kalyan | April 6, 2008
by Prof. Karthigesu Sivathamby, Professor Emeritus, University of Jaffna. Source: This article appeared in TAMIL CIRCLE magazine Since the ethnic riots of 1983, the pattern of life has changed in the Tamil-majority northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka and these changes have inevitably been reflected in recent Sri Lankan Tamil literature. BY the close [...]
kalyan | April 6, 2008
by Dr. Gift Siromoney Source: Tamil Studies, Vol.2, No. 1, January 1982, 8-23 Editor, N. Subrahmanian, International Institute of Tamil Historical Studies, Madurai The antiquity of writing in India stretches back to the period of the Indus civilization which lasted for about a thousand years from 2500 to 1500 B.C. After a gap of over [...]
kalyan | April 6, 2008
“Persistence of conventions: “company drama” and the Tamil cinema” by S Theodore Baskaran Source:http://www.seagullindia.com/index-stq/baskaran.html By the dawn of the twentieth century the so-called company drama’ had emerged as an important form of mass entertainment in South India. I will argue here that the “company drama” provided the model for the early Tamil cinema. Many of [...]
admin | April 4, 2008
Acknowledgement /Source of the article: “A HISTORY OF TAMIL LITERATURE”, by Mu. Varadarajan, (Translated from Tamil by E.Sa. Viswanathan) Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1988, p. 1- 17 ———————- Transliteration Scheme used: In place of the transliteration scheme used in the book (Tamil lexicon scheme with diacritical markers), I have used the following transliteration scheme: a, [...]
admin | April 4, 2008
Religious Traditions of the Tamils by Prof. A. Veluppillai 1. Introduction. The Tamils can be defined as people, having Tamil as their mother tongue. Tamil language is a member of the Dravidian/ South Indian family of languages. The four southernmost states of India- tamiz Nadu, kERaLa, karNAdaka, and Andra Pradesh- are predominantly linguistically Dravidian, each [...]