Canada and America
Radheyan Simonpillai: Seek out the movies that represent you
If one were to do a word association game with the words “cinema” or “movies”, some of the responses might include “popcorn”, “date night”, “entertainment”, or “leisure”. Something along those lines. But what it most likely wouldn’t include, is something like “job”, “hard work”, or “career”. At least for the majority. But not for Radheyan […]
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Tamil Canadians are Leading the way, propagating the Tamil cultural identity
It looks like Canada, in particular Toronto is leading the way in propagating the Tamil cultural identity with numerous ground breaking projects that have surfaced only in the last few years. The annual Tamil street festival known as “Tamil Fest” which takes place in the height of summer and now in its third year attracts […]
READ MOREAnirudh in London for BBC Asian Nework Live
Tamil music composer and singer Anirudh joins an awesome line up of talented artists to perform at the second ever “BBC Asian Network Live”, taking place on the 25th February 2017 at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. Anirudh will be the first Kollywood artist to join the BBC Asian network line up featuring British Asian […]
READ MOREPoetry after Libricide and Genocide: In Conversation with Cheran
SOAS Tamil Society is very excited to announce a special end-of-year event with the esteemed Eelam (Sri Lanka[n]) Tamil poet Cheran, who will be flying over from Canada. He will deliver a lecture as well as perform readings from some of his best known poems (in both their original Tamil as well as English), and […]
READ MOREKandam | UK premiere of Tamil independent film by Pras Lingam
Kandam is a science-fiction thriller by Canadian Tamil film director Pras Lingam. Based on the premise of the existence of the continent of Kumari Kandam and the prevalence of Tamil civilization in antediluvian times, Kandam is set to premiere in various cities across Europe this December followed by a Asia wide premiere in January. The Toronto […]
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