Category: நேர்காணல்கள்

By Kallol Bhattacherjee   Sometimes, the only choice a boy has is to pick up a gun’, the blog Satiyakadatasi or ‘Speaking the truth in the face of power’ says. Shobasakthi’s book Gorilla gives reasons. Labelled an ‘auto-fiction’, Gorilla is about a child who works for the LTTE. Shobasakthi says the character has him in abundance, […]

LTTE has defied stereotypes in more ways than one. Former child soldier, refugee and now author, Shobhasakthi recreates this unique world in Gorilla, who as a local thug runs wild over his son and narrator, Rocky Raj. He responds to Suman Tarafdar over email. Extracts: The story of Rocky, and yours, is of many childhoods […]

Nothing lends credibility to an argument or an accusation more than a first person account. Be it autobiographies or first person accounts, they are simple yet powerful. Such works also stand out for the courage, for you don’t know what the consequences will be. So, it was with great fear that, seven years ago, Sri […]

By Kallol Bhattacherjee Sometimes, the only choice a boy has is to pick up a gun’, the blog Satiyakadatasi or ‘Speaking the truth in the face of power’ says. Shobasakthi’s book Gorilla gives reasons. Labelled an ‘auto-fiction’, Gorilla is about a child who works for the LTTE. Shobasakthi says the character has him in abundance, […]