colonial India.
April 15, 2024 at 1:49 PM Every year, schools in New Jersey and around the country hold a Day of Silence to raise awareness about the bullying of LGBTQ+ students, keeping quiet to represent the ...
The Tiruppavai ( Tamil: திருப்பாவை, romanized: Tiruppāvai) is a set of Tamil Hindu hymns attributed to the female poet-saint Andal. [ 1] The Tiruppavai consists of thirty stanzas referred to as pasurams in praise of Perumal. [ 2] It is a part of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, a collection of the works of the twelve poet ...
The Indian independence movement had a long history in the Tamil-speaking districts of the then Madras Presidency going back to the 18th century.. The first resistance to the British was offered by the legendary Since then there had been rebellions by polygars such as the Puli Thevar, Veeramangai Velu Nachiyar, Muthu Vaduganatha Periyavudaya Thevar, Ondiveeran, Marudu brothers, Veerapandiya ...
According to a 1981 census (the last official count), the total Muslim population in Jaffna was 14,844. In total, over 14,400 Muslim families, roughly 72,000 people, were forcibly evicted from LTTE-controlled areas of the Northern Province. [ 16] This includes 38,000 people from Mannar, 20,000 from Jaffna and Kilinochchi, 9,000 from Vavuniya ...