Picture: Tamil Guardian The Tamil Eelam national football team has concluded its training camp in the Norwegian capital Oslo, ahead of the World Football Cup in Sweden, commencing on Sunday.
Pictures: Tamil Guardian The national football team of Tamil Eelam has arrived in Sweden for the ConIFA World Football Cup. Players and staff attended the opening ceremony in the town of Ostersund, along with the other teams playing in the tournament.
During this month of May, as Tamils remember their loved ones that were killed as the armed conflict ended in 2009, we publish selected Poems from the classical Tamil anthology, the Purananuru (the 400 Puram poems) as we have done in previous years. This is the last in our collection this year. Song 192 - Kaniyan Poonkunran sings Tinai – Potuviyal (General heroism) Every Town a Home Town Every town a home town every man a kinsman. Good and evil do not come from others. Pain and relief of pain come of themselves. Dying is nothing new. We do not rejoice That life is sweet nor in anger call it...
During this month of May, as Tamils remember their loved ones that were killed as the armed conflict ended in 2009, we publish selected Poems from the classical Tamil anthology, the Purananuru (the 400 Puram poems) as we have done in previous years. Song 112 - Pari’s daughters sing (on the death of Pari) Tinai - Potuviyal (General heroism) That month That month In that white moonlight we had our father and no one could take the hill This month in this white moonlight kings with drums drumming victory have taken over the hill and we have no father Collection: In Memoriam - Songs from the...
During this month of May, as Tamils remember their loved ones that were killed as the armed conflict ended in 2009, we publish selected Poems from the classical Tamil anthology, the Purananuru (the 400 Puram poems) as we have done in previous years. The following poem is extracted from the ‘Urn poem’, written by an anonymous poet and translated by A.K. Ramanujan in his anthology the 'Poems of Love and War'. Song 256 – An Urn for Burial Tinai: Potuviyal An Urn for Burial Potter O Potter, I have come with him through narrow places like a tiny white lizard hugging the spoke of a cart wheel Be...
During this month of May, as Tamils remember their loved ones that were killed as the armed conflict ended in 2009, we publish selected Poems from the classical Tamil anthology, the Purananuru (the 400 Puram poems) as we have done in previous years. Puram refers to the exterior, public or outer – and so the Purananuru contains the Poems of War, and external life, as opposed to the Akam which refers to the interior, including the Poems of Love. The following poem is extracted from the ‘Poems of Love and War’ by A.K. Ramanujan Song 356 – Kattayan Kannanar sings Tinai – Kanci (the transience of...
Photograph MIT Kogularamanan Suntharalingam, a young Tamil academic from London, has been awarded the 2014 Dalton Young Researchers Award in Chemistry by the Royal Society for Chemistry for his contribution to the design, development and understanding of new metallo-pharmaceuticals. Kogularamanan, known as Rama, currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. "In the near future I hope to return to the UK as an assistant professor," Rama told the Tamil Guardian via email from the US. He received a first class MSci and a PhD in Chemistry from...
Preparations are underway as Tamil Eelam Football Association (TEFA) gets ready for the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA) World Championship beginning next month. Tamil Eelam Football Association (TEFA) logo depicting a leopard, the national animal. Players from the around the world are getting their kit on and training hard for the international football tournament that will be played from 01-08 June 2014 in Sweden. Competing along side Tamil Eelam, will be Aramean Suryoye, Ellan Vannin, Zanzibar, Sapmi, Abkhazia, Quebec, Kurdistan, Darfur United, Padania, Occitania...
; (Pictures: KUTS) Kingston University Tamil Society held the first ‘Breaking the Silence’ event of 2014 earlier this month. Tamil students from the university organised an exhibition at the main campus of the university in south London detailing aspects of the genocide and war crimes that occurred during the armed conflict. Award-winning documentary “No Fire Zone” was also played to students and faculty members at the university. Breaking the Silence is a project to raise awareness about Tamil rights issues, organised by Tamil student societies in universities across London, for over 5 years...
In the second part of the 'Unrestricted' series, a discussion forum by the Tamil Students Initiative (TSI) aimed at stimulating dialogue within the Tamil community on subjects often considered taboo, students across London gathered together to discuss caste and religion. Following on from the success of the first session on sexuality and gender identity, the event, hosted by Imperial Tamil Society, began this time with guest speaker Sinthujan Varatharajah who recapped the long and uncomfortable history of the caste system within the Tamil community , including its origins and cultural impacts...