Saurashtra-Tamil Sangam

Subject: History

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It is a program that highlights the oneness of India’s culture by narrating untold histories of how a community emigrated to Tamil Nadu and their contributions to the country.
The Saurashtra Tamil Sangam will be held at Somnath, Dwarka and other places in Gujarat to connect Tamil Nadu and Saurashtra.
It will celebrate the civilisational links between people from the southern part of the country and the People from the Saurastra and Kedarnath in the north.
It is a unique attempt where States shared their culture, civilisation and heritage with each other, and the country united in soft power.
The STS is the second such programme under the ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ initiative.
The first one was the ‘Kashi Tamil Sangamam’, a month-long event held last year to “rediscover” links between Varanasi and Tamil Nadu

More about Saurashtra Region:

Saurashtra, also known as Sorath or Kathiawar, is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast.
It covers about a third of Gujarat state, notably 11 districts of Gujarat, including Rajkot District.
Saurashtra peninsula is bounded on the south and south-west by the Arabian sea, on the north-west by the Gulf of Kutch and on the east by the Gulf of Khambhat.
From the apex of these two gulfs, the Little Rann of Kutch and Khambhat, waste tracts half salt morass half sandy desert, stretch inland towards each other and complete the isolation of Kathiawar, except one narrow neck which connects it on the north-east with the mainland of Gujarat.