Chairman of the Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra apart from being famous for his work, is also quite famous for his social media presence. Recently, one of his tweets helped an elderly woman who runs an idli shop in a remote village in Tamil Nadu get an LPG connection.

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Now the famous icon, has posted a tweet about the language Tamil by saying that he is ashamed for not knowing about the fact that Tamil being “the oldest language of the world.”

In his official twitter account he wrote “I am ashamed to confess that until the PM mentioned at the @UN that Tamil is the oldest living language in the world, I was unaware of that fact. We need to to spread much greater knowledge & pride of that distinction throughout India”

I am ashamed to confess that until the PM mentioned at the @UN that Tamil is the oldest living language in the world, I was unaware of that fact. We need to to spread much greater knowledge & pride of that distinction throughout India https://t.co/qgx9UKpq51. (1/2)

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) September 30, 2019

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This tweet surfaced from Anand followed by the speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 74th United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, there has been a lot of buzz about Tamil being “the oldest language of the world.”

During his speech, PM Modi had quoted 3000-year old Tamil poet to describe India’s idea of ‘unity in diversity’. In another tweet, he further added, “I attended a boarding school in Udhagamandalam & should have studied Tamil. Unfortunately, from my schoolmates, I learned only some choice words of abuse which make the Tamil speaking members of my board blush!”

I attended a boarding school in Udhagamandalam & should have studied Tamil. Unfortunately, from my schoolmates, I learned only some choice words of abuse which make the Tamil speaking members of my board blush! 😊 https://t.co/qgx9UKpq51. (2/2)

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) September 30, 2019

These tweets from Anand Mahindra instigated people to express their opinion on the same. Check out some of their reactions :

neither was I aware…. I bow to your humility Anand ji in accepting that you were unaware of Tamil being the oldest living language 🙏🙏🙏,

— dr.bharatbhardwaj (@Vrishnivansh) September 30, 2019

I don't know a single word of Tamil except ILLAI = NO

But what I know, Tamil Literature is one step ahead than Literature in Sanskrit

— Ashish Parashar💧 (@ashishparasharr) September 30, 2019

Tamizh (Tamil) is not only the oldest living language, its the oldest language in the world.

— 🔦🍃🍁 ☈ꍏ♪€ⓢ♄ 🍁🍃🔦 🅼🅽🅼 (@kaadhale_aadhal) September 30, 2019

Sir…We all have learnt this in our schools…
Stop embarrassing yourself..
This sycophancy is not doing anyone any good..

— Soul of India (@iamtssh) September 30, 2019

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1. One must study hard in school
2. One must rely less on WhatsApp University

— asheesh (@donkeypost) September 30, 2019

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