In one incident, 44 Tamil refugees were killed when shells hit a 400-year-old Catholic Church.
By contrast, poorly performing rulers, eg, in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, have been sent packing.
Sterlite employs about 3, 000 people in Tamil Nadu, including about 1, 000 at the smelter.
India is helping set up industrial zones, small-business parks and factories in Tamil areas.
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Authorities in India's Tamil Nadu state have lifted a ban on actor Kamal Haasan's film Vishwaroopam.
All of its public hearings so far outside Colombo have been in Tamil-majority areas.
Talaq, meaning divorce, was performed three times in the Tamil language, each time to packed houses.
Another former Tamil militant from Jaffna currently living in the UK also went back recently.
Finnish girls and Tamil refugees, who now make up 5% of the population, fill the gap.
Tamil parties in Parliament also participated in the debate and did not reject the proposals outright.
He was born into a landowning family in what is now Tamil Nadu, in southern India.
Two of her new-found allies are Tamil parties that have distanced themselves from the Tigers.
But nor were the Tamil Tigers, under their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, any more trusting.
Separatist Tamil Tiger rebels had audaciously attacked the airport and the neighbouring air-force base.
Only in Tamil Nadu is the ruling party a member of the national alliance.
Rajiv lost the 1989 election and was then himself assassinated by Tamil militants from Sri Lanka.
But the head of Tamil Nadu's Women's Commission, Vasanthi Devi, said mothers could not be exonerated.
The film, made in the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages, has been cleared by the Censor Board.
In 2005 Britain's charity watchdog wound up one Tamil charity after identifying black holes in its accounting.
There were Sinhala and Muslim as well as Tamil students on the campus, one staff member emphasised.
The DMK had lost state elections in 2011 and is now in the opposition in Tamil Nadu.
During the war, the worst violence against Sri Lankan Muslims came at the hands of the Tamil rebels.
Shamshad Begum was a versatile artist, singing in Hindi and the Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Punjabi languages.
In Tamil Nadu Jayaram Jayalalitha, a former actress, wowed voters with promises of free rice and other goodies.
Kumaratunga had promised "bold steps" to end the conflict, primarily by devolving power to the loyal Tamil community.
Tamil Nadu opening batsman Murali Vijay is the only newcomer in a 15-man squad captained by Mahendra Dhoni.
Southern cinema, particularly in Tamil Nadu, has been freely used as an instrument for propaganda for a party or caste-based ideology.
At Tamil demonstrations, such as the one on June 10th in London, most are first-generation migrants, not hot-headed students.
Norway angered Sri Lanka recently by arranging a telephone call between a UN envoy and a Tamil Tiger representative.
Last month, at least five people were killed in Tamil Nadu after a tropical cyclone swept across the state.
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