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வித்தியாசம் Viththiyaasam
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Intergenerational Trauma
Pain and Relief Come of Themselves – Peitho 27.2
April 11, 2025
Content note: graphic descriptions of violence New publication alert! "Pain and Relief Come of Themselves" is now live in Peitho's…
perimortem [in (theoretical) rigor] – Kairos 29.2
January 21, 2025
Dream publication announcement! The modified prototype (and I do mean prototype) of the parser-based game that formed the basis of…
C&W 2024 Keynote: perimortem (in [theoretical] rigor)
June 21, 2024
When I was invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at Computers & Writing, "The planning committee was excited…
CCCC 2024: If to Move the Soul a Writer
April 5, 2024
Catch the Italo Calvino reference? This virtual presentation at 4C24 was complicated, as it involved designing and scripting a tiny…
“Chaos Itself Is an Order” – Fourth Genre 23.2
October 10, 2021
Content note: corpse desecration, genocide, graphic descriptions of violence, intergenerational trauma, racism Publication alert! "Chaos Itself Is an Order" has…
Easter in Sri Lanka: Today Is Loss That Isn’t Loss – Paris Review
April 22, 2019
Today, I am caught between the thrill of having published something in The Paris Review and an overwhelming sense of…
The Exclusions Always Matter
February 4, 2019
It's the anniversary of Sri Lanka's independence from British rule, thus also the kairotic moment prompting me to finally collect…
Sri Lankan American Writers on Emerging Literary Identity
February 10, 2017
A combination of Winter Storm Niko and a resulting spike in chronic pain has left me housebound in New York…
Breaking Post-Election Radio Silence
November 11, 2016
Today, I stand inside my apartment, in front of a closed door, as I have done each morning since Donald Trump…
War Without Witness
March 3, 2015
My shortform multimodal composition on mobile phone testimony and the Tamil genocide, "War without witness: Mobile phone testimony in preserving…
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