What is your sense of Home ?

Dr. Niro Kandasamy (right), and the cover of the Book, "A Sense of Viidu" she edited.

Dr. Niro Kandasamy (right), and the cover of the Book, "A Sense of Viidu" she edited. Source: SBS Tamil

A book on the Tamil diaspora – in fact it is the first compilation of research on Tamils from the island of Sri Lanka, living in Australia was published recently.


The book presents different perspectives and voices on the topic of “home” for these Tamils – what it means to leave, or in fact flee, one’s homeland and what is brought to the new land as part of building a new home. Dr. Niro Kandasamy, one of the contributors and editors of the book talks to Kulasegaram Sanchayan about it and her work.


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