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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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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 the city where I lived, Trivandrum, the electricity failed so often that whenever I turned off the lights, my 3-year-old son would exclaim, “Power’s out!”

From New York Times • May 25, 2013

Clad in traditional Kerala saris and bearing offerings of food, more than two million women - perhaps more - thronged the state capital Trivandrum on Sunday.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2010

“But according to Party sources Trivandrum Response was much more better.”

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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