Baskaran Kandiah is a Sri Lankan businessman who is the co-founder and Director of Lebara Group, a European telecoms company with operations in six countries.

[citation needed] Karan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in a Tamil family to Sharathadevi and Kandiah, from a humble background.

He had a special liking for Tamil language and its literature from a very young age which was further nurtured by his mother.

From 2014 onwards, it is owned and run by London Tamil Media Ltd who, in April 2015, expanded the organization to include the television channel as well as a revamped news website updated round the clock.

Headquartered in London, the channel’s core audience consists of Diaspora Tamils from Sri Lanka, India and elsewhere.