Photographs BattiNews Tamils on the island of Puliyentheevu in Batticaloa gathered today to celebrate Midnight Mass despite heavy rains and flooding causing mass displacement across the East.
The London Metropolitan University held its annual ‘Breaking The Silence’ awareness raising exhibition on December 9, highlighting the ongoing genocide committed against Tamils in Sri Lanka. The exhibition, displaying posters highlighting genocidal processes and mass atrocities committed against Tamils, was organised by the London Metropolitan University Tamil Society (LMTS) outside the university undergraduate office. The exhibition attracted interest from several students, who left messages expressing solidarity with the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. "We as a committee wanted to raise...
Kings College London held its annual 'Breaking the Silence' exhibition on the November 20, to raise awareness among fellow students of the human rights violations and mass atrocities committed against Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. The exhibition, located in the university's ‘The Spit’ - a bustling area where students pass en route to the lecture theatres, was run by members of the KCL Tamil Society. The atrocities, including torture, sexual violence, enforced disappearance, war crimes and genocide, were exhibited through posters, paintings and a visual timeline of key events during the ethnic...
A young Tamil footballer from Ilford, will have the opportunity to train with Premier League talent scouts after winning a national football competition last month. After being ranked first out of over 500 footballing applicants in the under-16 category, Raj Vijayarajah, will be given the chance to train at the English Football Association’s St George’s Centre of Excellence.
Cardiff Tamil Society kicked off this year's Breaking the Silence campaign by holding a week long exhibition, raising awareness of the ongoing genocide committed against Tamils in Sri Lanka. Organised in collaboration with the university's Amnesty International society, the campaign outlined the ongoing genocide and human rights abuses of the Tamil nation through a combination of posters, artwork, and informative conversation. The exhibition, held at the IV Lounge, Neuadd Merionydd building in the Heath Park campus and at the Cardiff University Law School, drew the attention of dozens of...
Photography - Soozana Pvan Over 100 Tamil students and top professionals from several key industries came together for the UK Tamil Students Union's (UK TSU) careers event - Careers Network 2014 on October 30. Part of UKTSU's Careers Development Scheme, the event which was launched last year, offers aspiring school students one to one mentorship for UCAS applications, careers talks at schools throughout London and one to one interview preparation. Over 30 professionals from UKTSU’s network attended the event to provide free advice, work placement opportunities and CV guidance to the students...
The Barts and the London University Tamil Society and the university's Language and Culture Society, joined forced to host a ‘Basic skills in the Tamil language’ workshop on October 6th. The workshop looked to promote the language Tamil, emphasising its importance even in modern society, becoming one of the most common languages spoken in areas such as East London. This also looked to tackle the growing issue of an ageing population becoming more dependent on Tamil speaking doctors and medical students, and thus by promoting a better understanding of the language enables these medical...
Canada's York University has established the country's first ever scholarship graduate award in Tamil studies last month. The N. Sivalingam Award in Tamil Studies was founded by the university's alumni couple, Harini Sivalingam and Gary Anandasangaree, in memory of Ms Sivalingam's father. The Sivalingam award is intended to encourage and promote research on Tamil language, history, culture, society or the Tamil diaspora, the university said . N Sivalingam (Photo: York University) “When my sister and I were growing up in Toronto, my father encouraged us to take Tamil language classes,...
Photographs TSI The Tamil Students Initiative (TSI), a network of UK university Tamil societies, held its ‘True Potential’ university entrance personal statement workshop last month. Held at Kings College London, the event saw current university students mentor school students into how to write an effective personal statement and go on to successfully secure a place at university. This year's workshop, which follows the extremely successful event last year, was held in collaboration with Tamil Societies from across the UK - including Cambridge, Imperial, Kings, LSE, UCL, and others...
Tamils remembered the death of Lt. Col. Thileepan last month, 27 years on, staging symbolic fasts and holding remembrance events around the world. Thileepan began a fast unto death on September 15, calling on the Indian government to honour pledges made to the Tamil people. He died on the 26th September 1987. See more here. Students at the University of Jaffna held a memorial event on the 27th death anniversary of hunger striker Lt Col Thileepan. See more here . Jaffna In Canada a symbolic hunger strike began at the Kandasamy temple hall, along side dance and music events remembering...