PM Modi Regrets Now not Studying Tamil, The “International’s Oldest Language”
PM Modi in a conventional Tamil veshti at Mamallapuram in October 2019.
New Delhi:
Now not studying the Tamil language was once one in all his long-standing regrets in an extended political profession, Top Narendra Modi stated once more lately, calling it the “global’s oldest language”. In his per 30 days Mann Ki Baat radio communicate lately, he additionally praised Tamil literature and poetry. His connection with the language comes weeks forward of the southern state going to polls on April 6.
Addressing the display, PM Modi lately stated that during its run-up, one listener Aparna Reddy had requested him if there was once one thing he neglected out on all over those lengthy years as Leader Minister and Top Minister.
“I assumed concerning the query and felt that – this is a remorseful about of varieties that I may now not be informed the arena’s oldest language, Tamil. This is a gorgeous language and fashionable internationally. Many of us advised me concerning the qualities of Tamil literature and the depths of Tamil poetry,” the Top Minister stated.
PM Modi has, within the contemporary previous, used Tamil in his speeches and quoted Tamil verses in Parliament.
In 2018, too, he had publicly regretted now not having the ability to discuss Tamil. In an deal with to the United Countries in 2019, he had quoted Tamil philosopher-poet Kaniyan Pungundranar to put across his message on India’s civilisational intuition to at all times glance past its borders.
“3 thousand years in the past, a super poet of India, Kaniyan Pungundranar, wrote in Tamil, essentially the most historic language of the arena, ‘Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir’, which means that, ‘We belong to all puts and to everybody’. This feeling of belonging past borders, is exclusive to India,” he had advised the 74th UN Normal Meeting in New York.
All through an off-the-cuff summit with Chinese language President Xi Jinping, PM Modi was once noticed in a conventional Tamil veshti on the ancient Mamallapuram shores in October 2019.
The state of Tamil Nadu is going to polls on April 6. PM Modi’s BJP is in alliance with the ruling AIADMK which is on the lookout for a 3rd instantly time period this time. The 2 events have begun seat-sharing talks.
