Repositories

Womens' Education and Research Centre

1982 saw the inauguration of this organisation as the Women’s Education Centre (WEC). It was founded by a small group of feminist researchers and activists to highlight the status of women in the country and to publish material, which could be used by women in their struggle for liberation. The broad objectives of WEC were to increase women’s awareness, their resources and opportunities for effective participation in the economic, political and social life of the country. For more details visit: wercsl.org

Noolaham collaborates with WERC in digitizing their publications and other women related publications. It should be pointed out that Noolaham's first ever collaborated project was carried out with WERC back in 2007. The project Report is included in the 2008 Annual Report

International Center for Ethnic Studies

[http://ices.lk/ International Center for Ethnic Studies

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies is a renowned international research centre located in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1982 with the support of the Ford Foundation by a team of Sri Lankan and International scholars. It is amongst the select few institutions that are both ‘local’ to the global South and ‘international’ in orientation. ICES is in ‘special category’ consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC. The mission of ICES is “to deepen the understanding of ethnicity, identity politics and conflict, and to foster conditions for an inclusive, just and peaceful society nationally, regionally and globally, through research, publication, dialogue, creative expression and knowledge transfer”. For more details visit: icescolombo.org

Noolaham collaborates with ICES in digitizing their publications and other related publications.

Thesiya Kalai Ilakkiya Peravai

Thesiya Kalai Ilakkiya Peravai was established by the well known academic Prof. K. Kailasapathy in 1974. This initiative is focused on cultural revival among Tamil communities. They conduct a vast number of innovative activities such as literature seminars, conferences, book publishing, periodical publishings and drama productions. Also Thesiya Kalai Ilakkiya Peravai functions as a cooperative institution. Prof. S. Thillainathan is the director and Dr. S. Sivasegaram is the secretary of this institution. Their head office is located at 121, Hamdan lane, Colombo 6 also their another branch is located in Jaffna. Kalai Ilakkiya Peravai is creating and encouraging lot of creators and researchers. Also it’s engaged some researches on Art-Literature, social advancement, language, culture, history as well as Humanity, Human equality, Nationality and women rights too. It has published about 120 books so far. It also publishes Thayakam magazine and Puthuvasantham annual magazines. It also conducts special meetings with their relevant visions, Dramas, presenting poems and discussions.

When Noolaham was initiated in 2005, Thesiya Kalai Ilakkiyap Peravai provided machine readable formats of some of its books and encouraged our initiative. Over the years, they continue to provide their publications to Noolaham Foundation making them accessible to all.

Mallikai Panthal Publication

Dominic Jeeva, a well known writer, started publishing Mallikai magazines in 1966. During 1990 he started Mallikai Panthal institution to publish the books of Sri Lankan Tamil writers. Since 1990, Mallikai Panthal has published over 40 books such as novels, short story collections, essays, poetry collections etc. Mr. Dominic Jeeva is the director of this publication. He has published 401 issues of Mallikai magazines as well.

Noolaham Foundation collaborated with Mallikai Panthal Publication to digitize some of the books published by them. So far, 75% of Mallikai issues are digitized and archived at Noolaham digital library.