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.
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 1999. He is practicing as a Notary Public and a Registered Company secretary.
He is a partner of the law firm SV Law Associates and chairman of the Eesho Property Care (Pvt) Ltd. 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.
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 level.
He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Anuheman Annalingam
Anuheman is the Chief Program Officer of the Foundation. He administrates the Programs of Noolaham Foundation.
Anuheman was born in 1990 in Jaffna. He studied in Colombo 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.
Piratheepan Paramanathan
Piratheepan is responsible for the Outreach of Noolaham Foundation. He is maintaining a group for promotion and related issues of the Foundation. 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.
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.
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.
Honorary Members
(Former Board of Trustee Members)
- Mauran Muralitharan
- Ealanathan Puvanenthiran
Program Officer
- Valarmathy Ariyarasasingam
