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The book captivates the reader with its brilliant presentation of the fascinating discovery  that the English and the Tamils originally belonged to the same family. It is an exhilarating experience to read this book written in a simple flowing language.

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• The English and the Tamil peoples have lived in completely different spheres of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds in two disparate parts of the world since the dawn of history. But, they lived together and spoke the same language in the forgotten past. They separated from each other more than three millennia ago and migrated towards their present homelands. Modern English and Tamil have preserved hundreds of words of everyday use that are essentially the same in the two languages.

• A proper perspective of the sound shifts and other differentiating features unfolds a world of words before us. The corresponding words in the two languages present a striking similarity in their syllabic structures, phonetic compositions, and meanings. Mutual identity of the corresponding words is only too obvious.

• It is amazing. The words grouped on the basis of their natural usage reveal the original relationship. Clusters of basic words used in the conversation of ordinary men and women, including

1. words denoting family relationships, and those used in simple domestic life;

2. words denoting parts of the human body, physical actions;

3. words denoting different ways of making sounds through the mouth;

4. words denoting different ways of walking and some other ways of moving around;

5. words denoting bodily senses and mental perceptions; 

6. words denoting some basic processes of food preparation, eating, and drinking;

7. words denoting parts of plants and trees and basic farming activities;

8. words used in irrigation and handling water; 

9. words employed in primitive occupations like a seafaring life, cloth-making, woodwork, hunting, and mmmlmoney and trade;

10. words denoting crime and primitive methods of administration of justice;

11. words related to language and writing, and some of the cardinal numbers;

12. words denoting objects of natural environment like clay and mount, wood and ford;

and so on are found to be essentially the same in the two languages.  For instance, verbs related to the life of plants and trees and a number of nouns that denote various parts of plants and trees – from the root to the crown – are quite the same. The relationship between English and Tamil is obviously as old as that between man and tree.