The tamilsare Dravidians, an ethnic division which includes the Canarese, Malayalis, and Andhra people who occupy the whole of South India. Tamil is the oldest and the principal Dravidian language. The Tamils have an ancient literary and cultural heriatage. The first Tamil grammar, Tholkapiyam, was compiled as early as the first millennium BC. The classical Sangam literature dates from the 1st to 4th Centuries AD and consists of a collection of poems and a number of literary works dealing with war, love, religion and society. 

Tamils live in many parts of the world. India,Srilanka,Singapore,Malasia,Canada,England are few countries to name. In India alone, there are about 50 million Tamils live. They are very hard working people. Most of them are well-educated. Sir C.V.Raman, a tamil, from south India received nobel prize for Physics for his research on Light which is known as "Raman Effect". His relative Dr.Chandrasegar received nobel prize for his studies on "Black Holes" which is known as "Chandrasegar's Limit".The another well-known mathematician Ramanujan is also a Tamil.Tamil literature also produced many talented writers. Their literary master pieces are yet to be identified by the other parts of the world. Since Tamils live all over the world, we should try to translate Tamil literary works into other prominent world languages such as English/ French so that they will receive enough attention from others.

Number Of Visitors(Not hits):
 

© CTP (Canadian Tamils Page)1996-2000. All rights reserved. Developed and maintained by V.N.Giritharan. For more information send an email to webmasterThis site is enhanced for Netscape 3.0