Virakesari

Virakesari

"Virakesari" is the name of a famous Tamil daily in Sri Lanka. It was founded by a Tamil Chettiar by the name PR. Subramanian in the first half of 1900s. He was an entrepreneur from the village Avanipatti in Tamil Nadu, India. Avanipatti is a small village of the 96 villages of the Nagarathars.Then, it was the first and leading Tamil daily doing brisk business.

Later on, due to the Tamil-Sinhalese issues, many Tamil businesses had to be abandoned/sold-off. Veerakesari got out of the hands of its founder and was taken over by a Sinhalese group. It still does good business in Sri Lanka.You can read more of the Chettiars on Chettiars wikipedia.Also Chettiars are also called Nagarathars.See nagarthars wikipedia

Here is the home page of the newspaper: http://www.virakesari.lk

It is the leading Tamil daily in Sri Lanka


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