NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, DEC 11
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid floral and rich tributes to the revolutionary poet Subramania Bharathi on his 137th birth anniversary on Wednesday, describing him as a symbol of patriotism.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister said Mahakavi Bharathi was a “symbol of patriotism, social reform, poetic genius and indomitable spirit of freedom and fearlessness“.
Modi said Bharathi’s thoughts and works continued to motivate us all.
Bharathi was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist and a freedom fighter. Popularly known as Mahakavi Bharathi, he was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and is considered as one of the greatest Tamil literary figures ever, Modi said.
The revolutionary Tamil poet was born in 1882 in Ettaiyapuram in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu.
