Question

Write short note on thiruvalluvar

Answer 1

Answer:

Tiruvalluvar’s couplets in the Tirukkural are highly aphoristic: “Adversity is nothing sinful, but / laziness is a disgrace”; “Wine cheers only when it is quaffed, but love / intoxicates at mere sight.” Despite Tiruvalluvar’s reasonable tone, many of his ideas were revolutionary. He dismissed the caste system: “One is not great because of one’s birth in a noble family; one is not low because of one’s low birth.” The poet maintained that goodness is its own reward and should not be regarded as a mere means to a comfortable afterlife.

Chennai bus drivers have adopted the poet as their patron saint; his likeness is found attached above the windshields in the vehicles of the city’s official Tiruvalluvar Bus Company.