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The Ring, the Revolution, and the Making of the Tamil Fighter
Boxing and martial arts have enabled Tamils to forge dignity, discipline, and political resistance across generations. From anti-colonial struggles to the Tamil liberation movement and the contemporary diaspora, fighters have transformed the ring into a site of collective identity, solidarity, and self-determination despite war, displacement, and attempts to erase Tamil nationhood.
Eelam Tamil Activism After Gaza
Eelam Tamil activism after Gaza exposes how dominant western liberal frameworks weaponise narratives of pathology to legitimise state-sanctioned annihilatory violence. By contrasting the structural amnesia surrounding the tragedies of Mullivaikkal and Gaza with shifting electoral, academic, and literary terrains, the analysis demonstrates how collective counter-mobilisation shatters state obfuscation to reclaim historical truth and political agency.
Forced Out of Their Own Land: Sinhala Colonisation in the Vanni
The Kivul Oya project exemplifies a decades-long pattern in which the Sri Lankan state uses irrigation and settlement schemes to dispossess Tamil communities in the North-East. Framed as development, the scheme follows earlier projects like Mahaweli System L, altering ethnic demographics, renaming Tamil landscapes in Sinhala, and displacing agricultural livelihoods while promising benefits that rarely reach the people whose land is taken.
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Changing of the Guard
Fifty years after the Vaddukkoddai Resolution, the Sri Lankan state’s efforts to destroy Eelam Tamil nationalism have failed. Since the end of the war in 2009, everyday Tamils have taken over from the stagnant institutions that positioned themselves as successors to the armed resistance. Today, the people lead a thriving resistance that takes on cultural, social and political forms.
Extend Moral Support to the Tamil National Liberation Struggle: A Call to the Nations of the World
SJV Chelvanayakam’s address to the inaugural Tamil United Liberation Front convention in Vaddukkoddai on May 14, 1976, as published in the Suthanthiran on May 19, 1976.
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The Position of the Depressed Classes
The following two pieces are an illustration of the discussions surrounding the temple entry movement as they played out in The Hindu Organ in 1956. We are reproducing them here not as an endorsement of the sentiments expressed, but as a means to provide insight into the conversations happening in the months preceding temples opening their doors to Panchamar (Dalit) castes.
