Podcast appearances and mentions of sri lankan tamil

S. Shakthidharan's last play Counting and Cracking was a massive hit, an epic tale of one Sri Lankan Tamil family and their involvement in world-change events. Now he returns with The Wrong Gods, a story about a mother and daughter in India whose lives are about to be ripped apart by industrial agriculture. Should economic growth come at the cost of a sustainable and ancient way of life? Shakthi is joined by actor Radhika Mudaliyar. In the 40 years since their history-making perfect score that earned them a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games, figure skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have toured the globe presenting ice dancing spectaculars. Now, the pair plan to hang up their skates for good, following a farewell tour they are calling Torvill & Dean: Our Last Dance. First broadcast November 2024.

Vijay is an audio-visual and laser artist of Sri Lankan Tamil and Cornish descent, born in Naarm. His practice fuses analogue sound synthesis with cutting-edge creative technologies. Vijay is known for creating immersive environments under the moniker Xenosine. We chat about: A Glastonbury love storyFamily attempts to break up his parentsA Hell's Angel member ends racismLeaning into music as an identityExploration and play in creative practice The Melbourne Electronic Sound StudioBringing Oblation to lifeWorking with Pirashanna Thevarajah & Hari SivanesanDislocation and taking up spaceHosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate RobinsonGuest: Vijay ThillaimuthuMusic by: the Green TwinsEdited by: Maria Birch-MorungaSpecial thanks: The SubstationThis podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations. You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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"Queering the Air" on 3CR recently aired an insightful episode with our lovely guest, the gorgeous Kavitha Sivasamy, a beautiful yet powerful lawyer with a big heart who advocates for the LGBTIQA+ and CALD communities.Kavitha is a proud transgender woman of colour of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. She had been working as a lawyer for five years and in the legal sector for nearly nine years, with extensive experience in the community and not-for-profit sectors. Her work focused particularly on family violence, refugee law, asylum seeker experiences, LGBTIQA+ justice (especially the rights and freedoms of trans and gender-diverse people), and trauma-informed communication.We spoke with Kavitha up close and personal, delving into her life, her journey as a transwoman of colour and the impact of her work. In this special episode, we also discussed the significance of the 16 Days of Activism, in line with the global campaign to say no to gender-based violence. Kavitha shared her insights on how gender violence intersects with the experiences of trans and gender-diverse people, as well as how she continues to advocate for a safer, more inclusive society.Kavitha had recently moved to Melbourne from Canberra to launch and run a new program called Justice Q at the South-East Monash Legal Service (SMLS). Justice Q provides free legal advice and assistance to LGBTIQA+ people, with a special focus on the Casey, Cardinia, and Greater Dandenong regions, as well as the southeast corridor of Greater Metropolitan Melbourne. Prior to this, Kavitha had worked at Legal Aid ACT, Canberra Community Law, Slater and Gordon, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, and Playfair Visa and Migration Services, in addition to volunteering at numerous community legal centres while completing her studies at the University of Sydney.Outside of work, Kavitha loved spending time with her puppy and friends. She was also passionate about artistic and creative pursuits, having been a performer in Canberra before moving to Naarm. Earlier this year, she played a lead role in Bring It On: The Musical with the Canberra Philharmonic Society. Resources:101 on 16 Days of Activism (Quick guide to the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence | Respect Victoria)Healthy Relationship: https://www.transfemme.com.au/Song aired on today's podcast:Music by MadonnaEnjay Enjaami by Dhee ft Arivu and Santhosh NarayanGreedy by Tate McRae 

The BBC's Contains Strong Language festival has left British shores for the first time - and Australian arts and culture presenter Michael Cathcart hosts a special Front Row recorded on Gadigal land in Sydney in partnership with ABC and Red Room Poetry. Known as the Aussie Bob Dylan, singer Paul Kelly performs Going To The River With Dad from his forthcoming album Fever Longing Still. First nations poet Jazz Money reads from her latest collection Mark the Dawn - inspired by the stories of her Wiradjuri ancestors and her feelings of respect for the country around her. As Australia prepares to appoint a Poet Laureate, the British poet laureate Simon Armitage reads a sonnet which describes his childhood desire to dig all the way to Australia from his Yorkshire garden. And lawyer Shankari Chandran - whose novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens won Australia's most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award - reflects on how she draws on her Sri Lankan Tamil heritage to describe the trauma of war and detention of those seeking asylum. Presenter: Michael Cathcart Producer: Paula McGrath

We speak with the director of ‘Sing Sing', report from the Paralympics and meet Cynthia Shanmugalingam from Sri Lankan Tamil restaurant Rambutan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we meet Cynthia Shanmugalingam, the founder of Sri Lankan Tamil restaurant Rambutan in London's Borough Market to find out how she brings her memories and voice to the kitchen. Also in the programme, Monocle's Petri Burtsoff takes to the streets of Helsinki to sample some of the city's best culinary offerings and we sit down with Amayès Aouli, the head of Wine and Spirits at Bonhams auction house.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Weaponized starvation, bombing safe zones, the destruction of infrastructure including hospitals, libraries, schools… Using white phosphorous on people… sound familiar? In this episode we draw parallels between the genocide of the Tamil People in Sri-Lanka, which Israel was also involved in, and the current catastrophe in Gaza. So to guide us through this sad chapter in modern history, we have Dushyanthi Satchi - a licensed clinical psychotherapist and policy analyst. She has a Masters in both clinical work and international policy from Columbia University. She specializes in Gender-based violence, including Intimate partner violence, sex trafficking and honor killings. She is American from NY, and of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. She has been on CNN, NPR, and Oprah Daily. She currently has a clinical practice in NY and LA. You can find here here:   / dushyanthi_satchi  

In this episode, Kennethia and Nate interview Dr. Jennifer Noble. Dr. Jennifer Noble (Dr. Jenn) is a licensed psychologist, lover of adolescents and coach for parents of mixed race children. She is the creator of The Mixed Life Academy, an online coaching community for parents of mixed race kids helping them raise confident, resilient children. She has a private practice in Los Angeles where she works with teens, their parents, women of color, and other marginalized groups. She taught collegiate level psychology 15+ years. Her passion for identity freedom and the mixed race experience are fueled by her lived experience as an African American and Sri Lankan Tamil woman.

Sixty years ago, MLK declared “I have a dream”. As Australia votes on the Voice, we grapple with racism.  --- It's been 60 years since Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. ascended the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., declaring that “one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers – I have a dream today.”  More than half a century on from King's dream, where are we in Australia on the vexed question of race relations?   In this episode of Life & Faith, we speak to fellow CPXer Max Jeganathan, who's recently written about the Voice and his own experience of racism in Australia – according to him, the “least racist” country he's ever lived in.   Max was born into a Sri Lankan Tamil family with close personal experience of the Black July riots of 1983, a government-sanctioned program of racial discrimination against minority Tamils. His family wound up in Australia as humanitarian refugees.   While Max is very positive about growing up in Australia, he's still experienced racism. Which provides a glimpse, perhaps, of the racial discrimination experienced by Aboriginal Australians on an ongoing basis.  --  Explore  Max's article on how the Voice is a question of love and moral imagination  Max's article on racism in light of the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King's speech  The Martin Luther King Jr. segment from For the love of God: How the church is better and worse than you ever imagined.  

Bestselling Minneapolis writer Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel “Romantic Comedy” is just that. A couple falls in love, then fall out, then … well, you will have to read it for yourself. However “Romantic Comedy” is about much, much, more. Here's a partial list: women, men, dating, aging, social media, the media in general, TV, communication, non-communication and of course, the pandemic. It's funny, but moving too. It's the story of Sally, a veteran writer on a familiar-sounding weekend late-night comedy show. “I wonder if maybe that show was ‘Saturday Night Live'? Which, which is it lightly inspired ‘Romantic Comedy.,'” Sittenfeld admitted during a recent visit to the MPR News studios. She was born two months before SNL's 1975 debut. “So it's been a feature of my entire life,” she said. Pandemic obsession She watched as a kid, then drifted away as life got busy with her career and family. She moved from St. Louis to Minneapolis in 2018. When COVID-19 hit, she says watching old SNL episodes became her family's pandemic hobby before morphing into an obsession. And she noticed something: how, over the years, several male cast members had ended up dating and then marrying female guest hosts. But never the other way around. She mused someone should write a screenplay turning the situation on its head. She thought it should be about a TV show where a writer creates a skit about a “sort of plain female writer and a smoking hot male celebrity, and then, you know, a guest who should come on the show, and she should maybe have chemistry or sparks with him.” Sittenfeld said. “And then a few months passed and I thought, ‘Oh, wait, maybe someone should write not a screenplay, but a novel and the someone should be me,'” she laughed. “So, and then I did.” Curative rage She had been struggling with another novel, but “Romantic Comedy” flowed really easily. It turns out all that SNL watching was actually vital research. Listen to Curtis Sittenfeld reading the opening of her novel "Romantic Comedy" by The first chapter describes her protagonist Sally opening her phone early one morning. It's blowing up with news about her office mate and fellow writer Danny. She thinks he's a dweeb although she loves him like a brother. He's splashed across the gossip pages, linked romantically to a film star who recently hosted their show. This enrages Sally. “But I also knew as I lay in bed glaring at the screen of my phone. Danny and Annabel's debut as a couple had occurred the night before in the form of making out at the club where Annabel's 24th Birthday had been held, that I would write about my fury, just as I always did, I turned my feelings into comedy. And that was how I cure myself.” So Sally writes the sketch about the woman writer and the hot male host. That same week Noah, a handsome sensitive singer-songwriter, turns up to guest host the show. Not only does he want to do the skit, he also seems interested in her. What could possibly go wrong? Well, everything of course. This is a romantic comedy. Puzzle of writing But it is also a Curtis Sittenfeld book where she dives deep into the human condition. During the part where they fall out, she tells their story through emails they exchange during the pandemic. It poses, she says, a romantic puzzle as they try to work out what the other person is actually saying. “If the entire section is in email, the reader is in the same position as the characters, where all the information that the characters have, the reader also has. So the reader can also be evaluating like, ‘I think that comment was kind of flirtatious,' or like, ‘I think he said that and she didn't pick up on it,' or ‘I think she was putting a feeler out there,'” Sittenfeld said. “Is this platonic buddies who are like bored during the shutdown? Or is this some potentially romantic connection?” Different kinds of writing Sittenfeld says ultimately “Romantic Comedy” explores several different kinds of writing: comedy sketches, pop songs, romantic emails. “The characters actually have this discussion, where they kind of are saying is, is your writing self, you know, like a truer self than your speaking self?” she said. “Or is it maybe a more artificial kind of composed self? Or is it just like a different self? I thought that it was just a way for them to kind of get to see a different side of each other during this shutdown, this sort of isolated vulnerable time.” Related stories In her 'deeply researched memoir,' writer Emily Strasser explores the history of nuclear weapons 'Brotherless Night' explores a young Sri Lankan Tamil woman's life, love and idealism set against civil war The Thread Books on MPR Curtis Sittenfeld will launch “Romantic Comedy” Monday at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis with a conversation with fellow author Julie Schumacher. Stittenfeld's been delighted with how the local literary community has welcomed her. “I was one time at a bar at a sort of writers' happy hour. And thought like, I'm in the presence of more writers than I met in 11 years in St. Louis. And like, they are writers in St. Louis. There are writers everywhere. But there are a ton here. And it's people doing all sorts of things,” she said. And ready to help too. She says writer and performer Dessa gave her plot feedback, as did comedian Bryan Miller. It seems to have worked. Some early readers have asked her if she's ever written for Saturday Night Live. She describes that as an unintentionally high compliment.

Writer Dina Nayeri joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her new nonfiction book, Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough, an examination of whose narratives are considered trustworthy and why, with a focus on refugees and asylum seekers. Nayeri, who was born in Iran and granted asylum to the U.S. when she was 10, talks about the case of a Sri Lankan Tamil man who sought asylum in the U.K. in 2011, and how British officials failed to believe his story of torture. She also describes her childhood feeling of performing a role in her new American home, as well as the origins of her own skepticism—and how a personal tragedy led her to reassess how much she could trust even herself. She reads from her new book. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Thomas White and Anne Kniggendorf. Dina Nayeri Who Gets Believed The Ungrateful Refugee Refuge A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Others: The Iranian Revolution at 40: Jasmin Darznik and Dina Nayeri On the Anniversary of the Republic Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi “In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka  Freedom from Torture Innocence Project Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 1 Episode 23: Jasmin Darznik and Dina Nayeri on the 40th Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anuk Arudpragasam's first novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage was called an unflinching debut - a feat of extraordinary sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental elements of human existence His writing has been variously described as 'absolutely devastating, unbearable reading, incredibly introspective and a portrait of the universe that zooms out from planet Earth and then back in to a quark'. Anuk's second novel, The Passage North, which was on the 2021 booker prize shortlist is said to be written with precision and grace, and a masterful piece that is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of devastation, and a poignant memorial for those lost and those still alive. In this episode of BIC Talks, scientist, author and editor of Out of Print magazine Indira Chandrashekar speaks to Anuk about the evolution of his writing. Subscribe to the BIC Talks Podcast on your favourite podcast app! BIC Talks is available everywhere, including iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Overcast and Stitcher.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.An interview with Viraj Dessanyake, a Sri Lankan Tamil in Australia, member of the Tamil Refugee Council and CFMEU delegate, discussign the current, unfolding situation in Sri Lanka.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

The North Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka have lower digital literacy levels, compared to the rest of Sri Lanka, and its neighbours.Sujan Selven is the Founder & CEO of Upcycled Tech, a not-for-profit that provides sustainable IT solutions for remote villages in the North Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. A Tamil refugee, Sujan is a social impact entrepreneur and human rights advocate.In this episode, Sujan talks about how Upcycled Tech started, the opportunities created for communities in these villages, and Upcycled Tech's vision for digital equity in Sri Lanka.What Can We Do is produced by Samuham Media, and hosted by Prema Menon.This podcast is also available on major podcast platforms.

In 2021, Poonkulali Govintharajah formed Thadam to build mental health literacy within the Sri Lankan Tamil Australian community.Poonkulali Govintharajah is a Sri Lankan Tamil psychologist, a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and holds her Master's degree in Social Health. Poonkulali has a strong commitment to improving the mental health of our community with a strong focus on child protection and working with families.In this episode, Poonkulali shares discussing mental health through an appropriate cultural lens, why mental health stigma exists in her community, and the effects of intergenerational trauma.What Can We Do is produced by Samuham Media, and hosted by Prema Menon.This podcast is also available on major podcast platforms.

Gobinthiran Kulendran (@gobinthiran) is the Co-Founder & CEO of Huex (@huex.io) based in Sri Lanka. Despite having to change schools 9 times, moving homes 21 times and losing everything except for one bag during the height of the war, found a way to learn about technology through a computer (that was purchased because his mother and aunt pawned their jewelry) left at his aunt's house (hours away), that he was only able to use on weekends because power wasn't available at his home. His went on to do freelance jobs for locals until he got his first international project in Aug 2019 (paid $1500) that he finished in 5 days with almost no sleep. He's gone on to raise money from investors all over the world to grow the business and has 40+ clients across 4 continents.He joins Ara on this week's episode of #TheTamilCreator to discuss the impact of Yarl IT Hub (@yarlithub) on his business, his success encouraging his parents to let his sister start her own business, business opportunities he sees in Sri Lanka, his ambition to create $1 billion in revenue between companies he helps start to do his part in uplifting Northern Sri Lanka economically, and more.Follow Gobinthiran:- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gobinthiran/) - Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/gobinthiran/) Timestamps00:19 - Ara introduces this week's guest, Gobinthiran Kulendran01:49 - From a fascination with computers to the inception of Huex06:59 - The support of the start-up community from places like Yarl IT Hub in Sri Lanka10:46 - The current status of Huex12:19 - The impact of COVID on Gobinthiran's business13:50 - Challenges he faced getting Huex off the ground15:24 - The current status of COVID in Sri Lanka16:08 - Business opportunities in Sri Lanka19:26 - Using personal funds for his business ventures20:43 - What drives Gobinthiran?24:20 - Where he sees himself in the next 3-5 years25:22 - Gobinthiran's interests outside of work; travelling and farming27:23 - What he's insecure about27:36 - Gobinthiran's perception of money29:21 - Educating himself via YouTube and Netflix30:19 - The impact of the Sri Lankan Tamil community on Gobinthiran32:44 - The personal legacy he wants to leave behind33:09 - Who Gobinthiran admires in the Tamil and non-Tamil community34:10 - Advice he would give fellow aspiring Tamil creators35:43 - Creator Confessions38:03 - The Wrap UpIntro MusicProduced And Mixed By:- The Tamil Creator- YanchanWritten By:- Aravinthan Ehamparam- Yanchan Rajmohan   

We sit with award-winning Sri Lankan Tamil novelist Anuk Arudpragasam, who was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize for his second novel, A Passage North.

For our latest Saucy Deep Dive, we picked Funny Boy, a movie adapted by Deepa Mehta (an Indo-Canadian director) based on Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel of the same name. Funny Boy is a coming-of-age story about a boy called Arjie from an affluent Sri Lankan Tamil family. It chronicles his journey from childhood to adolescence and early adulthood amidst the ethnic tensions and the divisive Sri Lankan Civil War.While we loved the queer coming-of-age aspect of this movie, Arjie's exploration and queerness often felt like an afterthought to the plot. We also felt that as a movie intended for non-Sri Lankan audiences, it could have done a much better job of contextualizing the conflict and presenting it as a whole. In its current form, the movie left us perplexed about whether it was a historical queer movie or a historical movie with a queer character?We also talked about how it fared on our very own film rating system - the Sauce Meter.To know more about our discussion, read the extended show notes on our website with additional resources and content! More available on SareesOnScreen.com - - -[Music Prod. By LuKremBo]Advisory

Listen to the latest news from Australia, Sri Lanka, across the globe and the latest news from sports world on SBS Sinhala radio news bulletin – Friday 17 September 2021 - සවන්දෙන්න 2021 සැප්තැම්බර්17 වන සිකුරාදා SBS සිංහල ගුවන්විදුලියේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති ප්‍රකාශයට...

_A Sri Lankan Tamil woman has stabbed her husband to death due to a family dispute in Britain. A woman has been arrested by police following the discovery of the body of a man in a house in the Nannington area of ​​Britain. A woman has been arrested by police following the discovery of the body of a man in a house in the Nannington area of ​​Britain. According to the information received by the police, the body of a man was found by the police who came to the house located at the address. Police have arrested a 34-year-old woman on suspicion of murder Police have arrested a 34-year-old woman and his wife from Sri Lanka. The father of two children was stabbed to death by his wife. A family dispute has been revealed as the reason for the murder. Police are continuing investing .

In the eight episode of Roots with South Asian Today, Dilpreet speaks with renowned Australian  journalist Bhakthi Puvanenthiran. A part of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, Bhakthi  is the editor of ABC Everyday and has worked with Crikey, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. The conversation explores being a South Asian journalist in Australia, how do we tell our own stories and the possibilities around breaking structural barriers. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/southasiantoday)

Manika Kaur, Ali Riaz Baqar, Gurujas Khalsa and Abi Sampa discuss individual definitions of success, why you're going to offend somebody no matter what music you make, the rollercoaster effect, and what their studio spaces look like. Manika Kaur is a singer and contemporary performer of Sikh kirtan music. Predominately performed by men in gurdwara temples, kirtans are devotional singing or sacred chants. Manika is changing the landscape of the music by reinterpreting, recording, and performing outside of the temples, and being one of the few women to sing them. Ali Riaz Baqar is a guitarist, bandleader, and chief composer of the group Jaubi. Based in Lahore, Pakistan, their debut album Nafs at Peace draws on elements of north Indian classical music, hip-hop and jazz. Gurujas Khalsa is a singer and songwriter from the Grammy-winning band White Sun, based in Los Angeles. Their music is a "sweeping exploration of New Age, through the lens of the Kundalini Yogic tradition", and their songs are also on the syllabus at the University of Southern California, where they are used to study stress management. And Abi Sampa is a multi-instrumentalist, veena virtuoso, and the UK's first female Qawwal. She first rose to prominence when she sang on TV show The Voice UK in 2013. Born in London to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, she's now inspiring a new generation of British Asians with her music.

- Discovery of 14 genetically modified corona variants in Colombo - 164 more arrested for violating Isolation law - Change in the value of the US dollar against the Sri Lankan rupee -The future of the 43 lakh students who will be dice - Resolution to grant citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Tamil Nadu

Australian news bulletin for Wednesday 23 June 2021. Read by Praba Maheswaran. - SBS தமிழ் ஒலிபரப்பின் இன்றைய (புதன் கிழமை 23/06/2021) ஆஸ்திரேலியா குறித்த செய்திகள். வாசித்தவர் மகேஸ்வரன் பிரபாகரன்.

A Sri Lankan Tamil family that has spent years in offshore detention has been issued bridging visas that will allow them to work and study on the Australian mainland. The decision comes after the Murugappan family was recently moved into community detention in Perth, where the youngest child has been receiving medical treatment.

Welcome to the Cory Talks Podcast! On this brand-new episode… COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria to be eased from 11:59 tonight (Thursday 10 June 2021). I've got a round up of those details for you in this edition. The statement from acting Victorian Premier James Merlino and full list of changes are available at https://coronavirus.vic.gov.au While Victoria tries to get this more virulent variant under control, Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged the state to follow New South Wales' lead in ending lockdown as soon as possible. I know this must sound like a joke to some of you, but the PM was serious. Why the blame game in coronavirus doesn't help. Changes to Australia's health system, Medicare has many doctors concerned. Claiming election fraud seems to be as catching as COVID-19. The almost decade long struggle for two Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers and their Australian born children is heartbreaking to hear about. On In Focus today, the story of Priya and Nades, and their children Kopika and Tharunicaa. They're better known as the Biloela Family – named after the Queensland town they settled in when seeking asylum from persecution, only to find more of it in Australia thanks to the Morrison government. https://www.change.org/p/scott-morrison-bring-priya-back-to-biloela It's important that nations around the world know the plight of The Biloela Family as 3 year old Tharunicaa suffers in hospital after being airlifted from their detention on Christmas Island to Perth due to pneumonia and possible septicaemia. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and turn notifications on so you can be alerted when there's new episodes out. The show's available on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Podbean, Podchaser, RadioPublic, Spotify, Stitcher, Tune-In and YouTube. Cory Talks website – corytalks.com Cory Talks email – podcast@coryoconnor.com Cory O'Connor on Twitter – twitter.com/coryfromoz Cory O'Connor on Instagram – instagram.com/coryfromoz I also source information from a variety of sources, most commonly ABC News Australia, BBC News, Independent Australia, Michael West and The Guardian. CORY TALKS. A PODCAST FROM CORY O'CONNOR corytalks.com | coryoconnor.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/corytalkspodcast/message

A heartwarming romantic Comedy set in Sydney involving two middle class Sri Lankan Tamil families. Praba Maheswaran presents his view of this short film. - நகைச்சுவை மேடை நாடகங்கள் மூலம் நன்கு பிரபல்யமான Dr J ஜெயமோகன் முதன்முதலாக 'ஒரு கப்புச்சீனோ காதல்' எனும் ஒரு குறும் படத்தினை எழுதி இயக்கியுள்ளார். இங்கு புலம்பெயர்ந்து வாழும் பெற்றோர்களினதும் பிள்ளைகளினதும் அங்கலாய்ப்புகளை அலச முற்பட்டிருக்கும் அத்திரைப்படம் பற்றிய தனது பார்வையினை முன்வைக்கிறார் மகேஸ்வரன் பிரபாகரன்.

Jamarz On Marz and Nardean join Paisley for a chat about West Sydney & Queer Culture, Covert Racism, and Mental Health.   Hailing from Orange regional NSW, JamarzOnMarz is a queer rapper and saxophonist of Kenyan and Sri Lankan-Tamil heritage. At 22 years of age, the Sydney-based artist has soared to new heights, performing with megastar Solange Knowles, in her band, for four sold-out shows at the Sydney Opera House. Since bursting onto the scene, JamarzOnMarz has featured on ABC TV's The Recording Studio, collaborating with Horrorshow as a gift to his former teacher. The hip hop trailblazer has lit up iconic venues like Sydney Mardi Gras, Riverstage Brisbane, and the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, while sharing line-ups with Australian stars Courtney Act, Marcia Hines, Mallrat, and San Cisco.   Born into an Egyptian family and raised in Sydney's west, Nardean began her musical exploration at the age of 22. As a consequence of growing up within a culture that did not support the notion of a woman becoming a musician - let alone a genre-bending, thought-provoking, ass shaking contemporary hip hop artist - she was forced to overcome some serious obstacles in her journey. After a few short years of exploring her voice, Nardean has cemented herself as a force to be reckoned with in the Australian Hip Hop scene. Traversing rap, singing, and poetry, her music is an eclectic mix of heartfelt lyricism and honest self-reflection, contrasted with queen anthems and middle finger raising bangers.

In this episode of Pride in Protest: The Podcast, we chat to Madhuraa, a Queer Sri Lankan Tamil about the context of the Tamil community in Australia, Queer identity as a person of colour and the influence of TikTok on young people interested in social justice.

In this episode, we discuss the politics around the film 800, the biopic on the legendary Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan and his record of being the first bowler to take 800 Test wickets. This is a film that has been mired in controversy for some time and the latest flash point this week is when the noted actor Vijay Sethupathy pulled out of starring as Murali in the biopic, acting, it seems, upon the advice of Murali himself, who said that he didn't want the actor's career to be tarred by the controversy. What is the controversy? While Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan Tamil who has roots in India, several groups have branded him a “betrayer of Tamils” and alleged that the cricketer supported the killing of Tamil civilians during the armed conflict between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government. There are many more nuances and complications in this story. Guest: Meera Srinivasan, Sri Lanka Correspondent, The Hindu. Find the In Focus podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Search for In Focus by The Hindu. Write to us with comments and feedback at socmed4@thehindu.co.in

Nithya is a lifelong Alaskan and Sri Lankan Tamil. She missed the memo in middle school and has currently become obsessed with vampires while hunkered down. She is a lover of history, dancing and advocating for human rights, and hopes that in these tough times, she can continue to support local and global communities in building a more just and equitable future.

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Sam Elkin speaks with Max about the LGBTI+ legal needs survey, which closes soon, as well as the Change Your ID day coming up in May. Chi Tran reading a selection of their poetry. Chi Tran is an emerging artist and writer, based in Naarm. Chi has written and exhibited in Cordite Poetry Review, Firstdraft, ACCA, Liquid Architecture, and many more. They also have forthcoming work in un. magazine and Minority Report.  Scheherazade speaks withChris Schuringa from the Googerah Environment Centre (GECO). Chris talks about the 10-year logging exemptions that have just been rolled over in late March in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic while the area is recovering from this season's devasting bushfires.  Danush, a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee currently detained at Mantra Bell City, talks to Priya about the harms of immigration detention, the need to release refugees into the community, and the potential impacts that coronavirus will have on detainees. Jane speaks with Max about challenges facing the drug using community in these uncertain times and shares some tips and tricks from Harm Reduction Victoria's awesome resources on drug use, planning and pharmacotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic.  SongsBecca Hatch - Girl Like MeArno Faraji - Bass Jumpin

Since March 2018, a young Sri Lankan Tamil family have been held in Australia's immigration detention centres. After a failed deportation attempt by the Australian government, stopped only by an 11th hour court injunction, the family were imprisoned in the Christmas Island detention centre. Angela Fredericks talks about the family and the campaign to bring them home to their Queensland home in Biloela.

In March 2018, a young Sri Lankan Tamil family were taken in a dawn raid from their home in the Queensland town of Biloela and flown hundreds of kilometres to detention in a Melbourne immigration detention centre. Angela Fredericks, who is at the forefront of the campaign to free the family, tells the story of this family, their connection with the Biloela community and the community's horror at the family's forced removal.

Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘potential’ of marriage in the time of political violence and conflict. Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’ and the lives of those involved in making it happen across time and space. Marriage brokers, relatives and friends, astrologers and priests, wedding photographers and immigration lawyers enact different kinds of possibilities for those seeking to ‘marry for a future’. The fragmented communities from the civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the Tamil militants strive to recreate the communities, rituals and relatedness which is now dispersed across the globe. Maunaguru takes the readers through the offices of the wedding brokers, the guest houses where weddings are celebrated, the archives of colonial law on marriage, the immigration cases and documents of refusal and redress where this striving occurs – first to be united in marriage and then to be reunited as a couple and family. Listen to Maunaguru talk about living with hope in shadow of conflict, the trouble with the dichotomy between ‘arranged marriage’ and ‘love marriage’ and the authority of the ‘modern wedding album’ in the global immigration regime. This is one of the most significant contributions to the anthropological study of migration, mobility, diaspora and kinship. Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Yale University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘potential’ of marriage in the time of political violence and conflict. Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’ and the lives of those involved in making it happen across time and space. Marriage brokers, relatives and friends, astrologers and priests, wedding photographers and immigration lawyers enact different kinds of possibilities for those seeking to ‘marry for a future’. The fragmented communities from the civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the Tamil militants strive to recreate the communities, rituals and relatedness which is now dispersed across the globe. Maunaguru takes the readers through the offices of the wedding brokers, the guest houses where weddings are celebrated, the archives of colonial law on marriage, the immigration cases and documents of refusal and redress where this striving occurs – first to be united in marriage and then to be reunited as a couple and family. Listen to Maunaguru talk about living with hope in shadow of conflict, the trouble with the dichotomy between ‘arranged marriage’ and ‘love marriage’ and the authority of the ‘modern wedding album’ in the global immigration regime. This is one of the most significant contributions to the anthropological study of migration, mobility, diaspora and kinship. Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Yale University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘potential’ of marriage in the time of political violence and conflict. Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’ and the lives of those involved in making it happen across time and space. Marriage brokers, relatives and friends, astrologers and priests, wedding photographers and immigration lawyers enact different kinds of possibilities for those seeking to ‘marry for a future’. The fragmented communities from the civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the Tamil militants strive to recreate the communities, rituals and relatedness which is now dispersed across the globe. Maunaguru takes the readers through the offices of the wedding brokers, the guest houses where weddings are celebrated, the archives of colonial law on marriage, the immigration cases and documents of refusal and redress where this striving occurs – first to be united in marriage and then to be reunited as a couple and family. Listen to Maunaguru talk about living with hope in shadow of conflict, the trouble with the dichotomy between ‘arranged marriage’ and ‘love marriage’ and the authority of the ‘modern wedding album’ in the global immigration regime. This is one of the most significant contributions to the anthropological study of migration, mobility, diaspora and kinship. Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Yale University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘potential’ of marriage in the time of political violence and conflict. Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’ and the lives of those involved in making it happen across time and space. Marriage brokers, relatives and friends, astrologers and priests, wedding photographers and immigration lawyers enact different kinds of possibilities for those seeking to ‘marry for a future’. The fragmented communities from the civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the Tamil militants strive to recreate the communities, rituals and relatedness which is now dispersed across the globe. Maunaguru takes the readers through the offices of the wedding brokers, the guest houses where weddings are celebrated, the archives of colonial law on marriage, the immigration cases and documents of refusal and redress where this striving occurs – first to be united in marriage and then to be reunited as a couple and family. Listen to Maunaguru talk about living with hope in shadow of conflict, the trouble with the dichotomy between ‘arranged marriage’ and ‘love marriage’ and the authority of the ‘modern wedding album’ in the global immigration regime. This is one of the most significant contributions to the anthropological study of migration, mobility, diaspora and kinship. Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Yale University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘potential’ of marriage in the time of political violence and conflict. Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’ and the lives of those involved in making it happen across time and space. Marriage brokers, relatives and friends, astrologers and priests, wedding photographers and immigration lawyers enact different kinds of possibilities for those seeking to ‘marry for a future’. The fragmented communities from the civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the Tamil militants strive to recreate the communities, rituals and relatedness which is now dispersed across the globe. Maunaguru takes the readers through the offices of the wedding brokers, the guest houses where weddings are celebrated, the archives of colonial law on marriage, the immigration cases and documents of refusal and redress where this striving occurs – first to be united in marriage and then to be reunited as a couple and family. Listen to Maunaguru talk about living with hope in shadow of conflict, the trouble with the dichotomy between ‘arranged marriage’ and ‘love marriage’ and the authority of the ‘modern wedding album’ in the global immigration regime. This is one of the most significant contributions to the anthropological study of migration, mobility, diaspora and kinship. Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Yale University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘potential’ of marriage in the time of political violence and conflict. Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’ and the lives of those involved in making it happen across time and space. Marriage brokers, relatives and friends, astrologers and priests, wedding photographers and immigration lawyers enact different kinds of possibilities for those seeking to ‘marry for a future’. The fragmented communities from the civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the Tamil militants strive to recreate the communities, rituals and relatedness which is now dispersed across the globe. Maunaguru takes the readers through the offices of the wedding brokers, the guest houses where weddings are celebrated, the archives of colonial law on marriage, the immigration cases and documents of refusal and redress where this striving occurs – first to be united in marriage and then to be reunited as a couple and family. Listen to Maunaguru talk about living with hope in shadow of conflict, the trouble with the dichotomy between ‘arranged marriage’ and ‘love marriage’ and the authority of the ‘modern wedding album’ in the global immigration regime. This is one of the most significant contributions to the anthropological study of migration, mobility, diaspora and kinship. Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at Yale University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Tamil refugees, considerations of sustainability affect their decision to remain in India or return to Sri Lanka. Their views and aspirations must inform planning for both integration and repatriation.

Will humanity or border protection win in the case of the Sri Lankan Tamil family who are in the middle of a deportation fight here in Australia. Why can't they stay? Why were they taken in the night? What needs to happen for the Government to change their mind? We find out what has led to the final decision due to be handed down today. CREDITS Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Elle Beattie Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Thanks to our special guest 10 Daily Senior Reporter Josh Butler The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it's delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want, wherever you are...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. The Quicky. Getting you up to speed. Daily. Want The Quicky in your ears every day?  Subscribe at mamamia.com.au/the-quicky or in your favourite podcast app. Love the show? Send us an email thequicky@mamamia.com.au or call the podphone 02 8999 9386. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DJ Rekha selects a random set of songs from across the years that were once in her heavy rotation, plus a dive into the dynamic sounds of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in the beyond set. Giddeh Vich (feat. Kaka Bhainiawala) - Ricky Bhalla Challeh Mundhia - JK 00:00 - Intro 01:43 - Chakdey Boly - Jazzy B 07:28 - Darshan - B21 12:28 - Veer Vaar - Diljit Dosanjh 14:44 - Giddeh Vich (feat. Kaka Bhainiawala) - Ricky Bhalla 18:44 - Baa Farke - Highflyers 22:20 - Challeh Mundhia - JK 27:08 - Munde Kanan Wich Mundran Pake - Alaap 31:07 - Apna Sangeet Vaje Apna Sangeet - Amarjit Sidhu, Apna Sangeet & Sardara S. Gill 35:18 - Apna Panjab - DJ Sanj 38:49 - Ah Ni Kuri - Dr. Zeus 42:40 - Mic Break 44:19 - Pattasu - Navz-47 47:12 - Maayavi (feat. Rolex Rasathy) - ADK Srirascol 51:28 - Powder Ponnu (feat. Jeyasanth, Ram Agarathi & Vernon G Segaram) - MC Qiru 55:06 - Raavanan (feat. Navz-47) - Rolex Rasathy 58:23 - Outro 59:48 - Finish

In this sizzling episode, the #butterchickenboys sit down with their Brooklyn-born, Sri Lankan-Tamil sister, @rolexrasathy. @DJSharad, @DJJuicy, and #RolexRasathy (which, as we learn through the episode originated from her dad's endearing texts calling her his rasathy, or queen) discuss different forms of adhering to culture in the diaspora. They speak of Rolex's background in #Jazz and #Karnatic classical, deep love for dancehall and @champagnepapi, and her own trials and tribulations of being a perfectionist. This episode is packed with details from Rolex's journey in the music industry (shoutout to @stevecliffmusic), and is empowering to many sects of society. Grab a napkin and dig in!

In this week’s look at Asia, we hear about a film which had its release delayed in India for six months by the censorship board. It’s called Lipstick Under My Burkha and it screened in Paris this month at the South Asian Film Festival. Rosslyn Hyams has been talking to the film's director. Lipstick Under My Burkha is a feminist film of the most watchable kind.Director Alankrita Shrivastava says "the title is a metaphor for women's hidden desires, hidden dreams". Her Hindi-language film shot in Bhopal opened the fifth South Asian Film Festival in Paris in October. It had previously been shown in France at the Créteil Womens' Film Festival.She struggled for more than six months before getting approval for release in India after a screening at the Bombay Festival in November 2016. "They said it was too much from the female perspective," she explains. "It may have threatened the patriarchal norm. But India is still a functioning democracy. So we were able to have the ban lifted." Related issues were raised by one or two people in a question and answer session after the film, with one person asking why there were no positive male roles in the film, for example. In fact, none of the characters are black-and-white in Lipstick Under My Burkha, and that's just what sets it apart. It stars four women. Rathna Pathak as the yearning widow, Usha, stands up for all the residents of the  community where she lives but incurs their wrath when she hurts the pride of a local stud. Konkona Sen Sharma, a mother of three subjected to marital rape by her cheating husband, cheats on him by hiding her fabulous career as a sales rep. Ahana Kumra plays Leela, a female college student whose traditional Muslim father has nonetheless saved to enable her to go to a college where she mixes freely with young men. Plabita Borthakur is a sex-hungry beautician infatuated with a wedding photographer with an appetite to match hers but whose mother has her own reasons for wanting to arrange a marriage with a romantic man who naively believes his wife would be happier at home. Set in Bhopal The film is set in Bhopal. The character Usha was made a widow by the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster of 1984. However, Shrivastava set the film in Bhopal because of its social make-up, "I wanted many elements of Bhopal, like the old city being a separate geographical area and a new city coming up. I wanted an old city where Hindus and Muslims still live in close proximity." The South Asian Film Festival in Paris or FFAST as it's known for short, has been going for five years. The independent films it shows from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka tend, in general, to push the boundaries of accepted norms one way or another. Floriane Zaslavsky, one of the three FFAST programmers notes that four out of the six films in competition, including Hindi film Hotel Salvation which was first seen in France at the Festival of Asian Cinema (Fica) in Vesoul in February 2017 and Sri Lankan Tamil film Demons in Paradise, which screened out of competition at Cannes in May, are films that had trouble  obtaining authorisation for public viewing. As the FFAST festival's focus on Tamil films from south-east India and Sri Lanka show, independent cinema from the region is inescapably political. FFAST is on until Tuesday 10 October at the Cinéma Etoile, Porte des Lilas, Paris.

Dheepan, the winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of a former Sri Lankan Tamil fighter who flees the civil war to France with a woman and young girl he has never met. After finding work and housing in the suburbs of Pairs this fake family soon find that the violence they have run from is replaced by a new danger. Agnes Poirier reviews the film.German soprano Diana Damrau discusses her role as Lucia di Lammermoor in a controversial and bloody new production at the Royal Opera House in London.Noma Dumezweni, who is about to star as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on stage, chooses Paulina from The Winter's Tale as part of our Shakespeare's People series.US writer Garth Greenwell's debut novel What Belongs to You is the story of a American teacher who becomes obsessed with a sex worker in Bulgaria. Garth talks to Samira about the mixture of fact and fiction in the novel, and his growing up gay in Kentucky and his advocacy of 'queer culture'.Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Jerome Weatherald.

22 July 2014 - An expert panel on the High Court case involving 157 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers held by an Australian customs vessel on the high seas (later handed down as CPCF v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2015] HCA 1). The case raises questions of international law, constitutional law, and administrative law, all of which were the subject of the discussion. Panel members: Professor Jane McAdam, Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Professor George Williams, UNSW Associate Professor Tim Stephens, University of Sydney Ed Santow, CEO, Public Interest Advocacy Centre The event was kindly hosted by Gilbert + Tobin and chaired by partner Steven Glass.