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| August 2022 |
Kural
Governor of Tamil Nadu, R. N. Ravi, publicly criticized Anglican Christian missionary G. U. Pope for 'translating with the colonial objective to trivialise' the spiritual wisdom of the Kural, claiming Pope produced a 'de-spiritualised version' of the text.
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| October 2021 |
Kural
Central Institute of Classical Tamil announced plans to translate the Kural text into 102 world languages.
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| 2020 |
Kural
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recited Kural couplets to the Indian armed forces.
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| 2020 |
Yuktibhāṣā
Sayahna Foundation published an open access edition of Yuktibhasa.
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| July 2020 |
Kanda Shasti Kavasam
Following a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu to the Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai City, the Tamil Nadu Police arrested two members of the YouTube channel that posted the controversial video.
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| July 2020 |
Kanda Shasti Kavasam
Karuppar Kootam, a Periyarist-Dravidian group, posted a YouTube video with a controversial interpretation of the Kanda Shasti Kavasam hymn, which was considered vulgar and offensive by many Hindus worldwide.
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| April 26 2016 |
Kural
The Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu state government to include all 108 chapters of the Books of Aram and Porul of the Kural text in school syllabus for classes VI through XII, starting from the academic year 2017–2018, to 'build a nation with moral values'.
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| January 2016 |
Kural
Chitravina N. Ravikiran set the entire 1330 verses of the Kural to music in a record time of 16 hours.
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