Nandini Nair
Karunatilaka’s novel, though set during the civil war of the 1990s, seems oddly resonant today
Gordon Weiss expects tensions between various communities to heighten in the island nation
“Nowhere in history will you find Hindus involved in subversive activities. Even the Britishers never mentioned them as terrorists,” says Narendra Modi
Jaffna still bears the scars of one of history’s longest and bloodiest guerrilla wars. Aditya Iyer reports from the Sri Lankan city caught between a horrifying memory and a tentative future
They fled home only to be confined to subhuman conditions in the so-called special camps of Tamil Nadu