However a Sri Lanka analyst for the prominent Indian English daily The Hindu, whose chief editor N. Ram was awarded the Sri Lanka Rathna and is noted for being virulently anti-LTTE,  states "TamilNet (www.tamilnet.com) is the unofficial mouthpiece of the Tigers in English.
A Sri Lankan analyst for the prominent Indian English daily The Hindu, whose chief editor N. Ram is awarded the Sri Lanka Rathna and is known for being vehemently anti-LTTE, states that TamilNet (www.tamilnet.com) is the unofficial mouthpiece of the Tigers in English.