The Periya Puranam offers valuable lessons on various aspects of life, including:
He famously argued that Western education had turned Tamil children into "cultural orphans" who could recite Proust but could not name the 63 Nayanmars. His call to read the Periya Puranam was not a call to conversion; it was a call to . The Periya Puranam offers valuable lessons on various
"You ask for moral framework? It is all there in the Periya Puranam. But you are teaching Tamil like a dead language—vocabulary cards without context. I am not saying pray to Shiva. I am saying read the struggles of the 63. Every Tamil student, from Nagercoil to Kuala Lumpur, should read Periya Puranam in depth. Not for worship. For wisdom." It is all there in the Periya Puranam
But why did he say it? And more importantly, why has this statement gained the weight of a cultural commandment? I am saying read the struggles of the 63