Tamil
Attesting the ‘wounded land’
A review of 'Then There Were No Witnesses' by Ahilan, translated by Geetha Sukumaran.
Kavitha Muralidharan | Jan 27, 2020
Love, with an albatross attached: Part I
A personal essay about coming of age in the world of hypercompetitive education in 1990s India.
Aparna Gopalan | May 11, 2018
Freeing the fourth estate
In post-Rajapaksa Sri Lanka there is less restriction on the media.
Tisaranee Gunasekara | Sep 20, 2016
The spectre haunting Lankan democracy
Will economic austerity come in the way of democracy?
Tisaranee Gunasekara | Jun 08, 2016
In search of welfare
In Sri Lanka, disasters and welfare policy shape each other.
Kalinga Tudor Silva | Jul 17, 2015
Of nymphs and flowering trees
Female rites of passage – Ramanujan’s Kannada tales and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Lora Tomas | Mar 20, 2015
When the worm turns
On 8 January, the dynastic ambition of the Rajapaksas faces an unprecedented challenge.
Tisaranee Gunasekara | Dec 31, 2014
Violence in the time of ‘no-war’
Sri Lanka’s militarised approach in the aftermath of the civil war has had destabilising social consequences.
Ahilan Kadirgamar | Sep 29, 2014
A requiem for the Jaffna Library
Chronicling the fall and resurrection of the Jaffna Public Library, and mourning all that can never be recovered.
Sundar Ganesan | Jan 14, 2014
The making of the marginalised
Daniel Bass’ ethnographic look at Sri Lanka’s Up-country Tamils uncovers crucial histories, but underplays the role of socio-economic marginalisation in shaping their identities
Ahilan Kadirgamar | May 05, 2013
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