About the Book: The Sweet Salt of Tamil: Things We Do Not Know about Tamil
Country
What does Tamil taste like?
With a history of three millennia and spoken by 90 million people today, Tamil
is at once ancient and modern. It is the oldest surviving language of the world.
How is this Dravidian tongue different from other languages that look towards
Sanskrit? Why was black the ideal of beauty for Tamils? Why do they not care for
Deepavali? Why is the god Siva different from the North Indian Shiva? How does
'curry trace its roots to the Tamil kari? When was the first idli made?
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