Making a cult of Thiruvalluvar is doing disservice to his searing honesty: Gopalkrishna Gandhi
The Hindu“Thiruvalluvar was brilliant and brief. We would be doing a disservice to the searing honesty of Thiruvalluvar if we were to make a cult of him,” former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi said here on Tuesday. Addressing the gathering at the launch of the book Best of Thirukkural: Wisdom to enrich yourself and humanity, written by former bureaucrat R. Poornalingam, Mr. Gandhi said: Let us in our admiration of allure not commit the error of making a cult of Thiruvalluvar.The name by which we call him may not have been the name by which he was called. He further said that as a young lawyer, Mahatma Gandhi was attracted to Thirukkural after reading A Letter to a Hindu by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s to Indian revolutionary Tarak Nath Das, in which the author referred to Thirukkural in 1908.Releasing the book, N. Ram, Director, The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited, said there had been numerous translations of the Thirukkural and scholarly works. By referring to Mr. Gandhi’s foreword to the book, he said Thirukkural was great as it gripped the reader and made one experience it in real life.
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