About me

Hi, I am Kiruthika, an ethnic Tamil from India, currently living in Norway. I am a masters student in global journalism program. I have been living outside India for nearly 10 years now and I have been mostly interested in cultural studies. I find there is too much of Indianization of Tamil culture, which is really sad and undermining of a unique culture, which has survived Aryan, Arab and British invasions. The white academic scholars chose to write Tamil culture as Indian culture and when talking about caste systems, they choose to write Tamil Nadu and Tamil castes. I am also against Hinduism taking up the space of Tamil rituals and traditions, which are not followed by the rest of the Hindu population in India. I would have been ignorant like my fellow Tamils in India, if I had lived there.
I would like to write about Tamils' culture in terms of tradition, practices, literature and history and the politics behind the diminishing of Tamil culture.
Thank you.