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Madurai celebrated city's first LGBTQ Rainbow festival on 29-07-2012, Anjali Gopalan inaugurated Alan Turing Rainbow festival and flag offed the Asia's first Genderqueer pride parade as a part of Turing Rainbow festival organized by Srishti Madurai a literary and resource circle for alternative gender and sexualities it was established by Gopi Shankar a student of The American College, Madurai to eradicate social discrimination faced by the LGBT community, this is the first parade in Asia to highlight 20 other kinds of genders apart from LGBT.
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In the temple city of Madurai, the Chithrai Thiruvizha is celebrated in the Meenakshi Temple.
To take an atrociously extreme example, when the Tamil Śaivite Ñānasambandar Nāyanār defeated the Jain ācāryas in Madurai before the Pāṇḍya King Māravarman Avaniśūlāmani ( 620-645 ) this debate is said to have resulted in the impalement of 8000 Jains, an event still celebrated in the Mīnāksi Temple of Madurai today.
on 2012 Madurai celebrated the Asia ’ s first international gender queer pride parade and the Alan Turing Rainbow Festival.
Madurai is also known for Jallikattu, the annual bull taming event celebrated along with the Thai Pongal festival, organised in villages outside the city.
Every year in the month of Chitterai ( the first month of the Tamil solar calendar in April ), in the temple city of Madurai, the Chitterai Thiruvizha is celebrated in the Meenakshi Temple.
To commemorate his celebrated military conquests over the Chalukyas, their subordinates and feudatories like the Hoysalas, Nolamba Pallavas, Uchhangi Pandyas etc., the Paramaras or Maharashtra / Gujarat area, Palas of Bengal, Ilam, Madurai and the Cheras as well as his famed northern campaign to the Ganges, Rajendra assumed the title of Gangaikonda Cholan and other famous titles like Mudigondasozhan, Irattapadikonda Sozhan among scores of other titles of his and had the Siva Temple Gangaikondacholapuram built and consecrated.
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It was in Madurai, in 1921, that Gandhi, pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India, adopted loin cloth for the first time as his mode of dress after seeing agricultural labourers wearing it.
Vishwanatha Nayak ( 1159 – 64 CE ), the first Madurai Nayak king, redesigned the city in accordance with the principles laid down by Shilpa Shastras ( Sanskrit:, also anglicized as silpa sastra meaning rules of architecture ) relevant to urban planning.
The legend has it that the first two of which were held in cities since " taken by the sea ", and the third of which was held during the 5th century BC in the present-day city of Madurai.
The first Sangam ( mutaṟcaṅkam ) mudharchangam is described as having been held at " the Madurai which was submerged by the sea ", lasted a total of 4400 years, and had 549 members, which supposedly included some gods of the Hindu pantheon such as Siva, Kubera and Murugan.
Carnatic musicians Madurai Mani Iyer and Gopalakrishna Bharathi and Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai, who wrote the first Tamil novel Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram were born in Mayiladuthurai while Tamil writer Kalki Krishnamurthy studied at the Municipal High School in Mayiladuthurai.
Jallikattu's been played first in Palamedu, a village located near madurai on January 15 which was getting famous in recent years followed by the world-famous " Alanganallur-Jallikattu " in Alanganallur, another village near Madurai on 16 January.
* The institute provided space for setting up the first MNC in Madurai, Honeywell technology solutions lab.
Pandya became the epithet of the first Pandyan king of Madurai, Kulasekharan Pandya as he was built like a bull.
" Air Deccan was the first airline in India to fly to second tier cities like Hubballi, Mangalore, Madurai and Visakhapatnam from metropolitan areas like Bangalore and Chennai.
They also associated this territory with the references in the Tamil Sangams, and said that the fabled cities of southern Madurai ( Ten Madurai ) and Kapatapuram where the first two Sangams were said to be held were located on Kumari Kandam.
Pandian became the epithet of the first Pandian king of Madurai, Kulasekharan Pandian as he was built like a bull.
The major fuedatories of Vijayanagara, such as Mysore and Madurai, Keladi Nayaka, soon began to exert their independence in the period of anarchy that followed the rout of 1565, while various Muslim adventurers carved out their own fiefs under the nominal suzerainty of the Muslim overlords, being at first the Bahmani Sultans and later the Mughals.
It was founded by S. P. Adithanar, a lawyer trained in Britain and practised in Singapore, with its first edition from Madurai in 1942.
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The ancient Tamil art of unarmed bullfighting, popular amongst warriors in the classical period, has also survived in parts of Tamil Nadu, notably Alanganallur near Madurai, where it is known as Jallikaṭṭu or mañcuviraṭṭu and is held once a year around the time of the Pongal festival.
The main temple of this small town is Madurai Kali Amman, and the main festival in March is worth visiting and watching.
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The word Madurai is derived from Madhura ( sweetness ) arising out of the divine nectar showered on the city by the Hindu god Shiva from his matted hair.
The city of Madurai lies on the flat and fertile plain of the river Vaigai which runs in the northwest-southeast direction through the city dividing it almost into two equal halves.
A study based on the data available with the Indian Meteorological Department on Madurai over a period of 62 years indicate rising trend in atmospheric temperature over Madurai city, attributed to urbanisation, growth of vehicles and industrial activity.
The committee became a fully-fledged political party and was renamed the Indian National Democratic Congress at a state conference held in Madurai on September 28 – 29, 1957.
Late legends say that the third Sangam was held on the banks of the sacred Pond of Golden Lotuses in MaduraiThere are a number of other isolated references to the legend of academies at Madurai scattered through Shaivite and Vaishnavite devotional literature throughout later literature.
These works describe a legend that deals mostly with the third Sangam at Madurai, and is so substantially different from that set out in Nakkirar's commentary that some authors such as Zvelebil speculate that it may be based on a different, and somewhat independent, tradition.
The Sangam is described as having been held on the banks of the Pond of Golden Lotuses in the Meenakshi-Sundaresvarar Temple in Madurai.
Later on editions were started in several cities like 1957 the Madurai edition, the 1965 Bangalore edition, and the 1968 Ahmedabad edition.
* On 15 December 2006, the Governor of Tamil Nadu and the Chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University, Surjit Singh Barnala conferred an honorary doctorate on the Chief Minister on the occasion of the 40th annual convocation.
The TN Sampark Kranti Express further continues on to Madurai.
According to George L. Hart, who holds the endowed Chair in Tamil Studies by University of California, Berkeley, has written that the legend of the Tamil Sangams or " literary assemblies: was based on the Jain sangham at Madurai:
The story relates how Kannagi took revenge on the early Pandyan King of Madurai, for a mistaken death penalty imposed on her husband Kovalan, by cursing the city with disaster.
The Fourth Tamil Sangam was formed in Madurai on the 14th of September, 1901.
The period of known history of the region begins with the Iron age ( 1200 BC to 24 BC ) period during which Chera, Chola, Pandya ruled the South Indian country until 14th century A. D. Inscriptions on Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple shows that once Pandyan kingdom ruled from Himalayas in North to Kanyakumari in the South.
They ruled initially from Korkai, a sea port on the southern most tip of the Indian peninsula, and in later times moved to Madurai.
The programme was introduced on a large scale in the 1960s under the Chief Ministership of K. Kamaraj after visiting Sourashtra Higher Secondary School – Madurai, where this program had been implemented by the linguistic minority people since 1922.
R. Vedavalli's talent for music was identified early on by Madurai Srirangam Iyengar, who brought the five year old a harmonium, and got her started on vocal lessons.
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The decline in the population growth rate between 1981 and 2001 is due to bifurcation of Madurai district into two, Madurai and Dindigul in 1984 and subsequently into part of Theni district in 1997.
According to another he was born and not lived in Mylapore, a part of present day Madras, and traveled to Madurai to submit the Thirukural, for approval of the king ( Pandian ) and his college of poets.
Thiruvalluvar may have spent part of his life in Madurai because it was under the Pandiya rulers that many Tamil poets flourished.
Illathu Pillaimar lives in various part of Tamilnadu, mainly in Southern Tamilnadu uses the surname pillai. Most of them are in tirunelveli, Madurai district and Virudhunagar district.
Son of Kulasekharan Pandya, the second king of Madurai, the legendary Malayadwaja Pandya who sided with the Pandavas and took part in the Kurukshetra War of the Mahabharata ( completed around 400 AD ) is described as follows in Karna Parva ( verse 20. 25 ):
The speakers of the Saurashtra language, known as Saurashtrians, maintain a predominant presence in Madurai, a city, also known as ' Temple City ' in the southern part of Tamil Nadu.
A part of the Saurashtra community may have moved to Madurai and Thanjavur at the time to serve the Governors.
Goripalayam Mosque is a large mosque in Goripalayam ( part of Madurai City ) containing two tombs of Delhi sultans of the Madurai Sultanate.
The two rulers were brothers who ruled the northern part of Madurai after coming from Oman during the 13th century to spread Islam.
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