Sunday, August 26, 2007

one from sri lanka

Hello i am THILLAI.
In tamil literary circle known as uduvai thillainadajah .I belong to Sri lanka administrative service and working as additional secretary of the ministry of education.

I born in 1947 at uduppiddy which is village 24 kilometers from Jaffna town towards Point Pedro. Uduppiddy Thilanadarajah has become uduvai thillai for art and literary purposes.

i have started my career as a clerk in 1966. The government of sri lanka, through competitive examination selected me as public management assistant and attached to police head quarters, Colombo.
After the completion of ten years services i sat for the SLAS competitive examination and appointed to the SLAS service.

In 1978, i have been appointed to sri lanka administrative service (SLAS) through competitive examination. I had the opportunities to serve in several parts of the country and enjoying various statuses during the past three decades.

1978 – 1980 assistant commissioner of cooperative development for Batticalo district

1980-1982 assistant commissioner of cooperative development for Mannar district

1982-1988 assistant commissioner of cooperative development for Mannar, Vavniya, Mullaithivu districts

1988-1989 director of fisheries for north east province

1989-1990 Actg. secretary, food, trade & cooperatives for North east province.

1990-1991 Deputy secretary, ministry of education for north east province

1992-1995 Government agent /district secretary for Vavuniya district.

1995-1998 Government agent / district secretary for Kilinochchi district.
1998-1999 Director cultural affairs.

In September 1999 I have been appointed as additional secretary to the ministry by the cabinet of ministers and continue in the same position even after the optional age of retirement.

From my childhood I have started to write, act and speak on both school and outside. Articles have been published in the news papers periodicals and broadcasted over the radio. Collection of short stories published entitled Nirvanam (Naked) and awarded by Indian Literary Circle (Lilly Devasigamany Literary Circle) as one of best collection in the world. Later this book has been in translated into sinhala. So far three editions in Tamil and two editions in sinhala have been released.

1 comment:

த.அகிலன் said...

Dear sir
I am very happy to see your articles in English. I think this is must. Because its try to help to say to the English known world about the feels of Tamil community of eel am.

but one thing. where is (ra)?

//Hello I am THILLAI.
In Tamil literary circle known as uduvai thillainadajah //