Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam is a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was founded in 2000.
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin is an Indian politician serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu since 2021. The son of the former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi,Stalin has been the president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party since 28 August 2018. He served as the 45th Mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2002 and the 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2009 to 2011. Stalin was placed 24th on the list of India's Most Powerful Personalities in 2022 by The Indian Express.
Vellalar is a group of castes in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu,Kerala and northeastern parts of Sri Lanka. The Vellalar are members of several endogamous castes such as the numerically strong Arunattu Vellalar,Chozhia Vellalar,Karkarthar Vellalar,Kongu Vellalar,Thuluva Vellalar and Sri Lankan Vellalar.
The Pallar,who prefer to be called Mallar,are an agricultural community from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Pallars traditionally inhabited the fertile wetland area referred to as Marutham in the literary devices of the Sangam landscape. Today,they are the dominant Dalit community of southern Tamil Nadu and have developed a reputation for being assertive about their rights. Due to the demand of the pallar community to classify them under a more dignified generic name Devendrakula Velalar,recently they together with six other related castes have been given the name Devendrakula Velalar;however their original caste name remains valid and they are still part of the Scheduled Caste list.
The Ramnad riots or the Mudukulathur riots were a series of violent clashes that occurred between July and September 1957 in the Ramnad district and in southern Tamil Nadu,India. The violence was between Thevars supporting the Forward Bloc,and pro-Congress Dalit Devendrakula Velalar,and was triggered by a by-election held in the aftermath of the Madras Legislative Assembly elections of earlier that year. 42 Dalits were killed during the riots.
Isari R. Velan was an Indian actor,politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. His daughter Azaghu Tamil Selvi is a doctor who is also an Educationist. His son Ishari K. Ganesh is an educationist who acted in few films and also produced and distributed films. Velan's grandson Varun is also an actor who acted in films like Thalaivaa,Vanamagan and Bogan.
Sundaralinga Kudumbanar,also known as "Veeran" Sundaralingam Kudumbanar,was an 18th-century CE general from Tamil Nadu,India.
AGS Entertainment is an Indian film production,distribution company,and multiplex chain in Chennai,Tamil Nadu. It was established in 2006 by Kalpathi brothers:S. Aghoram,S. Ganesh,and S. Suresh. AGS has four multiplex movie theaters across Chennai.
Vels Institute of Science,Technology &Advanced Studies (VISTAS) is an institute of higher education located in Pallavaram,Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India. It was established in 1992 and granted deemed university status in 2008 by University Grants Commission under section 3 of UGC Act 1956.
Subaskaran Allirajah is a British-Sri Lankan Tamil entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Lycamobile,a telecommunications company and also its entertainment subsidiary called Lyca Productions,based in Chennai,India,and began the production with its first tamil film Kaththi (2014). It produced the science fiction thriller 2.0 (2018),which was India's most expensive film and the 5th most expensive non-English-language film at the time of its release. Lyca Productions has also produced Ponniyin Selvan:I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan:II (2023) which are both Tamil cinema releases.
V Chennai Warriors is a tennis team representing the Indian city of Chennai in the Champions Tennis League. The team was initially supposed to take part in the 2014 Champions Tennis League but due to unavoidable circumstances they backed out at the last moment and eventually the Hyderabad Aces went on to replace them in the 2014 edition. On 14 November 2015,the V Chennai Warriors franchise was unveiled by Vijay Amritraj,founder of the Champions Tennis League. The team is owned by Prabhu Deva,a renowned actor and Ishari K Ganesh,founder Chairman and Chancellor of the Vels University in Chennai. The players who represented this team in the 2015 season were Rainer Schuettler,Fernando Verdasco,Heather Watson and Vishnu Vardhan. The 2015 tournament began on 23 November and ended on 6 December with the V Chennai Warriors finishing last in Group B with one win and three losses from four games. Group B also had the likes of Hyderabad Aces and Nagpur Orangers.
Lyca Productions is an Indian entertainment company,which was established by Subaskaran Allirajah in 2014. A subgroup of Lycamobile,the production studio has been involved in the production and distribution of Tamil films,Hindi films,Telugu films and Malayalam films made in India. It has produced some of Tamil cinema's biggest budget films,such as 2.0 (2018),Ponniyin Selvan:I (2022) and Ponniyin Selvan:II (2023).
T. R. Paarivendhar is an Indian politician,academician,founder-president of Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi and Ex MP to the 17th Lok Sabha from Perambalur Lok Sabha constituency,Tamil Nadu.
Devendrakulam is an umbrella term for seven castes in the state of Tamil Nadu such as Devendrakulathar,Kadaiyar,Kalladi,Kudumbar,Pallar,Pannadi and Vathiriyar,after the bill amending the list of Scheduled Castes list belonging to the state in the Tamil Nadu as per the conditions of Article 341 in the Part 16 of the Constitution of India at the Parliament of India in 2021.
Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet (TNGIM) is a business summit organized by Government of Tamil Nadu to facilitate domestic and foreign investments in the state. The first of these summits took place in 2015 and later in 2019. The next meet is scheduled to take place in January 2024.
The 1995 Kodiyankulam violence occurred on August 31,1995 when a force of 600 policemen attacked the village of Kodiyankulam in Thoothukudi district,Tamil Nadu,India and destroyed property and took away cash and jewellery worth several lakhs of rupees. The police raid was on the instruction of the dominant caste officials. The raid was reportedly held to destroy the material prosperity of the villagers.
Loganathan Murugan is an Indian politician and advocate currently serving as Minister of State in the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs,Ministry of Fisheries,Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. On 7 July 2021,he was made a Union Minister of State prior to which he was the state president of the Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
PT Sir is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language social drama film written and directed by Karthik Venugopalan,and produced by Ishari K. Ganesh. The film stars Hiphop Tamizha Adhi in the titular role,alongside Kashmira Pardeshi,Anikha Surendran,Prabhu,Ilavarasu,Pandiarajan,Thiagarajan and Munishkanth.
B. John Pandian is an advocate,social worker and an Indian politician from Tamilnadu. He founded the Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam party in 2000.
