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Proud Tamils....
by tk on Feb 13, 2007 02:12 PM

1. Indias Highest Civilian Award Bharat Ratna Recipients: Tamils are the highest around 35 than anyother state.
2. Very First 2 Recipients of Bharat Ratna are Tamils C.Rajagopalachari and Dr. Sir. C.V. Raman.
3. Green Revolution: This initiated and executed by 2 Tamils C.Chidambaram(Former Agri Minister), Dr. M.S.Swamynathan (Agri Scientists)
4. Nuclear Research: 1998 Nuclear test is initiated and executed by 2 great tamil scientists Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam(DRDO) and P.Chidambaram(DAE)
5. Presidents: Till now 3 presidents are from TN
6. President of Sigapore is a Tamil: SR Nathan.
7. Tamil is national language of Srilanka, Singapore and Malyasia
8. France & Canada are considering to make Tamil as their one of their official languages.
9. In Internet: Largets number of webpages available in Tamil only next to English.
10. BBC: BBC broadcast news in 40 languages,in which there are only 3 indian languages those are Tamil, Bengali and Hindi.
11.China's offcial govt radio broadcasts Tamil programs 2 hrs daily.
12.Tamil in Universities: Worlds renowned universities like, California, Yale, Haward, London, Brookln, Pennslyvenniya universities has Tamil Department in it.
13. And one and only living classical language of India.

Last but not least...

14.www.Google.com: which offers 5 indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil), there is no Kannada here though the Google office is there in Bangalore.

First try to include Kannada in Google then talk about your superiority....

14 points are just sample, If I list all, then sky is the limit.....

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