BJP State unit faces flak for ‘saffronising’ Thiruvalluvar In a book of ‘Thirukural’ commentaries penned by well-known scholar K. Balasubramaniam, Mr. Mohan has published an old picture of ...

It was thus that when the Tamil Nadu government under Congress Chief Minister M Bhaktavatsalam accepted the Opposition DMK’s demand for displaying a picture of Thiruvalluvar in the state ...

On the invitation, the images of Thiruvalluvar, Kabir Das, and Yogi Vemana are printed. However, the controversy erupted after the image of Thiruvalluvar was printed with a saffron robe ...

A picture accompanying a tweet posted under Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu’s official handle on Thursday, showing Tamil saint-poet Thiruvalluvar in a saffron robe, was replaced after a DMK MP ...

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the DMK’s ally in Tamil Nadu, also joined in, saying the BJP was attempting to degrade the name of a poet known for his work Thirukkural. A tweet by the ...

In 2019, a controversy erupted when the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Tamil Nadu unit tweeted a picture of Thiruvalluvar replacing his white robes with saffron drawing the ire of Dravidian and ...

The bridge, which connects the Vivekananda Rock Memorial and the majestic 133-feet Thiruvalluvar statue off the coast of ...

The Raj Bhavan did not merely observed Thiruvalluvar Thirunaal Vizha on May 24 instead of January 16 which has been the practice in the state, but also used a picture of the saint-poet in a ...

The district administration landed in a controversy on Thursday after copies of Thirukkural featuring Thiruvalluvar in saffron were distributed to students. COIMBATORE: The district administration ...

Chidambaram’s go-to philosopher of choice on these occasions was Thiruvalluvar, whose couplets covered, among other topics, politics, economics, and governance ethics. For parliamentarians who ...

Chennai: Saint Thiruvalluvar will stand tall inside the Mela Bhawan in Haridwar on the banks of Ganges next week with the Uttarakhand government planning to make the unveiling a grand function ...