Two-day special conference on Tamils living abroad

January 03, 2016 12:00 am | Updated September 22, 2016 09:31 pm IST - PUDUCHERRY:

Malathy Rajavelu, Indian president of International Movement for Tamil Culture, addresses the media to announce the IMTC’s conference, in Puducherry on Saturday. (From left) Professor Panch Ramalingam, Rajasooryar, German president of IMTC and G. Murugan, Treasurer of IMTC, are in the picture.— Photo: S.S. Kumar

Malathy Rajavelu, Indian president of International Movement for Tamil Culture, addresses the media to announce the IMTC’s conference, in Puducherry on Saturday. (From left) Professor Panch Ramalingam, Rajasooryar, German president of IMTC and G. Murugan, Treasurer of IMTC, are in the picture.— Photo: S.S. Kumar

The International Movement for Tamil Culture in association with the Movement’s headquarters in Canada will be organising a special conference here on January 16 and 17 to discuss the ‘opportunities and challenges’ faced by Tamils in foreign countries.

Malathy Rajavelu and Prof. Panch Ramalingam, the office bearers of the organisation on Saturday said that invites had been sent to scholars in Canada, U.S., Germany, U.K, France, Switzerland, Netherland, South Africa, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore.

Nearly 200 delegates are expected to participate in the conference.

The conference will also feature academic and scientific sessions in which scholars and researchers will present papers in Tamil language, literature and culture. An exhibition on ancient Tamil scripts and Tamil mathematical methods will also be held during the conference.

The International Movement for Tamil Culture conference will be inaugurated by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on January 16.

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