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There was an ancient civilization that flourished around the banks of the river Indus (northwestern part of India), about 1800 years ago; you must have heard about this, called "Dravidian Civilization". Excavations in 1920 at two important sites Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro revealed that they were very advanced in art, literature & technology and served as an ancient prototype of modern-day utopian tower (no war, live and let live kinda stuff...) for northern Africa, Mediterranean and Middle-eastern civilizations. They spoke a language called "Tamil"; this is a very complicated language and has 256 alphabets!
...I am not done yet!lol.
When the Aryans invaded India, the Dravidians migrated to the south. One prominent state in India that speaks this language even today is TamilNadu, meaning the "The Nation of Tamil". Yes, people live in that state are hardcode language-fanatics (including my family), and it is a common practice for them to prefix the name of their language in-front of anything that is dear & near to their heart, as an explicit expression of their love to their language!
Hence born my first name TamilSelvi: Tamil="Name of my language", Selvi="Daughter/Miss/Spinster/Virgin"! Uh! What is wrong with my parents! :)
There was an ancient civilization that flourished around the banks of the river Indus (northwestern part of India), about 1800 years ago; you must have heard about this, called "Dravidian Civilization". Excavations in 1920 at two important sites Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro revealed that they were very advanced in art, literature & technology and served as an ancient prototype of modern-day utopian tower (no war, live and let live kinda stuff...) for northern Africa, Mediterranean and Middle-eastern civilizations. They spoke a language called "Tamil"; this is a very complicated language and has 256 alphabets!
...I am not done yet!lol.
When the Aryans invaded India, the Dravidians migrated to the south. One prominent state in India that speaks this language even today is TamilNadu, meaning the "The Nation of Tamil". Yes, people live in that state are hardcode language-fanatics (including my family), and it is a common practice for them to prefix the name of their language in-front of anything that is dear & near to their heart, as an explicit expression of their love to their language!
Hence born my first name TamilSelvi: Tamil="Name of my language", Selvi="Daughter/Miss/Spinster/Virgin"! Uh! What is wrong with my parents! :)
posted by Senthamizh Selvan at 4:42 AM
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