“I believe that ethnic division is like a house division in schools and nothing more.” – Ayathurai Santhan.

Recent awardee of the Premchand Fellowship 2017 by the Sahithya Akademi of India, Jaffna-resident writer in Tamil and English Ayathurai Santhan shares a few ideas on literature, reconciliation and the way forward as a single country. He states that reports by some Southern media claiming terrorism is on a come back cannot be true and...

Ayathurai Santhan

A bilingual writer who produces literary work in Tamil and English, Ayathurai Santhan is a resident Jaffna-based writer from Suthumalai, Manipay. He has published over 15 works in his First Language - Tamil - and has since the 1990s presented his work in English. Santhan's first engagements with an English reader is through short fiction,...