Tamil

Prabhakaran had come to personify the movement, and his end, so wretched, became the emblem of Tamil defeat and Sinhalese triumph.

The former Tamil bastions in the north and east continue to be exposed to arbitrary violence by Sri Lankan authorities.

Earlier this year, I spoke to a Sri Lankan lawyer who has helped Tamil families flee the island.

Months after the Kumbakonam tragedy, a far greater one slammed into the Tamil Nadu coast: the tsunami of December 2004.

Following the Kumbakonam deaths, the Tamil Nadu government banned thatched roofs, and the schools were now building concrete ones.

Will ye present your belts and weapons to the Great Tamil as a peace offering?

The Great Tamil would know why ye dared to land upon his sacred shores?

"The Great Tamil commands his prisoners to appear before him again," he cried.

The words had scarcely passed his lips when Denviers rushed forward and snatched the mask from the Tamil sitting there!

She was extremely intelligent, and spoke Tamil such as one reads in books set for examination.