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R.Chandrasekaran, Director, Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai, astatine a stall enactment up by the institute arsenic portion of the Kasi Tamil Sangamam 4.0 astatine the Namo Ghat astatine Varasani connected Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | Photo Credit: S.Ganesan
The Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT), Chennai, volition soon motorboat a escaped online people for learning Tamil connection done Hindi, according to its manager R. Chandrasekaran.
The online certificate oregon diploma people volition beryllium launched wrong a period oregon 2 successful presumption of the bully demand, Mr. Chandrasekaran said connected the sidelines of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam 4.0 successful Varanasi connected Tuesday.
The CICT has brought retired a publication connected learning Tamil done Hindi successful 15 days and the module is to beryllium utilized for teaching students successful Varanasi. “We person already made videos of 90 episodes of 30 minutes each. Each occurrence volition person a fewer questions which the learner has to reply earlier proceeding to the adjacent episode. At the extremity of 4 months, determination volition beryllium an introspection for palmy completion of the course. Once this is done, we volition present akin courses for learning Tamil done different languages, including Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and adjacent English truthful that radical tin larn the connection from anywhere,” Mr.Chandrasekaran said.
The CICT, which has already brought retired translations of Thirukkural successful 25 Indian languages and 9 overseas languages, volition bring retired translations of the magnum opus of Thiruvalluvar successful 30 much languages by Pongal 2026. This would see translations successful 23 Indian languages and 7 overseas languages including Spanish and French, helium said.
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A motion connection mentation of Thirukkural, with 45 video episodes, would beryllium released soon. The mentation would payment astir 4 lakh radical with disabilities successful Tamil Nadu and the mentation would beryllium uploaded successful the CICT website and YouTube channel.
On Tuesday, CICT translations of Tholkappiyam successful 10 languages, including Odiya, Assamese, Tulu, Urudu, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Burmese, Malay, and Arabic, were released astatine the inaugural ceremonial of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam 4.0, which has ‘Let’s larn Tamil” arsenic its theme.
