Introducing Tamil as a second language for Sri Lanka Army We have been in a war for a period of more than 3 decades. Approximately 95% of the battle zone is located within Tamil speaking territory. Few hundred thousand civilians are living in this territory. Most of them are Tamil speaking and directly affected by the fighting. There were number of offensive missions and humanitarian missions that had been carried out in this area in order to maintain law and order and to rescue innocent Tamil speaking
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) waged war against the government of Sri Lanka for 33 years. Being a minority group in a nation that has a long history of Western colonization‚ prompted the LTTE to lash out against the Sinhalese majority in the years following the country’s independence in 1948. Throughout the 1970s‚ the group began using acts of violence‚ while undergoing a couple of name changes‚ until 1976 when the group formally became the LTTE. Shortly after their establishment‚ the
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ORGANIZATION CULTURE AT SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAAN STATE PROJECT SET-UP‚ TAMIL NADU A STUDY conducted by Dr. G. Revathi Loyola Institute of Business Administration Loyola College Chennai 600 034 2008 i ABSTRACT The culture of any organization‚ although it can be variously defined‚ includes the shared norms and values that guide organizational participants’ behaviour. The Management of the SSA State Project office‚ Tamil Nadu commissioned this study to understand the organization’s
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Environmental and Ecological Concerns in Sri Lankan Tamil Fiction: A Study on Selected Pieces - Dr. Kandiah Shriganeshan‚ Senior Lecturer‚ English Language Teaching Centre‚ University of Jaffna‚ ‚ Sri Lanka Destruction of the environment and natural resources is the main danger that the modern world has to face. There is an urgent need for institutional reform within modern society to safeguard the environmental resources and to maintain the ecological balance. Environmental sociologists have different
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The FBI in 2007 revealed… “..The Tamil Tigers are among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world..” [1] BLACK TIGER Suicide Bombers of the Tamil Tigers “…The LTTE had perfected the use of suicide bombers; invented the suicide belt; pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks; murdered some 4‚000 people in the past two years alone; and assassinated two world leaders - the only terrorist organization to do so...” [1] “…The
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Malayalam is an Indian language which is mainly spoken in the state of Kerala. It is one of the main languages in India and was declared as a classical language by the Government in 2013. Malayalam belongs to the Dravidian family of Languages. It shares a close relationship and resemblance with Tamil language. Many language experts have postulated that a primeval form of common language which included both Tamil and Malayalam called Proto-Tamil Malayalam which later disintegrated over a period of
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Old Tamil[edit] The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from around the 2nd century BCE in caves and on pottery. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil Brahmi. The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam‚ an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics‚ whose oldest layers could be as old as the 1st century BC. A large number of literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2‚381 poems collectively known as
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Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷam‚ pronounced [mɐləjaːɭɐm]( listen))‚ is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Mahé. It is spoken by 35.9 million people.[1] Malayalam is also spoken in the Nilgiris district‚ Kanyakumari district and Coimbatore of Tamil Nadu‚ Dakshina Kannada‚ Bangalore and Kodagu districts of Karnataka.[1][5][6][7] Overseas it
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Hokkien‚ Cantonese‚ and Hakka and have been historically played an important role in trade and business. The Indians descent comprises about 7% of the population in Malaysia which are mainly Hindu Tamils. They speak Tamil‚ Malayalam and others and live in the peninsula. The country’s official language in Malaysia is Malay‚ but English is widely spoken. Although people often said that Malaysia is a peaceful country‚ but communities are still largely separate‚ and things are not always so calm.
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The Yajur Veda is related to yajna‚ which is not just sacrifice‚ but also means creative reality. The mantras (verse with archetypal meanings) of the Rig Veda are adapted to certain melodies and this collection is named Sama Veda‚ and the Atharva Veda deals with the peace and prosperity of human society and is concerned with the daily life of man. Vedic ritual is preserved in literary texts called the Brahmanas. The main division of the contexts of these extensive texts is twofold – the ritualistic
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