On the 4th November, Five British Tamils of Eelam heritage, embarked on a challenge to run from the London Eye to the Eiffel Tower in under 48 hours to raise £10,000 for charities serving the Tamil community in the motherland. Vikaash Rasalingam, Mathujan Jeyapalan, Anesh Kajenthiran, Vinushan Jeyakumar, Sivakaran Aynkaramoorthy ran a combined distance of […]
READ MOREAn exhibition of Sri Lanka’s war memory opens at the Harrow Arts Centre in West London. British Tamil artist Sabes Sugunasabesan, presents Kunkumam from the 15th April till 1st May, featuring photographs, text, objects from the war zone and a film by Tilaxan Tharmapalan. Kunkumam the crimson powder symbolises wisdom and blessings. Tamil women wear […]
READ MOREMagizhan Santhors Teams Up with Budapest Symphonic Orchestra for Tribute to Eelam Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. British Tamil music producer and composer Magizhan Santhors (மகிழன்) has partnered with the Budapest Symphonic Orchestra to create a poignant tribute to Eelam Tamil national leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and the fallen soldiers of Eelam. Born in Alaveddy, Jaffna, Santhors’ early […]
READ MOREBritish Tamil artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas has a new exhibition in London (Institute of Contemporary Arts) and Berlin, which opened in October and runs till January 2023. Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Another World explores an alternative approach to technology through the prism of the defeated revolutionary struggle for an independent Tamil homeland. Developed together with longtime […]
READ MOREIt’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, […]
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