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Issue 10: Tamil Media
Recommendation 3: Talent Search and Development
• Conduct talent searches in school. Tamil language societies in school do put up good
quality dramas. These talents can be identified to improve the talent pool, quality of
shows as well as create more cultural content.
• Conduct debates, talks and workshops regularly in schools to educate the students about
the Tamil culture, instead of only in the Tamil Language Festival.
• Record stage plays (cultural context to be given by Vasantham/Oli 96.8) by youths and
broadcast them. This will serve as an incentive for the youths to research more about the
Tamil culture and exercise their creativity to bring this culture on stage.
Recommendation 4: Improving Quality of Tamil in Media
• Media must be the safeguard against the decreasing standards of the Tamil language
used.
• Create short 5 to 10-minute filler segments which identify new Tamil words every month
and explain the meanings of those words in a creative manner. This is similar to the
current SINDA advertisements that share about ways to solve Mathematics sums easily.
• These segments must be concise and broadcasted during primetime slots.
• Upload these segments on social media to maximise the reach of these posts.
• In the long run, these filler segments can be consolidated into an application such as
‘Pictionary’ for classroom teaching or self-learning.
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