A special stamp with the image of the 133 ft statue of ancient saint-poet Thiruvalluvar was released in commemoration of the first edition of World Classical Tamil Conference on 27th June 2010.
Union Telecom Minister A Raja released the stamp on the valedictory of the five-day historic event Chief Minister M Karunanidhi received the stamp at the grand function that brought down the curtain on the five-day event.
Mr Raja also released special stamps of ancient Tamil scholar Kumaraguruparar Swamigal.
The logo of the conference has the image of Thiruvalluvar's statue in Kanyakumari being lashed by the waves caused by the tsunami and encircled by seven icons from the Indus valley civilization.
The Conference honored Robert Caldwell, who was the first to write a book on Dravidian languages and came out with the finding that Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu formed a separate language family, affirming their antiquity, literary history and their independence from Sanskrit and the Indo-Aryan languages. Caldwell's Stamp was released on 7th May 2010.
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