topic: Sri Lanka

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...
Art
Art becomes therapeutic for refugees
April 21, 2017
The recent deadly chemical attack on Syria and the subsequent tomahawk missile retaliation shows no immediate end to the now six-year-long...
Literature
A Question of Survival
August 14, 2015
Sri Lanka, 2009: Reflections on Eastern Muslim Survival at the Close of the War May 2009 marked the end of nearly thirty years of civil war...
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...
Reviews
Representing the Unrepresentable: Contemporary “Sri Lankan” Art
December 16, 2014
“Serendipity Revealed” is an exhibition of modern art from Sri Lanka currently showing at Brunei Gallery in the heart of London. It is an...
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...