Diaspora(s)

Lanka Solidarity

Lanka Solidarity is a collective formed this year by a group of multiethnic individuals based in North America who discovered a shared interest in understanding ground realities in Sri Lanka. It is hosting its first fundraiser for refugees displaced in the last year due to the armed conflict in Sri Lanka that has been going on for 26 years.

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Fiction

A Just Country

'A Just Country' is a rivetting piece of 'Napkin Fiction' by V. V. Ganeshananthan. The Washington Post Book World named her debut novel Love Marriage(Random House, 2008)one of their Best of 2008. This fall, she will begin teaching creative writing at the University of Michigan. She is a current board member of SAJA.

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Diaspora(s)

This London

"This London" follows the coming-of-age of a group of Punjabi immigrant girls in London by Balli Kaur Jaswal. Her short story "Painters" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2007, she received the David TK Wong Fellowship to spend a year in England writing her current novel-in-progress, "When Amrit Returns."

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