“The war destroyed my village... My parents live in India as refugees. My siblings live in Europe as refugees.” So says Shobasakthi, born Anthony Jesuthasan, once a teenage soldier for the LTTE and now in his late 30s an exile and writer resident in France. His novel describes a life similar to his own, that of a teenage soldier — the eponymous Gorilla, son of Gorilla — who falls foul of the Tigers and is forced into exile.
Shobasakthi has a Tamil blog titled Satiyakadatasi or “Speaking the truth in the face of power”. Both the book and this interview (conducted by RRISHI RAOTE) were translated by Anushiya Sivanarayanan...
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