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Varkala is a coastal city and municipality in Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area of Thiruvananthapuram district situated in the Indian state of Kerala.City is located 29 kilometres north-west of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) and 37 km south-west of Kollam. [1]

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Anchuthengu

Anchuthengu ("Five Coconut Palms"), formerly known as Anjengo or Anjenga, is a coastal town in the Thiruvananthapuram District of Kerala.

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Anirudhan Sampath

Anirudhan Sampath(born 22 July1962) is an Indian Politician and a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India.

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Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea, also known as Sea of Oman, is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Peninsula, and on the east by India.

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Attingal

Attingal is a municipality and the area of Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala state, India.

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Attingal (Lok Sabha constituency)

Attingal Lok Sabha constituency (ആറ്റിങ്ങല്‍ ലോക്‌സഭാ നിയോജകമണ്ഡലം) is one of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

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Ayurveda

Ayurveda is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi), is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.

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Cemetery

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Chirayinkeezhu

Chirayinkeezhu is a village in Thiruvananthapuram district in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Cliff

In geography and geology, a cliff is a vertical, or nearly vertical, rock exposure.

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Debate

Debate is a process that involves formal discussion on a particular topic.

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Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch), occasionally referred to as Netherlanders—a term that is cognate to the Dutch word for Dutch people, "Nederlanders"—are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Fortification

A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.

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Geological Survey of India

The Geological Survey of India (GSI), founded in 1851, is a Government of India Ministry of Mines organisation, one of the oldest of such organisations in the world and the second oldest survey in India after Survey of India (founded in 1767), for conducting geological surveys and studies of India, and also as the prime provider of basic earth science information to government, industry and general public, as well as the official participant in steel, coal, metals, cement, power industries and international geoscientific forums.

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Headquarters

Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ or HD) is/are the locations where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Janardanaswamy Temple

Janardana Swami Temple is a 2000-year-old temple situated in Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram.

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Kadakkavoor

Kadakkavoor is a developing small town in Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India.

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Kallambalam

Kallambalam is a town in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala.

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Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram

Kappil is a tourist place in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala state, India.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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Kerala State Road Transport Corporation

The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Nicknamed Aanavandi is the state-run bus company in Kerala, India.

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Kilimanoor

Kilimanoor is a census town in the state of Kerala, India.

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Kollam

Kollam or Quilon (Coulão), formerly Desinganadu, is an old seaport and city on the Laccadive Sea coast of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Kollam district

Kollam district (formerly Quilon) is one of 14 districts of the state of Kerala, India.

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Kurakkanni

Kurakkanni is a coastal town in Varkala city Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India.

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List of highways numbered 66

Besides U.S. Route 66, the most well-known, numerous highways are numbered 66.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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Madathara

Madathara is a village located in the Chithara Panchayath of Kollam district.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)

A Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of the State government in the Indian system of government.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Municipal governance in India

Municipal governance in India has existed since the year 1688, with the formation of Madras Municipal Corporation, and then Calcutta and Bombay Municipal Corporation in 1726.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

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Narada

Narada (Sanskrit: नारद, Nārada) is a Vedic sage, famous in Hindu traditions as a traveling musician and storyteller, who carries news and enlightening wisdom.

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Narayana Guru

Narayana Guru (ca. 1854 – 20 September 1928), was a social reformer of India.

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National Highway 66 (India)

National Highway 66, commonly referred to as NH 66 (Erstwhile NH-17 and a part of NH-47), is a busy National Highway that runs roughly north–south along the western coast of India, parallel to the Western Ghats.

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Pandyan dynasty

The Pandyan dynasty was an ancient Tamil dynasty, one of the three Tamil dynasties, the other two being the Chola and the Chera.

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Paravur Lake

Paravur Kayal is a lake in Paravur, Kollam district, Kerala, India.

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Paravur, Kollam

Paravur (Paravūr), is a town and a municipality in the Kollam district of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Pilgrim

A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.

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Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number or PIN or PIN code is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration.

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Pozhikara

Pozhikkara or Pozhikara is the Western border town of the Paravur municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala state in India.

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Ritual

A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence".

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Sacred

Sacred means revered due to sanctity and is generally the state of being perceived by religious individuals as associated with divinity and considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers.

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Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

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Sarkaradevi Temple

Sarkaradevi Temple is one of the most important temples in South India.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Sivagiri, Kerala

Sivagiri is a pilgrimage centre in Varkala, India where the tomb of the social reformer Sri Narayana Guru.

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Spa

A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths.

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Sree Narayana Trust

Sree Narayana Trust, also known as the SN Trust, has been an educational organisation in the Indian state of Kerala since 1952.

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State Highway 64 (Kerala)

State Highway 64 (SH 64) is a State Highway in Kerala, India that starts in Varkala city and ends in Madathara.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.

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Tehsil

A tehsil (also known as a mandal, taluk, taluq or taluka) is an administrative division of some countries of South Asia.

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Thekkumbhagam

Thekkumbhagam or Thekkumbhagom is the southern border town of Paravur municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala, India.

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Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum, is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station

Thiruvananthapuram Central is the main railway station in the city of Thiruvananthapuram (formerly Trivandrum) in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Thiruvananthapuram district

Thiruvananthapuram District is the southernmost district of the coastal state of Kerala.

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Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area

Thiruvananthapuram Metropolitan Area is the area consists of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation and the municipalities of Attingal, Varkala, Nedumangad and Neyyattinkara four "outgrowths" and 23 census towns.

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Tomb

A tomb (from τύμβος tumbos) is a repository for the remains of the dead.

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Trivandrum International Airport

Trivandrum International Airport is an international airport which primarily serve the cities of Trivandrum, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Pathanamthitta and Kollam.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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Vaishnavism

Vaishnavism (Vaishnava dharma) is one of the major traditions within Hinduism along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism.

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Varanasi

Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is a city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India, south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of Allahabad.

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Varkala Beach

Varkala Beach, also known as Papanasham Beach is a beach in Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, along the Arabian Sea, part of the Indian Ocean.

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Varkala Sivagiri railway station

Varkala railway station also known as Varkala Sivagiri railway station, station code VAK, is a major railway station (NSG 4 Category) serving the district of Thiruvananthapuram of Kerala starting on 1918 as Varkala - Paravur Lane.

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Varkala Taluk

Varkala Taluk is a Taluk (tehsil) in Thiruvananthapuram district in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Wedding

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varkala

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