Mr. Swaminathan wants to dedicate villages to sowing lentils and oilseeds, to meet demand.
Anthropologist Rohan Bastin speculates that the main Siva temple was once a minor shrine dedicated to village guardian deity Munisvaran that was transformed into a major Siva temple due to royal patronage.
The Squaw Valley Olympics had a number of notable firsts: it was the first Olympics to have a dedicated athletes' village, it was the first to use a computer (courtesy of IBM) to tabulate results, and the first to feature female speed skating events.
He began by commissioning three new works dedicated to the village.
I was struck by the irony that this village, dedicated to health, is now conspicuously ailing.
One of their most popular targets is the cenotaph at the heart of the holiday village, dedicated to the memory of "the youth of all nations who fell that war might end, by the boys of the South Wales coalfield".
In his town hall office in the new village, built after the war eerily close to the ruins, the mayor, Raymond Frugier, sat surrounded by pictures, etchings and plaques dedicated to the village's tragic past.
When the restaurant opened in 1995, it was dedicated to Greek village foods, but nowadays the menu reflects what some have termed nouvelle grecque, traditional Greek foods lightened and gussied up with modern techniques.
The greediest, most lecherous, most powerful figure in the story is also his benefactor, a man named Lao Lan, scion of a landowning family, who sleeps with Luo's mother and exploits human greed by monopolizing the production of meat in a village dedicated to animal slaughter.
