Karthigesu Sivathamby

Karthigesu Sivathamby

Prof. Karthigesu Sivathamby (born 1932) in Jaffna, Sri Lanka is an emeritus professor of University of Jaffna. He has written and published more than 70 books and monographs and presented and published 200 papers at international seminars and journals on Sri Lankan Tamil history and literature. He was awarded "Thiru V. Kalyanasundara Mudaliar" Award by the government of Tamil Nadu in India in recognition of his services to Tamil language. He is a visiting Professor of Tamil to Universities in India such as the University of Madras and the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Cambridge University in England and in Finland and Norway. [ [http://www.tamilnation.org/forum/sivathamby/index.htm Karthigesy Sivathamby] ]

Critics often accused Sivathamby of subservient to power and his charateristic of sailing by the wind. [ [http://thesamnet.co.uk/?p=123] ]

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