by A. Sri-Jayantha; published May 14, 2004 At the Water’s Edge by Pradeep Jeganathan South Focus Press, New York 2004 ISBN 0-9748839-0-5 Pradeep Jeganathan has certainly mastered the art of the short story. Each of the seven stories in this collection is a taut, well-crafted example of the genre. Each is a unique vignette which introduces… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Book Reviews
Review of ‘Tamils in Independent Ceylon’
by R .Shanmugananthan ; Circle Digest, Sunday, January 11 2004, Volume 2001 : Number 3321 TAMILS IN INDEPENDENT CEYLON BY: SUPPIRAMANIAM MAKENTHIRAN Makenthiran.PDF (sangam.org) Mr. Suppiramaniam Makenthiran has addressed the long felt need for an account of the recent history of Eelam Tamils in English, by publishing his book Tamils of Independent Ceylon. It covers the political… Read more »
Review of ‘Elusive Mind’
by Shan Ranjit; from Circle Digest, Tuesday, December 30 2003, Volume 2001 : Number 3311 INSIDE AN ELUSIVE MIND ; BOOK REVIEW OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE The latest book by Narayan Swamy (henceforth referred to as NS) on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its chief, Vellupillai Pirabakaran is a disappointment. I would… Read more »
Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition
by Reet Hiiemäe; IUP Publications, India, originally posted January 3, 2004 Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition Would readers send us a few of their favorite Sri Lankan Tamil folktales for publication? sangameditor /A_T/ hotmail /D_O_T/ com by Stuart Blackburn, edited by Lauri Honko Moral Fictions. Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition. (FF Communications 278.)… Read more »
Celebration of a ‘Death’
by S. Rameswaran; published December 29, 2003 Celebration of a ‘Death’; a war-theme short story by S.Rameswaran Introduction by Sachi Sri Kantha War-theme fiction in Tamil language is a new genre which arose in Sri Lanka, since the Black July 1983 holocaust. This particular genre could not have been generated in other lands (Tamil Nadu, Malaysia… Read more »
Review of ‘Elusive Mind’
by Sachi Sri Kantha; originally published December 2, 2003 The first and the fibbing biography on the LTTE Leader Book Review: Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabhakaran – The First Profile of the World’s Most Ruthless Guerrilla Leader, by M.R. Narayan Swamy, Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd, Delhi, 2003, 290 pages. Indian rupees 400. US$ 7.00. In 1989, a… Read more »