Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on behalf of 1.3 billion Indians, addressed the 74th session of United Nations General Assembly on Friday. To buttress his submissions, PM Modi quoted a great poet of India who lived 3,000 years ago — Kaniyan Poongundranaar and wrote in Tamil, the most ancient language of the world. Sangam literature is one of the main sources used to document the history of ancient Tamil lands and remains the main source of documentation of early Chola, Pandya and Chera kingdoms. This literature comprises some of the oldest extant Tamil literature and deals with love, war, governance, trade and bereavement. What the venerable Prime Minister quoted from is Poem 192 of Pura Naanooru.

Source: dna September 28, 2019 23:48 UTC