Margaret Trawick - "Terrorists" in Chencholai

தமிழ்த் தேசியம்

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C

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Tamil Eelam

Beyond Tamil Nation

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Tamil Eelam - a De Facto State

Margaret Trawick
Professor of Social Anthropology, Massey University, New Zealand
[Winner of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, 1992 ]

Photos from the Field, 2002 - "Terrorists" in Chencholai, Tamil Eelam
[also "Commonfolk" in Tamil Eelam & "Scenes" in Tamil Eelam]

Cencholai Headmistress

Karate demo at Cencholai

Tiger woman giving bike ride to child

Mathiveery and her dad

Girls at Cencholai (1)

Girls at Cencholai (2)

Girls at Cencholai (3)

Old man and boy at Kantharuban Arivuchcholai

Mathiveery and Nagesh

- truth is a pathless land -

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