A review by deepakchecks
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian

5.0

A brilliantly narrated story on the Sri Lankan war. Samanth writes lucidly, with wit and empathy, as he goes around meeting people at the different spectrum of the war. They include some lapsed tamil tigers, a radical/racist monk, a moderate monk, non-tiger tamilians, muslims and so on. The book provides an empathic view of the people who had suffered violence due to the war - both from the Sri Lankan army as well as the Tamil tigers. It also remains a pointer to how similar the current Hindu/Indian nationalism is very similar to the Sinhalese nationalism exercise that has affected the island and made it a divided nation. A must read to anyone interested in the Sri Lankan dynamics.