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London based art collector Jana Manuelpillai has had a varied and colourful career in the arts and several world-renowned institutions. Born in Wembley and hailing from Sri Lanka, Jana is an art historian by trade with a BA in art history and English literature and a MA in the study of museums and galleries. He […]

I put the phone down to a loved one and breathe a sigh of relief. She’s gorgeous and intelligent, but most importantly understanding. ‘I have to be up early baby. Let me luv ya and leave ya.’ Disclaimer: This is not a post on love and loneliness.  She has had similar life experiences and is […]

Tamil Nadu born Gayatri Nair impressed Will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson and Tom Jones in Round 4 of The Voice UK Blind Auditions! The sixteen year-old singer & classical pianist from Peckham, South East London, performed Powerful, winning over three out of the four judges, and picking American singer Jennifer Hudson as her coach. So who is […]

Today Forbes published their “30 under 30” lists, one for Europe & another for North America, featuring 1200 young stars under 30-years-old from 20 industries. From art & culture to science & entrepreneurship, the annual lists for Europe & North America are decided by experts and overwhelmingly successful individuals. Here are the influential Tamils from […]

Today Canada’s Tamil community mourn the passing of a hero. In 1986 Shipping boat Captain Augustus Dalton saved 155 Tamil refugees stranded at sea. After 13 days on a cargo ship, the refugees were abandoned in two lifeboats in the Atlantic Ocean. Without food or water they remained on the lifeboats for a further three […]

Aziz Ansari accepts the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The popular American comedian, co-creator & star of “Master of None”, whose parents emigrated from Tamil Nadu in Southern India, became the first actor of Asian descent to win […]

It pays to take public transportation. Not only is it good for the environment, but it could improve your job prospects, as it did for Jeenu Mahadevan, who was discovered on a bus in Oslo by a designer and signed thereafter to a modeling agency. The 19-year-old scored some great assignments his first season out; […]

One of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, Tamil is spoken by over 70 million native speakers within the Indian subcontinent and across the globe. Tamil is an official language in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Sri Lanka, and Singapore, and is also prevalent in Malaysia. Microsoft are excited to announce that Microsoft Translator now supports […]

Is Padman based on the achievements of Arunachalam Muruganantham from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu? A social entrepreneur who went to extraordinary lengths to invent low-cost sanitary napkins for women in rural India? It seems that the life of Arunachalam has been romanticised & immortalised in the upcoming Bollywood film “Padman” by Tamil Nadu born Bollywood […]

This huge gathering of sperm whales was captured off Sri Lanka’s northeast coast by Tony Wu (US). A specialist in photographing sperm whales, the image titled “The giant gathering” was the “Behaviour: Mammals” category winner at this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) competition. Very rarely have such scenes been witnessed by cameras. The […]