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 Lankan Tamil writer Shobasakthi wrote about his time as a child soldier with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, blowing the lid on a cruel practice of one of the deadliest and most ruthless terrorist organizations in the world.
With that book, Gorilla, translated into English earlier this year and reaching a wider audience, Shobasakthi talks about life as a refugee, his future plans, the future of Tamil Eelam and much more in this interview…..
the novel is a original contribution from the land of struggle, giving details of people caught in the crossfire of the titans, and is worth introducing to diffferent language communities in India. Iam writing about the writer Shobasakthi and his novel to Telugu papers, and hope to translate the same into Telugu, for Telugu land is also replete with the concept of armed struggle and faced a lot of tragedies on either side in the decades of left movements. My warm congratulations to the writer.