Unveiling a statue of poet Thiruvalluvar at Delhi Tamil Education Association (DTEA) Senior Secondary School at the Lodhi Estate on Thursday, Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi said the British mandated East India Company to evangelise India and missionaries like G.U. Pope, who first translated the epic poem of Thiruvalluvar, the Thirukkural, into English, presented a “de-spiritualised” version of it.
“The translation was done with colonial objective to trivialise the spiritual wisdom of India,” Mr. Ravi said.
