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Bhakti Shringarpure

Forty years since Black July: Seven novels about the traumatic legacy of the Sri Lankan civil war

Black July marked the beginning of a 25 year-long civil war that would result in a devastating death toll and displace 800,000 Sri Lankans.

Bhakti Shringarpure
· Jul 29, 2023 · 08:30 am
Why Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature is important

The 73-year-old writer represents both a post-colonial African sensibility and an Islamic interiority.

Bhakti Shringarpure
· Oct 09, 2021 · 08:30 am
Should the screen version of ‘The White Tiger’ have been in Hindi rather than in English?

Adaptations that chose to stick to the original English of the novels have come off sounding false and stilted.

Bhakti Shringarpure
· Jan 31, 2021 · 10:30 am