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| April 2025 | The Bhagavad Gita manuscript was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, recognizing its significant cultural and historical importance. |
| May 2024 |
Ramcharitmanas
During the tenth meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, the Ramcharitmanas manuscripts were added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register, recognizing its global cultural significance.
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| August 2022 |
Kural
Governor of Tamil Nadu, R. N. Ravi, publicly criticized Anglican Christian missionary G. U. Pope for 'translating with the colonial objective to trivialise' the spiritual wisdom of the Kural, claiming Pope produced a 'de-spiritualised version' of the text.
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| October 2021 |
Kural
Central Institute of Classical Tamil announced plans to translate the Kural text into 102 world languages.
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| 2020 |
Kural
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recited Kural couplets to the Indian armed forces.
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| 2020 |
Yuktibhāṣā
Sayahna Foundation published an open access edition of Yuktibhasa.
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| July 2020 |
Kanda Shasti Kavasam
Following a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu to the Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai City, the Tamil Nadu Police arrested two members of the YouTube channel that posted the controversial video.
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| July 2020 |
Kanda Shasti Kavasam
Karuppar Kootam, a Periyarist-Dravidian group, posted a YouTube video with a controversial interpretation of the Kanda Shasti Kavasam hymn, which was considered vulgar and offensive by many Hindus worldwide.
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| 2019 |
Ramcharitmanas
C. G. Rajagopal received the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for his Malayalam translation of Ramcharitmanas, titled 'Tulasidasasa Ramayanam'.
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| 2019 |
Harivaṃśa
Simon Brodbeck produces a second English translation of the critical edition of the Harivamsa.
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| 2016 |
Harivaṃśa
Bibek Debroy completes the first English translation of the critical edition of the Harivamsa.
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| April 26 2016 |
Kural
The Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu state government to include all 108 chapters of the Books of Aram and Porul of the Kural text in school syllabus for classes VI through XII, starting from the academic year 2017–2018, to 'build a nation with moral values'.
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| January 2016 |
Kural
Chitravina N. Ravikiran set the entire 1330 verses of the Kural to music in a record time of 16 hours.
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