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Following a string of impressive first-team appearances for Barnsley Football Club since his debut in August 2023, 17–year-old all-round central midfielder Vimal Yoganthan has signed a professional contract with the club for two and half years. Vimal becomes the first professional footballer from the British Tamil community to play in English football. The midfielder said, “It’s […]

In the King’s 2024 New year Honours list, British Tamil Engineer Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan has been appointed an OBE for services to innovation technology and the promotion of STEM subjects in Education. Based in Cambridge, The enterprise fellow at Girton College founded award-winning PervasID in 2011. The multimillion-dollar global enterprise has pioneered the world’s most […]

Prito Itiacandy is a London based music producer and choreographer, who shot to fame on social media with his popular remixes of nostalgic AR Rahman classics that have racked up millions of views. TIPS Music, an Indian based music label who own the rights to many of the Tamil and Hindi hits he has worked […]

At the Under 15 English National Championships 2023 held in Nottingham on the 16th & 17th December, Sajan Senthuran claimed two gold medals. Hosted by Badminton England, the governing body for the sport across the nation, Senthuran was victorious in the open singles and doubles. In the open singles, Senthuran went through the competition without […]

British Tamil teenager and professional cricketer Amuruthaa Surenkumar, has been selected for England’s cricket team – Women U19s. 2023 has been an eventful year for the all-rounder from north London, with the latest news announced via the England Cricket Board. In July, at just 16-years-old, she was awarded her first senior contract with Sunrisers, after […]

An 8-year-old British Tamil school girl, who got into chess “accidentally”, is crowned best female player at European chess tournament in Zagreb, Croatia at the weekend. Bodhana Sivanandan from Harrow in north-west London, described as a ‘phenomenon,’ made Chess history after beating an international master 30 years her senior, and drew with a grandmaster. She […]

British Tamil Indhu Rubasingham has been appointed the artistic director of the National Theatre. The landmark London venue will get its first female director in its 60-year history. Indhu has been at the London Kiln Theatre (formerly the Tricycle) for over a decade and will replace the National’s current director Rufus Norris in 2025. Speaking […]

Roti King are opening their third site in London! We headed over to the friends and family night for a preview. The Tamil owned, London based Pan-Malaysian restaurant group, founded by Ipoh (Malaysia) born and raised chef Sugen Gopal, is set to open it’s third Roti King site in London following the success of their […]

2023 has been a wonderful year for Tamil bakers. Here are a few making their mark across Europe. Tharsiny “Thas” Thanendran, a 27-year-old Tamil baker and mechanical engineer from Copenhagen, reached the final of Den Store Bagedyst 2023, the Danish spin-off of The Great British Bake Off. Starting of her television cooking debut with a […]

Introducing Divesh Subaskaran and Adwitha Arumugam. The two Tamil stars have landed the lead roles in the current UK & Ireland tour of Life of Pi. Divesh, was born in Malaysia and raised in Singapore. He came to London four years ago after completing two years of military service in Singapore. Leading the show, Life […]