The 2,000-year-old Tamil language — nearly as old as Hebrew — is spoken by more than 70 million people in a diaspora that has its main origins in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, where it is ...

In Sri Lanka, opening a school to teach Tamil as a second language to adults is virtually unheard of. Yet, in 2019, this is precisely what Amita Arudpragasam did when she established Learning Tamil.