The Tamil Renaissance began in the year 1916, when the late
Maaimalai Adiga
of Pallavapuram (Pallvaram), the greatest
authority on the Tamil language during his lifetime, started the
revival of pure Tamil which was flourishing during the pre-Aryan
period in all departments of public life, and established beyond a
shadow of doubt the possibility of Tamil being employed as a
medium of expression of every modern thought, through his literary
works on richly varied subjects.
The movement gathered momentum during the British days,
and the Government did not stand in its way, though it didnt give
any active support to it.
It is an irony of facts that circumstances are becoming more
and more unfavourable to Tamil, after the attainment of Political
Independence, and the heretic school of Tamil scholars is gaining
ascendency over the orthodox school, and this is amply proved by
the Kuala Lumpur World Tamil Conference, whose organizers have
studiously avoided the participation of the followers of Maaimalai
Adiga in it.
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