Literature on common ground

Experts came together at the Tamil conference to further the cause of the language.

Let's take a look at the World Classical Tamil Conference that concluded in Coimbatore recently. This was the first such conference. Previous international events were World Tamil Conferences. And this conference was held after the Government of India granted the classical language status to Tamil.

For a World Tamil Conference to be held, the International Association for Tamil Research has to give a call. The first World Tamil Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1966. The second was two years later in Madras (now Chennai).

The third conference was in 1970 in Paris, France; the fourth was in 1974 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka; the fifth was in 1981 in Madurai; the sixth was in 1987 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; the seventh was in 1989 in Port Louis, Mauritius, and the last and eighth was in 1995 in Thanjavur.

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