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Network Team

Piratheepan Paramanathan

Piratheepan

Piratheepan is responsible for the Noolaham :: USA. He served in the Noolaham Foundation board of trustees in 2008. Piratheepan joined as a volunteer in 2006 and helped creating Noolaham content pages in Joomla and Mediawiki. He organized the first fund raising activity for Project Noolaham in 2007 in Southern California.

Piratheepan was born in Kanderodai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He studied in Jaffna Hindu College, Jaffna. Piratheepan received a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1997 and a MS in Civil Engineering from the Clemson University, South Carolina in 2002. While in Peradeniya, he actively participated in various cultural activities and served as the President of the university Tamil Society in 1996/1997.

He is located in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Ponmailainathan Ketheswaran

Ketheswaran

Dr. P. Ketheswaran is responsible forNoolaham Australia. He started contributing towards Noolaham activities in 2008. As he is an editor of a quarterly Magazine `Kalappai' he has been involved in a number of projects to preserve Tamil language and culture amongst Tamil Diaspora.

Ketheswaran is originally from Karugampanai (near Keerimalai), Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He studied at Mahajana College (1-10 grades) and then at St.John's College, Jaffna. Ketheswaran is a Consultant Radiologist in Sydney. He completed his MBBS degree at the University of Sydney, Australia. Then he obtained his specialist degree in Radiology. While he was in the Sydney University, he established `Sydney university Tamil Society' and actively initiated and coordinated in various projects (including The Unifund Project, Tamil Competitions, Publishing Kalappai Magazine, Publishing a Social/Business directory(Tamil guide) for Tamils in Sydney and several other projects). He served as the President of the Sydney university Tamil Society in 1994/1995. He is now the President of the Australian Medical Aid Foundation (Sydney Branch).

He is located in Sydney, Australia.

Bharaneetharan J

Bharaneetharan

Bharaneetharan is responsible for the Noolaham : England. He was introduced Noolaham for various websites and Tamil media. He is trying to get more volunteers to Noolaham Foundation.

Bharaneetharan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1984. He studied in Jaffna Hindu College, Jaffna. Bharaneetharan received a B.Sc in Computer Networks from the University of East London, England in 2009. He is working as Journalist and producer in Television.

He is located in London, United Kongdom.

Thivatharan Jeganathan

Thivatharan

Thivatharan is the Coordinator of the Noolaham Colombo. Thivatharan is Building and Coordinating Noolaham Colombo as Regional Noolaham.

Thivatharan was born in 1990 in Jaffna. He studied in Colombo Hindu College. Currently, he is a science undergraduate student at the University of Colombo.

He has actively participated in various activities and held leading positions including President, Secretary and Prefect etc in school level.

He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sutharsan Srinivasan

Noolaham Canada

Gowthaman Kunchipatham

Noolaham Jaffna


Program Team

Srikanthaluxmi Arulanantham

Srikanthaluxmi

Srikanthaluxmi is Chief Librarian of the Foundation's online digital library. She is implementing library science standards in online digital library. She is responsible for documentation and organize information in online library.

Srikanthaluxmi was born in Inuvil, Jaffna. She studied in Ramanathan College, Chunnakam. She is a graduate in Economics from University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. She got postgraduate degree in Documentation and Information Science from Documentation Research and Training Centre(DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India.

She is working as acting librarian in University of Jaffna, Srilanka. She is actively participating organize information in village level libraries. She is director of documentation organization. She is author of several books.

She is located in Jaffna, Srilanka.

Prashanth Sirinivasan

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Prashanth is coordinating the Dataset related projects. He is collecting and Catagarizing Srilanka Tamil speaking communities related web URLs from various regions and countries. Prashanth is also participating towards Noolaham technical infrastructure and building Canada Noolaham.

Prashanth was born in 1982 in Colombo,Sri Lanka. He studied in Jaffna Hindu College and Bampalapitiya Hindu College and graduated in Information Technology from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Srilanka. He had worked as a Consultant in a leading software company in Srilanka and participated in various projects in India and USA. He is currently working as a Senior Software Consultant in Canada.

His focuses on history of tamils and tamil land, history of tamil politics and Collective links of tamils.

He is located in Ontario, Toronto, Canada.



Technology Team‎

Vinodh Rajan

Vinodh is responsible for the technical infrastructure of the Foundation, 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.

Natkeeran L.Kanthan

Natkeeran is responsible in developing the technical roadmap for the Noolaham digital library. He is the co-coordinator of Noolaham's executive meetings. He is also part of the Noolaham Canada Team.

Nakeeran graduated in Master of Engineering (Electrical-Computer Focus) from Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

He is a software developer with focus on business intelligence applications in Toronto, Canada.

He also contributes to Tamil Wikipedia and human rights violations documentation projects.

He is located in Toronto, Canada.


Community Team‎

Andi Schubert

Andi

Andi Schubert was born in Colombo in 1986. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Kelaniya with an Honors Degree in English in 2010.

He is the founder/coordinator of the Young Researchers' Collective that has been working since early 2010 to develop the next generation of research activists and public intellectuals in Sri Lanka.

His research interests are currently identity, conflict, history and memory, language and class, reconciliation and the democratization of knowledge production.

He is currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka


Communication Team

S. Kuneswaran

Kuneswaran

Kuneswaran contributes towards Puthiya Noolaham newsletter and other outreach activities.

Kuneswaran was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1971. He studied in Uduppiddy American Mission College. Kuneswaran received a B.A (Hons) from the University of Jaffna in 1999. He has authored two books, a poetry book and an article collection. He has also edited four other books.

He is currently working as Teacher in Chemamadu Sanmuganantha Maha vidyalayam, Vavuniya.

His interests include diaspora tamil Literature, poetry, criticism, Photography and blogs.

He is located in Jaffna, Srilanka.


Finance Team

Thiruvarangan Ramachandran

Thiruvarangan

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.

Gowrishangar Yogendran

Gowrishangar

Gowrishangar is responcible for Noolaham Foundation's day to day accounting activities.

Gowrishangar was born in 1991 in Jaffna. He was a student of Colombo Hindu College where he served as a prefect and participated in various activities organized by the school. Currently he is following CIMA.

He is located in Colombo, Srilanka.


Honorary Members

(Former Board of Trustee Members)

  • Mauran Muralitharan
  • Ealanathan Puvanenthiran


See Also