Oh, call whenever you like. I am like A R Rahman. I work through the night and don’t sleep till morning,” he chuckles over the phone from Paris. Having just read his new novel Traitor (written in Tamil in 2004, translated into English this year), the levity in Shoba sakthi's voice is like nothing his writing leads you to expect of him.
But that’s the man. Part of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, a former LTTE child soldier, now Parisien and refugee, world traveller, blogger, former dishwasher, supermarket employee and writer.
The stories he tells are the unexamined realities lost over the years in the war of propaganda fought between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Understandably, his views are unpopular with the state as well as large sections of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.
Full report here New Indian Express
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