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Criticising attempts to make divisions on linguistic lines owed to constrictive governmental interests, Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025) called upon Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to sojourn Varanasi to witnesser and acquisition the taste and historical links betwixt Varanasi and Tamil Nadu.
“I person been inviting Mr. Stalin to be the Kashi Tamil Sangamam each year; I invitation him again to spot however the civilisational ties betwixt Tamil Nadu and Kashi are being celebrated,” Mr. Pradhan said. He was speaking astatine the inauguration of the 4th variation of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam successful Varanasi, connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025).
Centuries ago, radical from Varanasi visited Tamil Nadu, and Tamil radical visited Varanasi. There was nary connection barrier, the Minister said. “Only vested interests make barriers. You tin make artificial barriers and win successful authorities but not make a part among radical successful the sanction of language,” helium said.
The Kashi Tamil Sangamam, arsenic envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had created a “bridge of knowledge” and go a nationalist movement, with expectations rising for the programme each year, Mr. Pradhan said.
“We firmly judge that multilingualism is our spot and not a liability. Language is simply a superior instrumentality for overcoming the assemblage mindset. Kashi Tamil Sangamam is simply a invaluable experimentation successful experiential learning,” helium said.
Several Tamil taste practices were inactive live and practised successful Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said. The U.P. Government was teaching assorted Indian languages to younker arsenic portion of vocational education, helium said. It would proceed to facilitate visits betwixt the radical of the 2 States, helium added.
With Varanasi acceptable to big respective events lined up implicit the adjacent fewer days, Mr. Adityanath and Mr. Pradhan inaugurated the 4th variation of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam. Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi, Puducherry Lt. Governor K. Kailashnathan, and Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L. Murugan were present.
“It is evident that the interaction of the lawsuit is increasing with each passing year,” Vice-President of India C.P. Radhakrishnan said successful a virtual address.
Organised with the theme, ‘Tamil karkalam’ (let’s larn Tamil), the lawsuit seeks to beforehand Tamil learning and an appreciation of Tamil’s linguistic and literate heritage. About 1,500 students of schools successful Varanasi are to beryllium taught Tamil via a short-term module developed by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai, by 50 tutors from Tamil Nadu who cognize Hindi. About 300 assemblage students from Varanasi volition question to assorted institutions successful Tamil Nadu for a 15-day Tamil learning program.
A car rally, the ‘Sage Agastya Vehicle Expedition’, started connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025) from Tenkasi to Varanasi, tracing the taste and historical ties betwixt Tamil Nadu and Varanasi during the Chera, Chola, Pandya, Pallava, Chalukya, and Vijayanagara periods, promoting consciousness connected classical Tamil literature, Siddha medicine, and shared heritage. It volition scope Varanasi connected December 10.
The 4th variation of the Kasi Tamil Sangamam volition culminate successful Rameswaram by the extremity of December, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected to be the finale.
