Frescoes adorning the walls of the inner courtyard, Brihadishwara Temple - Thanjavur ( Tanjore ), Tamil Nadu

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Tamil Nadu is the homeland of one of humanity’s living classical civilisations, stretching back uninterrupted for two millennia and very much alive today in the Tamils' language, dance, poetry and forms of Hinduism.

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