| Nickname | THFi |
|---|---|
| Established | 2001 |
| Type | Tamil Heritage Monuments and Manuscripts preservation through Digitization and cultivate awareness on heritage preservation. |
| Purpose | Collect, preserve and digitize documents ofTamil cultural heritage includingTamil literature |
| Headquarters | Germany |
| Location |
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President | Dr. Subashini Kanagasundaram |
| Website | Tamil Heritage Foundation THF Executive Council |
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Tamil Heritage Foundation (THF) is a non-profit organization that collaborates with theBritish Library to collect, preserve and digitize documents ofTamil cultural heritage. Among activities around the world, the project activities are centered primarily inIndia,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland andSouth Korea.[1][4]
The purpose of the global effort is to make available hundreds of works, more than 100 years old, that had been collected duringBritish colonial rule of the Tamil speaking people through online access to the digitized documents.[2] Its motto is "to serve Tamil and Tamils across the world". The project allows the modern reader to tap into ancient wisdom about the scientific fields ofastronomy,mathematics,medicine,chemistry, andengineering. Cultural life is told in manuscripts about thearts,music andliterature.[3]
Pilot project
The limited collection of ancient, rare books andpalm-leaf manuscripts are digitally available on theinternet or onCD-ROM to the public free of charge. The categories of works include art, language, history and the sciences. Then, the project will be expanded to include several thousand Tamil books.[1][2][3] The director of the project is Dr. Narayanan Kannan[4] who was a founding member, in addition toDr. Kuppusamy Kalyanasundaram and Ms. Subashini Kanagasundaram, who are located in South Korea, Switzerland and Germany, respectively.[3]