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Culture of Thiruvananthapuram

Index Culture of Thiruvananthapuram

The city of Thiruvananthapuram has been the centre of cultural activities of Kerala (India) from the time it was made capital of Travancore in 1745. [1]

63 relations: A. R. Raja Raja Varma, Attukal, Beemapally, Buddhism, C. V. Raman Pillai, Carnatic music, Central Board of Film Certification, Chattampi Swamikal, Chennai, Chinese cuisine, Chitranjali Studio, Coconut, College of Fine Arts Trivandrum, Cuisine of Kerala, Gopinath Muthukad, Hermann Gundert, Hermann Hesse, India, Indian cuisine, International Film Festival of Kerala, Irayimman Thampi, J. C. Daniel, Kālidāsa, Kerala, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, Kerala State Film Development Corporation, Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, Kinfra Film and Video Park, Kovalam, Kumaran Asan, Kunchan Nambiar, Malayalam, Malayalam cinema, Maldives, Merryland Studio, Motion picture content rating system, Napier Museum, Narayana Guru, Onam, Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Raja Ravi Varma, Shakuntala (play), Soorya Festival, Spice, Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai, Sri Lanka, State Central Library, Kerala, Swathi Sangeethotsavam, Swathi Thirunal College of Music, Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, ..., Tamil Nadu, Tata Elxsi, Technopark, Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo, Toonz Animation India, Travancore, Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, United Arab Emirates, Unnayi Variyar, Vettucaud, Vigathakumaran, Vismayas Max. Expand index (13 more) »

A. R. Raja Raja Varma

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Attukal

Attukal (Malayalam:ആറ്റുകാൽ (ātukāl)) is a Hindu pilgrimage centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Beemapally

Beemapally, a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram, is right under the flight path of planes landing at the Thiruvananthapuram airport.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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C. V. Raman Pillai

Channankara Velayudhan Pillai Raman Pillai (C.V.Raman Pillai) (Malayalam:സി. വി. രാമൻപിള്ള) (19 May 1858 – 21 March 1922) was one of the great Indian novelists and playwrights and pioneering playwright and journalist in Malayalam.

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Carnatic music

Carnatic music, Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam is a system of music commonly associated with southern India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, as well as Sri Lanka.

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Central Board of Film Certification

The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) (often referred to as the Censor Board) is a statutory censorship and classification body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India.

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Chattampi Swamikal

Chattampi Swamikal (25 August 1853 – 5 May 1924) was a Hindu sage and social reformer.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine is an important part of Chinese culture, which includes cuisine originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Chinese people in other parts of the world.

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Chitranjali Studio

Chitranjali (ചിത്രാഞ്ജലി) is a film production studio located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Coconut

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.

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College of Fine Arts Trivandrum

The College of Fine Arts Kerala is a fine arts college located in Thiruvananthapuram (known as Trivandrum during the colonial era), India.

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Cuisine of Kerala

The cuisine of Kerala, a state in the south of India, is linked to its history, geography, demography and culture.

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Gopinath Muthukad

Gopinath Muthukad is a magician, escapologist, life coach, and motivational speaker from Kerala, India.

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Hermann Gundert

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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian cuisine

Indian cuisine consists of a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisines native to the Indian subcontinent.

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International Film Festival of Kerala

The International Film Festival of Kerala (abbreviated as IFFK) is a film festival held annually in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, India.

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Irayimman Thampi

Ravi Varman Thampi, better known as Irayimman Thampi (1782–1856), was a Carnatic musician as well as a music composer from Travancore, India.

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J. C. Daniel

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Kālidāsa

Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language of India.

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Kerala

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

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Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

Kerala State Chalachitra Academy (Motion Picture Academy of the Kerala State) is an autonomous non-profit institution working under the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala.

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Kerala State Film Development Corporation

Kerala State Film Development Corporation (abbreviated as KSFDC), is an organization founded by the Government of Kerala, India for promoting the film market in the state.

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Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran

Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran (കേരളവർമ്മ വലിയ കോയിത്തമ്പുരാൻ; 19 February 1845 – 22 September 1914) also spelt Kerala Varma Valiya Koilthampuran and known as Kerala Varma, was a Malayalam-language poet and translator who had an equal facility in writing in English and Sanskrit from the Indian state of Kerala.

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Kinfra Film and Video Park

Kinfra Film and Video Park is India’s first Infotainment Industrial Park.

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Kovalam

Kovalam is a beach town by the Arabian Sea in Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area, of Trivandrum City Kerala, India, located around 18 km south of the city center.

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Kumaran Asan

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Kunchan Nambiar

Kalakkathu Kunchan Nambiar (translit-std) was an early Malayalam poet, performer, satirist and the inventor of local art form Ottamtullal.

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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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Malayalam cinema

Malayalam cinema is the Indian film industry based in the southern state of Kerala, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam.

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Maldives

The Maldives (or; ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ Dhivehi Raa'jey), officially the Republic of Maldives, is a South Asian sovereign state, located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea.

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Merryland Studio

Merryland Studio (1951–1978) was the second film production studio in the Malayalam language film industry of India.

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Motion picture content rating system

A motion picture content rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content.

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Napier Museum

The Napier Museum is an art and natural history museum situated in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital city of Kerala, India.

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Narayana Guru

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

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Onam

Onam is an annual Hindu festival with origins in the state of Kerala in India.

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Padmanabhaswamy Temple

Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Raja Ravi Varma

Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was a celebrated Malayali Indian painter and artist.

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Shakuntala (play)

Shakuntala, also known as The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, and many other variants (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम् – Abhijñānashākuntala), is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Shakuntala told in the epic Mahabharata.

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Soorya Festival

The Soorya Festival is one of the world's largest arts festival, which in 2017 spans 111 days and featured 2,000 artists from across India.

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Spice

A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food.

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Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai

Sreekanteswaram G. Padmanabha Pillai (1864–1946), popularly known as Sreekanteswaram, was a lexicographer and scholar best known for his Malayalam dictionary Sabdatharavali.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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State Central Library, Kerala

State Central Library of Kerala is also known as Trivandrum Public Library.It is situated at the heart of Thiruvananthapuram city, the capital of Kerala.

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Swathi Sangeethotsavam

Swathi Sangeethotsavam (Swathi Music Festival) is a ten-day festival of music celebrating the compositions of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal.

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Swathi Thirunal College of Music

Swathi Thirunal College of Music is a music college in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma

(സ്വാതി തിരുനാള്‍ രാമവർമ്മ) (16 April 1813 – 26 December 1846) was the Maharaja of the Kingdom of Travancore, British India.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Tata Elxsi

Tata Elxsi is an Indian design company and a part of the Tata Group.

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Technopark, Trivandrum

Technopark is a technology park in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India established on 1990 November 18 by Government of Kerala under chief minister E K Nayanar.

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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 Zoo

The Thiruvananthapuram Zoo (also known as Trivandrum Zoo) is located in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, India.

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Toonz Animation India

Toonz Animation India Pvt.

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Travancore

The Kingdom of Travancore was an Indian kingdom from 1729 until 1949.

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Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer

Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (18 June 1877 – 15 June 1949) (commonly known as Ulloor) was a Malayalam poet and historian.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE; دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة), sometimes simply called the Emirates (الإمارات), is a federal absolute monarchy sovereign state in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.

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Unnayi Variyar

Unnayi Variyar (also Variar/Warrier/Warriar) was a poet, writer, scholar, dramatist who lived in Kerala, India during the later part of the 17th century.

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Vettucaud

Vettucaud is located on the north-west coast of Thiruvananthapuram.

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Vigathakumaran

Vigathakumaran (italic) is a 1928 Indian silent film written, produced and directed by J. C. Daniel Nadar.

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Vismayas Max

Vismayas Max Studio complex is Kerala's first DTS studio which is situated in Kinfra Film and Video Park, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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References

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

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