{"id":19483,"date":"2024-01-18T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19483"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:20:54","slug":"thiruvalluvar-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thiruvalluvar-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiruvalluvar Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Thiruvalluvar Day<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Thiruvalluvar Day was first celebrated on\u00a0May 17 and 18 in 1935.<\/li>\n<li>In the present time, it is usually observed either on\u00a0January 15 or 16 in Tamil Nadu and is a part of Pongal celebrations.<\/li>\n<li>The occasion is named after and honours the\u00a0poet, Thiruvalluvar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who is Thiruvalluvar?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was a poet and philosopher, is regarded as a cultural icon by Tamils.<\/li>\n<li>He is fondly referred to as\u00a0Valluvar by Tamils.<\/li>\n<li>His most\u00a0popular work is Thirukku\u1e5ba\u1e37, a collection of couplets on ethics, politics, economy and love.<\/li>\n<li>Thiruvalluvar\u2019s primary work Thirukkural\u00a0contains 1330 couplets (kurals) that are divided into 133 sections of 10 couplets each.<\/li>\n<li>The text is divided into three parts with teachings on\u00a0dharma, artha, and kama (virtue, wealth and love).<\/li>\n<li>Each section covers a wide range of topics and imparts\u00a0moral, ethical, and practical guidance to the readers.<\/li>\n<li>The couplets are composed in a\u00a0concise and poetic form, making them easily memorable and quotable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Ethics?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1996501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM pays tributes to Saint Thiruvalluvar<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiruvalluvar Day is usually observed either on January 15 or 16 in Tamil Nadu and is a part of Pongal celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}