Josephians Perform Well at Tamil Competitions

Our Tamil students have performed well at several Tamil Language competitions this year:

• Two Josephians won the consolation prize at the competitions organised by the Association of Singapore Tamil Writers - Ramesh Jyodhir Aadithya (ML302) for the Translation Contest for Year 3 students, and Rahul Singaram Senthilkumar (FN402) for the short-story writing competition.

• The Society of Singapore Tamil Poets organised a Tamil Poetry Writing Competition. Sumugan Kapilan (FN402) won the second prize of $300 and Chandra Prakash Kavin (ML103) won the Consolation Prize.

• The Annamalai University Alumni Association organised a Research-Based Competition on the topic, "The Life of Tamils is intertwined with nature". Emmanuel Pereira (FN201), Sumugan Kapilan (FN402) and Purushothaman Sanjay (ML615) won the consolation prize for the Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary and IB categories respectively.

• Senthilkumar Alagusundaram (ML303) won 11th place at the Tamil Mobile Apps Creation competition organised by Bartley Secondary School.

• Thirumalpathi Thishan and Rahul Singaram Senthilkumar (both FN402) won second place in the Stand-up Comedy Category in the Tamil Literary Competition organised by Raffles Institution.

• Anandan Shivanand (LE506) won second place at the Tamil Literary Competition organised by the NUS Tamil Language Society.