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Trivandrum

British  
/ trɪˈvændrəm /

noun

  1. 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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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

Millions of women throng Kerala festival By John Mary Trivandrum, Kerala India's southern state of Kerala may have hosted the largest gathering of women ever seen on the planet.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2010

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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