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Nihal de Silva handles the problem of terrorism in a manner of a true novelist by presenting opposing views through these two main characters by showing the ground realities of the war. The characterization was far better in projecting Captain Wasantha and Kamala, a female LTTE cadre, a seeming informer.

But when they finally reach Colombo, Wasantha is confronted with a shocking revelation…Ĭompared with the previous novel, ‘The Far Spent Day’, I liked this one better. The constant external dangers and their enforced dependence on each other gradually erodes their enmity and distrust. Then the two adversaries are forced to escape together through the rebel-held Wanni and later, cross the abandoned Wilpattu National Park on foot. But it makes me wonder, if we keep creating fiction that bridges this horrifying gap in our nation, maybe our hearts too, in time, will learn to heal and a story about a Tamil girl and a Sinhalese boy could finish with a happy ending.Īn Army Officer's routine assignment to pick up a woman informant near Jaffna turns into a nightmare when the LTTE launches a massive attack on the peninsula and the camp at Elephant Pass. The ending to this fascinating tale is not a happy one, and I doubt it could have been, given the situation. During the colonial times, this animosity was cultivated by the occupiers, using our own weakness against us. While I think of myself as Sri Lankan, there are probably a thousand others who think of themselves as Tamil or Sinhalese first. The Tamil girl is wary of him, because he's the enemy, yes, but also because he is Sinhalese.

The Sinhalese Captain is from a Southern village and people in the South are hardliners when it comes to ethnicity. Nihal De Silva has somehow managed to transcend this dark, disgusting barrier that prevents my country from reaching the pinnacle laid out for it. But the sad truth is that the ethnic divide is alive and well in the country. I have plenty of friends who are Tamil and Muslim and I hug them and hang out with them not for a moment thinking of them as anything but my friends. Having been brought up by educated parents and sent to an International School, I have escaped the ideals of the Sinhalese people. It angers them when a Tamil person rises above them, the notion of a Sinhalese working under a Tamil is met with horror and talks of how deep that particular Sinhalese has fallen.Tamils are supposed to have a separate colour, smell and believe me, I have tried sniffing my best friend who is Tamil and in school in the UK but he normally smells of aftershave and maybe a hint of man-sweat! The Sinhalese people around me tend to talk about the Tamils as if they are a whole different species.

For me, it is bigger and uglier than the 'black-white' race tensions in the Americas. The Sinhalese-Tamil gap is probably the worst divide in my world. Not that it matters to me, I don't think of myself as one and whenever I do, it is with regret. I hadn't read any books written by my compatriots until then, probably because of the natural distrust you develop against your own kind.īut I stand corrected! Nihal De Silva, now dead and gone, spun a wonderful tale of intrigue and adventure coupled with a haunting romance between a Sinhalese soldier boy and a Tamil terrorist girl. I got a rather, mussed-up copy of this novel from the dying remains of the library of the British Council in Kandy a couple of months before the movie came out.

Sinhala novels pdf sujeewa prasanna arachchi