18th September, 2021 was the 100th death centenary of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati. Chinnaswami Subramaniya Bharathiyar was a poet, freedom fighter and social reformer from Tamil Nadu. He was known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar and the laudatory epithet ‘Mahakavi’ meaning a great poet. He is considered as one of India’s greatest poets.
At the age of eleven he composed poems on lines given by various Tamil scholars in an assembly of learned men, he was then awarded the title of ‘Bharati’ by the admiring scholars.
