Tamils - a Trans State Nation..

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C 

Tamils - a Nation without a State

Switzerland -சுவிற்சர்லாந்து
- an estimated 40,000 Tamils live in Switzerland -

Tamil Information Technology Seminar in Zurich

22 June 2008

"..The print revolution brought Tamil from the ola leaves to paper, from the select few literati to the many. The digital revolution is bringing Tamil from paper to the computer and the internet. Swaminathatha Iyer and Thamotherampillai heralded the Tamil renaissance in the 19th century. Today, a Tamil digital renaissance is taking place - and is helping to bring Tamil people together not simply culturally but also in political and economic terms..." Nadesan Satyendra, May 1998

A Seminar on Tamil Information Technology will be held in Zurich on 19 July 2008. The speakers at the Seminar will include Dr.K.Kalyanasundaram, Chair of  International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) and Dr.Narayanan Kannan and Mrs Subhasini Tremmel who are members of the General Council of INFITT. Dr.K. Kalyanasundaram recently  received the  Sundara Ramasamy Award for Tamil Information Technology.