அ.மததலஙகம சறகதகளல அயலக வழகக நல / The Condition of Expatriate Life in A. Muthulingam's Short Stories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the portrayal of diasporic existence in A. Muthulingam’s short stories. It examines his literary representations of socio-cultural realities across eleven countries where he resided and worked that includes the United States, Afghanistan, Canada, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, France, Somalia, Kenya (Nairobi), Sweden, and Puerto Rico. The study investigates how Muthulingam’s fiction that captures the complex interplay between cultural preservation and adaptation in foreign environments. The analysis focuses on Muthulingam’s depictions of daily life abroad by his attention to cultural practices, dietary customs, ethnic and linguistic differences, and varying levels of civilizational development. His stories reveal the psychological and social challenges faced by migrant communities as they find their way in unfamiliar value systems while striving to maintain their cultural heritage. The narratives serve as valuable ethnographic accounts that document both the opportunities and struggles inherent in transnational mobility, from economic advancement to experiences of racial discrimination and cultural alienation. Through his literary portrayals, Muthulingam emerges as a storyteller of the Tamil transnational experience by offering insights into the preservation of cultural memory and the formation of hybrid identities in diaspora communities. His works contribute significantly to broader discourses on migration literature by showing the complex terrain of postcolonial labour movements and the enduring connections between migrants and their homelands. Hence, the article studies the stories that show how individuals and communities negotiate their identities across geographical and cultural boundaries in the short stories of Muthulingam.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".