topic: Tamil

What is Tamil for Loss? Remembering the Sri Lankan Civil War
May 20, 2019
My grandmother always reminds me: you have lost your mother-tongue. When I return to Sri Lanka for brief visits, she tells me how I used to...
Opinion
MIA’s Borders: For refugees by refugees
November 28, 2015
MIA released her latest video "Borders" recently and caused, as she so often does, an Internet uproar. Her self-directed video is a visual...
Opinion
Sri Lanka: Narrating Violence and Trauma
March 21, 2015
Last month, the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka’s only Tamil-led provincial council, passed a resolution accusing...
Conversations
Warscapes in conversation with Shobasakthi
January 9, 2012
Shobasakthi née Antonythasan Jesuthasan is writer and actor who was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a teenager...
Literature
Traitor (an excerpt)
January 9, 2012
Click here for Shobasakthi in conversation with Warscapes on Sri Lanka, the situation of Tamils and being a refugee writer... From the...