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South Asia Journal for Culture Volume 4, 2010

Call for Papers, Reviews, Photo-essays and Opinion Essays

On behalf of the Editorial Board of the South Asia Journal for Culture, the Colombo Institute for the Advanced Study of Society and Culture would like to invite all interested individuals to submit papers, reviews, photo-essays and opinion essays [...]

South Asia Journal Volume 2

The South Asia Journal for Culture, Volume 2, is now available. While it is only available in Colombo at the moment, we hope to make it available at a limited number of outlets in selected South Asian cities over the next few months. Due to the delay of SAJC Vol 2, the third issue of [...]

Panuwal Volume 5

The latest volume of the Tamil journal Panuwal is now available.

Contents:

Picture and Pedagogy: Modernity and Ambivalence in the Colonial Jaffna Painting - T.Sanathanan (Original Tamil language essay)

Temperance movement in North Sri Lanka: Political Leadership and Social Reality, 1900-1936 - Somesasundai Krishnakumar (Original Tamil language essay)
 
Brides as Bridges? Tamilness through Movements, Actors, Documents and [...]

Patitha Volume 6

The latest volume of the Sinhala journal Patitha is now available.
Contents:
1. The Poetics of Identity: Bakhtin’s Chronotope and the Tamil Concept of Tinai’ by Rudramurthi Cheran (Translated from English into Sinhala by Sasanka Perera)
 
2. ‘Problems of Ceylon History’ and the ‘Fear of History’ by Sudharshan Senevirthne (Translated into Sinhala from English by Samudrika Sylva)
 
3. The [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS!

South Asia Journal for Culture Volume 3
 
Call for Papers, Reviews, Photo-essays and Opinion Essays
 
On behalf of the Editorial Board of the South Asia Journal for Culture, the Colombo Institute for the Advanced Study of Society and Culture would like to invite all interested individuals to submit papers, reviews, photo-essays and opinion essays for consideration for [...]

Panuwal Volume 4

Contents of Panuwal Vo. 4
The Concept of Culture – B. Lurdhu (Original Tamil language essay)
Heroic Culture: Cattle Back Riding in Upland Tamil Nadu – S. Gunasekaran (Original Tamil language essay)
 

Housing Complexes as Packaged Fantasies: Politics of Placelessness  and the Standardization of Taste  – Sasanka Perera (Translated from the English by T. Shanaathanan and S. Jeewasudan)
Androgyny: [...]

Patitha Volume 5

Contents:
 
Desire in Crisis: A Queer Reading of Male Intimacies in Cinema
T. Muraleedharan
 
The Politics of Art
Nikos Papastergiadis
 
Treatment Seeking Behavior: An Initial Reading on the Relevance of Socio Cultural Systems and Limitations of Medical Approaches
Chandani Liyanage
 
Photo Essay
 
Glocal-Cola:  Visual Communications of Coca Cola in India as a Site of Mediation between Global and Local [...]

South Asia Journal for Culture: Pakistan Launch

The South Asia Journal for Culture held its Pakistan launch on October 26 2008 at the Goethe Institut, Karachchi, organized by the Goethe Institut and Nukta Art. It was organized as part of the South Asia art critics seminar titled ‘The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting to be Born.’

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sasanka Perera addressed the audience. Following is an excerpt of [...]

Panuwal Volume 3

Contents of Panuwal Vol. 3, 2005

A Story about the Arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka by Michel Roberts (Translated from Sinhala to Tamil by Saminadan Wimal)
 
The Uneasy Dialogue: Local Codes of Victorian Manliness in Sinhala Discourse by Jani de Silva (Translated from English to Tamil by. S. Padmanadan)
 
Indegenizing the Colonial City: Changing Landscape of [...]

Panuwal Volume 2

Contents of Panuwal Vol. 2, 2004
 
Iconic Culture among Tamils: The Role of the Icon in Tamil Culture by K. Sivathamibi (Original Tamil language essay)
 
Ideology and Iconography: Arumugam Navalar as the 5th Shaivite Saint (Original Tamil language essay by  P. Ahilan)
 
Mapping Violent Narratives: War Memorials in Dhaka and their Embodied Memories by Nayanika Mukerji.  (Translated from [...]