Avenues to Success for 03/22/09

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
    -Thiruvalluvar, c. 1st century BCE, Tamil poet, between the second century BC and the eighth century AD.

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Thirukkural was written by Thiruvalluvar, who is believed to have born 30 years before Jesus Christ.  The Tamil Calendar is dated from that period and referred as Thiruvalluvar Aandu (Year).   We find Thiruvalluvar as a moral philosopher,  political scientist and master of public administration in the first two parts of Thirukkural.   We find him to be a creative artist in the third part,  depicting the fascinating aspects of lovers.   

IMMORTAL TAMIL POET THIRUVALLUVAR ON SOCIAL ORDER: PART III - Shvoong

"Econimic Institutions"
Having enunciated the principles of socialism to usher in a welfare state. Thiruvalluvar suggests that the ‘ends’ could be achieved by adopting the ‘means’ most appropriate for an agrarian economy. Agriculture does indeed occupy a central place in the treatment of various subjects by Thiruvalluvar. While placing agriculture on a high pedestal, he considers it the queen among occupations.
Amidst all avocations, the world stands behind the plough
in spite of the difficulties, agriculture is still the chief. (104.1)

Thiruvalluvar comes to life in Kanyakumari - Rediff on the Net
by Shobha Warrier in Madras

Nothing is impossible to those who act after wise counsel and careful thought - chapter 47 of Thirukkural.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Karunanidhi celebrated the dawn of the new millennium at the confluence of three seas -- the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. No, he was in Kanyakumari not to see the sun set on a century, but in pursuit of a long-cherished dream.

Karunanidhi had been planning for the last 25 years to honour Thiruvalluvar, one of the greatest Tamil poets, by erecting a huge statue of his on the southern tip of south India near the Vivekananda rock.

On January 1, 2000, he pressed the button to illuminate the 133 ft tall statue. Built at a cost of Rs 61.4 million, the statue is made up of 7000 tones of a homogeneous rock and its height symbolises 133 chapters of Thirukkural - Thiruvalluvar's only available work. ...

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