Tamils - a Trans State Nation..

"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 

Selected Writings - Prof P.Ramasamy

Professor P. Ramasamy was appointed Deputy Chief Minister for Penang, in March 2008. He is a member of the DAP - Democratic Action Party of Malaysia. [see also Prof Ramasamy campaigns with MGR songs] Professor Ramasamy participated as a member of the LTTE's constitutional affairs committee prior to Geneva Talks in June 2006. He was a participant in the International Seminar: Envisioning New Trajectories for Peace in Sri Lanka organized by the Centre for Just Peace and Democracy (CJPD) in collaboration with the Berghof Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland in April 2006. He served as visiting senior research fellow at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, formerly professor of Political Economy, National University of Malaysia and in 2005 visiting professor at University of Kassel, Germany. Academic and intellectual interests are in the political economy of labour and globalization. He served as advisor for Free Acheh Movement during the Helsinki Peace Talks 2006. B.A. from Indian University, USA (1977), M.A. from McGill University, Canada (1980), and Ph.D. from University of Malaya (1991). To date (2006), he has published four books and numerous articles in local and international journals.