Many of us being bachelors, lived in rented out dilapidated old houses which were called chummeries. The men from Jaffna, whether married or not, also lived in their own chummeries—mostly around Wellawatte, Dehiwala and Ratmalana.

to ball cotton

Would you girls be offended if I got a chubb?

Can raw language, lyrics, and sexual expression be served up as counter-discourses to national sexuality, or do they merely feed into preexisting pornotropes of national and transnational racial and sexual subordination?