Sri Lanka
The Magic of Mermaids
Tasneem Pocketwala
Sharanya Manivannan uses fantastical elements to talk about Sri Lanka’s trauma
The Wages of War
The Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam, whose new book portrays the island after the civil war, speaks to Nandini Nair about the spectatorship of violence and the persistence of grief
Ashok Ferrey: Our Fathers in Heaven
Ashok Ferrey’s new book captures Sri Lankans at home and abroad. The author tells Antara Raghavan about the persistence of grief and the art of construction
Nowhere Man
In his novel about a Sri Lankan migrant in Australia, Aravind Adiga makes the reader care with his well-earned facts
From the Spectral Island
Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Return of the Strongman
Sri Lanka’s new President brings both challenge and opportunity for New Delhi
Romesh Gunesekera: An Island in Memory
In his new novel, Romesh Gunesekera writes of the ebb and flow of boyhood friendships. The novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair
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