The Thiruvalluvar Statue,
or the Valluvar Statue, is a 133-feet (40.6 m) tall stone sculpture of the
Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar, author of the Tirukkural, an ancient Tamil
work on secular ethics and morality. It is located atop a small island near the
town of Kanyakumari on the southernmost point of the Indian peninsula on the
Coromandel Coast, where two seas (the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea) and an
ocean (the Indian Ocean) meet. The statue was sculpted by the Indian sculptor
V. Ganapati Sthapati, who also created the Iraivan Temple, and was unveiled on
the millennium day of 1 January 2000 by the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
It is currently the 25th tallest statue in India.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvalluvar_Statue
Received on 27th of December, 2018. Thanks to Ramanathan Saravanan, whom sent the card from Chennai.
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