PSG & Sons’ Charities conducts “PSG Vanavil’ every month on the 4th Saturday where Spiritual and Literary Discourses are presented to the public by eminent speakers. The event is held in PSG Tech’s Assembly Hall to delight the ears of willing and loving patrons of Literature and Spirituality, and entry is free.
This is being done for the past 52 months and the 53rd Edition of PSG Vanavil saw prolific political and philosophical speaker Nanjil Sampath, take over the podium and engage on a valuable topic ‘Puharil oru Naal’ (A Day in Poompuhar).
Mr.Nanjil Sampath, while talking about his career, said ” I have toured European, Asian and American Cities to take the value of Tamil and proclaim its beauty. Never have I had such a privileged feeling like I just got when I stepped into this soil of PSG, where Charity, Knowledge, Wisdom and Art flows”.
He praised the visionary founders of PSG while addressing the gathering.
Talking about the theme of the day, he said No Town today has the prosperity and greatness Poompuhar had. He said Poompuhar was a place where the nobles and the farmers lived as equals. It used to get settlers and merchants flocking its streets like bees.
He conveyed to the gathering the prosperity Poompuhar had in the form of natural resources. If the Dramas of Shakespeare has seen several stages in the world; the stages that were set for Madhavi’s dances Towers over them, he mentioned.
His speech had a balance of history and current scenario. He said it is of great importance to speak Tamil in the present.
Before Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Sindhu, Indo-Aryan languages existed, Tamil flourished and thrived. When other languages like English, German, Italian, France received written script forms, Tamil delivered great literary works of wisdom to the world.
He said men like G.U. Pope and the Italian Jesuit priest Constantine Joseph Beschi who later became Viramaamunivar turned into lovers of Tamil language because they found true divinity and beauty through Tamil.
“To preserve our identities we need to speak Tamil”, echoed Nanjil Sampath. He said that many great languages like Greek, Latin, Hebrew and even Sanskrit have been unable to withstand the test of time but Tamil has thrived and in order to take its value to the next generations, we need to talk in Tamil.