M.I.A.
Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, the daughter of a Tamil activist-turned militant, Arul Pragasam. When she was six months old, her family moved back to their native Sri Lanka. Motivated by his wish to support the LTTE’s violent secessionist campaign against the Sri Lankan government, her father became politically known as Arular and was a founding member of The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students a militant Tamil group. Her alias, “M.I.A.” stands for “Missing in Action”
