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Thiruvarangan contributes towards Advocacy and Community Building initiatives of Noolaham Foundation.  
 
Thiruvarangan contributes towards Advocacy and Community Building initiatives of Noolaham Foundation.  
  

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Thiruvarangan contributes towards Advocacy and Community Building initiatives of Noolaham Foundation.

Thiruvarangan is from Vaddukoddai, Sri Lanka. He is a graduate student in English. Currently he is working as a Teaching Associate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He had his primary and secondary education at Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai (1991-1995 & July 1997- 2004) and Vavuniya Tamil MMV (1996 - June 1997), and obtained a BA special degree in English from the University of Peradeniya in 2009. Thiruvarangan worked as a Temporary Instructor in English at the University of Peradeniya (July 2009-January 2010) and later as an Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Jaffna till he left for the USA in August 2011.

Thiruvarangan’s academic interests lie in the areas of Marxist Theory, Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Literary Studies, Sociolinguistics and English Language Teaching. His undergraduate dissertation was on Home and Homeland: The Politics of Narrating the Exodus of 1995.

He is presently located in Amherst, Massachusetts.