Awards

Our annual awards

Our annual awards ceremony is sponsored by the members of our business community and we remain indebted to them for their generosity. Without whom our journey could not have come this far. The sponsors of the various annual awards deserve our very special thanks and appreciation for it is their support and commitment that has brought us this far. We salute our advertisers and sponsors with our deepest gratitude for walking with us for the past 35 years.

Looking at the array of our award recipients is a joyous exercise in itself. The individuals we have honoured are held in high esteem by our community for their outstanding contributions. These eminent men and women come from diverse professional backgrounds and their service to the community include the areas of medicine, education, arts and culture, the media, community service, and entrepreneurship among many others. We are especially proud to have honored the 'Toronto Star' newspaper with a special award.

The list of eminent persons honoured by us include the late Madam Nancy Pocock O.Ont, Dr.Tom Clarke, Kim Phuc - ( UNICEF Peace Ambassador), Madeline Ziniak O.C,, (Head of OMNI Television, Canada), Miranda Pinto, Director - Catholic Cross Cultural Services - Canada), Ali Gholapour (Refugee Advocate - Canada), and Pam McConnell (Deputy Mayor - Toronto).

Notable among our Life Time Achievement Award recipients in the recent past are: Prof. Peter Schalk of Uppsala University in Sweden ( A Scholar in Ancient Tamil Literatures ), Chevalier S.A. Adikalamuthu (Tamil Scholar - United Kingdom), Prof. Sivalingam Sivanandan of Illinois University, who was also honoured by the White House for his contributions on Solar Photovoltaic Research, Dr. Sanjayan Muthulingam who has made significant contributions to the preservation of the environment and wild-life conservation, Madam Kim Phuc (UNESCO Peace Ambassador ), Dr. Shan Shanmugasundaram ( a leading medical practitioner and Community Activist from California), Professor Sir. Sabaratnam Arulkumaran (President - British Medical Association), Professor Ajith Yoganathan (Emory University, USA), Mr.S. Sittampalam (Community leader - Canada), Professor Indran B. Indrakrishnan (Emory University, USA), Eminent Literary Pioneer Mr. Appadurai Muttulingam (Canada), Professor Dhalayan Velauthapillai (Western Norway University) and Eminent Tamil Broadcaster Mr. B.H.Abdul Hameed (Ceylon).

We have recognized and honoured eminent persons from the international Tamil Diaspora in a very special way for their special contribution to our community, thus giving Tamils' Information international respect and recognition. Very special mention has to be made of our student/youth award recipients who have felt highly motivated and encouraged in their endeavours by our honour.

Our total number of award recipients is 294 so far and we hope we can honour many more. Tamils' Information hopes to continue its journey in the service of our community with commitment, dedication and solidarity and we invite everyone to join us on the path of our history. The journey of service to human kind will never end until human kind remains committed to serving one another.