India
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Villupuram/Karaikkal, Feb 28: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spoke high of Tamil and its culture, calling it ”sweet”, on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed regret about not being able to learn the old southern language.
Addressing his party’s ”Vijay Sankalp” rallies in Villupuram in Tamil Nadu and Karaikkal, an enclave of neighbouring Puducherry, ahead of the April 6 Assembly elections, Shah apologised to the crowd that he could not deliver his address in Tamil, although it “would have been nice” if he could do so.
“First of all I want to say sorry that I am unable to talk in one of the oldest languages in the country, the sweet one,” Shah said at the Villupuram public meeting.
“Without the great Tamil culture, India”s culture is incomplete,” he added. Tamil Nadu had given “great people” who have…