Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa will be meeting newly elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on June 3 where discussions regarding AIADMK cooperation with NDA within the Rajya Sabha are likely, reports the Hindu.

“Mr. Modi would certainly discuss the political situation post-elections with Ms. Jayalalithaa, given her high stature. The issue of cooperation in the Rajya Sabha where the NDA is way short of majority will likely be on the agenda,” a BJP leader reportedly said.

Malaysia’s opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) has slammed the deportation of three Tamil men to Sri Lanka as “most unacceptable”, warning that the men face torture in Sri Lanka.

DAP vice-chairman M Kulasegaran said earlier,

Tamil refugees have been left in a “state of fear” after Malaysian authorities deport three Tamil men to Sri Lanka last week and announce investigations into all refugees in the country under the premise of links to terrorism.

“Anything can happen at any time”, a Tamil refugee in Malaysia, Selvan (not his real name), told Tamil Guardian over the phone from Kuala Lumpur.

Over 6,000 Tamil refugees in the country were now living in fear that they too could be deported to Sri Lanka, said Selvan, fearing torture and violence at the hands of the Sri Lankan government on return.

“There are children, elderly, pregnant women, young people among us… The Malaysian government are treating us like illegal immigrants. We are from Mullivaikal, from the final battle [and] we came here injured”, he said, adding that the fear of being sent back to Sri Lanka was lingering over all those that escaped.

“The fear that we didn’t have there, we now have on Malaysian soil… we don’t know what will happen next," Selvan added.

As May draws to an end, and Tamils remember their loved ones, killed as the armed conflict ended in 2009, we publish the last in our collection of selected Poems from the classical Tamil anthology, the Purananuru (the 400 Puram poems).

Song 192 - Kaniyan Poonkunran sings
Tinai – Potuviyal (General heroism)

Every Town a Home Town

Every town a home town

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said it is “deeply concerned” over the fate of three Tamil men deported from Malaysia and forcibly returned to Sri Lanka warning that they are at risk of “serious harm”.

The three men were last reported as being held by the Terrorist Investigation Division in Kilinochchi.

The UNHCR, the body's refugee agency, said in a statement,