Personal Collections

Personal collection of individuals including books, magazines, monographs and other documents are of great importance in our society. Such collections have been handed to Noolaham Foundation partially and fully for digitization.

Thevathas Thambiayah

Thevathas Thampiayya is a retired teacher originally from Pungudutivu. He was born in Jaffna on 24th of April, 1951. He is well know for his books on Sri Lankan cinema and translations from Sinhala to Tamil. He has written a number of books on Cinematography, Proverbs etc.

Thevathas was one of the early contributors towards Noolaham activities. He gave a number of books and magazines especially related to cinema and radio to digitize and include in Noolaham digital library. He involves with Noolaham Foundation to share his publications as well as collections so that readers all around the world can benefit.

Antony Jeeva

Sebastian Antony Jeeva is a well known Tamil author from the Malaiyaham (Up-Country) region of Sri Lanka. He was born in Colombo on 26th May, 1944 and lives in Malaiyaham. He has been supporting to the literature related activities of hill country Tamils for a long time so that they can express their livelihood difficulties. He served as a newspaper reporter in ‘Thinappathi’ and ‘Sinthaamani’ journals in early stage of his life and also now works as a freelance writer for several newspapers.

Antony Jeeva has given his valuable books collection and his publications such as fictions, short stories, poems and research books to digitize and publish at Noolaham digital library. He also has contributed towards identifying and approaching various writers from Malaiyaham so that their publications can be documented as well.

Jeyasankar Sivagnanam

Dr. Jeyasankar Sivagnanam is a senior lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. He also has served as a head of the department in that section. He was born in Jaffna on 29 of May, 1965 and lives in Batticaloa. He s coordinates ‘Third Eye Local Knowledge and Skill activists friend circle’ and engages with several activities such as community theatre reformulation, celebrating cultural heritage cum local industry of Tamils of Sri Lanka, children's theatre festivals as well as encourageing the activities of indigenous people.

Jeyasankar has supported Noolaham Foundation during the initial stages by sharing his valuable books collection and writings to preserve on NF digital library. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Noolaham Founation as well and contributes by guiding Noolaham activities.

Ganesharajah Rajadurai

Ganesarajah Rajathurai is a retired principal and social activist. He was born in Chunnakam, Jaffna. Ganesarajah has written some short plays and staged them successfully as well. Since 1985, he is operating a library named “Siththi vinayagar nool nilayam” (சித்தி விநாயகர் நூல் நிலையம்) with vast number of books, rare periodicals, newspapers and etc. Most of these publications are collected by him as personally. They are related with various kind of fields such as Social, Political, literature and history.

Ganesharajah has been providing his library collection to Noolaham Foundation to digitize and preserve in NF digital library so that his library collection can be accessed not only by locals but also by everyone around the world.