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Protesters rally against Tamil genocide


Protesters rally against Tamil genocide
Organisers demanded an end to the military occupation of Tamil homeland.
Photography by Elizabeth Noonan
May 16, 2021
On Sunday afternoon, a rally against the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka took place at Town Hall with about 100-200 protesters in attendance. The rally was organised by the Tamil Refugee Council and the Tamil Coordinating Committee of Australia. 
In May 2009, during the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009), tens of thousands of Tamils were massacred in Mullivaikkal. Tamils are an ethno-linguistic group in South Asia, who continue to face persecution in Sri Lanka for their calls for self-determinacy and for the independence of their homeland, Tamil Eelam, in the north-east of Sri Lanka. ....

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40 at 40: Shyam Selvadurai looks back at the queer novel that launched his career


NOW Magazine
40 at 40: Shyam Selvadurai looks back at the queer novel that launched his career
Nominated for a Canadian Screen Award this month for Funny Boy, the author discusses changes in Sri Lanka and identity politics’ second wave
By Glenn Sumi
Original photos by Rick McGinnis
In September 1994, NOW put a young, unknown gay Sri-Lankan-Canadian novelist on the cover for his debut novel, Funny Boy. This month, Shyam Selvadurai – besides having several more acclaimed novels under his belt, including Cinnamon Gardens and The Hungry Ghosts – is nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for his adaptation of his first novel in Deepa Mehta’s film. (The film is currently streaming on CBC Gem.) ....

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Meena Kandasamy's documentary on Sri Lanka's women Tamil warriors is now her latest book


Meena Kandasamy’s documentary on Sri Lanka’s women Tamil warriors is now her latest book
With ‘The Orders Were To Rape You’, the writer takes the trauma of the participants towards posterity.
LTTE women soldiers
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Marietta Amarcord via Flickr / CC BY 2.0
Tamil nationalism grew stronger within the Tamil diaspora every day even as its flames died down with the end of the prolonged war in Sri Lanka in 2009. The end was not a quiet one, and it was not a war with a clear beginning or end, writes academician Sharika Thiranagama.
What happens when you grow up surrounded by conversations of this war in Tamil Nadu and your whole life becomes an act of documenting it, unravelling the entangled threads and ensuring that suppressed voices find a way to be seen and heard? This book, first intended as a documentary, emerges as a witness to the Sri Lankan conflict. ....

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