Ilangkatru

This weeks ilam mutthu is Samaran Satheeskumar. He talks about his football career starting from his childhood to how he came into the higher divisions of Norwegian football! He also tells us about his routines and a typical matchday!

In this last episode of maveerar maatham we talk with Hamsika Premkumar about her memories of moving to Norway from Tamil Eelam, and how her experience was of coming to Norway! We have also included two cute kids that called in to us that day with a speech and a song about maaveerar!

This episode we talk about maveerar naal, the importance of it and why it is november 27th. We also talk about some of the stories of our maveerar, and how they gave their life in the fight. Lastly we talk about maveerar naal in Tamil diaspora. We have also included a song and a poem from our callers. 

This episode is an educational episode where we talk you through the history of the civil war, and talk about the happenings that triggered the civil war.  We also talk about the peace processes as well as the situation today.  Lastly the tamil diaspora and social media is discussed. We have also included the callers with their songs in remembrance of our fallen heroes!

In this episode we have invited Athithan Jayapalan to talk about the role of Norway during the civil war in Sri Lanka. Due to some technical issues we had to cut off the first part, where he told us that this interest of study got to him during the last period of the war where he started by writing essays and articles about the war and the situations. Listen to this talk to learn more about why so many countries were involved in the war on the outside.

w/Abinaja and Akilina
In this episode of Vizhittiruppom we talk about tamil identity. What does tamil identity mean, and why is it important to talk about it? We talk about language, culture, history, and the tamil identity in social media. We have also included 2 callers; one song and one poem honoring our fallen heroes. 

w/Akilina and Withuran
We are honored to have this interview with the international tamil model Jeenu Mahadevan. He is referred to as a pioneer of a growing number of south asian models who are expanding fashions definitions of beauty. In this interview we are talking about how he came into this modeling world, his values as a person and different kinds of experiences in the industry! 

w/ Abinaja and Vennila
TYO Norway arranged a motivation seminar for the youth and their parents. We talk a little bit about the seminar and how it was planned. Then we talk more about how to select subjects, how to know what you want to study, and a little about some challenges and opportunities related to higher education. 

w/Akilina, Vennila and Withuran
This weeks ilam mutthu is CEO and co-founder of HOLD, Vinoth! HOLD is an app to help students and others to put their phone away for better focus. This app gives you points for the longer time you put your phone away and you can change the points into coupons! He tells us the process from an idea to a product, and how it is to be a tamil entrepreneur in Norway!

w/Abinaja and Withuran
October 10th is the international day of mental health, so this episode we are talking about mental health with counselor Rakshana. We talk about the stigma around mental health, and how we can reach out about our own mental health. It is a very big topic, so we will definitely do more episodes with this topic!