From Nuwara Eliya to the US with just the turn of a page
Akil Kumarasamy’s debut Half Gods arrives on the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 Longlist already boasting accolades and promising reviews. A series of ten interlinked short stories, the New Yorker said of the book. that, “Like a family around a dinner table, the tales in (Half Gods) support, contradict, and argue with one [...]
Seeking empathy through the landscape unseen
His detailed ink and watercolour drawings on paper are inspired by his own experiences of conflict during the years of war in the North. “The ‘Wounded Landscape’ portrays the reality of disappearances, unforgettable memories and events inextricably intertwined with the land. I continue to confront the chilling immediacy of disappeared people in the lands we [...]