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Speaking Tanglish

Embracing my struggles with my family’s language helped me find a new way to define identity

Nuthanan Tharmarajah

Illustration by Moe Pramanick I hate speaking Tamil. It’s one of the oldest languages still spoken today, dating back to at least 450 BCE, and I’m proud it’s part of my life. It’s the language of my parents, who fled Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983–2009), a conflict that left hundreds of thousands of Tamils killed […] More »