Culture & Community

Culture & Community

Latest news from and about the homeland

Eelam dancers
An Eelam Tamil dance group who won first place at the World of Dance Switzerland Championships last year, will now be heading to the World Championships in LA. The dancers, all Swiss-born Eelam Tamils, included: Samjutha Sadanandarajan (27 years old), Rashmiyaa Navanesan (26 years old), Archana Sachchithananthamoorthy (26 years old), Shamya Vallipuram (26 years old), Rethuga Jeevakanthan (30…

Canadian Tamil youth mark Students Uprising Day

Canadian Tamil youth mark the 38th anniversary of Pon. Sivakumaran with a football tournament in his memory. Photographs TYO-Canada Media

Genocide of Tamils highlighted in Germany

Tamil youth in Germany came together to hold a cultural event on Saturday, depicting the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Tamil Eelam's footballers welcomed back

Fans, friends and family await the players' arrival (Pictures GTYL)

Tamil Eelam dejected but not defeated

In the first of two play-off matches for 5th-8th place in the VIVA World Cup, Tamil Eelam suffered a heavy defeat by a rampant Occitanian side. In a lively encounter, Occitania managed to keep possession and condemn the Leopards to their worst defeat so far in the tournament.

Tamil Eelam makes international football debut



The Tamil Eelam Football squad. From left to right: Ragesh Nambiar, Menan Nagulendran, Gajan Premkumar, Pushpalingam Kandavanam, Sanjev Jayaingam, Janarthan Sadacharalingam, Lakshman Vairavamoorthy, Arun Vigneswararajah, Mahy Nambiar, Rathish Nalliah, RoshBiraveen Nallathamby, Kirishanth Thavarajah

Tamil Eelam prepares for first match at VIVA World Cup

The national team of Tamil Eelam trained for the first time for the VIVA World Cup 2012 in Erbil, Kurdistan, ahead of their first match against Raetia on Tuesday at 20:30 AST.

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