By D.B.S.Jeyaraj (Ms.Jayalalithaa Jayaram was born on February 24th 1948. This article written in 2023 for the “Spotlight” film affairs column in the “Daily Financial Times” is re-posted here to ...

The first part of this article titled “Black July; Anatomy of an Anti-Tamil Pogrom” was a brief overview of the horrific anti-Tamil violence that engulfed the Sri Lankan nation in July 1983. The ...

Chemmani, a sparsely populated area in the northern peninsula of Jaffna has in recent times acquired a somewhat dubious image. Just as Nallur in Jaffna is associated positively in public perception ...

As is well-known , widespread anti-Tamil violence erupted forty -two years ago during the fourth week of July in 1983.Although the tragic history of post-independence Sri Lanka records that the Tamils ...

The Chemmani mass grave site in Jaffna district,which has drawn domestic and international attention, is putting to test the Anura Kumara Dissanayake government’s pledge to address Tamil people’s ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin’s Brother Mu.Ka. Muthu Passes Away in Chennai at the age of 77; DMK leader Kalaigner Karunanidhi’s eldest son Muthu was a Singer and Film Actor Who Tried to Emulate ...

Don Bradman bestrode the world of cricket like a Colossus in the mid-twentieth Century. He became the toast of Cricket lovers in the then British Empire after he scored an unbeaten 452 for New South ...

The first major assassination of a prominent political leader in Sri Lanka known formerly as Ceylon was in September 1959. The Country was shocked when the serving Prime minister SWRD Bandaranaike was ...

By P.M.Amza (The writer is former Sri Lanka Ambassador to EU, Belgium, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and former Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai.) For successive Sri Lankan Governments and the people of ...

Veteran actor B Saroja Devi, known for her work in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu cinema, breathed her last at the age of 87 on Monday (July 14) in Bengaluru.. The actor was reportedly suffering from ...