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Translation as murder

Posted in Srilankan Tamil, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, activism, culture, india, research, translation, work, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

As someone who has translated a dozen books, and who also holds a research degree in translation studies, I know a lot about the difficulties of translating. I know about equivalences, about cultural problems, about syntax troubles, the whole damn lot. What I learnt right now, is that someone can merely use your name, and [...]

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Opinion piece in today’s Deccan Chronicle

Posted in politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

STATE PARTIES TO GAIN POLL MILEAGE FROM LANKAN ISSUE
WITH ELECTIONS in Tamil Nadu just a month away, the Central government seems to have realised that it can no longer keep up its pretence that the Lankan Tamils problem does not exist. Home minister P.Chidambaram said on Sunday that India had pressurised the Sri Lankan government [...]

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A one-off post

Posted in politics, tagged , , , , , on April 13, 2009 | Comments Off

I never write about politics in Tamil Nadu, or even my personal opinions about politics. (Of course this rule will be broken shortly). But, I have written this post for Kalugu.com (originally this started as a mail to friends who wrote to me seeking my opinion), about how I look at the VCK’s alliance with [...]

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Hitting below the belt

Posted in Chennai, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, activism, india, suicide, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 8, 2009 | 11 Comments »

Yesterday I went to the black flag rally organized by the Lankan Tamils Protection Movement under ayya Nedumaran. I also stayed back for the public meeting that followed. And there were certain things that did not escape my notice: 
I am really scared that this Eelam Tamils protection movement, in spite of its noblest goals, is being [...]

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Students protests and the state’s repressive reaction

Posted in Eelam liberation struggle, Srilankan Tamil, academics, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2009 | 13 Comments »

On one hand it is the success of the students’ struggle against the genocide of Eelam Tamils that an indefinite closure of all colleges has been announced. My amma says it happened before only in 1965 during the anti-Hindi agitations, my friends say it could have taken place in ‘83 or ‘87 (again related to [...]

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