Photo courtesy of Eastern Eye We watched the film, Funny Boy, directed by Deepa Mehta and adapted from Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel, twice. We were…
Photo Credits: Munira Mutaher It has been 37 years since the anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983, a riot that set the country ablaze and sparked…
Photo courtesy of Sangam.org July. Referred to as Black July to mark the pogrom against Tamils in 1983 carried out by Sinhala mobs. Pogrom is…
For the past 22 years, activist and renowned contemporary artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara has been memorialising the horrific period of July 1983 through paintings, drawings, sculpture…
Photo courtesy of themorning.lk I was a PhD student in London when the carnage of July 1983 erupted and thank God for the bravery and…