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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 63–73.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Tamils in Switzerland,
drop of rocky hills. Every year, in August, a number more significant than it might at
this Swiss field is colonized for a weekend first appear. For there are less than 3-5 mil
by a crowd of Tamils. Some are resident in lion Tamils in Sri Lanka. And there are only...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 25–35.
Published: 01 March 2002
...— under have been struggling with her legacy ever
stands this better than Sri Lanka, now dar since.
ing to hope more than ever that a two- Half a century after the withdrawal of
decade-long Tamil rebellion may be brought the British, most nations in the region still
to an end, if India...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 June 2016
... plans to increase its capital expenditure on large-scale water and wastewater infrastructure projects by 83 percent over the next five years. Politicians from Chennai and Tamil Nadu, the state where Chennai is located, have lined up behind an array of ambitious water schemes that range from river...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 91–99.
Published: 01 June 2014
... southernmost state of Tamil Nadu is the hamlet of Koovagam––a spit of dry dust surrounded by two empty rice fields and crisscrossing dirt pathways that converge like veins into the heart of town. At the center is a temple––a modest structure adorned with statues of gods and goddesses, where incense sticks burn...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 45–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
... encountered the enigma of Sanskrit. The language has something in common with Latin and Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, Persian and Chinese, Hittite and Aramaic, Turkish and Japanese, Tamil and Tibetan, and a few other great languages of the pre-modern world, in that we associate it with revelation, scripture...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... The residents appear to putting be them to good use. Last year, the Times of India reported that the Tamil Nadu Electricity board struggled to meet demand when power consumption jumped by 200 megawatts in Chennai after ipl matches began to be broadcast. V oluntary simplicity can only appeal to those who...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 147–150.
Published: 01 September 2005
... and sparking riots. So bitter is Sri Lanka’s ongoing sectarian strife that in June
Colombo police needed water cannon and tear gas to subdue Buddhist monks who rioted
furiously to protest sharing any tsunami aid with Tamil rebels, who are mostly Hindu and
Muslim. And all this violence and hatred has...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 March 2005
... founding prime minister, Solomon Bandara-
naike, slain by a Buddhist monk in 1959 for seeking to conciliate the island’s estranged,
non-Buddhist Tamil minority. When Michael Collins agreed in 1922 to the peace treaty
with Britain partitioning Ireland, this generous-minded guerrilla chieftain...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 97–103.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of many half-Indian, half-English argots to have mushroomed in the past five or 10 years. Tanglish (Tamil plus English) and Banglish (Bengali plus English) are other notable examples of the same process at work. What is important about these phenomena is not their transience or permanence—indeed, over...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., among Tamils in Sri Lanka and Berbers in Algeria. Upon dismantling apartheid, South Africa declared 11 official languages to placate all groups. Elevating the indigenous language is not just symbolic. By allowing Basques to make the language preeminent, Madrid helped nurture a home-grown elite...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 89–94.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Tellingly, groups such as the Tamil
managed to salvage its prestige among In Tigers in Sri Lanka and some Naga tribal
dians and Britons. insurgents in northeast India, engaged in
Thus in 1931, when Gandhi went to violent bids for independence, have proba
London for talks...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 70–77.
Published: 01 June 2004
... sought the opinion of
lot about terrorism—and state terrorism. Jaskaran Kaur, an American-born Sikh with
He lives under a death threat from the Lib a Harvard law degree who is leading a cam
eration Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a Sri Lankan paign to hold state and central governments
separatist...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 69–76.
Published: 01 December 2006
... 75
Inside Nepal, people still cling to the the Tamil Tigers and to some extent in the
elusive hope of a political solution of some radical Sinhalese nationalists, among them
kind. But the phenomenal rise of the Maoist radicalized Buddhist monks. Both sides ap
insurgency has driven home...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., ligence Agency? Some influential Pakistanis
where Indian agents initially trained and and Indians peddled that suspicion immedi
supplied Tamil separatists who have killed a ately, on the ground that Zia had become
generation of Sri Lankan political leaders. an embarrassment to the United States...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
...: English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay. A lone telephone sits at the end of the hallway. Phones are banned in all Singaporean prison units but this one, because family contact is part of the pre-release program. FRAGILITY MAKES IT EASY TO JUSTIFY ANYTHING. Cohorts, deliberately diverse in terms...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2004
... political
Palestine, establishing the Jewish state in parties, contributed in no small measure to
Israel, and defining the political identity the polarization of Buddhist Sinhalese and
of Israeli Jews and many others around the predominantly Hindu Tamils that led to the
world. Jewish...
