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Australian Tamil writer Shankari Chandran wins the 2023 Miles Franklin award for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, which draws on Sri Lanka’s civil war and the experiences of its refugee diaspora — specifically, the Tamil ethnic minority. The London born, Canberra raised author, human rights lawyer and mother of four, picked up Australia’s prestigious literary […]

London - UK

Sat 14th Jan 2023

12:00 - 20:00

Pongal Feast is back at Gopal’s Corner in London, celebrating Thai Pongal, Tamil Heritage Month and Veganuary. On Saturday 14th January 2023, Gopal’s Corner & Market Halls are hosting a bottomless vegan ‘Pongal Feast’ at their branch in Oxford Street, London. This annual event is to mark Veganuary, Tamil Heritage Month in London, and Thai Pongal – […]

British Tamil Subaskaran Allirajah, the founder of London based Lyca mobile and Chennai based Lyca Productions has a lot to celebrate. His latest film “Ponniyin Selvan” is breaking box office records. Within a few months of its release, the film has become the second highest grossing Tamil film in history. At Last week’s PS-1 success […]

It’s been an eventful year for Australian Tamil S.Shakthidharan, the director and author behind the award winning play “Counting and Cracking”, which played Edinburgh Fringe and Birmingham Rec in August. The play which centred around the early days of Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict, with dialogue in Tamil, Sinhalese and English, infused with live Carnatic music, […]

Performed in English, Tamil and Sinhalese, ‘Counting and Cracking’, an award winning play by renowned Australian Tamil theatre director and filmmaker S. Shakthidharan, comes to the UK this summer. “Powerful epic of love and war, exile and reconciliation” The Australian “Truly groundbreaking and magnificent theatre” Stage Whispers “Contender for the best play of the year. […]