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The hard work is paying off. British singer, songwriter, musician and producer Arjun Coomaraswamy has signed his first UK deal with a major mainstream record label. He announced the wonderful news on facebook whilst on his Australasia tour. The deal with Island Records UK, a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), was inked recently at the London headquarters. Arjun will join Island […]

Tamil stalking in Tamil films

The portrayal of women chased and harassed by spurned lovers in south Indian films has made stalking a “cool, romantic thing to do” activists said on Tuesday, urging the film industry to stop glorifying a crime that has resulted in violent deaths. “Tamil films routinely promote stalking as an acceptable, even preferred way of wooing […]

American Tamil comedian, writer & actor Aziz Ansari accepted his first Emmy last night alongside Alan Yang at the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. The award recognised their ‘Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series’ for the ‘Master of None’ episode ‘Parents’. The episode focused on the […]

Rachael Rajan drops her first English-Tamil fusion song. The British Tamil singer, songwriter & pianist has reworked the recent hit Sirikkadhey from the Kollywood film Remo. Whilst this is an unofficial version, the music video has been supported by Sony Music south with a tweet to their followers. The original song was produced by popular South Indian […]

Its been a busy year for Desmond Raj also known as DJ Mastermind from Malaysia. Aswell as managing a successful construction company out of Kuala Lumpur, the civil engineer cum international DJ returns regularly to his studio, Prodigy Lab, in his hometown Klang to teach budding deejays the art of mixing & turntabilism. In-between all this […]

Five young high school students, recipients of the 2016 National Student Poets accolade, were invited to the White House in recognition of their poetry skills. They delivered their poetry in front of their family and distinguished guests including the First Lady, Michelle Obama, who is also the honorary chairman of the President’s Committee on the […]

Joining the likes of George Alagiah, Tim Kash, Romesh Ranganthan & Maya Arulpragasam are four Tamil women who are in the British limelight this week. Do you know who they are? If you haven’t heard their names already, you will know after this article and most certainly by the end of the month. They star in three separate, blockbuster […]

St Patrick’s College Jaffna – Alumni Association UK hosted a wonderful week-long series of events, reuniting friends from across the globe and raising over £120,000 to benefit students in Jaffna. St Patrick’s College is located in Jaffna, north of Sri Lanka. In July 2016 the UK Alumni hosted a global reunion in London which was […]

In less than a week there have been 12 deaths on Britain’s beaches. 6 of those who died are Tamil men, from two separate tragedies, visiting the coast to enjoy the recent warm weather. Saturday 20th August 2016 (via Bournemouth echo) 37-year-old Katheeswaran died after getting into difficulty in the sea at Sandbanks, a busy […]

promotional music video for Sirikkadhey

British Tamilian Inno Genga has been spending some time in Chennai recently. Today it was announced that the popular, London based independent artist has featured on Anirudh Ravichander latest project. A collaboration between Inno & the Chennai based music producer has been anticipated for a while, especially after Inno performed at a string of Anirudh’s […]