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Chennai-based designer Vivek Karunakaran’s latest collection Idam (Tamil for ‘place’), which debuted in Feb at the FDCI India ...
The Tamil Nadu government's replacing the rupee symbol with 'Ru,' the first letter of 'Rubaai' that denotes the national ...
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 ... The family made sure the Virakesari name ...
The letter was written in December by All Ceylon ... The working class must oppose this racist campaign and fight for the unity of Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim workers to defend the social and ...
Stick No Bills - was developed as the bespoke Libre typeface of Stick No Bills Poster Gallery in Galle, Sri Lanka. The font supports Latin, Sinhala and Tamil languages. Martyn Hodges developed the ...
which was traditionally used by Tamil-speaking Hindus to worship Athi Shivan Iyanar, are some of the widely-discussed instances of Sinhala-Buddhisisation. Pointing out how the DoA focusses ...
On January 19 ITAK began an anti-Sri campaign in the northeast. Vehicles began running with Tamil letters. The ‘Sinhala’ Sri was changed into the Sanskrit derived ‘Shree’ .A counter-campaign began in ...
Saturday, April 13 marked the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, one of Sri Lanka’s main cultural holidays. Commonly known as “Avurudu” in Sinhala and as “Puthandu” or “Puththandu” in Tamil, the celebration ...
Teachers perform traditional folk dances for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, a traditional festival to be observed on the coming weekend, at a school in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 9, 2024.
Immediately after independence, a reckless policy to make Sinhala the sole official language was implemented, negatively impacting the status of other minority languages, especially Tamil.
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its DiasporasEdited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett.Penguin Random House.Pages 424.
This paper presents the first ever empirical evaluation carried out to identify the best unsupervised word alignment technique for Sinhala and Tamil. It also presents ... parallel text from annual ...