Arul Pragasam

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Arulappu Richard Arulpragasam (Tamil: அருளப்பு ரிசர்ட் அருள்பிரகாஶம்) (13 April 1948 – 3 December 2019), also known as Arular and A. R. Arulpragasam, was a Sri Lankan Tamil intellectual, activist and former revolutionary from Jaffna who had a part in forming the group Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) in January 1975 in Wandsworth, England during the Tamil independence movements to secure an independent Tamil Eelam. He later left the conflict, after work as an independent peace negotiator between the two sides of the civil war. At the time of his death, he headed the Global Sustainability Initiative in the United Kingdom. He was also the father of the musician M.I.A, Kali Arulpragasam and Sugu Arul

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