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Adele Balasingham with the LTTE somewhere in the 1990s. If you think of me.

Not too bad, given the exciting bends in the river. I could have been richer, but it would have definitely not made me any happier. Tuesday, August 05, 2008. Whoever said nothing literary happens here, should take a good look at this. Sunday, February 18, 2007. Going behind the scenes wi.

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Or strolling along the narrow streets, today you will see clear and well maintained evidence of the Dutch influence. Although these days there are some notable differences to 400 years ago. Galle fort, a UNESCO world heritage site.

Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai. He worked in journalism for over a decade, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007. His bestselling novel, My Friend Sancho. He is best known for his blog, India Uncut. His current project is a non-fiction book about the lack of personal and economic freedoms in post-Independence India. My first book, My Friend Sancho. For the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. To learn more about the book, click here.

Special Interview series Urdu writers. Rebuilding Mosul, book by book. Before the war, it was strange to see smoke in the sky. The smoke he saw earlier that day was from the library at Mosul University. The men who had taken over his city, and made reading books into a crime, had burned down. It was February 3, 2015 the 219th day of the caliphate. When Fahad finally proposed to her, it was.