Karthick Ram Manoharan

The torture of incarcerated Tamils was not a betrayal of the Sri Lankan state's Sinhala-Buddhist ideal, but that ideal being taken to its logical conclusion, writes Karthick Ram Manoharan. Excerpts from his afterword to Sri Lankan Tamil novelist Kuna Kaviyalahan’s ‘The Poisoned Dream’.

The book collecting passion is not just a "chaos of memories"; it is also a chaos of the future. Gaps in my bookracks gape at me, demanding to be filled.