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Tamil MP warns of Sri Lankan “state-sponsored erasure”

Oct 20, 2025

Vanni District parliamentarian Thurairasa Ravikaran has condemned what he described as a “deliberate act of Tamil erasure” by the Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology, after new display boards falsely linking the Tamil heritage site of Kurunthurmalai to Buddhist history were installed earlier this month.

The dead and the living

Oct 20, 2025

There was a time when it was the tradition of Eelam Tamils to regard the thuyilum illams, (LTTE cemeteries) where the heroes they saw as guardian deities rested, as temples.

Sri Lankan military conducts controversial blood donation drive in Mullaitivu

Oct 20, 2025

The Sri Lankan military has come under renewed criticism after organising a blood donation drive in Mullaitivu, a Tamil district that remains one of the most heavily militarised regions on the island.

ITAK presses Northern Governor to uphold local governance in Nallur Park dispute

Oct 19, 2025

ITAK Leader Sivagnanam urges Governor to address jurisdictional issues over Nallur Sangilian Park

Remembering Nimalarajan Mylvaganam 25 years on

Oct 19, 2025

Today marks 25 years since Tamil journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam was murdered in his Jaffna home.

Nimalarajan contributed to the BBC for over six years, as well as the Tamil daily Virakesari and Sinhala weekly Ravaya.

He was murdered as he was writing for the BBC at home one evening. According to the BBC,

His father was repeatedly knifed and his mother and young nephew badly injured by a hand grenade explosion in their sitting room.

Bison - Off game

Oct 18, 2025

Gopi Selva

Maari Selvaraj has written and directed some of the most memorable films for the Tamil industry in the last decade. His most recent feature ‘Vaazhai’ was one of the best of 2024 as well as amongst the director’s career. His latest film ‘Bison Kaalamaadan’ is a political sports drama with a heavy dose of gangster action starring Dhruv Vikram and Pasupathy.