Great Regulars: The various stages and facets and dimensions

of Romantic Love--unrequited love, union, parting, waiting, pining during the absence of husband, love-quarrel and their causes coming under uri-p-porul in relation to tinais, have been summarised by Dr TNR in his introductionAccording to Dr TNR Love-theme as handled by Sankam literature marks the Tirukkovaiyar, with this difference. While the Akam pieces of Sankam are unconnected monologues, the Tirukkovaiyar is not so. It weaves the monologues and sometimes the dialogues too, into sequential narrative. Kovai means order. Isolated pieces are ordered into an eloquent narrative in a Kovai work. In the Tirukkovaiyar, Veda and Agama, Love and Literature, Logic and Grammar are all ordered into a poetical pattern which is sublime.

from V Sundaram: News Today: Baritone: Salutations to Sekkizhar Adippodi Dr TNR--II

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Perhaps all that I can say is that even when he was only 27 years old, Dr TNR chose his life's mission with a clairvoyant vision, defining it in these words of fire to himself: 'To be able to work in the service of a great idea, on behalf of an important goal; to be able to commit every nerve, every muscle, and every drop of sweat to a work, to a great task; to grow with the work, to become greater oneself in the struggle with one's betters' and then to be able to say at the end: I die, but there remains something that is more important than my life and will last longer than my body: my work. That is my hope, which is worthy of tremendous efforts, that is my goal, for which it is worth living and, if need be, dying.'

from V Sundaram: News Today: Baritone: Salutations to Sekkizhar Adippodi Dr TNR--III

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