WRITERS’ WORLD

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, when he was a child named Anthony Thasan who at age 15 joined the LTTE more than 20 years ago. The book is his way of reliving his childhood, wishing it was better. […]