Welcome to Kalappai

About Us (ASoGT) : The Australian Society of Graduate Tamils (ASoGT) was established in Sydney in 2002. The aim of this organisation is to bring Tamils from various Universities and different disciplines to engage in projects to enhance education in our home lands and propagate Tamil in our adopted countries. > More

UNIFUND PROJECT (Since 1991): The `Unifund' project had been established by the Sydney University Tamil Society (SUTS) in 1991, following a request from former Vice Chancellor, Prof. Thurairajah. This was a project to help the disadvantaged university students by University Students in Sydney.  The Australian Society of Graduate Tamils (ASoGT) has taken over the project in 2002. This project bridges the University Tamil students in our homeland and the student in the Tamil Diaspora. > More

Kalappai Magazine (Since 1994): This is another project of the Australian Society of Graduate Tamils (ASoGT). `Kalappai' magazine was first published in July 1994 in Sydney. The project was initiated by Sydney University Tamil Society (SUTS) and now continued by the Australian Society of Graduate Tamils (ASoGT) from 2002. The aim of this project is to identify talented Tamil writers and encourage the young writers in the Tamil Diaspora. We keep a dialogue with the global Tamil community by publishing this `Kalappai' magazine. This is a Tamil-English quarterly magazine. `Kalappai’ proudly marches towards its 15th year of publication.  > More

TAMIL COMPETITIONS (Since 1994): The Tamil competitions have been held for the last thirteen years in New South Wales and 9 years Australian Capital Territory States. The Australian Society of Graduate Tamils had taken over this Herculean task from the 10th year. This competition is now extended to all States in Australia and New Zealand from 2006, as `Australasian Competitions’. > More

TAMIL GUIDE – NSW (Since 1977): There have been 4 issues of Tamil Guide since its inaugural issue in 1997. The fifth issue of `Tamil Guide (TG)’ will be published in 2008. The Tamil Guide has been a very useful reference directory publication for a decade for Sydney Tamils. Every Tamil wishes to have a copy as a useful reference in their home and car. As it was initiated and run as community project we wish to continue the same trend to service our community. The TG 2008 will be published by Kalappai Publications of Australian Society of Graduate Tamils (ASoGT) in collaboration with the Australian Medical Aid Foundation (AMAF).

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InTAMIL (Since 2007): Tamil is one of the most ancient languages of the world, well known for its wealth of literature, and regarded as one of the classical languages alongside ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Chinese. Today there are more than sixty five million Tamil speakers around the world, concentrated mainly in India and Sri Lanka. Australia is home to an expatriate Tamil community of more than 80,000 Tamil Australians, who make their contribution in various ways in this multicultural Australia. An estimated twenty five thousand Tamil Australians live in New South Wales. > More

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