Abdul Kalam, the former President of India and hailed as space man of India and people’s President of India. in addition. this English translation has a forward by Dr. M.Rajaram, IAS, who has a post-graduate degree in English literature, holds a B.L and a Ph.D. The English translation I use extensively in this book is the one by Dr. Thirukural is translated into 26 Languages of the world. It is translated into English by 40 Thirukkural was found from kandhappan's house in Chennai around 1850CE, and was published during second century. Thirukkural has been written about 2300 years back! But like the great epics of India, Thirukkural, if anything, is more relevant even today. Thirukkural also does not talk about caste, creed, language, religion etc. These 133 chapters encompass practically all aspects of human life involving Virtue, Wealth and Love, written with the objective of making people’s life happy. The two words never used in this entire text is Tamil and God, clearly telling it is a secular, non-religious text and does not eulogize any one language including Tamil in which it is written. One of the greatest Tamil literature is Thirukkural, consisting of 1330 couplets (two line short verses) spread over 133 chapters, each chapter consisting of ten couplets and concerning itself with one critical aspect of life. Thirukkural is acclaimed as “Tamil Marai” meaning the vedas in Tamil and of Tamils.
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