Word: nadu
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...dusty plains of Chettinad?in India's Tamil Nadu state?are known for anything, it is Chettinad chicken. This rich curry is a staple of Indian menus from Bombay to Birmingham, England. But the desert region may have tasted a hint of a more enticing asset. Many of the once palatial homes of its former merchants, who made their riches during the heyday of the Raj, are up for grabs. By some estimates, as many as 10,000 of these crumbling structures are spread across the sands, awaiting rescue. Authorities hope that some will be turned into hotels or museums...
...Nagarathar home that has been spared this kind of fire-sale is an Art Deco-style mansion on the outskirts of Karaikudi now converted into a boutique hotel, the Bangala, tel: (91 4565) 250221. Chettinadu Mansion, tel: (91 4565) 27308, a similar property, also recently opened as hotel. Tamil Nadu's tourism commissioner, Shakti Kanta Das, hopes hotels like these will propel the region "to the threshold of big-time tourism...
Mridula S. Raman ’06, co-president of the South Asian Association, was still waiting to hear from relatives from Tamil Nadu until Dec. 31, the Indian state hit hardest by the tsunami. In India, over 8,000 have been reported missing...
Patrick Toomey ’03, who was working with People’s Watch-Tamil Nadu, a human rights organization, had planned to meet with his girlfriend, Emma B. Wright ’03, at the coastal town of Mahabalipuram...
...dead children in its kitchen refrigerator. In a Buddhist temple in Bang Muang, Thailand, 180 corpses lay beneath a shelter, with an additional 80 in coffins, rigor mortis making their arms stretch out beseechingly. Fifteen hundred miles away, they were setting the fires again in Tamil Nadu. Fueled by diesel oil, the flames were accompanied by the sound of popping skulls and stomachs. Subash, 25, watched. He, his brother and his mother, he said, were the only ones of a household of 14 to survive, climbing onto a roof terrace and forced to listen as their relatives screamed for help...