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S. Ramesh
S. Archana Devi — Photo : P. Goutham
SALEM: At the age of nine, S. Archana Devi of Thandavarayapuram, Attur, can recite all the 1,330 couplets of Thirukkural. This Class IV student of a government school can also tell you all the 60 names of Tamil years without any slip. She can recite the couplets the way you want. One can ask her to recite the couplets by the name of "Adhikaram", by mentioning the first line and by pointing out the starting or the concluding word of a couplet. Archana, the second daughter of Selvam and Sivakami, daily wage labourers, has studied Thirukkural under a kerosene lamp. "After returning from school, I have to finish all my home works before the sunset. Then I sit with my mother everyday to learn the couplets," she says. "She has a good memory and that I started teaching Thirukkural as soon as she joined school. When she was at Class II, she managed to recite around 600 couplets without a mistake," says Mrs. Sivakami, who studied up to Plus-Two. Archana, with her parents, brother and sister, came to the Salem Collectorate here with a request to the Collector to provide electricity connection to her house.
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