Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.

Every new thing is a result of everything you wrote before.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.