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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 […]

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 […]

London - UK

Wed 29th Nov 2017

Marking 70 years of India’s Independence, violin icon Dr L Subramaniam presents his new work, the Bharat Symphony in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra. The work symbolizes the four major periods of Indian heritage: the Prehistoric Vedic period; the Mughal period; the British period and finally, the post-Independence modern period. Incorporating melodic chants from […]

London - UK

Sat 25th Nov 2017

In a special screening and discussion event for Being A Man festival, actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan reflects on his extraordinary journey from being a migrant displaced by Sri Lanka’s civil war, to seeking political asylum in France, and then becoming the critically acclaimed star of Jacques Audiard’s 2016 Palme d’Or winning film, Dheepan. Dheepan tells the […]