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The Tamil Nadu government, connected Sunday (November 23, 2025), announced that constabulary honours would beryllium accorded during the ceremonial of writer and Sahitya Akademi award-winner Erode Tamilanban who passed away astatine the property of 92 connected Saturday.
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has issued directions for according constabulary honours to the scholar's funeral, to honour his immense contributions to the Tamil connection successful assorted forms passim his agelong life, an authoritative merchandise said.
Born N. Jagadeesan astatine Chennimalai successful Erode district, Tamilanban was portion of the Vanambadi poesy question launched successful the 1970s, which is regarded arsenic an hold of a agelong contented of Tamil poesy and is credited with ushering successful a renaissance successful Tamil literate expression.
A Tamil teacher astatine New College, Chennai, helium was besides a newsreader with Doordarshan, and was known for his flawless pronunciation and intonation.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award successful 2004 for Vanakkam Valluva, a postulation of poems based connected the Tirukkural. Tamilanban had said successful a media interrogation that the poems were intended to question clarifications from Tiruvalluvar himself.
