She was the lead singer of the Polish rock band Maanam ( 1976-2008 ).

He also played with the band " Maanam ".

During the first half of the 1980s, Maanam featured an energetic, guitar-centred post-punk sound.

In the 1990s, Maanam acquired a more melodic, and equally catchy, sound.

Unlike such bands, as Maanam, TSA, Republika or Lombard, Brygada Kryzys refused to play government-sponsored shows.

* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.

* 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

There is no definite philological and linguistic basis for asserting unilaterally that the name Dravida also forms the origin of the word Tamil ( Dravida -> Dramila -> Tamizha or Tamil ).

More recently, dacoit Veerappan of Tamil Nadu state evaded authorities for decades until he was shot dead in 2004.

He was active for a period of years in a broad swathe of land covering 6, 000 km² in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Even in Modern Tamil, the word for temple is ' க ோ ய ி ல ்', meaning " king's house ".

In ancient India, around 920 AD, in Tamil Nadu, Palm leaves were used for village assembly elections.

Likewise, the Tamil word for honeymoon is த ே ன ி லவ ு ( Thaen Nilavu ) meaning Thaen-honey and nilavu-moon, and the Marathi word for honeymoon is मध ु च ं द ् र ( Madhuchandra ) meaning Madhu-honey and chandra-moon, whereas in Bangla ( Bengali ) language, it is referred as মধ ু চন া দর ি ম া ( Modhuchondrima ) meaning Modhu-Honey and chondrima-moon.

He is presently doing a pivotal role in a Tamil film titled ' Aravaan ', directed by Vasanthabalan, who is critically acclaimed for his earlier films Angaadi Theru and Veyil.

After leaving school he joined Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club and was selected for the Sri Lanka A tour of England in 1991.

In domestic cricket, Muralitharan has played for two first-class Sri Lankan sides, Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club in the Premier Trophy and Central Province in the Provincial Championship.

In Tamil and Malayalam, the word for crow is kaakaa.

In South Indian snack cuisine, there is an item called HappLa in Kannada / vadam in Tamil, which is a chip made of an extruded rice / sago or multigrain base that has been around for many centuries.

He was also responsible for first intervening and then sending Indian troops ( Indian Peace Keeping Force or IPKF ) for peace efforts in Sri Lanka in 1987, which soon ended in open conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Some classical Tamil poetry forms, such as veṇpā, have rigid grammars for rhyme to the point that they could be expressed as a context-free grammar.

The first two decades in the 20th century are distinguished for the harmony that prevailed among Sinhalese and Tamil political leadership, which has not been the case ever since.

In 1937, Tamil leader G. G. Ponnambalam demanded a 50 – 50 representation ( 50 % for the Sinhalese and 50 % for other ethnic groups ) in the State Council.

Although partially reversed in 1958, the bill posed a grave concern for the Tamil community, which perceived in it a threat to their language and culture.

The policy of standardization by the Sirimavo government to rectify disparities created in university enrollment, which was in essence an affirmative action to assist geographically disadvantaged students to obtain tertiary education, resulted in reducing the proportion of Tamil students at university level and acted as the immediate catalyst for the rise of militancy.

Following the LTTE's defeat, the Tamil National Alliance, the largest political party in Sri Lanka, dropped its demand for a separate state in favour of a federal solution.

As a great respect to the discipline followed by Lakshmana, the great Tamil poet Kamban made the statement on his character that " a great person never looks desiringly upon another's wife.

Reddiar ( Tamil word-reddi ( yar ) with respect ) is synonymous with Reddigaru ( Telugu word Reddi ( Garu )).

These activities earned the Nadar community respect and recognition. Most of the shops in Ranganathan Street, Tamil Nadu | Tamil Nadu's premier High Street | high street, are owned by the Nadars.

In other occasions, it is used to show respect to an individual person or statue ( murti ). In Tamil Nadu marigold, nitya kalyani flower garlands are used only for dead bodies or burial rituals. In functions, garlands are used to denote the main person ( host ).

The respect and support he received in Tamil Nadu was amazing.

), one among the five largest Harappan cities in the subcontinent, Dholavira in Gujarat has yielded many firsts in respect of Indus Valley Civilization, an Iron Age Urn Burial Site in Adichanallur, Tamil Nadu.

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

In Tamil Nadu State, it is called ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை and is regularly consumed as a favourite dish, where the greens are steamed, and mashed, with light seasoning of salt, red chillis and cumin.

The sport is related to ball badminton, which originated in Tamil Nadu, and is similar to Hanetsuki which originated in Japan.

This term, it is true, has sometimes been used, and is still sometimes used, in almost as restricted a sense as that of Tamil itself, so that though on the whole it is the best term I can find, I admit it is not perfectly free from ambiguity.

In Tamil it is known as sada kuppi ( சதக ு ப ் ப ி).

* Tamil does not have any diacritics in itself, but uses the Hindu numerals 2, 3 and 4 as diacritics to represent aspirated, voiced, and voiced-aspirated consonants when the Tamil script is used to write long passages in Sanskrit.

In India, the spelling Xavier is almost always used, and the name is quite common among Christians, especially in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and more common in Goa.

Tolkāppiyam is the earliest Tamil grammar ; it has been dated variously between 1st CE and 10th CE.

In 1025 and 1026 Gangga Negara was attacked by Rajendra Chola I, the Tamil emperor who is now thought to have laid Kota Gelanggi to waste.

A South Asian version of a harp known in Tamil as a ' yaal ' (' ய ா ழ ்'), is the symbol of City of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, whose legendary root originates from a harp player.

Yogi B is now the most critically acclaimed Kollywood ( the Tamil Movie Industry ) rapper because of his work on the 2007 movie Pollathavan.

* 2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J.