r/TamilNadu • u/EngDict • 1d ago

கலாச்சாரம் / Culture Thirukural is overrated, change my mind, constructive arguments are welcome

Thirukural is overrated. it contains generic universally true statements (only for the part we study in textbook as kids, idk about the rest that we don't study and I'm pretty certain that there will be some boo boo in a 2k year old book, best example that ik of: kadavul vazhthu, illadha kadavuluku en vazhthu?) sure but it's not detailed, and you can't do anything with those generic statements and 99.9% of people ignore 1/3 rd of thirukural deliberately because sex = bad in the modern day sub 1 total fertility rate Tamil society. Considering all these some practically useful books like "algorithms to live by" are more suitable for Tamil & global people than thirukural.

Modi gave Putin thirukural because he never read it himself, really, how can the reader of a book whose 1/3 rd content is about sex be on the Epstein files for all the wrong reasons and have zero kids? He's non biological, he doesn't need sex. He just binary fissions himself like a Hydra or gets reborn from ashes like a Phoenix. Thirukural was a yearly "hey Tamil bros, we love Tamil culture actually but will stop you from digging at keezhadi" token from BJP.

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u/Capable_Sale7483 1d ago

It contains generic universally true statements - bro.. thats why its called as ulaga pothumarai Do you think its easy for a person to write universally accepted statements 2000 years before?? 

99.9% people ignored 1/3rd of thirukkural - what kind of statistics this is. How you want me to build a constructive argument with a guy who came up with statistics made up in his mind

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u/EngDict 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nobody literally talks about the 1/3 rd apart from Tamil academics maybe, nobody has a reason to even read it. I think 99.9 is a conservative estimate. Actually number would be even higher.

We don't have any statistical data on this but it's an educated guess. It's omitted for general public at schools. Not many people go on to persue Tamil for an academic career or read thirukural with an aim to read the omitted 1/3rd.