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Sahitya winner: CM promised memorial for Nellai uprising
The New Indian Express
|December 22, 2024
CHIEF Minister MK Stalin on Saturday felicitated historian AR Venkatachalapathy, who has been chosen for the Sahitya Akademi award for 2024, for his book Tirunelveli Ezhuchiyum Vaa Vuu Ciyum-1908 (Tirunelveli Uprising and V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, 1908).
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Venkatachalapathy, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, during his meeting with the chief minister, highlighted that there is no memorial either in Tirunelveli or Thoothukudi to mark the Tirunelveli uprising of 1908, a significant event in the freedom struggle and Tamil Nadu's history.
This story is from the December 22, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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