With the dawn of independence and the cultural renaissance that followed, the Ceylon Tamil Women’s Union launched the Kalalaya School of Dance and Music, on September 1, 1948. This “temple of art”, ...

Both had escaped Sri Lanka’s wantonly vicious civil ... They forcibly conscripted thousands of Tamil youths. Their bombings of temples, trains, buses, and airplanes amounted to unambiguous ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrates the naming of a cultural centre in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, after the Tamil poet and saint, Thiruvalluvar. This act symbolizes the strong cultural ties between India ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill ... Now, even observing festivals at our temple has become difficult,” he says.

A strong backlash from politicians and intellectuals in Jaffna, over the renaming the India-built Jaffna Cultural Centre ... spiralled in Tamil media in Sri Lanka and social media platforms ...