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Make Madison Square as MODIson square!
Indian Americans – Badaga Indians The surprising but highly satisfying fact is that out of 334,000 + visits to this website on and of Badagas, a large number is from USA. Next only to the number of...
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Creative Alliance for Nilgiris- CAN
The Creative Shop (Creative Alliance for Nilgiris- CAN) Dharmalingam Venugopal [Honorary Director, Nilgiri Documentation Centre, Kotagiri, The Nilgiris, Cell #9444365360] writes : I have great pleasure...
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Flora and Fauna
[Reproduced] BADAGAS – ON FLORA AND FAUNA The Badagas have attached a lot of importance to flora and fauna for thousands of years. In fact most of the names of Badaga Hattis (Villages) are based on...
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11 October 2014 – The International day of the girl
Badagas are no exception in treating girls as NOT equals to boys. Let us change that perception ! Did you know? Roughly 1.65 billion women and girls around the world are officially classed as “poor”....
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Hello there…
In our constant efforts to make this website a great one, we try our best to get the most suitable theme with widget options ! You, the regular visitors, numbering more than 150 per day, are the true...
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‘Morey’ and marriages….
Sangeetha Sir, can we get married from Kundhae semae to Ketti.Both are entirely different semmae and its so strange about this restriction. Please can I know more about this? There are a lot of emails...
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Happy Deepavali !
Wishing you all a very happy Deepavali ! On this festival of lights, may happiness fill our hearts and the darkness of jealousy (uri in Badaga) be driven away !! Though Deepavali is not one of the...
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Badaga Poems
One of the enchanting aspects of Badaga Language is its disarming simplicity. But though the sentences are swathed in sweetness of simple words, it can contain deep expressions of emotions conveyed in...
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Badaga women
Badaga women by Dr.R.K.Haldorai Tremendous changes have taken place in the status and position of women in our society. Now woman is no longer looked upon as a ‘hari bakke’ (running grit i.e.,...
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Badaga Calendar
Badaga Calendar Dr.R.K.Haldorai Badagas can boast with their own time-reckoning calendar. Once they followed their own full-fledged time-reckoning system and they practiced it even for their day to day...
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Creative Alliance for Nilgiris- CAN
The Creative Shop (Creative Alliance for Nilgiris- CAN) Dharmalingam Venugopal [Honorary Director, Nilgiri Documentation Centre, Kotagiri, The Nilgiris, Cell #9444365360] writes : I have great pleasure...
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‘Converting’ to Badaga??
The topic sounds a little strange? Yes, it does. I get many emails/comments from non -Badaga boys and girls asking HOW TO CONVERT TO (BE) BADAGA. It generally goes like this, ” I am a non Badaga but in...
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‘Touch the Sky with Glory’
After graduating as a Mechanical Engineer, (Madras University – GCT, Coimbatore), I joined Indian Air Force (IAF) as a permanent commissioned officer in 1972 and took voluntary retirement after 20...
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Badaga Script [Barey]
Badaga, now considered to be one of the ORIGINAL and old dravidian languages, is not a derivative of Kannada or Tamil, but unique in its concept, construction, pronunciation and grammar. One of the...
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First ever portrait of a Badaga woman?
First ever portrait of a Badaga woman Dharmalingam Venugopal (Nilgiri Documentation Centre,Kotagiri) Dr. James Cowles Prichard, an English Physician and Ethnologist wrote two books. ‘Researches into...
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Nilgiri Mountain Railway
Documentary film by Mohan Krishnan (BoxKite Films) Ooty Train Nilgiri Mountain Railway What a beautiful documentary which offers not only a great visual treat but valuable information about the ‘Toy...
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4th December is the 121th Birth Anniversary of Ari Gowda Bowing our heads in silent reverence and respect for all that he had done for our community [above – text] From the book ” A BADAGA – ENGLISH...
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Sustaining Small Family Farming in the Nilgiri Mountains
Dharmalingam Venugopal Nilgiri Documentation Centre, Kotagiri International Mountain Day (IMD) is being celebrated on Dec 11 since 2002 to raise awareness about the importance of mountains, to...
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Barki
Ooty ‘varkey’ may be a local innovation Dharmalingm Venugopal [Nilgiri Documentation Centre,Kotagiri] The Ooty ‘varkey’ due for Geographical Indication, appears to have been an innovation of a local...
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Badaganadu
Senthil [semthil.jrk@gmail.com] comments on Badaganadu This community people are different from Badagas of Nilgiris. They speak Kannada not Badaga language. So please don’t confuse Badagas of Nilgiris...
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