![]() Such is the superstardom enjoyed by the Tirukkural (“Honoured Kural”), which shares with the Bible and the Qur’an the distinction of being one of the most widely translated texts in the world. Kanaga Subramani have made it their life’s mission to recite and explain a couplet a day to passengers on the Mettupalayam-Ooty route. Even today, school children in Tamilnadu routinely learn it ‘by heart’ local politicians pepper their speeches with its minimalist maxims and unlikely evangelists like bus conductor L. Gandhiji once said he wanted to learn Tamil simply so that he could study this “treasure of wisdom” in the original. Ariel famously called it “The book without a name by an author without a name.” Poet-saint Avvaiyar compared each terse verse in it to a mustard seed packed with the power of the seven seas. ![]() The Tirukkural: A New English Version by Gopalkrishna Gandhiįrench translator M. Review published under the title “A Book for All Time” in The Indian Express 17 October 2015 The Tirukkural: A New English Version by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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