Team 2011
Board of Trustees
Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer
Pathmanaba Iyer is the Chairperson and a founding director of Noolaham Foundation. He contributes substantially towards the Foundation's outreach work, in locating source materials, and in raising funds.
Pathmanaba Iyer was born in 1941 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He graduated in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He has worked as a Divisional Officer in the Land Commissioner’s Department from 1972 to end of 1989 when until he left for the United Kingdom.
He pioneered Sri Lankan Tamil digitization efforts in collaboration with Project Madurai in 1999. He is a well known publisher and founded and operates Tamiliyal Publications. His contribution to the Sri Lankan Tamil Literature spans more than four decades. Pathmanaba Iyer was instrumental in bringing creative works with diverse point of views to the fore. In 2004, he was awarded with Iyal Viruthu, an award organized by the South Asia Studies Centre of the University of Toronto and Tamil Literary Garden, for his lifetime achievements.
He is located in London, United Kingdom.
Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Shaseevan is the Chief Executive Director of Noolaham Foundation. He is the founder and a founding director of Noolaham Foundation. He contributed as a Project Coordinator of Project Noolaham and organised many successful projects. Under his management, Project Noolaham grew exponentially in number of works digitized, its organizational capacity was strengthened and the Noolaham Foundation was created.
Shaseevan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1982. He followed B.Sc. (Physics, Mathematics and Statistics) in University of Colombo. He has completed the diploma level in the British Computer Society (BCS) examinations. His research interests are Networked Information Economy/Tech-Sociology, Information Science - Architecture - Society, Knowledge Economy, Technological change on Culture, Politics and Society.
Shaseevan is currently a Research Fellow in a project initiated by the International Development Research Centre and National University of Singapore forming a research collaboration with “Beyond Borders” Sri Lanka. He also works as the Executive Director of the International Institute of Research and Analytical Activities, a research institute that coordinates existing talents and aims to provide independent spaces for their interaction and integration.
He is located in Jaffna and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Kopinath Thillainathan
Kopinath is the Chief Information Officer of the Noolaham Foundation. He is the co-founder and founding coordinator of Project Noolaham and a founding director of the Noolaham Foundation. He designed, planed, defined the standards and initiated the Project Noolaham.
He was born in 1982 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He is a Finance and Accounting graduate from the University of Curtin, Australia.
His focuses on building platforms to create digital Tamil content with efficiency. He contributes to Tamil Wikimedia projects as well. His research interests are Information Science and Knowledge Economy.
He is located in Perth, Australia.
Registered Company Secretary of the Foundation
Sentitcumaran Ramalingham
Sentitcumaran is the Registered Company Secretary of the Foundation.
He was born in 1972 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka and educated in Jaffna St. Johns College. He passed out as an Attorney-at-Law from the Sri Lanka Law College in the year 1999. He is practicing as a Notary Public, Registered Company secretary too.
He is a partner of the law firm SV Law Associates and chairman of the Eesho Property Care (Pvt) Ltd too. He is an active member of the Lions clubs International District 306B1 (Home club- Lions club of Kotahena) and severed as the Chairperson-Constitution and by laws and Chairman-Elections and nominations.
He is located in Bambalapitiya, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Members
Core Task Force
Seran Sivananthamoorthy
Seran is the Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation. He administrates the day to day operations of Noolaham's digitalization efforts. Seran is maintaining a group for handling Noolaham Foundations operations. Earlier he worked as a General Manager in Noolaham Foundation.
Seran was born in 1990 in Jaffna. He studied in Jaffna Hindu College. Currently, he is an Engineering undergraduate student at the University of Moratuwa, Colombo.
He has actively participated in various activities and held leading positions including President, Secretary etc in school clubs.
He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Rajaratnam Sivachandran
Sivachandran is responsible for Public Interaction of the Noolaham Foundation.
Sivachandran was born in 1943 in Velanai, Jaffna; educated in Velanai Central College , Jaffna Vaideswaren Vidyalam , Senguntha Hindu College and Jaffna College; graduated from University of Ceylon Peradeniya and University of Madras; obtained BA Hon (Ceylon ) and MA (Research ) ( Ceylon ) and served for 30 years as a lecturer of Geography in the University of Peradeniya, University of Kelaniya and University of Jaffna.
After working at the University of Peradeniya and the University of Kelaniya, he joined the University of Jaffn as senior lecturer in 1980. He became a Professor in Geography in 1998. He also held various positions including Head of the Geography Department, the Acting Head in the Department of Sociology, coordinator of Extra-mural studies and the Dean of the faculty of Arts (2004-2007) at University of Jaffna. He was also a initiator of the Media resource and Training centre in the University of Jaffna.
He was the editor (1996) of Chinthanai (The Journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffnal; editorial Advisor (1992) to Markam (Journal of Marga Institute Colombo) and a consultant (Vol 05) to Jaffna Geographer (The Journal of the Geographical Society, University of Jaffna). He has also held various honorary positions including the President of University Teacher’s Association (1998-2000), Senior member of SLRC, Zonal Chairman - Lions Club of Jaffna (2009) and Consultant of Jaffna Environmental protection society Irrigation Department , Kachcheri, Jaffna.
He is located in Jaffna, Srilanka.
Arangaraj Jeganathan
Arangaraj is responsible for digitizing palm leaves other historical manuscripts.
Arangaraj was born in 1975. He is a graduate from Annamalai University, finished his M.Phil about Tamil Text Books at Tamil University, Thanjavur and got his Ph.D at Tamil University, Thanjavur. He is also awarded with Post Doctoral fellowship by Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai in 2010.
He has worked as Assistant Editor for the monthly journal “Centhamizh” publilshed by Madurai Tamil Sangam; published various journal articles; participated in various seminars and workshops and presented papers; edited many books and works including Suvamy Vibalantha’s speech & write and Research Articles of Swamy Gnanaprakasam and authored two books. His expertise includes preservation of heritage materials including palm leaves and manuscripts and Tamil Literature.
He is located in Namakkal, Tamilnadu, India.
Nimalaprakasan Skandakumar
Nimal is the Chief Technical officer. He is responsible for the technical infrastructure of the Foundation. Nimal is maintaining a group for handling technical issues.
Nimal was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1985. He studied in Royal College, Sri Lanka. He is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Now he is following Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security in Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His career focus areas are Systems Engineering, Information Security, Databases and Bio-informatics, with special expertise in Privacy Enabled Systems, Multimedia and Photography.
Nimal took part in various Leo Club projects and also has contributed to open source and localization projects.
He is located in Brisbane, Australia.
Vinodh Rajan
Vinodh is responsible for the Tamil Digital Library website and contributes as the Wiki Developer. He has spearheaded the optimization of the site by automating wiki tasks, integrating various tools and implementing various updates. Vinodh is maintaining a group to handle and improve the website.
Vinodh was born in 1987 in Chennai, India. He is a graduate in Information Technology and Chemical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India. His research interests are Computational Linguistics, Indic Language Computing, Orthographies and Web Intelligence. He is fluent in English, Telugu, Tamil & Hindi.
Vinodh is working as Software Engineer in Chennai, India.
Vinodh has contributed to Tamil Wikipedia and actively participates in Tamil Heritage Foundation activities including Heritage Wiki.
He is located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Guruparan Kumaravadivel
Guruparan is responsible for the legal issues related to the Foundation.
Guruparan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1985. Kumaravadivel Guruparan is currently a Chevening Scholar reading for his Masters in Law at Balliol College of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Prior to leaving for Oxford he worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Law of the University of Jaffna. He holds an LL.B Hons from the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo and is an Attorney at Law. At the University of Colombo he was awarded among three other academic awards, the Dean of the Faculty of Law's Most Outstanding student of the year at the general Convocation held in 2010. He received his secondary education from Jaffna Hindu College.
He is Founder Secretary of the Jaffna Forum for Social Empowerment which works towards recreating public spheres in Jaffna for dialogue on politics and public policy. He Co Founded the Sri Lankan Youth Parliament and was its Convener from 2004-2007. He is a founder member of Beyond Borders Sri Lanka and has produced five forum theater productions on current political and social issues. In October 2008 he was a Visitor in residence with Oxfam Spain and undertook a speaking tour across Spain covering issues relating to Youth, Minorities and Conflict. He has in the past worked with many leading think tanks both in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. He is frequently invited to comment on various aspects of law and governance and politics in Sri Lanka and has spoken at conferences in London, Madrid, Berlin, Sydney and Pune.
He is currently located in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Krishnakumar Rasaratnam
Krishnakumar is responsible for the Foundation's Newsletter and Publications.
Krishnakumar was born in jaffna, Srilanka in 1952. He studied in Stanly college, Jaffna. He graduated in Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He finished post graduate degree in Public Administration and qualified ASLLA. His research interests are Library Science, Communication, Creative literature, film and Translation.
He has worked as Library Assistant in University of Srilanka, Jaffna Campus from 1975 to 1981; in Public library, Jaffna from 1987 to 1994; and in Medical faculty of University of Jaffna from 1994 to 1999. He is working as an Assistant Register in University of Jaffna from 1999.
He is located in Jaffna, Srilanka.
Piratheepan Paramanathan
Piratheepan is responsible for the Marketing of Noolaham Foundation. He is maintaining a group for promotion and related issues of the Foundation.
He is located in South California, United States of America.
Thiruvarangan Ramachandran
Thiruvarangan is responsible for the Accounts and Financial issues to the Foundation.
Thiruvarangan was born in Jaffna, Srilanka in 1981. He studied at Jaffna Hindu College. He is a Science Graduate from the University of Colombo. He is following Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and doing final level.
He is working as Accounts Assistant from 2007 June in Stassen Group of Companies, Colombo.
He is located in Colombo, Srilanka.
Honorary Members
(Former Board of Trustee Members)
- Mauran Muralitharan
- Ealanathan Puvanenthiran
Program Officer
- A. Valarmathy
Noolaham Foundation 2009
Board of Trustee Members
- R. Pathmanaba Iyer ‐ Chairperson
- G. Shaseevan - Executive Director
- T. Kopinath - Chief Information Officer
- P. Piratheepan
- M. Mauran
- Pollachi Nasan
- S. Vinodh Rajan
- P. M. Punniyameen
- S. Ramanan
Public Interaction 2008-09
- R. Pathmanaba Iyer (England)
- Meera Bharathy (Canada)
- Pollachi Nasan (India)
- N. Saravanan (Norway)
- K. Sayanthan (Switzerland)
- P. Piratheepan (USA)
- P. Eelanathan (Singapore)
- R. Mathubhashini (Australia)
- S. Chandravathana (Germany)
General Manager
- Sajeev Edward (May - August)
- S. Satgunarajah (September - December)
Program Officer
- A. Valarmathy (May - December)
Noolaham Foundation 2008
Board of Trustee Members
- R. Pathmanaba Iyer ‐ Chairperson
- G. Shaseevan
- T. Kopinath
- P. Piratheepan
- M. Mauran
- L. Natkeeran
- P. Eelanathan
