Welcome to

Tamil Language & Engineering Site

This site contains Tamil poems, articles and interactive computer programs to learn or have fun with, Tamil. If you are interested in Engineering, you will also find some interactive courseware modules in Mechanics of Merials and Vibration.

Sinniah Ilanko

Saraswathi pooja hymns of navaaliyoor somasundarappulavar, sung by his daughter (my mother) are available from my brother Kathirgamanathan's website:

Kathir's Website

My mother passed away on 31 March 2002. Sections of her memorial booklet are avilable here now. If you have Anjal,Inaimathi/InaiKathir fonts, you can view them by clicking the following link

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The Tamil pages and resource materials on this site require one of the following fonts. If you haven't already installed these fonts on your system, please download them from the links below. English pages, and the interactive software modules require only standard fonts such as TimesRoman, Arial and Symbol.

Some pages and interactive programs require MylaiPlain Fonts developed by Dr Kalyanasundaram. They are freely available from his website. Click the link on the right to download these fonts

Dr Kalyanasundaram's MailaiPlain webpage

Some pages and interactive programs require Anjal-InaiMathi/Inai-Kathir Fonts Free versions of these fonts are available from the Murasu-Anjal website. You could send and receive e-mails in Tamil, using these fonts. Click the link on the right to download these fonts

Murasu website

Some poems of
Navaliyoor Somasundarppulavar

(my mother's father)

are now available here in Anjal/InaiMathi fonts

Table of Contents

Contents

Link/Page URL

Tamil poems for children by Navaliyoor Somasundarappulavar,in Anjal-Inaimathi Font

Chiruvar senthamiz 1

Tamil poems for children by Navaliyoor Somasundarappulavar,in MylaiPlain Font

Chiruvar senthamiz 2

"Once Upon a Jaffna: No 11" - Transcripts of one of Kumaraparathy's (my borther) radio talk (Access Radio, Wellington, New Zealannd) on "fence" in Jaffna, in MylaiPlain font.

Kumaraparathy's Once upon a Jaffna, Part 11

Interactive Mult-Media Programs, Tamil Word Games, Tamil Text-To-Voice converter, Talking Dictionary and Courseware modules.

Multi-Media Program Page

Science related Tamil articles, inlcuding verses containing basic formulae in Mechanics of Materials in MylaiPlain Font -last updated 23 March 1997

ariviyal pakkam

Beyond the boundaries of culture - my thoughts on culture, language, education, politics, etc, in English.

Aliens' Bay

Other interactive programs in Tamil are avilable at the Tamilnet site

Tamil Kalvi Page hosted by tamil.net

Engieering courseware page

Vibration Research Resources Page

Negative and Positive Mass

As you can see, I am interested in developing interactive multi-media tutorials for teaching/learning Tamil Language and Engineering Subjects. They are freely available here and from other sites for you to use. If you like to help me with my projects, or would like me to help you with your projects on Tamil Language/ Engineering Education, Please feel free to contact me at one of the addresses below:

My office - for engineering related projects or

My home - for Tamil language related projects