(Shreen Saroor is a peace and women’s rights activist and runs the Women’s Action Network (WAN) in Sri Lanka, a collective of women’s groups that empowers and advocates for women and women survivors ...

The JVP led NPP got the better of Tamil nationalist parties such as the Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi (ITAK), the Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) and the Ahila Ilankai Tamil Congress ...

Gamini gave an astounding performance acting as a Tamil in Sunil Ariyaratne’s ‘Sarungale’. He played Nadarajah, the Jaffna Tamil clerk in a story that highlighted both the anti-Tamil communal violence ...

(Popular Tamil film actor M. N. Nambiar who excelled in playing “villain”roles on screen was born on March 7th 1919. This article appearing in the “Spotlight” cinema Column of the “Daily FT” on ...

Sri Lanka known earlier as Ceylon has produced many journalists of a high calibre in the past.These excellent scribes writing in Sinhala, Tamil or English newspapers acquired a large readership and ...

Notorious drug trafficker and criminal gang leader Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne known as ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa,’ was shot dead in the No. 5 Magistrate’s Court within the Hulftsdorp Court Complex ...

(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 denote “Amma”s 77th ...

Sri Lanka’s premier political party representing the Tamils of the Northern and Eastern provinces is the Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi(ITAK)known in English as the Federal Party(FP). The ITAK is ...