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Most of the historical statues are located in Chennai
at Marina beach.
Marina beach is located along Bay of Bengal and
it is the second longest beach
in the world.. The statues of famous personalities
are located at the both sides of Beach Road.
Swami vivekananda's statue was erected on 12th July 1964
It is located nearby
Vivekandar illam
Annie Besant was born in London and settled in Chennai.
She had established "Indian boy's scouts association and "woman's Indians association.
U.V. Swaminatha Iyer
was a Tamil scholar.
He is affectionately called as "Tamil Thatha".
Babu jagjeeven ram known popularly as Babuji was a freedom fighter and a social reformer.
He served as the deputy Prime minister of India
from 1977-79
Gopal Krishna Gokhle was called as political guru of Mahatma Gandhi.
Sir A Lakshmanaswami mudaliar was an
Indian educationist and physician. He was the longest serving vice-chancellor of madras university
and principal of madras medical college.
Swami Sivanandar was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of
yoga and Vedanta.
Ilango Adigal authored Silapathikaram
He was a medieval Tamil poet and the author of
Kambaramayarm
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai popularly called as Anna or Anna durai
was a former chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
popularly
known by his initials MGR
and became CM of Tamilnadu.He got the
Bharat Ratna Award also.
His poems aroused against British rule and gender equality
and social problems.
Kannagi is the main character in the Tamil epic, SILAPATHIKARAM
Netaji was a revolutionary
freedom fighter
Thiruvalluvar is a very famous Tamil poet who is famous for his work
THIRUKKURAL
was a Christian missionary and translated
Tirukkural and Thiruvasagam
Bharathy Dasan is a tamil poet, writer and play writer whose mentor was Bharathiar.
Avvaiyar had written any many poems in Tamil. AATHICHOOTI is a very popular work among them.
The father of the nation who evolved a
unique weapon -- Ahimsa
He was one of the most respected film actors and called on NADIGAR THILAGAM
was a missionary
He learned Tamil language and proficient enough in to write a dictionary in Tamil
was an Indian politician. He was the chief minister of Tamilnadu
during 1954 -- 63 & member of parliament two times.
Statues have been showing
the historical, cultural and developmental values
to the world