scholarly journals படகுமூலம் புலம்பெயர்வோரின் பயண அனுபவமும் வாழ்வும்

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
T Megarajah
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Diaspora Literature ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Tamil Diaspora ◽  
Sailing Boat

Sri Lankan Tamil’s diaspora’s experience are different. which has appeared from time to time in Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora literature. Uyirvaasam novel of Taamaraichelvi is important in Australia’s Tamil novel history. It is about boat peoples went from Sri Lanka to Australia. They went by the political Situation in Sri Lanka by boat. This is the first novel to be published on this subject. The plight of Sri Lankans Tamil Diaspora is recorded in the novel. It has been written realistically, from Sri Lanka to reaching Australia and experiencing various hardships. It is talk about death while sailing boat, children and women been affected and sent off to Sri Lanka after inquiry. These are presented through analytical, descriptive and historical approaches

Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-153
Author(s):  
Peter Hägel
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Hedge Fund ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
American Jewry ◽  
Tamil Diaspora ◽  
Diaspora Politics ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 5 analyzes two billionaires within transnational diaspora politics, whose ethnonational identity generates security concerns for communities abroad. The Jewish-American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has been financing a free newspaper, Israel Hayom, which has become the most widely read daily in Israel, staunchly supporting Benjamin Netanyahu and the “entrenchment–expansionism” position vis-à-vis Palestine. His interventions in the Israel–Palestine conflict ran counter to the majority views of American Jewry and undermined President Obama’s foreign policy. The second case examines whether the hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam helped to fund the insurgency of the LTTE (“Tamil Tigers”) in his former home state Sri Lanka. While the case once produced spectacular headlines, upon closer inspection the political agency of Rajaratnam appears as very limited. He seems to have largely conformed to the demands put on the Tamil diaspora by the LTTE, and the U.S. government’s anti-terrorism policies restricted his options severely.

scholarly journals Ethical Consciousness under Totalitarianism —Review on George Orwell’s 1984

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Qin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Making Friends

Since the new president of the United States Trump wield power people began to doubt the political situation, which thus led to the novel 1984 jump to the top in the list of the best seller. Public concern is that whether George Orwell’s allegorical purpose will be realized. Definitely 1984 is known as an anti-totalitarian novel describing the ethical disorder, the revolting principles, the absurd disciplines and ideological deformation of the “Big Ocean” country under the domination of “Big Brother”. People living there are forced to fall into ethical dilemma. They have changed their rational thoughts into irrational ones. Besides, they give up their identity of blood relatives and principles of making friends and empower irrationality to control humanity. This article intends to analyze the trauma made by the totalitarian government from the aspects of ethical consciousness.

scholarly journals Caste within the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora: Ūr Associations and Territorial Belonging

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanges Paramsothy
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Caste Group ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Kinship Ties ◽  
Tamil Diaspora ◽  
Do So

This article considers data on London Tamils from Jaffna peninsula, northern Sri Lanka, to examine caste interactions in relation to their efforts to reconnect with people in the diaspora and ‘at home’. The Tamils are part of a substantial number of ūr (home/native place) associations in London and areas outside London. I consider their efforts through changing and unchanging attitudes to caste to recreate a sense of community away from home. They do so by forming associations comprising members of a specific caste group, hailing from a particular village, region, or island in Sri Lanka. I examine the diaspora communities’ understanding of the institution of caste as a wider landscape of belonging. This further considers how caste divisions in the ūr become re-territorialized among the Tamil diaspora. The historical context of these activities relate to the wide dispersal and separation of Tamils from their Sri Lankan homeland during the upheaval of the armed conflict. The article also demonstrates how caste-based relationships and kinship ties shape the lives of members of the Tamil diaspora in London, and how caste-based and fragmented identities operate in such transnational Tamil diaspora localities.

scholarly journals Not your mother’s culture : second generation Tamil women negotiating trauma and identity through art

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Satkunam
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tamil Diaspora ◽  
Tamil Women

This research paper focuses on the Tamil diaspora community in Canada that developed in the aftermath of the Civil War in Sri Lanka. This paper explores the impact of trauma on children of survivors, and how daughters in particular navigate these traumas. Furthermore, this paper analyzes how young women bear the trauma differently from their male counterparts, as women tend to be seen as carriers of culture. These ideas of women as carriers of culture do not afford Tamil women agency—instead they are left without choice in certain situations. Ultimately, this paper explores if art can be used as a mechanism to release the burden women feel. It uses the interview of eight Tamil women to understand their complex narratives, and to see if they use art as a means to reclaim agency. Key words: Diaspora, Sri Lankan, Art, Second-Generation Tamil Women, Identity, Cultural Purity

Impact of Buddhism on Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-34
Author(s):  
Sudha Jha Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Royal Patronage ◽  
Political Unification

This paper is a historical study of the mutual exchanges in the religious and cultural traditions, in the context of Buddhism between India and Sri Lanka. As a powerful medium of trans-acculturation, Buddhism enriched several countries especially of South and South-East Asia. Though Asoka used Buddhism as a unifying instrument of royal power, he was considered as the ruler par excellence who ruled as per dhamma and righteousness ensuring peace and harmony in the kingdom. He was emulated by several rulers in the Buddhist world including Sri Lanka. Royal patronage of the Buddhist Sangha in Sri Lanka was reciprocated by support for the institution of kingship. Kingship played an important role in the political unification of the country, whereas Buddhism provided the ground for ideological consolidation. The Indian impact is clearly visible in all aspects of Sri Lankan life and identity-religion (Buddhism), art architecture, literature, language. However the culture and civilization which developed in the island nation had its own distinctive variant despite retaining the Indian flavour.

scholarly journals ‘You Can Do Anything With a Temple’: Religion, philanthropy, and politics in South London and Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIDHARTHAN MAUNAGURU ◽  
JONATHAN SPENCER
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Hindu Temple ◽  
Good Works ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Charity Commission ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Tamil Diaspora ◽  
The Temple

AbstractOur title quotation is taken from an interview with the chief trustee of a leading Hindu temple in south London, and captures the curious mixture of philanthropy, politics, and individual ambition that has emerged around Sri Lankan Tamil temples in the diaspora. During the long years of civil war, temples became centres of mobilization for the growing Tamil diaspora, and were often accused of channelling funds to the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) and its various front organizations. Since the end of the war, in 2009, the same temples now support orphanages and other good works in Sri Lanka, and their efforts are starting to be emulated by temples in Sri Lanka itself. At the heart of our article is a dispute between the UK Charity Commission and the chief trustee of a London temple, who is accused of misuse of temple funds and ‘failure to dissociate’ the temple from a terrorist organization. A close reading of the case and its unexpected denouement reveals the difficulties of bounding the zone of philanthropy.

scholarly journals The City and The River: An Anecdote of the Crisis Period

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 3633-3638
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Times ◽  
The City ◽  
Existential Issues

The aim of this paper is to highlight the issues of discrimination, corruption, exploitation, victimization as depicted by Arun Joshi in the novel, Joshi. It is a political satire where he used parable as a fictional mode. It is an assessment of the political situation of the times. The occasions and events depicted in the novel are evocative of the days of the Emergency of 1974-75 in India. Joshi is a story of time, set in a more extensive background, utilizing an aesthetically fulfilling blend of prediction and fantasy. Though Arun Joshi takes up his favorite existential issues in the novel, he also sees them through the spectacles of politics and thereby elevates the novel, Joshi to the level of political – allegorical satire. The events that took part within the city at a specific point in history.

scholarly journals Not your mother’s culture : second generation Tamil women negotiating trauma and identity through art

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Satkunam
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tamil Diaspora ◽  
Tamil Women

This research paper focuses on the Tamil diaspora community in Canada that developed in the aftermath of the Civil War in Sri Lanka. This paper explores the impact of trauma on children of survivors, and how daughters in particular navigate these traumas. Furthermore, this paper analyzes how young women bear the trauma differently from their male counterparts, as women tend to be seen as carriers of culture. These ideas of women as carriers of culture do not afford Tamil women agency—instead they are left without choice in certain situations. Ultimately, this paper explores if art can be used as a mechanism to release the burden women feel. It uses the interview of eight Tamil women to understand their complex narratives, and to see if they use art as a means to reclaim agency. Key words: Diaspora, Sri Lankan, Art, Second-Generation Tamil Women, Identity, Cultural Purity

La Avellaneda’s Sab and the Political Situation in Cuba

1945 ◽  
Vol 1 (03) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Way

The novel Sab by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda may be considered one of the outstanding products of her early Cuban environment. The work was begun in 1836 or earlier (while the author was traveling with her family to Spain), completed by 1838, and first published in 1841. In order to prepare the way for a favorable reception of the novel in her native land, as well as on the continent, la Avellaneda submitted the first ten chapters in 1839 to a “compatriota” residing in Sevilla:

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