Arumugam thondaman biography for kids
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Sri Lanka’s Cabinet Minister and leader of the Ceylon Worker’ församling passed away on Tuesday night due to heart attack. He was 55.
Mr. Thondaman served as Minister of Community Empowerment and Estate Infrastructure Development in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government.
It was reported that the Minister was active throughout the day holding several meetings and discussions. He had met the Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay on Tuesday to discuss about the development works in hill-country side where Malaiaha Tamils reside. Malaiaha Tamils are people of Indian ursprung who went from various parts of Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka during the British period to work in tea and rubber plantations.
Arumugan Ramanathan Thondaman born 29 May 1964, is the son of Ramanathan Thondaman and the grandson of Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, the founder of the Ceylon Workers Congress. Mr. Arumugam had spearheaded the party after his grandfather’s demise in 1999. He has been a Member of Parliament si
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D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Life and Times of Dynamic “Thamby” Arumugan Thondaman – 1
“Thamby”in Tamil means younger brother. It is also used widely as a pet name for male kids in many Tamil households.In many instances the pet name Thamby remains in use even after the children mature into adults. In recent times there have been four “Thambys” in Sri Lanka who have been prominent in political and public life. Two of them are no more among the living.
The four Thamby’s according to their ages are Veluppillai Prabhakaran – Ex – supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE), Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu – Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Arumugan Thondaman- Former Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC)leader, Cabinet Minister and MP and Gajendrakumar Gangaser Ponnambalam – Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF)chief and Jaffna Dstrict MP.
Arumugan and Rajalakshmi Thondaman with daughters Kothai Nachiar, Vijayalakshmi and son Jeevan
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Sensing Justice
Two years later, witnessing the lines of faces cheering Modi calls for a reimagining of Sri Lanka’s plantation paternalisms and how they animate Indo-Lankan diplomacies and ordinary desires for justice on the plantations. Plantation paternalisms nest into mostly male, densely packed Hill Country Tamil crowds, whose diasporic yearnings welcome an Indian state that once rejected their stateless kin. Live tweets and photo-ops activate their alluring “synchronicity of language and sight” (Carby 2019, 207) and render invisible the plantation’s “haptic temporalities” (Campt 2017, 72) of enduring exploitation and dispossession. These paternalisms sweeten the tea of Chai pe Charcha. No longer sold from Indian carts, these elixirs are sold as gifted houses on plantation markets. They hum the Tamil verse “Yaathum Ūrae” from the Sangam poetry anthology, Purunānūru. The refrain was once invoked by Periyar, a leader in the Self-Respect Movem