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Nakath is the Sri Lankan version of aligning actions with the stars. 1948, the year Sri Lanka was founded, must have been a bad year considering the mess it is in 1990 and has been for a long time. Other countries founded in 1948: North Korea, Myanmar, Israel and South Korea.

Didn't know how derogatory the Sri Lankan flag is to its minorities (tamils, muslims with the pseudo-inclusion of the stripes on the left.
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First moon gone. Maali is getting familiar with the administrative hassle of the in-between of life and death and starts investigating his murder.

I read this as it won the Booker but it's a great way to get a glimpse of Sri Lanka's troubled history in the 80's and 90's. The premise of Maali revisiting places of his life as a ghost works surprisingly well thanks to the author's conception of the in-between.
Mar 19, 2026 02:06AM
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