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1 day ago · Chennai was previously called Madras. Madras was the shortened name of the fishing village Madraspatnam, where the British East India Company built a fort and factory (trading post) in 1639–40. Tamil Nadu officially changed the name of the city to Chennai in 1996.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · The Margazhi season, which falls between December and January, witnesses a plethora of classical music and dance performances in the city. Chennai is home to the world’s second oldest surviving newspaper. The Madras Courier, established in 1785, holds the distinction of being the second oldest English language newspaper still in circulation.
3 days ago · Instead, the music of the United States is that of dozens or hundreds of indigenous and immigrant groups, all of which developed largely in regional isolation until the American Civil War, when people from across the country were brought together in army units, trading musical styles and practices. Struble deemed the ballads of the Civil War ...
1 day ago · Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS (/ ˈ r ɑː m ə n /; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency.
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5 days ago · However, in 1953, Madras state was bifurcated into two states: Andhra Pradesh, comprising the Telugu-speaking areas, and Madras state, comprising the Tamil-speaking areas. Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
4 days ago · The earliest was the Venugana Praveena awarded to them as early as 1942, by the Mysore samasthanam. The Sikkil Sisters went on to receive several prestigious awards like the Padma Shri from the Government of India, the Sangita Kalanidhi from the Music Academy, Madras, and the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award to name a few.
As many as 90 percent of students of IIT Madras pursuing BTech and Dual-Degree graduates have found career opportunities by the time of their convocation, a press release issued by the institute...
