

Many advertising companies and agencies are also tied up with them. You can read all latest news online also on their site. All latest news and current affairs are updated by them on their online portal also. This newspaper is circulated from Monday to Sunday with the average of 16,000 copies.Īll types of news are covered by this newspaper and published in the Tamil language that’s why it is one of the sixteen newspapers in Singapore. The owner of this newspaper is Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and its main headquarter is located in Genting Lane, Singapore. In 2004, Sarangapani's birth centenary was marked in Chennai, by tributes from leading Tamil poets, and a seminar on his life and achievements.Tamil Murasu is one of the leading and only Tamil language newspapers in Singapore which was founded in 1935. When he died on 16 March 1974, tributes were paid to him in Tamil Nadu, the land of his birth, in Malaysia and in Singapore. In 1937, he married Lim Boon Neo, with whom he had six children (four sons and two daughters). The Indians who are now living in prosperous Singapore must never forget his efforts in encouraging and securing citizenships for them. He personally collected and distributed the application forms to those who were permanent residents and those who were stateless. In the early 1950s Thamizhavel Sarangapany helped many members of the Indian community to register themselves as citizens of this country. Former Singapore President Sellapan Ramanathan has noted that Sarangapani also urged Tamils to embrace Singapore as their home. He also helped set up the Department of Indian Studies at the University of Malaya in Singapore. He was part of campaigns to make Tamil one of the four official languages of Singapore, as well as having it taught in Singapore schools from the primary to tertiary level.

Sarangapani was also a champion of the Tamil language in Singapore. Through his publications and the Association, Sarangapani promoted the importance of education, as well as denouncing the Hindu caste system, superstitions and alcoholism. He was also a founder of the Tamils Reform Association, and served as its Chairman and Secretary at various points. In 1929 he set up the magazine Munnetram (Progress), and in 1935 he launched Tamil Murasu, which remains Singapore's only daily Tamil newspaper. Sarangapani was also active as a Tamil writer and publisher in his own right. These links were strengthened in 19, when he helped to arrange Periyar's visits to Singapore and Malaya to spread his message to local Tamils. Sarangapani established direct contact with the Self-Respect Movement in India when he became the agent in British Malaya (then including Singapore) for the distribution of its magazine, Kudi Arasu. He was committed to rationalism and the ideal of a modern, progressive society. Ramasami (better known as Periyar) and his Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu. At 21, he went to Singapore to work as a bookkeeper, eventually becoming the manager at his firm. He received a good education and was effectively bi-lingual in Tamil and English. சாரங்கபாணி, 19 April 1903 – 16 March 1974) or Kosa as he was also known, a Tamil writer and publisher, was born in Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, on 20 April 1903.
