AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A lecture by
Prof. Avvai S. Duraiswamy Pillai
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with a Foreword
by
T. Sundaram Chettiar B. Com.,
DY. GOVERNOR.304, SOUTH LIONS’ INTERNATIONAL,
MADURAI
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Part-1
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Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen,
I have great pleasure in expressing at the outset my grateful thanks for the kind opportunity, you, the Lions of Madurai, have given me to address you on Thiruvalluvar. This opportunity is noteworthy for the reason that our Union Government has recognized the greatness of Thiruvalluvar and has issued Postal-Stamps with his image.
The present trend of thinking among the educated is quite different from that of those in my younger days; the outlook of our young men now is broad and international. It looks upon man as man; his colour, castle and creed are ignored. The uplift of man, as Tolstoy puts it, lies in the endeavour to raise the super element of human aspect and curb and control “the animal man” in him.
It is therefore proper and legitimate that the Lions club of Madurai takes up for its study Thiruvalluvar whose object and aim of study centre in and around the human society. Valluvar, you know, lived in Madurai when the Egyptian and Athenian civilizations were at zenith. Great thinkers and philosophers like Plato, Aristotle and a host of others were shining bright and influencing the human society to a greater extent.
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