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_{This post is based on the original Facebook post from 14th July 2020.}

NDLA is a Norwegian national digital learning arena used by high school students (videregående skole elever)

NDLA has used the video reportage by NRK (Norwegian National Television) from 1988. Antony Rajendram travelled on a motorcycle from Jaffna. His planned destination was England to learn about marine and fishing. Friends he met in England gave him the hint that Norway is the country to learn about marine and fishing. He was the first Sri Lankan Tamil who came to Norway in 1956. In this video reportage, Antony is talking about identity. This is now an archive of NRK and NDLA has used this archival material in the educational task about “descriptive and dynamic identity”.

Details of the archive:
Original title: “Mennesker i mellom – Portrett av den andre siden”
Length: 19 minutes
Production year: 1988
Broadcasted: NRK1 · Thursday 3. mars 1988
https://tv.nrk.no/se?v=FHLD00000388
This video is no longer available on this website. But will be available at an archival institution or at the NRK archive.

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Reference:

Tamil i Norge [Internett]. Provider: NRK. Retrieved from: https://ndla.no/subject:1:b9e86c43-93b8-49e9-81af-09dbc7d79401/topic:2:194233/topic:2:78143/resource:1:74649. Accessed: 24.11.2021

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