{"id":214603,"date":"2022-11-16T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214603"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:01:31","slug":"kashi-tamil-sangamam-begins-thursday-what-is-the-ancient-connect-between-kashi-and-the-tamil-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kashi-tamil-sangamam-begins-thursday-what-is-the-ancient-connect-between-kashi-and-the-tamil-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashi Tamil Sangamam begins Thursday: What is the ancient connect between Kashi and the Tamil land?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cKashi Tamil Sangamam begins Thursday: What is the ancient connect between Kashi and the Tamil land?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 16th November 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The centre will be organizing a one-of-its-kind event called \u2018Kashi-Tamil Sangamam\u2019 in Varanasi with an aim to reestablish age-old links between the cultures of Varanasi and Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Kashi-Tamil Sangamam?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-launches-programme-to-strengthen-kashi-tamil-nadu-bond\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This programme is in sync with the National Education Policy, 2020 which emphasizes \u201con nurturing a generation that is modern and in sync with the 21st-century mindset, while being rooted in the Indian culture and ethos\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the history of ties between Kashi and Tamil Nadu?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ancient connection between the two centres of knowledge is evident in many walks of life like:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Many households in Tamilnadu adopted the names of Kailasanatha and Kashinatha for naming their children, like those who are living in Kashi and Uttar Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <strong>King Adhiveera Rama Pandiyan<\/strong> of the Pandya Dynasty dedicated a Shiva Temple at Tenkasi of Tamilnadu after his pilgrimage to Kashi , whose ancestors established Sivakasi. He wrote \u201c<strong>Kashi Kandam<\/strong>\u201d of Skanda Purana in Tamil poetic verses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <strong>Saint Kumaragurupara<\/strong> from Sri Vaikundam, Tuthukudi District of Tamil Nadu has excelled in bargaining with the Sultanate of Kashi with audacity and drove a lion to his courtyard to get back the Kedarghat and a place for the consecration of Vishweshwara Lingam. He has written \u201c<strong>Kashi Kalambakam<\/strong>\u201d a grammatical composition of poems on Kashi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cKashi Tamil Sangamam begins Thursday: What is the ancient connect between Kashi and the Tamil land?\u201d published in Indian Express on 16th November 2022 What is the News? The centre will be organizing a one-of-its-kind event called \u2018Kashi-Tamil Sangamam\u2019 in Varanasi with an aim to reestablish age-old&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kashi-tamil-sangamam-begins-thursday-what-is-the-ancient-connect-between-kashi-and-the-tamil-land\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kashi Tamil Sangamam begins Thursday: What is the ancient connect between Kashi and the Tamil land?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-214603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700778285,"cached_date":1701239790},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}