Updated Feb 16, 2021 | 15:36 IST
Amid soaring petrol prices, a petrol pump in Karur, Tamil Nadu s Trichy district is offering 1-litre free petrol to students who can recite 20 couplets of Thirukkural. A petrol pump in Karur, Tamil Nadu s Trichy district is offering 1-litre free petrol to students who can recite 20 couplets of Thirukkural. | Photo Credit: iStock Images
Trichy: At a time when petrol prices are soaring across the country, a petrol pump in Karur district is offering one-litre free petrol. School students driving in with their parents have to recite 20 Thirukkural couplets to avail the offer.
The petrol pump is owned by Valluvar Agencies near Nagampalli village in Aravakurichi. The offer was introduced on January 16 to mark Thiruvalluvar Day. As many as 176 people have been given free fuel since the scheme was introduced.
Mr. Bhagwat taught a couplet on possession of self restraint from Tirukkural
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday participated in Pongal celebrations here and made a surprise visit to the house of a functionary of the organisation where he recited a couplet from Tamil classic Tirukkural. He also performed a gau puja (cow worship). Pongal is one of the most important festivals in the Tamil calendar and ushers in the birth of the auspicious month Thai during which marriages are held and new business ventures initiated. It is celebrated grandly by the people.
Mr. Bhagwat taught a couplet on possession of self restraint from Tirukkural, authored by Tamil savant Tiruvalluvar, to a girl of the RSS functionary s family to whom he paid a surprise visit.
i think perhaps the best description of how i felt then is of a little couplet that read, i am hurt, but i am not slain. i shall lay me down and bleed a while and i shall rise and fight again. that s the story of my life.
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