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Magnifying Kural the miniature way

Staff reporter

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: Venkatasubramaniam displays his miniature inscription of Thirukkural. — Photo: K.V. Srinivasan

CHENNAI: : He has written the complete Thirukkural in an A4 sized paper, in an inland letter, on palm leaves and even managed to contain the 1,330 couplets in a couple of postcards. Meet S. Venkatasubramaniam, whose latest work is an inscription of the Thirukkural — with each letter in every couplet only about 2 mm in height. It is so tiny that a magnifying lens is needed to read the script. One can clearly make out the neatly inscribed couplets written with an ordinary ball pen.

Each `adhikaram' (set of 10 couplets) is written on a narrow strip of tape that is a foot long. Mr. Venkatasubramaniam wrote the complete work on a 133-foot strip in 19 hours.

A trader of Thiruvidaimarudur near Kumbakonam, Mr. Venkatasubramaniam started to work on miniatures because he "wanted to do something different, something that has not been done".

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