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My Hometown
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Thrissur, the
cultural capital of kerala, came in to being in 1957, was
called 'Thrissivaperoor'.Thiru + siva + periya + oor =Thrissivaperoor.
(It means 'the land of lord siva'.It was Maharaja Ramavarma
(who is also known as Sakthan Thampuran) to whom the modern
Thrissur is ever indebted, rebuilt Thrissur from the
destruction caused by the attacks of Tippu Sultan's army.
This sacred land had visited by religious
icons like sree Sankaracharya, Swamy Vivekananda and St:Thomas.Sree
Narayana Guru, who fought against the caste system in hindu
religion founded his first temple in Koorkanchery. The first
newspaper which published from Thrissur was "Lokamanyan"
in 1920. Then came "Deenabandhu" in 1941.Now all
the leading morning and evening newspapers in Kerala has editions
from Thrissur.
Thrissur is the center for three scheduled
banks - South indian bank, Dhanalakhshmi bank and Catholic
syrian bank. There is also a lot of chit companies around
the city. This has helped a lot of people to solve their financial
problems. There are over 4200 chit companies around
the city. |
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Area
Population
Languages
Religion
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- 3032 Sq Km.
- 27,37,311 (1991 census)
- Malayalam (96%), Tamil (2.5%), konkani (0.40%),
Tulu (0.41%), Kannada (0.27%), Telugu
(0.24%).
English also spoken.
- Hinduism, Islam, Christianity. |
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| The cultural institutions like sahitya
academy, lalithakala academy and sangeetha nataka academy are
all located in the heart of the city. The one and only fine
arts college under calicut university is in Thrissur. The national
school of drama, only one of it's kind in kerala, situated in
Thrissur. Thrissur also have an engineering college, a medical
college, and an ayurvedic college. Thrissur is also well known
for it's gold trade. As official reports says, there is happening
a sum of Rs.700 crore business in this field every year only
in Thrissur. Thrissur is also famous in the Indy-Pop Scene.
The Indy-Pop bands like Seven
and Jigsawpuzzle are from
Thrissur. |
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