The focus of this article is the interplay of ethnicity and gender, in particular as reflected in the changing discourses of 'Tamil womanhood' in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a country torn apart by a prolonged civil war between... Read more
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The popular responses to the first instance of cyanide suicide in the Jaffna Peninsula, that of Ponnadurai Sivakumaran in 1974, highlight the value that is accorded to devotional sacrifice in Tamil culture on both sides of the Palk Strait.... Read more
Background Child and adolescent mental health services are scarce in Sri Lanka. Moreover there are no validated instruments to measure the mental health problems of Tamil speaking adolescents in Sri Lanka. Hence, strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) self-report was... Read more
Published by the World Health Organization in 2011 under the title Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers, the Director General of the World Health Organization has granted translation and publication rights to an edition in Tamil to The... Read more
