Tag Posts: Tamils
Tamil Diaspora Music: Vaanu And Her Flying Dodos
After 1727, waves of Tamil immigrants entered Mauritius from Southern India. The first to arrive were merchants and masons during the French rule, followed by a wave of labourers brought in during the British period to work their sugar cane plantations. Today, the island nation is home to roughly 115,000 Tamilians, who have established a […]
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S.Nirujan teams up with Shreya Ghoshal for his dream project “Theeya”, an independent Tamil song
A few weeks ago the independent singer S.Nirujan announced on social media his collaboration with India’s iconic playback singer Shreya Ghoshal. Today he released the stunning music video to “Theeya”, his dream project which brings together Shreya Goshal and other talent from across Europe including CJ Germany & Sophia Akkara who star in the video. […]
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Is this Tamil man Singapore’s next prime minister?
In an recent online poll commissioned by Yahoo Singapore, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a clear favourite to succeed Lee Hsien Loong as Singapore’s next Prime Minister. 69 per cent of the 897 Singaporeans who participated in the survey said they would support Tharman, a member of Singapore’s Ceylonese community (another name for the […]
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Tamil television show gains exclusive interview with Jaguar Land Rover’s Siva Yogaiswaran
Vettrippadi is a new Tamil television show conceptualised by London based journalist and producer Sunita Thevathasan of Red Creative Productions. Sunita is currently in the process of presenting her pilot to Tamil television channels in India, Sri Lanka & the diaspora. வெற்றிப்படி Vettrippadi, translates to ‘The ladder of success’. The show is presented in by […]
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Tamil Filmmakers, Please Stop Portraying Stalking As Cool!
The portrayal of women chased and harassed by spurned lovers in south Indian films has made stalking a “cool, romantic thing to do” activists said on Tuesday, urging the film industry to stop glorifying a crime that has resulted in violent deaths. “Tamil films routinely promote stalking as an acceptable, even preferred way of wooing […]
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