Poetic injustice: Another writer languishes in prison under PTA
Vajra Chandrasekera In July 2017, 25-year-old Ahnaf Jazeeem published Navarasam, a book of poetry in Tamil. The poems were organised along the themes of the nine rasas concept in Indian aesthetics, about the ‘flavour’ of any artistic work that evokes an emotional response in the audience or reader. The anthology included poems of wonder, humour, courage, anger, and some verses on political themes. Ahnaf’s poetry was critical of US imperialism, the Rohingya genocide and the Islamic State (IS). Three years later, the book of verses has condemned Ahnaf to a prison cell for seven long m...
Source: ft.lk