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Language and culture go along together

 A change in a language brings change in a culture

IMTC

Welcome to IMTC

Language and culture goes along together. A change in a language brings change in a culture. A language transmits culture through oral stories, songs, and other forms of expression that passed from generation to generation. Therefore, language has played an important role in preservation and transmission of cultural knowledge.

To protect Tamil language, culture, Tamil way of life and to spread glory of the Tamilians across the globe. IMTC was established in the year 1974.

IMTC is registered as a non-profitable organisation in various countries and operating around the globe. Head Office is registered in the UK.

What We Do

We work creatively.

Our objective is to promote Tamil language, Tamil culture and Tamil art; to organise conferences, conventions, seminars and workshops on the cultural issues and to honour and recognise people who make notable contributions toward the development of the Tamil language and culture.

IMTC was established to preserve and revitalise the language, culture, arts, spirituality, and traditions of the Tamil people. To preserve and celebrate your cultural identity a language plays an important role. It becomes very difficult to reconnect with your roots if the language is forgotten.

Our aim at IMTC is to promote the Tamil culture and to disseminate the Tamil language all over the world. Since its founding in the year 1974 , the IMTC has organised many events, seminars, conferences and cultural events open to the public.

Our History
IMTC HISTORY
The International Movement for Tamil Culture, is a non-profit, non-political, democratic, charity, Tamil Cultural Organization, run by volunteers, formed in January 1974 and has been functioning for the last 50 years worldwide and established supporting branches in 42 countries and membership in other non-member states and territories. Now eight countries are effectively functioning. The IMTC’s mission is to propagate, develop, and maintain Tamil Language, Tamil Culture, and Education, to our younger generation, among the worldwide population, who are living in various countries, including India and Sri Lanka. It has conducted 15 International Conferences, once in three to four years. The second conference was held in Mauritius in 1980, where the Mauritius Prime Minister Mr. Ram Eoola Siva Sangar was the Chief Guest of the Conference. Due to ehnic war in Sri Lanka, for some years organisation activities were shifted to South Africa, Malaysia, Europe and Canada.
The 13th Intertnatiional Conference took place in 2017 at the University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, attended by many participants across the globe. The 14th International Conference took place in 2020 at the Pondicherry University in India. Several people were given the honour for their contribution to Tamil language and Culture. The15th International Conference was held in Tamil Nadu in 2022. The International Movement of Tamil Culture, United Kingdom Headquarters in association with International Tamil Diaspora Association, Mauritius, and Murugan Temple Foundation, Mauritius will be organising a three-day International Conference on ‘International Diaspora – Opportunities and Challenges in Mauritius on 24 – 26 September 2023. As many as 150 delegates from 15 countries will take part in the deliberations at the conference.
Our Events

International conferences and seminars

Over the past several years, the World Tamil Cultural Movement, which has successfully established branches in many countries of the world, has held many international conferences and seminars in the past.

The 16th IMTC International Conference is scheduled to be held on 24th to 26th September, 2023 in Mauritius. The last date for Registration and submission of the abstract / full paper is 30 June 2023

The conference was attended by Hon’ble Union Cabinet Minister for Education Shri. Dharmendra Pradhan with Prof. Gurmeet Singh, ViceChancellor of Pondicherry University.

The 13th conference jointly organized by World Tamil Cultural Movement Canada and World Tamil Cultural Movement Sri Lanka branch was held in Jaffna on Saturday 05-06 August 2017.

The Government of Sri Lanka and the Chief Minister in Jaffna provided constructive support for the successful completion of this conference and the participation of many central and state ministers and their members was considered as a strengthening contribution to the World Tamil Cultural Movement.

Also, it is a matter of happiness that many dignitaries and Tamil scholars from India visited the said conference. Our people who are still struggling to recover from the impact of state terrorism in our homeland; With the aim that this conference was an attempt to apply some ointment to the sores, the Minister of State for Education P.

Year 2016 was a healthy start for our World Tamil Cultural Movement. The two-day conference held in Pondicherry, the capital of Puducherry, India, was an exciting activity for all the members of the movement. The nation of India and our motherland Tamil Nadu are the guardian deities of Tamil language and Tamil culture in the world.

In Pondicherry, where the fragrance of Tamil language permeates the Indian soil, this rare opportunity where all the members and scholars of our movement came together to discuss, research and introduce good projects became a catalyst that took us a little higher.

People with various professional expertise

Our movement, which is engaged in efforts to preserve and protect the language, has the support and blessings of many people living in the world, such as academicians, researchers, art writers, activists holding administrative positions in organizations and people with various professional expertise.

Branches in many countries

Over the past several years, the World Tamil Cultural Movement, which has successfully established branches in many countries of the world, has held many international conferences and seminars in the past.

 

One of the official languages in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka

TAMIL LANGUAGE

Tamil is spoken by 8 crore (80 million) people worldwide, It ranks 18th in terms of the number of native speakers of a language. A 2017 Google survey revealed that Tamil is the most used Indian language on the Internet.

Some of the Tamil literature is more than 2500 years old. The Tamil works found are written in Brahmi script dating back to 400 BC. Out of approximately 1,00,000 (100,000) inscriptions found in India, more than 60,000 inscriptions are found in Tamil Nadu. About 95 percent of these are in Tamil.

Tamil has been recognized as a classical language by the Government of India. Tamil is the first Indian language to be recognized in this way. This was announced by Abdul Kalam , on June 6, 2004, during a joint session of both the Houses of the Indian Parliament.

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Our Objective
To promote Tamil language
and Tamil culture

Our movement, which is engaged in efforts to preserve and protect the language, has the support and blessings of many people living in the world, such as academicians, researchers, art writers, activists holding administrative positions in organizations and people with various professional expertise.

About Us

IMTC was founded to create a greater awareness of Tamil history and rich Tamil cultural by organising the cultural events and promoting Tamil language. IMTC has proved that it possesses the necessary knowledge, experience and vision to promote the Tamil culture in India, Sri Lanka and abroad.

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