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V. V. ('Sugi') Ganeshananthan Oral History Interview
V. V. ('Sugi') Ganeshananthan is an Ilankai Tamil American fiction writer and scholar based at the University of Minnesota. Her first novel is titled Love Marriage and her second novel was forthcoming at the time of this archived interview. Sugi discusses her upbringing and experiences being in Tamil American spaces.
"We Regret To Inform You That Your Condolences Cannot Be Accepted At This Time" by V. V. Ganeshananthan
This piece of short fiction was published in Groundviews one year after the Sri Lankan Civil War's violent and tragic end. Groundviews is one of Sri Lanka's premier websites devoted to citizen journalism and other forms of creative media. Groundviews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. In this piece, V. V.
The Broken Palmyra: The Tamil Crisis in Sri Lanka, An Inside Account
Pages with annotations of U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka William Howard Wriggins' personal hard copy of The Broken Palmyra: The Tamil Crisis in Sri Lanka, An Inside Account.


"Women Fighters of Liberation Tigers" by Adele Ann
This booklet of LTTE propaganda is brought up by V. V. ('Sugi') Ganeshananthan during her interview for the Archival Creators Fellowship project on Ilankai Tamil Feminism. She discusses how, despite not having an explicitly politicized family, she grew up surrounded by Tamil nationalist ephemera that shaped her experience as a Sri Lankan Tamil American.

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