Subramanya Bharati was born at Ettayapuram, a small princely state in the Tirunelveli district in Madras state. Today, Bharathiar is a household name in Tamil Nadu and a revered poet in rest of India. It was only after his death in 1921, that his literary greatness came to be more and more appreciated and the value of his works Kannan-pattu and Kuyil- pattu was fully recognized. the Kannan Pattu (collection of songs devoted to Krishna) and Kuyil Pattu (Songs of Kuyil). His entire Tamil Literature can be divided into several parts of which the most prominent are the patriotic poems and the devotional poems viz. He published his first two collections of poems Swadesa Gitangal and Janmabhoomi in 1908. Subramanya Bharati ‘s songs are a part of contemporary popular culture and have featured in Tamil cinema in last many decades and also been set to music by famous composers like Illayaraja and sung by celebrated artistes like M.S.

On Decemhis 130th birth anniversary was celebrated. Subramanya Bharathi (1882-1921) was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and social reformer, popularly known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar.

Kamba Ramayanam of Kamban is an epic of about 11,000 stanzas as opposed to Valmiki’s 24000 couplets and is the original retelling of the epic story rather than a translation of the later. Kambar or Kamban was a 12th century Tamil poet, who wrote Ramavatharam, popularly known as Kambaramayanam, the Tamil version of Ramayana. These 63 Nayanar saints, along with the 12 Alvars are known as South India’s 75 Apostles of Bhakti movement. The 63 Nayanar saints were the Shiva devotional poets, who lived between 5th and 10th centuries. All the saints were male except one named Andal.

The collection of their hymns is known as Divya Prabandha. The devotional songs of the Alvars were created during the Early medieval period of Tamil history and they helped can be called the pioneers of the Bhakti Movement in India. The twelve Alvars were Tamil poet-saints, who lived between 6th and 9th centuries AD and espoused ‘emotional devotion’ or bhakti to Visnu-Krishna in their songs.

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