![]() To stretch out, reach out, and crack the glass ceiling. They stood on the backs of the most marginalized, Through the veins of our community and be more evident there?Ī Tamil woman, in Bandaranaike’s Sri Lanka? Would the effects of colonisation flow more deeply How would we destroy these indoctrinations? Trying to tear down class and caste boundaries? ![]() Would we be strapping ourselves to the frontline Not longing for belonging, nor grappling for identity:īut when one battle is removed, another is present. The effects on the psyche - to be accepted, What would have replaced the anxiety of oppression? ![]() With the struggle against white supremacy? How would the fight for our liberation have compared No war, no displacement: what would our lives have been? It’s a strange relationship: Caught in opposition of the surveillance state,Īnd, gratitude, for finally seeing the corners we’ve never seen. I’m laughing in the park, climbing the coconut trees,Ĭycling through the dusty lanes, playing at the local spots. This is a response from within the Tamil diaspora that has longed to see their home villages for so many years.Ī glimpse of the streets we would have called home, Google Street View has finally landed in Sri Lanka.
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