Trivandrum

British

/ trɪˈvændrəm /

noun

Local official name: Thiruvananthapuram. a city in S India, capital of Kerala, on the Malabar Coast: made capital of the kingdom of Travancore in 1745; University of Kerala (1937). Pop: 744 739 (2001)

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The baby has been taken back from the adoptive parents and bought back to Trivandrum.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2021

In that same speech to the Trivandrum students, he challenged his young audience to think of these communities in their work.

From Nature • Oct. 7, 2019

Teaching in a school for the blind seemed to me a good way to learn, and I was given the rare chance to do that in Trivandrum, Kerala.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2014

In similar vein, Madras soon became Chennai, Trivandrum became Thiruvananthapuram, and Bangalore became Bengaluru.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2011

Their comrades in Trivandrum would march to the Secretariat and present the Charter of People’s Demands to Comrade E. M. S. himself.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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