Category: Fiction

[Gauribalan is a Sri Lankan Tamil writer. The story is about the anti-Tamil pogrom in July 1983...

“Maybe I was coming down with something, and should go to the hospital. I had heard somewhere that it was bad to be outside when there was a fire growing that was close enough to smell, and there I was, tucked into the sheets with the window above my head open about eight inches, inviting the outdoors and its odours into bed with me.”