CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Russian translation of the Tirukkural, on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi on Friday.
“Presented President Putin with a Russian translation of ‘the Tirukkural’, which carries the eternal wisdom of the great Thiruvalluvar across languages and borders,” Modi said in a social media post.
The Tirukkural comprises 1,330 couplets on virtue, ethics, governance, social conduct and human values.