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Dec 74 min read

Family, Love & Civil War In Sri Lanka (Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan)

Radicalization of young men in a civil war How does a young man become “radicalized?” Subject him, his family, and his community to...

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Dec 14 min read

Booker Winner Shehan Karunatilaka on Cricket, Civil War and Talking Ghosts in Colombo

“Dictators are pretty good for landscaping and gardens,” quipped Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The...

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Nov 284 min read

Ink from the Island: Sri Lankan Writers Have a Moment

The South Asian Art and Literature Festival (SALA 2024) hosted three award-winning writers of Sri Lankan descent on September 28th at...

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May 7, 20235 min read

Midnight's Grandchild: "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida"

In all the years since I first read Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children, no book has matched its brilliance, its exuberance and its...

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