Kasturi Srinivasan
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Kasturi Srinivasan was an Indian journalist and businessman. He was the eldest son of S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar.
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Kural
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The Tirukkuṟaḷ, or shortly the Kural, is a classic Tamil language text on commoner's morality consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. The text is divided into three books w
Kasturi Srinivasan
…was a founder-Chairman of the Press Trust of India and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in January 1956. In 1969, he translated the entire work of the Tirukkural into English in verse form. He had four children – two daughters, S. Radha and S. Champakavalli and two sons, Srinivasan Parthasarathy and S. Rangarajan…
A typical published original Tamil version of the work
The statue of Valluvar, the author of the Kural text, on an islet in Kanyakumari facing the Indian coastline
Statue of Valluvar at an animal sanctuary in Tiruvallur. The plaque describes the Kural's teachings on ahimsa and non-killing, summing them up with the definition of veganism.
Tamil Wisdom, by Edward Jewitt Robinson, 1873, with the traditional portrait of Valluvar