Nadesapillai Vithyatharan (born 1959) is a
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
n journalist. He is the editor of
Uthayan
''Uthayan'' ( Utayaṉ, ) is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by New Uthayan Publication (Private) Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 1985 and is published from Jaffna. Its sister newspaper is ...
and
Sudar Oli
''Sudar Oli'' ( Cuṭar Oḷi) is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by Mass Media Syndicate (Private) Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 2000 and is published from Colombo. Its sister newspape ...
. He has been arrested, threatened, abducted by Sri Lankan Government and backed paramilitary for his newspapers independent reporting.
Uthayan
''Uthayan'' ( Utayaṉ, ) is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by New Uthayan Publication (Private) Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 1985 and is published from Jaffna. Its sister newspaper is ...
has run despite severe difficulties.
Biography
Vithyatharan was born in
Jaffna
Jaffna (, ; , ) is the capital city of the Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a Jaffna Peninsula, peninsula of the same name. With a population o ...
and was student of
Jaffna Hindu College
Jaffna Hindu College (; ; abbreviated as JHC) is a National school (Sri Lanka), national school in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1887 by a group of Hinduism in Sri Lanka, Hindu people who wanted an English language alternative to the Christi ...
and studied law in Colombo but had to discontinue it after the 1983
Black July
Black July (; ) was an anti- Tamil pogrom that occurred in Sri Lanka during July 1983. The pogrom was premeditated, and was finally triggered by a deadly ambush on a Sri Lankan Army patrol by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 23 ...
riots and returned to
Jaffna
Jaffna (, ; , ) is the capital city of the Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a Jaffna Peninsula, peninsula of the same name. With a population o ...
. He took up journalism and has been the working in the
Uthayan
''Uthayan'' ( Utayaṉ, ) is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by New Uthayan Publication (Private) Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 1985 and is published from Jaffna. Its sister newspaper is ...
in 1985 since its inception.
Uthayan
''Uthayan'' ( Utayaṉ, ) is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by New Uthayan Publication (Private) Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 1985 and is published from Jaffna. Its sister newspaper is ...
has been attacked several times and its staff killed.
He has started his own news paper Kalaikathir on 2016 after he left from Uthayan News Paper.
References
Sri Lankan newspaper journalists
Sri Lankan Tamil people
Sri Lankan newspaper editors
Sri Lankan Hindus
1959 births
Living people
Alumni of Jaffna Hindu College
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