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Thamil Thadam: Poet Mahakavi

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Thu. Uruthiramoorthy, popularly known as Mahakavi, is highly regarded as one of the pioneers or fathers of modern Eelam poetry. His poems, written within the bounds of Tamil prosody (yaappu), were aimed at reaching the common folk. Ms Yasotha Pathmanathan summarises the contributions of Mahakavi Urithiramoorthy in Thamil Thadam program.



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