{"id":152,"date":"2008-05-20T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/archives\/152"},"modified":"2008-05-20T19:33:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:33:51","slug":"writers-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/2008\/05\/20\/writers-world\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITERS&#8217; WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/week.manoramaonline.com\/cgi-bin\/MMOnline.dll\/portal\/ep\/theWeekContent.do?BV_ID=@@@&amp;contentType=EDITORIAL&amp;sectionName=Lifestyle&amp;programId=1073755413&amp;contentId=3989273\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"INTERVIEW\/SHOBASAKTHI\"><span style=\"color: #33ccff; font-family: arial\"><strong>By Kallol Bhattacherjee<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 180%; color: #ff0000; font-family: arial\"><strong><font size=\"6\">S<\/font><\/strong><\/span>ometimes, the only choice a boy has is to pick up a gun&#8217;, the blog Satiyakadatasi or &#8216;Speaking the truth in the face of power&#8217; says. Shobasakthi&#8217;s book Gorilla gives reasons. Labelled an &#8216;auto-fiction&#8217;, 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. <a href=\"http:\/\/week.manoramaonline.com\/cgi-bin\/MMOnline.dll\/portal\/ep\/theWeekContent.do?BV_ID=@@@&amp;contentType=EDITORIAL&amp;sectionName=Lifestyle&amp;programId=1073755413&amp;contentId=3989273\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"INTERVIEW\/SHOBASAKTHI\">[&#8230;]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kallol Bhattacherjee Sometimes, the only choice a boy has is to pick up a gun&#8217;, the blog Satiyakadatasi or &#8216;Speaking the truth in the face of power&#8217; says. Shobasakthi&#8217;s book Gorilla gives reasons. Labelled an &#8216;auto-fiction&#8217;, Gorilla is about a child who works for the LTTE. Shobasakthi says the character has him in abundance, [&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-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shobasakthi.com\/shobasakthi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}