kalyan | April 8, 2008
THE CHARM OF LITTLE JAFFNA: Dominant Asian (read Tamil) community area of Paris source: http://www.parisfranceguide.com Little Jaffna in Paris Ask most Parisians about Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement, and they’ll likely evoke the presence of large Turkish, African, and Indian communities. They might mention the famous Passage Brady, with its countless Indo-Pakistani [...]
kalyan | April 8, 2008
Swiss Tamils look to preserve their culture Tamil businesses are becoming a common sight in larger cities Source: Swissinfo.org /February 18, 2006 http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=108&sid=6186723&cKey=1140784868000 Tamils first came to Switzerland in the 1980s as refugees fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka and now make up a sizeable community in the country. Although they encountered prejudices at first, [...]
kalyan | April 8, 2008
Disputed Space for Beloved Goddesses: Hindu Temples, Conflicts and Religious Pluralism in Germany by Martin Baumann in: Rever. Revista de Estudos da Religiao, 1, 4, 2001 URL: http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv4_2001/t_bauman.htm. Though I would like to draw some generalized conclusions about conflicts, religious pluralism and public representation in contemporary Germany, at the outset I would like to introduce [...]
kalyan | April 7, 2008
A civilized society must naturally have had a system of medicine which catered to the health needs of its people. This was the Siddha system. The term ‘Siddhi’ means ‘achievement’ and the Siddhars were men who achieved certain results in medicine, as well as in yoga or tapas. The results in medicine were achieved by [...]
kalyan | April 7, 2008
Dalits /Scheduled caste, Scheduled Tribe communities of Tamilnadu by Sathianathan Clarke Source: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1128 Indian society is divided into three communities — caste, outcaste (Dalit), and indigenous (Adivasi). First, the caste community consists of four castes that are hierarchically ordered) The Brahmins (priests) are the preservers and protectors of the eternal laws of the Universe (Dharma); [...]
kalyan | April 7, 2008
by M. Sangeelee Paper presesnted at the First International Tamil Conference – Seminar Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18 – 23 April 1966 Mauritius is a small island lost in the Indian Ocean. It is some 550 miles to the east of Madagascar. It is 31 miles long and 28 miles broad and has an area of [...]
kalyan | April 7, 2008
by S. Ramakrishnan published in UNESCO Courier, March, 1984 The words “Tamil culture” immediately evoke the image of the towering gopuram (entrance gateways) of the Hindu temple, at once a commanding grandeur and solemnity; of a beautiful dancing girl, decked out in all her finery, graceful and lovely; to the literary minded, of the squatting [...]