In Tamil Nadu, the school education of the Tamil Muslims is above average compared to general literacy level.

This brought prosperity to the Tamil Muslim community.

They are determined to limit Hindu Tamil power in Sri Lankan affairs and encourage the country's leaders to make few concessions to Tamil autonomy.

360 degree view Being the oldest and important mosque in Tamil Nadu, Kazimar Big Mosque is listed in the 360 degree view list of Tamil daily Dinamalar's web site.

July 15 Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The song Cinema Cinema commemorates the 75th anniversary of Tamil cinema.

Tamil is a south Indian language, and I said, can Tamil speaking children in a south Indian village learn the biotechnology of DNA replication in English from a streetside computer?

Tamil Nadu s voters, who supported the scheme at election time, silenced the critics.

The world's first Tamil Islamic Literature Conference was held in Trichy in 1973.

The ad proclaims that the Dappankuthu is an energetic dance prominent in Tamil cinema.

Vandayarriruppu is a village in the Orathanadu taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Vanduvancheri is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Vaniyakarambai is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

In 2007, Saran starred in Sivaji , the highest grossing Tamil film at that time.

Peace came about only with the total and unconditional defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels.

Vannakkudi is a village in the Thiruvidaimarudur taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, in India.

His six most important shrines in India are the Arupadaiveedu temples, located in Tamil Nadu.

Thousands of Tamil Tiger fighters have deserted. A rebel army has dwindled to a fanatical few.

Generally Tamil Muslims are involved in various trades like retail, mutton shops, shops in foreign bazaar.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

Rajapaksa was wise to speak a few words in Tamil while announcing the victory over the Tigers.

Indeed, no effort should be spared to get skeptical Tamil groups to participate in the forthcoming peacemaking.

In early 2000. the Department of Tamil Islamic Literature was set up in the University of Madras.

Thereafter, his father sent him to an area controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Now lakhs of Tamil Muslims are spread over in GCC countries and also in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.

BRUSSELS Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country s Tamil minority.

But Sri Lanka was hit equally hard by the tsunami, and since then the Sinhalese Tamil conflict has worsened.

For two thousand years, they had to defend themselves against attacks by expansionist Tamil kingdoms from the Indian mainland.

But the adjournment did not come before a routine courtesy greeting to the visiting Speaker of Sri Lanka s parliament was interrupted by Tamil MPs from a regional party, who rose to their feet to shout demands for his expulsion because of his government s behavior towards that country s Tamil minority.

In some regions, e.g., Mysore (Karnataka), Madras (Tamil Nadu) and Uttar Pradesh, some lower castes occupy higher economic positions than high castes.

The Tamil Tigers led a ruthless campaign for an independent territory against Sri Lanka s government for most of the past three decades.

It is also wrong to conflate Islamic terrorism with that of the Basque ETA, Sri Lanka s Tamil Tigers, or the Irish Republican Army.

But if Sri Lanka s President Mahinda Rajapaksa wants to eliminate the spirit of Tamil separatism, he must emulate Singh s culture of political moderation.

Similarly, northern Sri Lanka is the main battleground for the long running conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The epic Seerapuranam by Umaru Pulavar is dated to the 17th century and still considered as the crowning achievement of Tamil Muslim literature.

I've seen them do it from a village called Diggles in northwestern England, deep inside a village in Tamil Nadu, India, 6,000 miles away.

So Rajapaksa must offer the Tamil people a political compromise, perhaps including some cabinet positions, as well as the promise of a revived economy.

There is a substantial diaspora of Tamil Muslims, particularly in South East Asia, which has seen their presence as early as the 13th century.

The earliest Tamil Muslim literary works could be traced to the 14th century in the form of Palsanthmalai, a small work of eight stanzas.

Long years of mediation and endless peace proposals in the Sri Lanka conflict failed to end the war and the devastation of entire Tamil communities.

Terrorism and human rights were discussed in the context of the struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

Yet the United Nations estimates that more than 7,000 noncombatants were killed in the final months of the war as government forces overran Tamil Tiger bases.

It was purely coincidental that the extremist Tamil Tigers leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed and his movement decimated at the same time as India was voting.

They killed not only government officials, but often Tamil leaders willing to explore compromise solutions with the government, as well as civilians from all ethnic groups.