An old boy of Hartley College, Point Pedro, Veeragathy Thanabalasingham is the former chief editor of Thinakkural daily and weekly. He entered the field of journalism by joining the Virakesari newspaper as a proof reader in September 1977 and after seven years joined the Virakesari editorial section in January 1985.
Having served there as a sub-editor and Parliamentary reporter for twelve years, Thanabalasingham joined the Thinakkural newspaper as its first news editor in April 1997 and in April 2004, took over as the editor.
After retirement in 2012 he got an opportunity to serve Virakesari again as an editorial consultant till December 2020. He also edited the fortnightly socio-political magazine Samakalam, a publication of Express Newspapers (Ceylon).
Thanabalasingham has been writing to Tamil papers, magazines and digital publications on local and international political affairs regularly. He has been in the field of journalism for more than four decades.
He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award of the Sri Lanka Press Institute and Editors Guild of Sri Lanka in 2015.
