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Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan

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Jul 5, 2021

Unpublished Prose From 2008 — “The House of Dreaming”

Looking for — for what? — I found this, written December 1 2008, a month after my grandmother died. As I remember it, it was supposed to be a fragment of fiction. In the house of dreaming, people would dream even in the eight nights after a death, when the…

Fiction

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Fiction

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Nov 15, 2020

‘FUNNY BOY’ AND THE INDIAN TAMIL GAZE ON ILANKAI TAMILS

I had first known that there was a film adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s iconic novel Funny Boy when I had heard about closed screenings of it in Colombo sometime in mid-2020. The story is a bildungsroman about a queer, upper-class Tamil teenager, culminating in the Black July riots of 1983…

Funny Boy

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Funny Boy

20 min read

Sharanya Manivannan

Sharanya Manivannan

34 Followers

Moon-coxswained. In flower. Writer and illustrator.

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