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Many young Tamil professionals from India have ... immigrated to Europe and the United States in recent times in search of better opportunities. These new immigrant communities have established cultural associations to protect and promote Tamil culture and language in their adopted homes.
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Tamils are fiercely proud of the Tamil language, one of the few still living classical languages, with two millennia of written tradition. Unlike many other Indian languages, it belongs to the Dravidian language family that includes the other major South Indian languages - Telugu and Kannada. For historical reasons, there is some residual hostility to Hindi, so try to pick up some instant Tamil here.
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As with Indian art in general, Tamil art does not traditionally aspire to portraiture or realism. Much more emphasis is placed on the representation of ideal prototypes, and on depicting the symbols with which the theme of the artistic work is associated. This means that small details, such as the direction which a hand faces, the animals or trees portrayed, or the time of day depicted, are often of critical importance to understanding the meaning of a work of art.[72]
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Amongst the collection of Indian music available online, you will find an abundance of Tamil songs. Downloading music off the Internet has been a matter of debate for the past few years, especially in the USA. But nobody has been able to stop the trend and slowly, even the debate has died down. There are several sites that offer free song & music downloads and millions who use the facility. Most of those who download songs are youngsters, who do not want to pick up a whole on a CD or tape, when they only like one song on the album. Also, many people are being introduced to new genres of song that they would otherwise not be exposed to, through Television or Radio, which only play the latest hit numbers.
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Tamil Nadu is served by Southern Railway and there are many trains from Chennai to almost every major city in India. Chennai serves as a gateway city for connections from other parts of Tamil Nadu.
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The thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries saw the appearance of the fourteen works of Saiva Siddhanta philosophy in Tamil.The basic Tamil work is civagnanapOtam. There is still a big controversy on whether this work is a translation of twelve aphorisms from an obscure or unattested portion of (Rauravagama). Saiva Siddhanta is a South Indian religion, found among the Tamils only. Besides the canonical fourteen works, there are subsidiary works and commentaries in Tamil only. Agamas are accorded a special status while the Vedas only a general status as basic works to the philosophy. The importance given to the Agamas makes South Indian Saivism, a distinctive form of Hinduism, in some respects.
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