A song written by P.B. Illangasinghe and ... that Tamil is both an official and national language of Sri Lanka. The elevation of Tamil as an official language provided greater impetus for the ...

The LTTE was an armed group dominant in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka that fought to establish an independent Tamil state for nearly three decades, until its definitive defeat ...

For singer Srinivas, Sri Lanka is familiar performance ... apart from a couple of Srinivas’s own hits in Tamil. “I am at my happiest while performing songs of Kishore Kumar and Mehdi ...

R. Sampanthan, Face of the Tamil Minority's Campaign for Autonomy After Sri Lanka's Civil War, Dies COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, an ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker who ...

Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its DiasporasEdited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett.Penguin Random House.Pages 424.