{"id":6529,"date":"2008-01-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/01\/11\/international-symposium-on-tamil-as-a-classical-language\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T12:00:00","slug":"international-symposium-on-tamil-as-a-classical-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/01\/11\/international-symposium-on-tamil-as-a-classical-language\/","title":{"rendered":"International Symposium on Tamil As A Classical Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/004200801102023.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">CHENNAI, INDIA, January 11, 2008: A four-day international symposium on &#8220;Tamil as a Classical Language&#8221; will be held in Chennai from January 17, which will deliberate on topics like translation of Tamil classics into Dravidian, Asian and European languages. Jointly organized by the Mysore-based Center for Excellence of Classical Tamil (CECT) and the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS), the symposium will also assess modern education standards in Tamil studies, among other topics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tamil is the only Asian language enjoying the status of an official language in two neighboring countries &#8212; Sri Lanka and Singapore,&#8221; said the founder-director of Institute of Asian Studies. Eminent Tamil scholars from foreign countries like Scotland, Russia, the US, South Korea and Sri Lanka will participate, plus about 50 scholars from India.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com CHENNAI, INDIA, January 11, 2008: A four-day international symposium on &#8220;Tamil as a Classical Language&#8221; will be held in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}