Arul Pragasam
Organization founder
1940 –
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Who is Arul Pragasam?
Arul Pragasam is a Tamil activist and former revolutionary from Jaffna who had a part in forming the group Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students in January 1975 in Wandsworth, England during the Tamil independence movements to secure an independent Tamil Eelam. He later left the conflict, after work as an independent peace negotiator between the two sides of the civil war. He currently heads the Global Sustainability Initiative in the United Kingdom. He is also the father of the musician M.I.A. and the jewellery designer Kali Arulpragasam.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1940
London - Also known as
- Arular
- A. R. Arudpragasam
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Hindu
- Ethnicity
- Tamil
- Nationality
- Sri Lanka
- Education
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Engineering
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
- Lived in
- Jaffna
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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