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 working 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 Bristol, 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 had designed, planned, 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. Currently he is following Master of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, 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.
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 handling Noolaham Foundations operations and Projects. 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 Administrating officer of the Foundation. Anuheman is coordinating regional chapters and handling administration issues of the 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.
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.
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.
Program Team
Srikanthaluxmi Arulanantham
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
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.
Network Team
Piratheepan Paramanathan
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
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 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 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
Community Team
Andi Schubert
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 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 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 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
