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Kumari Kandam- The Lost Continent(குமரிக்கண்டம்) “Lemuria” in Tamil nationalist mysticist literature, connecting Madagascar, South India and Australia (covering most of the Indian Ocean). Mount Meru stretches southwards from Sri Lanka. The distance from Madagascar to Australia is about 4,200 miles Kumari Kandam or Lemuria  (Tamil:குமரிக்கண்டம்) is the name of a supposed sunken landmass referred to in existing ancient Tamil literature. It is said to have been located in the Indian Ocean, to the south of present-day Kanyakumari district at the southern tip of India. References in Tamil literature There are scattered references in Sangam literature, such as Kalittokai 104, to how the sea took the land of the Pandiyan kings, upon which they conquered new lands to replace those they had lost. There are also references to the rivers Pahruli and Kumari, that are said to have flowed in a now-submerged la...

23. It has the second longest beach in the world (Marina Beach). 22. It has one of the oldest engineering and medical colleges in the world. 21. The Vandalur Zoo in Chennai was the first in India and one of the largest in South Asia. 20. The Cancer Institute (1920) is one of the oldest established research centers in India. 19. The Cooum River used to be a source of transportation only a few years ago. 18. Anna Salai road — Chennai’s largest road, was originally known as Grand South Trunk Road (GST). 17. Chennai has the second largest number of theatres in India, second only to Mumbai. 16. Chennai is the birth place of South Indian cinema. 15. It’s the automobile hub of India. 14. Chennai has been voted one of the safest cities to live in India. 13. Chennai is one of the best places for post-production work. 12. It has one of the best planned bus transportation routes in Chennai through Koyambedu. 11. Chennai’s two wheeler population r...

Chennai, the first city of Modern India in Tamil Nadu completes 375 years today on August 22nd. The occasion is celebrated annually as Madras Day. On this occasion, we present some interesting facts and trivia on the South Indian city... An aerial view of Chennai city. Pic courtesy/ Madras Then Chennai Now by Nanditha Krishna and Tishani Doshi/Roli Books Origin On 22 August 1639, the British East India Company under Francis Day bought a small strip of land stretching 3 miles on the Coromandel Coast. They got a license to build a fort and a castle in the contracted region. The ruler Damarla Chennappa Nayakudu, the Nayaka of Vandavasi, granted the British permission to build a factory and warehouse for their trading enterprises. The region was then primarily a fishing village known as "Madraspatnam". A year later, the British built Fort St. George, the first major British settlement in India, which became the nucleus of the growing colonial city. Fort St. George h...

1) Corporation restaurants in Chennai, where you get idlis for Re. 1 and curd rice for Rs. 3. Hungry? Ab curd rice kha! (Now eat curd-rice) 2) You know Latin as one of the oldest languages. But it's dead and gone. Meet the world's oldest living language. Yes, Tamil! 3) Is Kodai too commercial for you? Have you been to Connoor once too often? Visit Kudrevatti, Tamil Nadu's best kept secret!  4) The words "Lost City" always add a certain mystique to a tale. Tamil Nadu has a lost city too - Puhar! 5) Chennai's Music and Dance festival is often counted as one of the major festivals of the city, along with Pongal and so on! Home to M.S. Subbalakshmi and Rukmini Devi Arundel, small wonder that the city buzzes with enthusiasm over these art forms.

"India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only." These are not our words. These are the words of the great Mark Twain. And here are 25 Indians facts to support his statement: 1. A floating post office India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011. Source: trendingpost 2. Kumbh Mela gathering visible from space The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space. Source: Wordpress 3. The wettest inhabited place in the world Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi...