Tamil

Tamil

Tamil

Tamil

Tamil Nadu

Tamil is a south Indian language, and I said, can Tamil speaking children in a south Indian village

In Sri Lanka, a decades long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority

This year, that one hospital will give back sight to more than 300,000 people in Tamil Nadu, India.

I've seen them do it from a village called Diggles in northwestern England, deep inside a village in Tamil Nadu, India, 6,000 miles away.

And I set myself and impossible target can Tamil speaking 12 year old children in a South Indian village teach themselves biotechnology in English on their own?

And over time, we have grown into a network of five hospitals, predominately in the state of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and then we added several, what we call Vision Centers as a hub and spoke model.

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

So a little girl who you see just now, she raised her hand, and she says to me in broken Tamil and English, she said, Well, apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else.