Tamil Tamil Meenakshi musing on her ancient language Tamil ranks amongst the oldest languages of the world. Tamil literature goes back to centuries before the Christian era and historians have concluded that Tamil is as old as Sanskrit.
Every classical text starts with worshipping the whole of humanity.
This is always the concern of the Tamil people, there is no ego-centred selfishness. When a force and inspiration to put something in writing comes down, the author always says that it was received from the gods and is utilised it for the sake of humanity. All are our cities, all are our kith and kin' from a poem of Puranaanuru. Tamil has the quality to express philosophical and metaphysical concepts. The mood is always bliss, happiness.