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Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

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Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

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The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

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With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

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A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

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Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

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Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

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When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

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Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

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The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

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