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Eruthu Paar Kodi (Look the Flag is Rising) is a Tamil song, written by Puthuvai Rathinathurai, [17] sung at the hoisting of the Flag of Tamil Eelam. [18] As the most widely used song of the Tamils, it was used in the place of a national anthem by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [19] [20] The song was written during the Sri Lankan Civil ...
Sinamkol is the story of a Tamil Eelam soldier Amudhan, his incredible journey and tribunals, as he searches for his wife and daughter after being released from detention by the genocidal Sri Lankan regime. Parallelly, a Tamil family from diaspora visiting Tamil Eelam encounters troubles of post-war challenges.
Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிழீழம், tamiḻ īḻam; generally rendered outside Tamil-speaking areas as தமிழ் ஈழம்) is a proposed independent state that many Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Eelam Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka.
Parthipan joined the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) prior to the 1983 Black July anti-Tamil riots. [10] He was given the nom de guerre Thileepan. Injured in the stomach in May 1987 during the Vadamarachchi Operation (Operation Liberation), he became the LTTE's political leader for Jaffna peninsula.
Nesadurai Thirunesan (11 November 1949 – 10 January 2005; commonly known by the nom-de-guerre Shankar Rajee) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant and one of the founders of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students.
Baheerathakumar was recruited into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by his cousin Thileepan in 1984. [6] He took on the nom de guerre Theepan and codename Tango Papa. [6] He sometimes used the aliases Thavabalasingam or Sivatheeban. [6] Theepan served in Mahattaya's Vanni command. [6] He then joined Mahattaya's bodyguard unit. [6]
The tradition of Tamil music goes back to the earliest period of Tamil history. Many poems of the Sangam literature , the classical Tamil literature of the early common era , were set to music. There are various references to this ancient musical tradition found in the ancient Sangam books such as Ettuthokai and Pathupattu .
Thavil. A thavil (Tamil:தவில்) or tavil is a barrel-shaped percussion instrument from Tamil Nadu.It is also widely used in other South Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana) as well as in the North and East of Sri Lanka (in the Tamil majority area called Tamil Eelam).