Thiruvallvur

Thiruvallvur

Subject: Art and Culture

Context: A fuel station owner at Nagapampalli near Karur has been offering half-a-litre of petrol free to customers whose kids recite 10 couplets of Thirukkural.

Concept:

• The aim of initiative is:

1. Promote reading habit
2. Bring about a focus in students
3. Awareness about the poet and his ideas

About Thiruvallavur:

• Thiruvalluvar is also called Valluvar and was a Tamil poet-saint.
• Regarded as the cultural and moral icon for Tamils across caste and religious lines.
• He dismissed the caste system
• He had contributed the Tirukkural or ‘Kural’ to the Sangam literature.
• Tirukkural is comprised of 133 sections of 10 couplets each is divided into three books: Aram (virtue), Porul (government and society), and Kamam (love).
• Recently political controversy arose for if belonged to 3^rd-4th century or 8^th to 9^th Also, he is associated with Jainism as well as Hinduism by some groups.
• 15^th January is celebrated as the Thiruvalluvar Day.