One has to be cynical of the motive behind "The mainstream media is ready to publish any garbage as long as it is anti Tiger (Tamil). This author tried to win some browney points and may be loads of money as well..."
"Having read the Toronto Star article “Tamil ties that bind” (by Judy Stoffman on May 20, 2008) I couldn’t wait to read the book “Love Marriage”. My excitement was primarily based on the fact that the Author is Tamil (I don’t know of many Tamils that have successfully published) and I wanted to support this budding “Tamil” Author. I called the local bookstore, reserved a copy and picked it up a couple of hours later. Now, having gone through the 284 pages of this debut, I thought I’d share my opinion.
From the Toronto Star article--even before buying the book--I knew that in dealing with the subject of Tamil struggle in Sri Lanka, this book will have a hint of a Sinhalease slant peppered with a ‘elite wannabe’ cluelessness. I knew this based on the following excerpts from the Star article:
“a hot-headed uncle who joins the Tamil Tigers”, “a lovely schoolteacher who nearly married another uncle and was later killed by a suicide bomber”, “Kumaran, who had cut himself off from the family decades earlier to join the Tamil Tigers, comes to Canada suffering from terminal cancer”, and
“At Columbia, I did my thesis at the journalism school about the literature of
