25 September, 2023

Owership and Funding

Entity Tamil Desk (hereinafter referred to as “Tamil Desk ” / “We” / “Us” / “Our”) is deeply committed to transparency in all its affairs. Through this Ownership and Funding Disclosure, We would like to inform you about Our ownership structure and funding sources.

Entity Tamil Desk, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2007, was co-founded in 2017 by Baskaran Katheeshan. Our registered office is in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka

Revenue Model We have a self-sustained, bootstrapped and advertising-based revenue model generated through online advertisements and sponsored articles.

We are consistently working towards securing grants for the journalism work We do. Operative Principles We cite potential conflicts of interest on the same page as the relevant published work.

We promote limited and only socially relevant advertisements, and all such content is tagged as “Sponsored” to clearly distinguish it from a regular article on Our Website in accordance with Our Sponsored Content Policy.

We have a strict policy of not taking funds from political parties or political leaders, which is elaborated in Our Non-Partisanship Policy