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 [...]