![]() ![]() After 12 days of abject theatricality, he died. His speeches were broadcast on some TV channels, and people from all over the Jaffna peninsula came to watch and to participate. In 1987, a Tamil Tiger had gone on a widely-publicised hunger strike at the Nallur Kandaswamy Temple in northern Sri Lanka. Ganeshananthan had been working on her first novel, Love Marriage (2008), about a Sri Lankan family fractured by the civil conflict, when she stumbled upon a significant piece of research. Discussing their motivation doesn’t justify it, it just tries to understand it and to think about how someone might have arrived at that point.” “The majority of people who have been referred to in that way are not unintelligible. “One of the things that the rhetoric of terrorism seeks to do is to make the terrorist unintelligible,” says the author over a Zoom call from Minneapolis, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota. ![]()
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