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I was a brat when I was young. I studied in Ananda College first and then continued at Manipay and Jaffna Hindu Colleges. In my early twenties, I wasn’t doing anything meaningful with my life; hence, my parents told me to leave the house. I had no choice but to join the RAF to make […]

Congratulations to London based author & journalist Naman Ramachandran. After the success of his book ‘Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography’, Naman is back in the international spotlight. Naman is the screenwriter & executive producer of the english language period film, Brahman Naman, a coming-of-age-comedy set in 1980s India. The film premiered on Sunday at the internationally […]

American president Obama has called him ‘a trailblazer who personifies the best of America’. If he is nominated and sworn in as the Supreme Court Justice, Srinivasan, known as ‘Sri’, will break new ground as the country’s first Indian American justice. Within hours of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday, Sri Srinivasan’s name […]

For an upcoming feature on Nat Geo, American photographer Ami Vitale visited Sri Lanka. Here are a few behind the scenes images from her recent assignment which focuses heavily on the Tamil north and east of the island. The centre image was captured at the Tamil Hindu festival of Masi Magan in Point Pedro, Jaffna […]

A photo series featuring two ‪‎American‬ ‎Tamil‬ sisters has inspired a new social campaign celebrating dark skin ‪#‎unfairandlovely‬ In recent weeks, three students from the University of Texas, Austin, have launched a new campaign which has become a talking point on social media around the world. It was inspired by a project that Pax Jones, […]