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      • Tamer Institute for Community Education

        TAMER Institute for Community Education is an educational non-governmental non for profit organization established in 1989 as a natural and necessary response to the urgent needs of the Palestinian community during the first intifada (uprising). The most important of these is the need to acquire means to help people learn and become productive. Focusing principally on the rights to education, identity, freedom of expression, and access to information,Tamer works across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, primarily targeting children and young adults to encourage and deepen opportunities of learning among them. Our program aims to contribute to enhancing reading, writing and all forms of Expression among children and young adults. It also aims at contributing to a Palestinian environment that is supportive to learning processes, and at supporting the literary and scholar production on child culture in Palestine.

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      • Aadipaavaipola

        by Tamilavan

        AADIPPAAVAI POLALIKE THE SHADOW OF A PUPPET ON A MIRROR (TAMIL NOVEL)By Tamilavan. AN ABSOBING NOVEL OF LOVE AND SEPARATION IN THE BACKGROUND OFLINGUISTIC TURMOIL. The story of two college going young lovers of this powerful novel is setin the background of incidents of anti-Hindi agitations waged in the 60sin the Tamil speaking south Indian State of India. The protagonist, forsome unknown reason is separated from the girl he loved, joins her aftermany years by chance, in Europe when they are in their middle age. Bythen he becomes an English journalist who has covered the Tamilstruggle going on in Srilanka and witnessed many things in life as tohave a thorough understanding of the different forces that were behindhistory at a particular time very important for changing the Centre-staterelation in the political character of a region .And this narration presentedin two levels in alternate chapters which brings in many conflicts, be itcaste, religion or radical left movements of the 60s, and the differentconflicting layers of family bond, provide an over–arching arena oflanguage politics and its characteristics . Chapters of this novel arearranged in such a way that readers can read in three different ways.

      • Fiction

        A God in Warsaw (Vārcāvil oru kaṭavuḷ )

        A Stunning Novel that Captures the Warsaw Days of a South Indian

        by Tamilavan

        The main character Chandran, born to a woman who was accidentally saved from Burma as a child by a Tamilian during an exodus during the Second World War and brought up as his own daughter, goes to Warsaw. He, a computer engineer, a product of modern India, finding solace from his personal tragedy of the death of his wife due to fire, meets a lot of Polish characters and the scenario of which forms the social and philosophical backdrop of this novel where the east meets the west in a different way. This novel having been set in the early part of this century in Europe gives, amidst the narratives of tragic and magic details of migration and an Indian-medicine practicing Brahmin god-man who during his illegal transportation is jailed in  Germany, a clue to understanding the modern meaning of globalization.

      • Fiction

        The Detective Story G.K Wrote (Ji.Kē. Eḻutiya marma naval)

        A Shattering Work of Detective Fiction of Religious Conflicts

        by Tamilavan

        Tamil language is replete with detective stories ever since the thirties. This novel is structured as a detective story as the title shows where a Buddhist monk is the detective as philosophical and religious questions are raised then and there appropriately as required for such a novel. The locale of this novel is a Borgesian forgotten city abandoned in history for which only an ancient Tamil text Chilappathikaram gives a reference. Thus this novel works on many planes of signification where meaning is not only organized but also disrupted in the true style of postmodern fiction. A subtext runs parallel to the main story of this novel questioning who might have written this novel. In sum, this novel is an exemplary indication of what happens in the modern milieu of Tamil fiction writing, of course in a language as ancient as Sanskrit.

      • Fiction

        Men About whom it is said so (Ēṟkaṉavē sollappaṭṭa maṉitarkaḷ)

        A Novel of Extraordinary Narrative Developed from Tamil Christian Folklore

        by Tamilavan

        Drawing much from the repertoire of the ancient Tamil folklore this novel details a small town in the southern part of Tamil speaking India with its superstitions mixed Christian faith of characters who are always referring to books to verify their actions (Of course not the Bible ) of  past, and   for solving their modern problems and thus the reader is not able to differentiate whether what they read is parts of a dead fiction already written, may be by god or by the unknown hands of present times. This story gives a feel of aTamilised magical realist fervor, the first narration of its kind in Tamil language, which paved the way for many successors. This novel created a furore in Tamil when first published.

      • Fiction

        The Shadows Cast On History (Carittirattil paṭinta niḻalkal)

        A Most Astonishing Fantasy Ever Written in Tamil with Modern Political Tones

        by Tamilavan

        This is the unbelievable history of a Queen of an imaginary country who has the ability to see the world and things closing her eyes while her husband the Raja looks green in colour, capable of giving birth to children. One of their sons, who is a poet can present himself in two places at a time. His brother, whose name is Light on the Mountain, plays the dual role of the persecutor and the persecuted in an underground movement, the members of which abducted him during when he was a child. This novel of belief and disbelief structured into one whole aims to evoke an aesthetic pleasure of a children's literature and at the same time a Folk narration of surrealistic tone of fun and wonder. Also, this unusual novel is conceived as a parody of the Tamil Politics of the nineties and well appreciated both by readers and critics.

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