Tiruvalluvar statue (Bangalore)
The Tiruvalluvar statue is a statue of the Tamil poet saint Tiruvalluvar in Bangalore , the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka . It is located in Ulsoor , a district with a high proportion of Tamil immigrants. The Tiruvalluvar statue has been the subject of a long-running controversy between Kannada nationalists and Tamils, creating tension between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu . After it was installed in 1992, it was only unveiled in 2009.
The poet Tiruvalluvar probably wrote the instructive assembly of Tirukkural in the 5th or 6th century . The Tirukkural enjoys an extremely high reputation among the Tamils, its author Tiruvalluvar is accordingly considered a kind of Tamil national saint. Significant Tiruvalluvar monuments include the Tiruvalluvar statue in Kanyakumari on the southern tip of India and the Valluvar Kottam in Chennai (Madras), the capital of Tamil Nadu.
The Tiruvalluvar statue from Bangalore was erected in Ulsoor in 1992, but could not be unveiled at first. The reason was protests by Kannada nationalists who oppose immigration from Tamil Nadu and other parts of the country to Bangalore. In addition, relations between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are strained, among other things because of a water dispute over the Kaveri River. An agreement was only reached after the Tamil Nadu government had promised to erect a statue of the Kannada poet Sarvajna in Chennai. On August 9, 2009, M. Karunanidhi and BS Yeddyurappa , the Chief Ministers of the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, jointly unveiled the Tiruvalluvar statue in Bangalore, followed four days later by the unveiling of the Sarvajna statue in Chennai.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Kamil Zvelebil: The Smile of Murugan. On Tamil Literature of South India, Leiden 1973, pp. 155-171.
- ↑ The Hindu : Thiruvalluvar's statue unveiled in Bangalore without hitch , August 10, 2009.