TAMIL KUDIL

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creating a new brave world - Bharathidasan

 

THIRUKKURAL ON THE NET

1. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~siddhart/thirukkural/ (dynamic font; you can read tamil fonts even if you do not have)

2. http://www.thedmk.org/thirukural/index.html
by Kalaingar Karunanidhi (you need to download tamil font)

TAMIL LITERATURE WEB PAGES

1. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6166/
(It includes Thirukkural, Thiruvaachakam, Thevaram and other masterpieces, Bharathidasan and Bharathiar songs)

2. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~siddhart/tamilnadu/literature.html#Literature
(A fine Tamil literature collection)

3. http://www.penkatali.org/tamillit.html
(It deals about Sanga Kaalam, Thalaivan, Thalaivi etc.,)

4. http://www.geocities.com/athens/5180/tlinks.html (A mammooth collection of 1000 Tamil web sites. It has several categories ranging from govt. pages to important private hospitals in Tamil Nadu)

 

http://tamil.berkeley.edu/tamil%20chair/tamilclassicallanguage/tamilclassicallgeltr.html (Tamil as a classical language - a letter from University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Tamil has been declared as a living classical language by Govt. of India.

Reason: Tamil is of considerable antiquity. It predates the literatures of other modern Indian languages by more than a thousand years. Its oldest work, the Tolkappiyam,, contains parts that, judging from the earliest Tamil inscriptions, date back to about 200 BCE. The greatest works of ancient Tamil, the Sangam anthologies and the Pattuppattu, date to the first two centuries of the current era. They are the first great secular body of poetry written in India, predating Kalidasa's works by two hundred years.