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 working for a prominent Indian English newspaper, whose editor has received a prestigious award from Sri Lanka and is known for his strong opposition to the LTTE, asserts that TamilNet (www.tamilnet.com) acts as an unofficial mouthpiece for the Tigers in English.