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#ramanujam # modi NARENDRA DAMODARDAS MODI AS A VADAKALAI IYENGAR
The Iyer and Iyengar are two different castes of Hindu Brahmins of Tamil origin.
Iyers are followers of Adi Sankara who founded the Advaita philosophy, whereas Iyengars are followers of Sri Ramanuja who propounded the philosophy of Visishtaadvaita.

Another difference is also, in the way each of the communities drape the Pallu of the 9-yard long saree.
The Iyer’s drape it in the traditional Madisar style. In addition to that, the Iyengar women drape the pallu over their left shoulder, whereas the Iyer women drape it over their right shoulder.
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What is #friendship?
Mathematician #Ramanujam didn’t have any close friends and someone asked him the reason. He replied that although he wanted to have close friends but nobody was up to his expectations. When pressed how he expected his friend to be, he replied, “like numbers
220 and 284!" The person got confused and asked what is the connection between friendship and these numbers! Ramanujam asked him to find the divisors of each number! With much difficulty, the person derived and listed them as,
220 → 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55, 110, 220
284 →1, 2, 4, 71, 142, 284
Ramanujam then asked the person to exclude the numbers 220 and 284 and asked the sum of the remaining divisors. The person was astonished to find,
220 → 1+2+4+5+10+11+20+22+44+55+110=284
284 →1+2+4+71+142=220
Ramanujam explained that an ideal
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