The 2,000-year-old Tamil language — nearly as old as Hebrew — is spoken by more than 70 million people in a diaspora that has its main origins in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, ...

Tamil - the most secular language. June 10, 2025 e-Paper. LOGIN Account. eBooks Subscribe GIFT FRONT PAGE. ... read and understand the 2,000-year-old Tamil masterpiece Thirukkural in its original ...

The year was 1967. An anthology of Tamil poems, nearly two thousand years old, dropped into English in translation. A K Ramanujam, scholar, translator, and writer had released The Interior ...

It is difficult to fix the age of the evolution of the language because of its rich vocabulary. ‘Tholkappiyam’, which is 2,000 years old, is the first literary work in Tamil.

The community has launched a $3-million fundraising campaign for the endowment of an academic program on Tamil language, history and culture through research and scholarship. It will be “owned ...