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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

Panuwal Volume 1

Contents of Panuwal Vol. 1, 2003

Constrictions of Identity: The Politics, the Rhetoric and the Confusions by Sasanka Perera (Translated from the English to Tamil by T. Sanaathanan)
 
God Kataragama as the Preeminent Deity of Sinhala Traders: Body Language of Sinhala Buddhist Traders by Desmond Mallikaarachchi (Translated from Sinhala to Tamil by Saminadan Wimal)

Recent Evidence of Commercial [...]

Reading Sri Lankan Society and Culture Volume 2 & 3

The Colombo Institute published three volumes in the Tamil language containing 35 key research-based essays that address issues of society, politics and culture in Sri Lanka.  The majority of them are translated versions of originals that have already been published and are relatively inaccessible to most Sri Lankans because they are written in English and [...]