When the civil war in Sri Lanka between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamils ended in 2009, many
Sri Lankans and foreign observers alike hoped to see the re-establishment of relatively …

This short article presents provisional findings that shed new light on both the cultural
geography of Islam in Thailand, and northern extremities of the Malay world. An analysis of …

Interlinear translations from Arabic into Malay and Javanese have been produced in
Southeast Asia since at least the sixteenth century. Such translations included an Arabic …

In his insightful essay,“Silence Across Languages,”(1995) AL Becker suggested that every
language consists of a particular balance between speech and silence: between what can …

While on a Thai International Airways flight from Bangkok to Colombo on Monday, July 25,
1983, I fearfully read the lead story in the Bangkok Post: a violent imbroglio at Welikada …

Children learn through playing and chanting. Children's song lyrics can help building good
characters in their early of age. They can feel the presence of song lyrics as a media for …

The community known today as the Sri Lankan Malays traces its roots to political exiles,
convicts, servants and soldiers sent to colonial Ceylon by the Dutch East India Company …

Literary Histories Have All Too Often Been Written with the Borders of Nation-States in Mind,
Projecting Back in Time a political unity and standard use of language that only gradually …