PM Modi’s Tamil Diplomacy: How Thirukkural Is Taking Tamil Wisdom to the World | BRICS 2026

Like Arjuna of the Mahabharata, PM Modi, without wasting time responding to criticism from Dravidian forces, uses every opportunity to promote the Tamil language, culture, and the universal classic Thirukkural by having it translated into foreign languages. A couple of days ago, at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, PM Modi gifted a Russian translation of the sacred Thirukkural of the saint-poet Thiruvalluvar to Russian President Vladimir Putin. PM Modi said, “I presented a Russian translation

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