Nadesan was born on 11 February 1904 in Anaicottai, Jaffna. He attended Jaffna Hindu College and won the Governor’s scholarship to attend Royal College, Colombo. After a short spell at Royal College, ...

Friday 12th December 2025 was a special day for millions of Tamil movie fans. It was the 75th birthday of popular Tamil cinema actor Rajinikanth. The evergreen filmstar has in a film career spanning ...

The Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) extends it’s sincere gratitude to the Government of Canada and to the people of Canada for their timely and compassionate humanitarian assistance in response to the ...

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ‘Arasiyal Madhiuraignar’ (Political Adviser) Anton Stanislaus Balasingham passed away nineteen years ago at his South London residence on 14 December ...

Lakshman Kadirgamar’s 18th death anniversary was observed last Saturday. The former foreign minister fell victim to a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) sniper in Colombo on 12 August 2005.

(Chandani Kirinde traces the close friendship between Emperor Asoka and King Devanampiyatissa that led to the introduction of Buddhism to this land) India’s Emperor Asoka and King Devanampiyatissa of ...

“The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry, ”penned the Scottish bard Robert Burns in his poem”to a mouse”. This truth was brought home in an explosive manner to the Liberation Tigers of ...

Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) Jaffna district commander Sathasivamillai Krishnakumar alias “Col”Kittu was regarded as the uncrowned king of Jaffna in the mid-eighties of the twentieth ...

This is the fourth part of an extended article focusing on Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. In the first part of this article , the early years of Anura’s eventful life ...

Current media coverage in Sri Lanka is heavily focused on the forthcoming Presidential elections. Though officially not announced yet, it seems a foregone conclusion that the presidential poll would ...

The Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi(ITAK) known in English as the Federal Party will celebrate its 75th Birthday in December this year. The premier political party of the Sri Lankan Tamil people known as ...

This week’s Column is the second of a series of articles denoting the 20th anniversary of the revolt headed by former eastern tiger commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias “Karuna Ammaan” against ...