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.
This is her Tamil name, given because it describes her as she struck the Tamil mind.
The names employed in the Hebrew text of the Bible are said to be Tamil.
He then asks (in Tamil) for the pot containing the head, and for the toddy.
There is a Tamil proverb to the effect that a Kallan may come to be a Maravan.
A Tamil proverb has it that he who crushes the bud of the arka earns merit.
Dravidian people and language of southern India, 1734, from Pali Damila, from Sanskrit Dramila, variant of Dravida (see Dravidian).
