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Ask Vairam – Post a question

I read a book called ‘Freakonomics’ . The Author says that there are answers every where only we don’t have the right question. So if enough questions are asked we can find answers for every one of them.

So I thought I would dedicate page where readers can ask questions on Tamil Literature. Any thing on Sangam literature and History of Tamil Literature.

I am not super intelligent encyclopedia of Tamil Literature, but at least I have collected around 20-30 books on Tamil Literature history and Sangam Literature. So If you ask me questions , I can go thorugh these texts and try to get you an answer. Important word here  is ‘try’ , I surely cant promise you an answer immediately; but I would try my level best to find an answer.

Some Eg. questions -

How old is Tamil?

Was Silapadikaram a true story?

When was Thirukural written?- was it written by a single author?

Is it true there was somekind of similar festival to Valentine’s day in Tamil Nadu

When was the word Tamilagam(land of Tamils)first used?

Is ‘Dravidan’ a Tamil word?

How did Madurai look in old times?

You can come up with any question you want. I will atleast try to get you an answer or can try to direct you to a person who might know the answer.

I hope you readers post me some questions - after all this is a selfish effort to gain some knowledge from searching an answer for your question!

Vairam

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  1. vijay said, on August 31, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Hi vairam

    Any ref to village elders ( naattamai), maniyakkaarar etc in early works

    vj

  2. Rajasekar said, on September 10, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Hi Vairam………….

    Your works are simply mindblowin. hatsoff dude.

    As everybody know Tamil is a classical language. But is it true that it is mother of all dravidian languages. I hav read in one of ur article givin reference to evolution of kannada frm tamil. But in one article i read only malayalam is an offshoot of tamil. Can u give your opinion over this.

  3. kumar_nanban said, on September 10, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Greetings vairam,

    I hope that i am feeding your selfish desire to search for an answer with a question which i wanted to ask for long.I am curious to know whether there was any reference about science and maths in Tamil literature of the past?

  4. priya said, on October 14, 2009 at 7:52 am

    Hi, Can u pls post the song(verse) that starts as kaadilla oosi…

  5. shazil said, on October 20, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    nice work bro ! but is there any way i can get a transliteration of these proverbs.i am unable to read Tamil..would love to see it written in english !

  6. Palaniappan Vairam said, on October 20, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Please check out is Sanskrit a Magic wand article –
    http://karkanirka.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/tamilintro2/

  7. Palaniappan Vairam said, on October 20, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    There are bit of reference of astrology here and there in sangam. Tamilians prefered oral method of transmission. So there is as such no manuals like u find in sanskrit literature. Thirukural is probably first literature which talks about various science. Later Pallava period all silpa sutras were written and Shidda period lot of medical treatises were written. Thirumanthiram is treasure house of medicine and yoga.

  8. Palaniappan Vairam said, on October 20, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    For a few proverb collections I updated transliteration. I will update all the provebs with transliteration soon.


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