The lives of Tamils in Lanka should be protected.

The Congress-DMK combine has constantly deceived the people. They have neither safeguarded Tamils in India nor those in Sri Lanka.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like…

— M.I.A

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

— M.I.A

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

— M.I.A

“Slavery is said to have been unknown among the Tamils”. But”

— Dr Manoranjithamoni

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

— M.I.A

I was born in Sri Lanka.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your…

— M.I.A

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go…

— John Burdett

I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and…

— M.I.A

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

— Shoojit Sircar

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places,…

— Martin Jacques

I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not…

— M.I.A

Mum came to Crawley from Sri Lanka at 19 after marrying my dad. Later, Dad had financial problems and they split for a while.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into…

— Julia Sawalha