Author Dr S Padmapriya

The Thiruvempavai (Tamil: திருவெம்பாவை)are a collection of songs composed by the poet and saint, Manikkavacakar. It forms part of the collection called Thiruvasagam.   It was composed in the temple town of Thiruvannamalai during the month of Margazhi(December-january) when the temple town was celebrating the Pavai Nolumbu. This is a penance observed by unmarried girls of those times to get good husbands. The maids all wake up early , wake each other up and with song and dance go to the ponds and streams for bathing and then worship Pavai (woman goddess) and request her to bless them with suitable husbands. These songs are sung by them during the festival on 10 days preceding the Thiruadhirai Nolumbu. The fact that during the coronation of the Kings of Thailand these are sung shows the importance people of those times attached to this song. The Tamil used was the ancient Tamil and though many words used during those times are common even today, the meanings ...

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 உலகளாவிய கவிஞர் – மகாகவி சுப்ரமணிய பாரதியார் -கவிஞர் Dr. S. பத்மபிரியா, சென்னை, பாரதம். Translation by Thiru. S. Sathya Narayanan. மகாகவி சுப்ரமணிய பாரதியார் ஒரு நிகரற்ற கவிஞர். எளிமையான நடையில் தரமான கருத்துகளை கொண்ட அவருடைய படைப்புகள் மக்களை வெகுவாகக் கவர்ந்தன. சக்திவாய்ந்த அவரது எழுத்துக்கள் பாகுபாடு இன்றி - இளைஞர்கள் மற்றும் பெரியவர்கள், பணக்காரர்கள் மற்றும் ஏழைகள், ஆண்கள் மற்றும் பெண்கள் என அனைவரையும் கவர்ந்தன. இந்திய மக்களுக்கு ஒருவித சக்தி, உற்சாகம் மற்றும் தேசபக்தி உணர்வை பெருக்கியது. சுப்பிரமணிய பாரதியார் ஒரு உலகளாவிய கவிஞராகவும் எழுத்தாளராகவும் இருந்தார். காலத்தை வென்ற அவருடைய எழுத்துக்கள் அனைத்து தரப்பு மக்களுக்கும் பொருந்தியதாக இருக்கிறது. ஏகாதிபத்திய ஆங்கிலேயர் ஆட்சியில் இருந்த பாரதத்தின் மெட்ராஸ் பிரசிடென்சியில் உள்ள திருநெல்வேலி பகுதியில் உள்ள எட்டயபுரத்தில், சி.சுப்ரமணியன் ஐயராக பிறந்தார். தற்போது, எட்டயபுரம், சுதந்திர பாரதத்தில், தமிழ்நாடு மாநிலம், தூத்துக்குடி மாவட்டத்தின் கீழ் வருகிறது. பாரதியார் தனது பதினோராவது வயதில், தமிழில் தனது முதல் கவிதையை எழுதினார். எட்ட...

 THE UNIVERSAL POET - Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathiyar    By Poetess Dr.S.Padmapriya, Chennai, Bharat Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathiyar was one of a kind. He was a great writer who wrote in simple language. This quality of his writings appealed to the masses immensely. His writings were powerful and appealed to everyone - young and old, rich and poor, men and women. They filled the Indian people with energy, enthusiasm, and patriotic fervour. Subramaniya Bharathiyar was a universal poet and writer whose writings are relevant for all people at all times.     Bharathiyar was born as C.Subramaniyan Iyer in Ettayappuram in the erstwhile Thirunelveli area in Madras Presidency of Bharat, which was under the imperialist British rule. Currently, Ettayappuram comes under Thoothukudi District of Tamilnadu state of free Bharat.   Bharathiyar wrote his first poem in Tamil at the age of eleven. He worked at Ettayappuram Palace for some time. He travelled to Kasi and li...

  The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South Korean author  Han Kang  (born 1970) "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". It was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 October 2024 and was awarded on 10 December 2024. Source: Internet 

  Chakravarti Rajagopalachari C.Rajaji was an accomplished writer both in his mother tongue Tamil, and English. In 1922, he published a book  Siraiyil Tavam  (Meditation in jail) which was a day-to-day diary about his first imprisonment from 21 December 1921 to 20 March 1922. In 1958, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his retelling of the Ramayana –  Chakravarti Thirumagan . In 1916, Rajaji started the Tamil Scientific Terms Society.This society coined new words in Tamil for terms connected to botany, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. At about the same time, he called for Tamil to be introduced as the medium of instruction in schools. Rajaji was the founder of the Salem Literary Society and regularly participated in its meetings in which he suggested introducing scholarships for Dalit students.He also edited Mahatma Gandhi's newspaper  Young India. In 1951, Rajaji wrote an abridged...