{"id":145,"date":"2008-04-24T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/archives\/145"},"modified":"2009-05-28T14:40:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:40:45","slug":"culture-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/2008\/04\/24\/culture-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/author.asp?name=Anita+Pratap\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>Anita Pratap<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/full.asp?fodname=20080428&amp;fname=Booksb&amp;sid=1\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: large;\">P<\/span>resents only a slice of the Lankan Tamil reality, but it is an authentic voice. Matter-of-fact, unsentimental, evocative but sparse. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I<\/span>t is a tribute to human ingenuity that even amidst continuous cruelty, torture and degradation, the inquiring, creative spirit cannot be extinguished. Shobasakthi, a former LTTE guerrilla and now a refugee in Paris, exemplifies this in his disturbing novel, which captures both the daily horrors of the Sri Lankan Tamil community in their homeland and the wretchedness of the lowest rung of the asylum-seeking Tamil diaspora. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/full.asp?fodname=20080428&amp;fname=Booksb&amp;sid=1\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Pratap Presents only a slice of the Lankan Tamil reality, but it is an authentic voice. Matter-of-fact, unsentimental, evocative but sparse. It is a tribute to human ingenuity that even amidst continuous cruelty, torture and degradation, the inquiring, creative spirit cannot be extinguished. Shobasakthi, a former LTTE guerrilla and now a refugee in Paris, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}