https://www.scmp.com/rss/522556/feed Surekha A. Yadav is a freelance journalist based in Singapore. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Surekha Yadav Surekha Yadav In a pink-lit car park outside a Colombo club, young Tamils cluster in loose groups. Laughter, the clink of glass bottles and the low throb of bass from the decks inside spill out into the warm night air. Sri Lanka’s capital is home to hundreds of thousands of Tamils. But a Tamil nightclub is still rare - the sound of so many Tamil voices gathered together can still feel provocative in a country where memories of a long, bloody inter-ethnic civil war remain raw. Inside the club, as British-Tamil... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3322862/how-malaysia-gave-world-tamil-rap-we-can-make-it-ours?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3322862/how-malaysia-gave-world-tamil-rap-we-can-make-it-ours?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:00:10 +0000