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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kannagi
		Kannagi (கண்ணகி), a legendary Tamil woman, is the central character of the South Indian epic Silapathikaram.
		Kannagi or Kannaki Amman is eulogized as the epitome of chastity and is still being worshiped as its goddess.
		In fact, a statue of Kannagi, an important landmark in Chennai, was removed during the regim of the ex - chief minister of Tamilnadu, J Jayalalithaa in December 2001 during a mid night-the exact reason for the removal is not known.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kannagi (619 words)

	Kannagi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Legend has it that Kannagi took revenge on the (A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom) king of (additional info and facts about Madurai) Madurai, for a mistaken death penalty imposed on her husband Kovalan, by cursing the city with (An act that has disastrous consequences) Disaster.
		To prove her husband's innocence, Kannagi came to the king's court, broke open her other anklet and showed that it had stones different than those of the queen's anklets.
		Kannagi is eulogized as the epitome of chastity and is still being worshipped as its goddess.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kannagi.htm (473 words)

	Kannagi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kannagi, a mythological Tamil woman, is the central character of the South Indian epic Silapathikaram.
		Legend has it that Kannagi took revenge on the king of Madurai, for a mistaken death penalty imposed on her husband Kovalan, by cursing the city with Disaster.
		Irked by the false trial, Kannagi cursed that the entire city be destroyed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kannagi (431 words)

	FABULOUS REVIEW: BUANG SUAY by Agni Koothu
		Kannagi is on all fours on a box, her pimp stands behind her, a good half a foot away, both fully clothed, they sway, unsynchronized, and miraculously, he orgasms.
		Kannagi then meets another two clients, one a Malay man, who wants to call her by his wife's name, and another an old Eurasian man on illegal Viagra who dies in the middle of sex from an apparent asthma attack.
		Kannagi you realise must be extremely vaginally talented, all the sex was similar to that she had with her pimp.
	inkpot.com /theatre/00reviews/00revbuansuay.html (920 words)

	Silapathikaram - சிலப்பதிகாரம் - Kannagi ...
		At last the patron goddess of the city interceded with Kannagi, and she agreed to withdraw her curse, and the fire abated.
		Weak with loss of blood from her self-amputated breast, Kannagi struggled to a hill outside the city, where after a few days she died, and was reunited with Kovalan in Heaven.
		Kannagi was then admitted to the King's presence.
	www.tamilnation.org /literature/cilapathikaram.htm (4667 words)

	Kannagi statue reinstated in Chennai Marina
		Dusted off the museum dungeons and given a fresh coat of paint, Kannagi is back on her proud pedestal on the scenic Marina shores (of Chennai) striking her famous pose — right hand clenching the ruby-crusted anklet, pointing out imperiously.
		Kannagi is the legendary heroine of the ancient Tamil literary work ‘Silapathigaram’ written by Ilango Adigal.
		Kannagi went to the King’s court to demand justice and proved to him that Kovalan was trying to sell her anklet, which had rubies and not pearls inside it.
	www.tamilnation.org /diaspora/tamilnadu/060606kannagi.htm (521 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : In praise of Citizen Kannagi
		Kannagi proved that even a non-native with no money and no family in sight can fight City Hall and win her case — that is inspiring.
		Kannagi came to the court and proved that her husband had been innocent of this crime.
		Kannagi walked around the city three times, tore off her left breast and threw it against the city wall, and called for the city to burn — but for good people and animals to be unharmed.
	www.hindu.com /2006/06/16/stories/2006061603461100.htm (1159 words)

	Kannagi - Kovalan - Silapathikaram a story by Ilango Adigalar
		The heroine of this southern ancient epic poem "The Jeweled Anklet" is Kannagi.
		Kannagi understood the financial condition of Kovalan and she offered to sell her precious pair of anklets.
		When the news was brought to Kannagi, she went out into the town, with her eyes ablaze with anger, carrying the remaining anklet in her hand as proof of her husband's innocence.
	www.digitalmadurai.com /madurai/history/silapathikaram.htm (313 words)

	silappathikaram_essay
		Kannagi's act was immeasurably more honorable than the assassin's for a number of reasons, including: Kannagi did not murder the king--she presented him with the facts and he took his own life.
		Kannagi is chaste throughout, but her explosive, uncontrollable, passionate behavior in tearing her flesh and burning Madurai is certainly antithetical to her demeanor as a quiet, submissive housewife earlier in the story.
		Kannagi, for example, is worshipped as an avatar of Kali, goddess of Death, in some places; in other places she is associated with Shakti, the goddess of Energy, and considered to be the consort of Shiva (see Pollachi chapter).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /storytelling/silappathikaram_essay.html (18949 words)

	Tamil Culture, Kannagi and the Ankle Bracelet at Within / Without
		Kannagi is the protagonist in Silappathikaram, an epic in Tamizh (Tamil) literature attributed to Ilango Adigal.
		I don’t agree with Kannagi being worshipped and with too much emphasis being put on women’s chastity in parts of India, and the attn seeking me is also jealously watching the amoutn of attention she is gathering at the moment.
		Probably in TN (which is quite a hypocritical, patriarchal society) Kannagi’s actions are looked upon as actions of an angry woman, actions that a male dominated society “permits” her to have, because they her to ignore the fact that, at the end of the day she has still been cheated in love.
	www.withinandwithout.com /?p=796 (7813 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Kannagi storms into the royal court and proves that her husband did not steal the anklet; her anklet has rubies inside, and the queen?s has pearls.
		Kannagi?s fame spreads and her tale is written.
		In Madhavi, it is not the pitiful victim of her courtesan upbringing we are struck by; it is the fact that she is an independent businesswoman and a highly educated artist.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051106/asp/opinion/story_5425279.asp (1142 words)

	When the Sea Swallowed a City Whole: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
		Kannagi says it’s easy to prove that her anklet was hers because it was filled with precious gems, the one’s that were stolen from the queen on the other hand, were filled with pearls.
		Kannagi is not satisfied and in her anger, she curses the city, tears her left breast apart and throws it down.
		As Kannagi twists off her left breast and throws it, the God of Fire appears before her and asks whom of the inhabitants of Madurai he should spare from her wrath.
	chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00004538 (3541 words)

	rediff.com: Movies: 'It is no crime for a director to want commercial success' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The village's mystery inhabitant is Kannagi (Nandita Das) who, according to the buzz, is a Visha Kanyaka (the famed Poisoned/Poisonous Virgin of myth and legend), living in isolation in a cottage decked out with the arcane of Hinduism's more esoteric deities.
		Kannagi and Manickam develop a liaison that intensifies into a very close relationship.
		Possessed of a man she can admire, Kannagi turns possessive to the point where she would rather her paramour lost his next cockfight if that meant he would be hers forever.
	us.rediff.com /movies/2002/dec/11jay.htm (1716 words)

	Kannagi statue to return to beach, courtesy Karunanidhi
		Chennai - The statue of Kannagi, a symbol of Tamil pride, is set to return to the popular Marina Beach of Chennai as Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday visited the Chennai Museum to inspect the art work that was displaced by his predecessor J. Jayalalitha.
		Kannagi is a legendary figure who in her wrath burned down the temple town of Madurai for the wrong done by a king.
		Kannagi was banished to the Chennai museum in Egmore amid protests from the DMK.
	www.indiaenews.com /india/20060515/7960.htm (378 words)

	KANNAGI SILAI IN MARINA BEACH-CHENNAI
		One theory is that the city has not received its share of rain and consequently faced water storage because the Kannagi statue was facing the land.
		A unique feature of the Kannagi statue is that it was put up entirely with contributions from students all over the State.
		Given the historical and literary background of Kannagi and the participation of the student community in the installation of the statue, he decided to adopt an agitational approach to get it reinstalled.
	raseenalah.tripod.com /karaikal/news/page10.html (560 words)

	Arangham - International Collaborations - Kannagi
		With English dialogues and Tamil lyrics, the story is about Kannagi, whose husband Kovalan deserts her for the charms of a beautous court dancer Madhavi.
		A sorrowful and enraged Kannagi challenges the king and exhorts the gods for justice finally causing the entire city of Madurai to be devoured by fire.
		Anita Ratnam's transformation of Kannagi from the docile wife to a thundering figure of righteousness was done superbly.
	www.arangham.com /intcol/kannagi/kannagi.html (119 words)

	Prologue- In the land of Tradition,indian festivals, dances, music, malayali festivals, onam, family , indian culture, ...
		Kannagi is an endearing heroine in Tamil literature, folklore, cinema and daily life.
		According to it, Kovalan is put to death by the palace guards who suspect him of stealing the queen’s anklet when he tries to sell one of Kannagi’s anklets.
		Angered by the act, Kannagi storms into the king’s court and hurls the anklet on the ground.
	www.indiaprofile.com /fairs-festivals/marghazi.htm (1106 words)

	Killing for `caste honour'
		Murugesan (25), a graduate in chemical engineering, and D. Kannagi (22), a commerce graduate with a diploma in cooperation, both residents of Puthukkooraippettai, near Vriddhachalam town, about 200 km from Chennai, fell in love with each other when they were students at Annamalai University in Chidambaram.
		Within a month or so he got a job in a private firm at Tirupur, but in the meantime Kannagi's parents came to know of the marriage and showed their resentment in every possible way.
		Her `disappearance' caused tension in the village and Kannagi's father, C. Doraisami, who is the local panchayat president, and brother Marudupandian, apparently took it as an affront to their family and caste honour.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl2018/stories/20030912003403800.htm (1733 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		She was venerated as a goddess —; her fans built a temple for her like the temple built a thousand years ago for another woman, Kannagi, the epic heroine of Silappadigaram.
		Kannagi is glorified by Tamil chauvinists and Dravidian politicians as the symbol of Tamil culture and womanhood.
		Kannagi became a Tamil identity, a symbol of female sexual purity.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main15.asp?filename=op120305Moral_Cops.asp (867 words)

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		Repression of tax expression is associated both with resistance of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-infected T cells to killing by tax-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and with impaired tumorigenicity in a rat model.
		Kannagi M, Ohashi T, Hanabuchi S, Kato H, Koya Y, Hasegawa A, Masuda T, Yoshiki T. Immunological aspects of rat models of HTLV type 1-infected T lymphoproliferative disease.
		Arai, M., Kannagi, M., Matsuoka, M., Sato, T., Yamamoto, N., Fujii, M. Expression of FAP-1(Fas-associated phosphatase) and resistance to Fas-mediated apoptosis in T-cell lines derived from human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis.
	www.tmd.ac.jp /cmn/medgaku/impten (1555 words)

	IndianExpress.com :: On Marina beach, Karunanidhi keeps date with Kannagi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		‘Kannagi’ is the legendary heroine of the ancient Tamil literary work Silapathigaram and is seen as an enduring symbol of Tamil culture and chastity.
		Her statue, installed in 1968 during the DMK reign, under C N Annadurai, and which has been part of the city’s landscape, was removed in December 2001 by the AIADMK government, reportedly after warnings of doom by astrologers and ‘vaastu’ experts.
		When the statue was removed, the local media had gone to town with reports that Jayalalithaa’s astrologers had warned her that if ‘Kannagi’, painted all fl, holding an anklet in her left hand and her right hand pointing imperiously to the city, ‘demanding justice’, was not removed, then it could bring misfortune to her.
	www.indianexpress.com /story/4509.html (715 words)

	Silapathikaram - Madurai - www.madurai.com
		He was married to "Kannagi" who was the beautiful daughter of a merchant by name "Maanaikkan".
		They were accompanied by "Kavunthiadigal".But she continued her journey after leaving the Kovalan and Kannagi in "Puranjery" where they were accompanied by "Madhari" who was a cowherdess.
		When Kannagi came to know about the news, she went out into the town,with her eyes ablaze with anger, carrying the remaining anklet in her hand as proof of her husband's innocence.
	www.madurai.com /silapa.htm (336 words)

	Controversy over a statue
		THE removal of a statue of Kannagi, an epic heroine who is seen as symbolising Tamil womanhood and Tamils' zest for justice, from a prime place on the Marina in Chennai in mid-December has led to widespread protests.
		The government said that the statue was removed because its pedestal was damaged by a speeding truck in the small hours of December 6.
		Ponneelan, general secretary of the Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkia Perumandram, the literary front of the Communist Party of India, said that the Kannagi statue was a symbol of the two principal roots of Tamil culture, aram (righteousness) and veeram (valour).
	www.flonnet.com /fl1901/19010320.htm (1039 words)

	Kannagi paves the way
		Those who went for their regular morning’s walk in the Marina and those who board their buses from the bus stop close by were in for a shock on December 14th.
		They could not see the well-known landmark, Kannagi statue, which stood there for about 34 years now, with anklet in hand and demanding justice, had vanished into thin air.
		And they could not believe their eyes when they saw a new stretch of road smelling of freshly molten bitumen that has been laid over the space where the statue stood, reaching beyond.
	www.chennaionline.com /cityfeature/Public/kannagi.asp (1100 words)

	India Book House Pvt Ltd
		Kannagi, a gem of a housewife, a 'paragon of chastity' has been immortalised in the pages of Silappadikaaram, the famous Tamil epic of Ilango, the Chera prince-turned-ascetic.
		It is the story of a clash between three anklets: the anklet of home, the anklet of stage and the anklet of the palace.An ill-fated housewife, Kannagi loses her husband Kovalan, to the art of a dancer, Madhavi, and finds him again to lose him to the blind law of a king.
		Her story is set in the three ancient cities of South India — Poompuhar, the Chola capital where she grew up’ Madurai, the Pandya capital where she fell; and Vanji, the Chera capital which placed her on a pedestal.
	www.amarchitrakatha.com /store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=208 (219 words)

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