{"id":143,"date":"2008-04-10T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/archives\/143"},"modified":"2008-04-10T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:51:16","slug":"buried-in-a-shallow-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/2008\/04\/10\/buried-in-a-shallow-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried in a shallow grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/common\/news_article.php?leftnm=timeout&amp;bKeyFlag=BO&amp;autono=318327\"><font size=\"4\">\u201cThe war destroyed my village&#8230; My parents live in India as refugees. My siblings live in Europe as refugees.\u201d So says Shobasakthi, born Anthony Jesuthasan, once a teenage soldier for the LTTE and now in his late 30s an exile and writer resident in France. His novel describes a life similar to his own, that of a teenage soldier \u2014 the eponymous Gorilla, son of Gorilla \u2014 who falls foul of the Tigers and is forced into exile.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/common\/news_article.php?leftnm=timeout&amp;bKeyFlag=BO&amp;autono=318327\"><font size=\"4\">Shobasakthi has a Tamil blog titled Satiyakadatasi or \u201cSpeaking the truth in the face of power\u201d. Both the book and this interview (conducted by RRISHI RAOTE) were translated by Anushiya Sivanarayanan&#8230;<\/font><\/a><font size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe war destroyed my village&#8230; My parents live in India as refugees. My siblings live in Europe as refugees.\u201d So says Shobasakthi, born Anthony Jesuthasan, once a teenage soldier for the LTTE and now in his late 30s an exile and writer resident in France. His novel describes a life similar to his own, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}