On the one hand, this is kind of offensive, on the other hand, it's pretty awesome. I'm so conflicted. Japanese people love Ranjinikanth for some reason.

A Canadian film about Tamil youth and gang violence. The director is a Tamil software architect -- classic.

"Damilvany Gnanakumar witnessed Sri Lanka's bloody conflict from a Tamil hospital - then spent months detained in a camp. She tells Gethin Chamberlain her story."

"After six months of relentless protesting, Toronto Tamils have become a serious political force. How a 20-year-old kid from Scarborough helped mobilize a generation."

Tamil peoples obsession with fair skin borders on crazy-ass-crazy.

The Globe and Mail is such a shitty paper. They manage to tie this boys death to the recent protests, the loss of the war in Sri Lanka, and a resurgence in 1990s gang crime. Speculate much?

A strange article to find in the SUN of all places.

When Tyler linked to the earlier report, pointing out that \"east end\" is code for Scarborough, I was pretty sure the victim would be Tamil. The Honda Accord is a dead giveaway. Plus, no one loves killing Tamil boys more than other Tamil boys. My peop

I\'m impressed the rally was so big despite the transit strike. Shima happened to wander by and was at the rally for a little while.

Glad to see the film is still being screened, I watched this last year at HotDocs.

Now it seems clear to me that there haven\'t been any charges filed against anyone because they are too afraid to come forward. Wasn\'t that the point the report was trying to make?

An old article from the Globe and Mail.

And he\'s Tamil.

(In a pre-election roundtable discussion organised by the Canadian Tamil Congress.)

I had no idea Illayaraja, who wrote the music for <em>Hey! Ram</em>, also wrote the music for <em>Payanangal Mudivathilai</em>, one of my most favourite Tamil movies.

The LTTE have been kidnapping children and forcing them to become child soldiers.

The <a href=\"http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/4002/\">Upcountry Tamils</a> are ignored by everyone, the Sri Lankan government, the LTTE, and the rest of the world.

Well that is certainly strange.

A good overview of the history of the civil war in Sri Lanka.

This is the 4th film I watched at the HotDocs festival. I plan to write about it when I figure out what to write. It was amazing.