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Home/News from NPR/In ‘Funny Boy,’ A Young Sri Lankan Gay Man Comes Of Age As Ethnic Tensions Explode In ‘Funny Boy,’ A Young Sri Lankan Gay Man Comes Of Age As Ethnic Tensions Explode By Bilal Qureshi  December 16, 2020 In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He’d rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls’ make-believe wedding. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai‘s gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first publi...

In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He'd rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls' make-believe wedding. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai's gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first published, enduring as a pioneering story of queerness, politics, and South Asian history. As the new film adaptation opens with the sound of the ocean — establishing the lush seafront tropical landscape of Sri Lanka — a group of girls ru...

Funny Boy. ARRAY In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He'd rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls' make-believe wedding. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai's gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first published, enduring as a pioneering story of queerness, politics, and South Asian history. As the new film adaptation opens with the sound of the ocean — establishing the lush seafront tropical landscape of Sri ...

Queer Relationship Is Much Beyond Bodies And Sex, Says Onir On His Film ‘We Are’ In an exclusive conversation with Outlook, filmmaker Onir discusses the struggles of making films on the LGBTQ community and how it is difficult to make queer voices heard in the Indian film industry. PTI Lachmi Deb Roy 2020-12-16T07:28:11+05:30 Queer Relationship Is Much Beyond Bodies And Sex, Says Onir On His Film ‘We Are’ outlookindia.com 2020-12-16T08:57:03+05:30 Filmmaker Onir’s ‘We Are’ is a sequel to his National Award-winning 2011 film ‘I Am’. In an exclusi...

NOW Magazine Privatization put an end to Canada’s vaccine industry Plus, filling the gaps in COVID data, Funny Boy bias and a better choice for the province's vaccine task force in reader mail this week By NOW news Collapse of Canada’s vaccine industry was a bipartisan project Re Canada’s COVID Balancing Act Reaching The Tipping Point (NOW Online, November 30). “Canada’s capacity to develop vaccines is precisely at zero. Part of that has to do with the fact the Conservative government of Stephen Harper cut grants to research councils.” And a lot has to do with the Tory ...