Showing posts with label Tamil Eelam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamil Eelam. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 April 2010

traitor

By Shobasakthi

Translated By Anushiya Ramaswamy



'As I live my days locked up in a wretched prison in this frozen country, I start to write the story of my beloved child, Nirami. The story begins with the birth of God.’


Nirami, Nesakumaran’s fourteen-year-old daughter, is awaiting her abortion in the hospital room of an unnamed European city; she refuses to name her rapist.

Nesakumaran’s narrative begins in 1980s Sri Lanka when, radicalized by the dream of Tamil Eelam, he abandons his seminary studies. A bungling terrorist, botching up one task after another, Nesakumaran is in no way a genuine threat. But once he has entered the system as a suspect he can never find a way out of the maze of interrogation chambers, army camps and regional prisons. What follows is a surreal account of torture, which culminates in the extremely brutal massacre of Tamil prisoners by the Sinhalese inmates in the Welikade prison in 1983, and also, the revelation of Nirami’s rapist.



A stark rhetoric of torture, pain and black humour, Traitor, through its pathologically damaged protagonist, gives voice to the testimonies of millions of refugees of a war-ravaged land.


Book Reviews
'an authentic voice' - Outlook
'playful and sardonic...unusually inventive' - Time out


Published by: Penguin Books India

Published: 15- Apr- 2010

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Kosova and the dream of Tamil Eelam


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37 tUlq;fSf;F Kd;dH gq;fshNj\; cUthdijg; ghHj;J jkpouRf; fl;rp kdg;ghy; Fbj;jJ. ,g;nghOJ mjd; GdHnId;kq;fshd Gypfs; nfhNrhNth cUthdijg; ghHj;J kdg;ghy; Fbf;fpd;wdH. mt;tsTjhd;. md;iwa jkpopdj;jiyikapd; topfhl;lypy; jkJ ghpzhkj; Nja;it vz;zpnaz;zp tPuj; jkpopdk; kPz;Lk; rpyfhyk; fdTyfpy; tho;tJ kl;Lky;y Gy;yupj;J Gy;yupj;J ,Wjpapy; nry;yhpj;Jg; Ngha; epw;fNtz;baJjhd;.

ed;wp: vjpnuhyp, khrp 2008